Service Projects

Our members pour their passion, integrity, and intelligence into completing projects that have a lasting impact. We persevere until we deliver real, lasting solutions.

PAST PROJECTS

The Rotary Club of Accra since its Charter has undertaken a number of service projects in many parts of the country. Below is a list of some of the successful service projects.

  • Rotary Family Health Days – RHFDs

RFHD mobilises resources and expertise from a broad spectrum of partners, including governments, community-based organisations and private sector companies. Rotary Clubs mobilise community participation and manages health sites. As an annual three-day free health outreach programme designed to benefit women, men and children in selected deprived areas. Rotary Club of Accra work with Rotaractors to embark on this free health screening exercise.

  • Blood Donor Day

This is one of Rotary Club of Accra’s main service projects. Every year, the club organises a blood donation day where it brings high school students and members of the public to donate blood for the Korle Bu Blood Bank. Prizes are awarded to various individuals and organisations for their contribution.

  • German Volunteer Doctors

Rotary Club of Accra has in the past supported and assisted the effort of the German Volunteer Doctors in their work in Ghana. This assistance has been in the form of paying for their registration with the local medical board and partnering them in projects. This year the club will be partnering them in a project and would also help with their registration with the medical board.

  • Orphanage for HIV Children in Amasaman

In partnership with the German Volunteer Doctors, RC Otterndorf-Land Hadeln, Germany, and the German Government, an orphanage is being built for children of mothers with HIV who have passed away. These children sometimes get stigmatized and do not have anywhere to go and so do not receive schooling. This is a Global Grant that has received approval and funding.

  • ICT Centre For Trokosi Centre

The Trokosi Center in Frankadua is one that was assisted by the club a few years ago. It is a centre that helps girls who have been released from the Trokosi servitude to learn a trade. In the past they have received training in vocational trades such as sewing and cooking. The ICT Centre will have computers and other peripherals.

  • Peace Symposium

The club organizes a one-day symposium for the public to educate them on the need for peace in the country and the sub-region. Various speakers are brought in to speak on the topic of peace.

  • Urology Symposium

The club invited a prominent urologist, Professor Roger Kirby, is being invited to give a public lecture and seminar on urology to medical students and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. The lecture and seminar is to update the participants on the current issues in the field of urology. This will help them in their treatment of their patients and also inform the public on what is going on in the field.