Community empowerment promotes economic growth
— Rotarian
Sanjeev Tandon
However, where there is proper provision
for vocational training, education empowerment, agriculture with better healthcare
system etc. in communities it affects national development because it’s all
about value chain that kick starts from the grassroots to state and federal
levels.
One of the challenges of low pace development
in Nigeria is because most communities in the country are not developed which
now affects national development. Empowering citizens reduces crime rate,
unemployment, youth restiveness, corruption and economic upheaval. On this
background, newly elected President, Rotary Club of Lagos Island, Rotarian Sanjeev
Tandon, a man with passion for community development and has been tremendously
supporting charity work, less privileged and community development since he
joined Rotary Club of Jabalpur in 1990 till date.
This
commitment has brought him the level he is in Rotary today. Having spent
decades in Nigeria, the Vice President Project, Kewalram Chanrai Group became
passionate in youth empowerment, keen in better healthcare for an average
Nigerian in order to promote healthy living in the country.
Rotarian
Sanjeev Tandon is the President of the first Mega Club of RI District 9110 in
Nigeria, Rotary Club of Lagos Island, that has empowered 500 youths via
vocational training. “Recently the club paid for the services of medical
experts from abroad that treated patients with different ailment at Shagamu
with most of the expensive medical facilities anybody can boost of and at the
end of that exercise those facilities were left behind for further treatment.
According
to Tandon, this is what Rotary Club of Lagos Island since inception in 2016 has
involved in around its operational environments. Of recent it adopted two
secondary schools for educational empowerment. More of this can be achieved if
we collaborate and help communities around us to develop fast and the economy
will also grow through this means”. Tando, having been considered the right
person and elected as President of Rotary Club of Lagos Island said that the
club will continue this humanitarian services which the club is been known for.
Continuing, he said that the club would strictly follow its mission and
objectives of providing service to others, promote integrity and advance world
understanding, goodwill and peace through its fellowship of business,
professionalism and community leaders. “ To encourage and foster the ideal of
service as a basis of worthy enterprise”.
He said
that Rotary International is an international service organization whose
purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to
provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all
vocations, advance goodwill and peace around the world. It is a non-political
and non-sectarian organization open to all people regardless of race, colour,
creed, religion, gender, or political preference.
There are 34,282 member clubs worldwide and
1.2 million individuals known as Rotarians. However, “the Rotary Community
Corps (RCC) is a volunteer organization with an estimated 157,000 non-Rotarian
men and women in over 6,800 communities in 78 countries. Describing the
bilateral relationship of India and Nigeria, Tando said it dated back in 1940
till date both countries have had a cordial relationships that have seen India
established a lot of companies in Nigeria that have promoted employment in the
country.
In a media
chart with Tando in Lagos, he advised Nigerian government to channel resources
to agriculture to end poverty, unemployment and boost the economy of the
country. He said further that Nigeria has a lot of man power and if trained and
channelled into agriculture the economy would grow through food export and the
country would have enough food for its citizens while many youths roaming
around the streets will be engaged into agriculture. He also stresses the need
for standard education that promotes science and technology which helped
developed nations to advance and remain competitive globally.
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