The Rotary Club of Osogbo Central has installed its 10th and first female president, RTN. Mutiyat Oyediran over the weekend.
This is even, the club held award ceremony to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to their careers and given back to society.
Speaking at the official investiture of the Club held in Osogbo, Osun state capital, on Saturday, the 10th and first female president, RTN. Mutiyat Oyediran vowed to continue with the aims and objectives of the club by assisting the less privilege in the society.
RTN. Oyediran said the Rotary Club of Osogbo Central is always at the end of helping the privilege and promoting peace in the society.
She commended the Benson Adeyemi Foundation for their partnership to provide to medical check up at the tenth investiture of the Club.
According to her, “The Medical Outreach is actually sponsored by a Rotariant Benson Adeyemi is one awardees today and he is also a member of the club, he has been doing it in the past and he is still doing it.
“Basically, what Rotary Club does for the society is given back to the society of course everybody knows the Rotary International for that.
“So far, in the past by some of my past presidents, we have actually supported people like widows supporting them with some vocational materials, grinding machine to suppress the hardship in the society. And in the past we have given palliative to assist the petty traders in our society and the new administration is going to do the same.
The Executive Director of the Benson Adeyemi Foundation and Director of Global Goal at the United Nations Association USA Chicago, Oluwafikayo Adeyemi Benson, bagged the award at the tenth investiture of the Club.
The Executive Director said the foundation focuses on mental health and medical outreaches, with a goal of ensuring everyone has access to good health.
Dr. Benson said the foundation has been working with the Osun state government to achieve its goal.
He maintained that the foundation partner the club to encourage people to take advantage of the opportunity to check their health status.
“The focused of this medical outreach is to be in collaboration partnership with Rotary Club of Osogbo Central. They have an investiture as they are installing the 10th president and the first female president. We are here to just partner with them based on our Medical Outreach, just to check blood pressure of people and blood sugar,” he added.
However, The head of the finance department of Benson Adeyemi Foundation, Omotayo Benson Adeyemi
said one of the major goal of Benson Adeyemi Foundation, is to ensure everyone have access to good health and this is really important to us because we know how this is going to help the community health.
“And we have been able to achieve it with the support of Osun state government we really commend the Osun state government for their ongoing effort to see that there is improvement in the health sector.
“It is very important for us to know the state of our health, which is why we organize medical outreaches like this, where people will check their health status.
“It is still very important for people check their health status, to run medical checks as many times as possible utilize opportunities like this.
“We will bring more of this to support what government,” she added.
