A
new Rotary club has been formed in The Gambia, called the Brusubi Rotary Club,
making it the third Rotary club in the country.
The
Gambia now has three Rotary clubs, namely the Banjul Rotary Club, Fajara Rotary
Club and the Brusubi Rotary Club, which was admitted recently.
The
Rotary Club of Brusubi executive members are Rotarian Kareem Martins as the
Chartered President, Michael Barrai as the Chartered Secretary and Elizabeth
Samba as the Chartered Treasurer.
The
Rotary Club of Brusubi was admitted to membership into Rotary International
(RI) on 24 June 2016.
The
Gambia and nine other countries constitute the District 9101 of Rotary
International.
Rotary
International is an international service organization whose human rights
purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders, in order to
provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all
vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
It
is a secular-organization open to all people regardless of race, colour, creed,
religion, gender or political preference.
There
are 34,282 member clubs worldwide, and 1.2 million individuals called Rotarians
have joined these clubs.
The
objective of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis
of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster the
development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service of high ethical
standards in business and professions.
It
was also for the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and
the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve
society.
The
advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world
fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The
club is said to be holding its meetings every Saturday of every week at Coco
Ocean to discuss about international community development for peace in every
country.
It
would also emphasize on the importance of citizenry and how to make an
understanding of peace in the world at large.
The
club as part of the meetings would look at community developments like the
building of toilets and helping communities in areas that need help.
