The Rotary Club of Abuja Delight, District 9127, in collaboration with Silvercross Hospitals Foundation and Vina Daniel’s Foundation, has conducted a free community outreach focused on maternal and child health in Guita Community Village, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The outreach, held on Friday, also featured the commissioning of the Rotary Club of Abuja Delight Community Corps, feeding of 100 families and the provision of various medical and social services to residents.
Speaking with journalists during the exercise, the Charter President of the Rotary Club of Abuja Delight, Rotarian Justina Evidence Ndubuisi, said the club had designed the programme as a five-in-one intervention to address several health and social needs of the community.
She said the project focused on maternal and child health, hepatitis, polio prevention, feeding and community development.
“This month, July, is a month for maternal and child health. But we are not just doing maternal and child health; we are doing a five-in-one project. We are doing maternal and child health, hepatitis, polio, feeding the nation, and we are also inaugurating Rotary Community Corps,” she said.
Ndubuisi said Guita Community was selected after the club conducted an assessment and identified it as an underserved community requiring intervention.
She said the outreach targeted about 200 beneficiaries, adding that the turnout exceeded the club’s expectations, with more than 200 children and other residents participating in the programme.
According to her, maternal and child health was a priority because of the need to reduce maternal and infant mortality.
“No mother deserves to die giving birth, and no child deserves to die. We want to make sure that every mother goes to the labour room and comes out alive with her child,” she said.
The charter president disclosed that the club distributed essential birthing and delivery materials to pregnant women and nursing mothers, while pregnant women also received mosquito nets and other support.
The outreach listed among the services provided malaria screening and treatment, blood sugar and glucose checks, hepatitis screening and vaccination, anaemia screening, free medical consultation, deworming for children, polio vaccination, family planning and birth control services, as well as health education on safe motherhood and child health.
Other beneficiaries received sanitary pads, while delivery packs were provided for 50 pregnant women.
Ndubuisi also disclosed that the club would return to the community in September to support education through the provision of desks and educational materials.
She added that the club planned to construct a primary healthcare centre in the community as part of its future interventions.
Also speaking, the chief executive officer and founder of Vina Daniel’s Foundation, Rotarian Lovina Okorn, said the foundation partnered with Rotary Club of Abuja Delight to support the feeding component of the outreach.
Okorn, who is also a district chairperson, said her foundation had been involved in street feeding since 2014.
“Rotary Delight is my baby. It was convened and organised on February 9, 2026. So we are six months old today, and we are excited that as a club that was chartered in February, my foundation is partnering with the club,” she said.
She explained that the foundation took responsibility for refreshments and feeding to reduce the financial burden on the young Rotary club.
The partnership contributed to the feeding of 100 families as part of the outreach.
Okorn described the programme as impactful, saying its success should be measured by the number of beneficiaries reached and the services delivered to the community.
