Her Lordship the former Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood says the world remains indebted to Rotary International, for its invaluable contribution towards humanity.
Speaking at the 8th District Training Assembly and Conference of Rotary International in Accra, the former chief justice charged public servants to conduct themselves in a manner that will bring about development.
The two-day 8th District Training Assembly and Conference run from April 16 to April 17 and had participants from Benin, Niger, Uganda, Togo and Ghana who are also members of the Rotary District 9102. Their training was on the tenets of the organisation.
At the opening of the conference, the former Chief Justice Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood encouraged justices to exercise their duties with integrity, as a key component of the profession.
Rotary International President’s Special Representative-Endowment Major Gift Advisor, Past District Governor Emmanuel Katongole expressed his incomparable love for Ghana. The first District-9102 woman Governor of Rotary International, Governor Yvonne Kumoji-Darko, said focus on the environment, child care and maternal mortality, water and sanitation, peace building are some priority areas for the Rotary Foundation.
A past Assistant Governor of Rotary International and Chairperson of the Host Organising Committee of the conference, Nana Yaa Siriboe, said among other things that, Rotary is at the forefront of the fight to eradicate polio from the surface of the earth.
Rotary International has utilised over one billion Dollars so far to make sure the world is polio free. The event was attended by Ex-Officio members of the organisation. Rotary International is a world humanitarian organisation with branches in almost every country.
With one hundred and sixty years of existence, the organisation has been operating in Ghana since October 1958 and has contributed to Ghana’s development in the areas of health, environment, education, including other infrastructural developments.
