Mary Nnah
Rotary Club of Lagos Island recently commissioned a library in the loving memory of one its members, Late Mrs. Sushil. M. Chanrai, at the premises of the Government Senior College, Ikoyi.
The fully equipped library, which comes under the club’s #KA IWE service project, was commissioned by the District Governor, D-9110, Rotn Remi Bello.
The facility, which is to promote reading culture in children and especially girls, was donated to Government Senior College, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Speaking at the event, the District Governor, Remi Bello, commended and congratulated RCLI for using their time and resources to improve the learning conditions and the continuous education of students of Government Senior College, Ikoyi.
He thanked the authorities of the school for giving Rotary the opportunity to execute the library project.
“To improve on the reading attitude generally is very big work, that is why this club came up with the project they called “Ka-iwe”, which simply means read a book, so we need to encourage people to read it”, Bello noted.
He therefore encouraged the students to read more to become wise, adding, “you can actually touch the sky on the limit if you read more and more and then you become a great citizen of Nigeria”.
President of the club, Kamlesh Jain, said the initiative was borne out of the commitment to give back to the community and encourage reading culture, adding, “basic education is one of the ways we carry out our community project and this project aims at revitalising the reading culture among students. Renovating and equipping this school library is one of our mandates to encourage reading”.
Speaking further, she said, “We want to promote the reading culture in children, especially girls, and also to encourage them to know what they need to become in life. Reading always makes you more wise and intelligent.”
