Rotary Club of Bahari Dar es Salaam Annual Golf Tournament in Dar Dar es Salaam a hit
The Rotary Club of Bahari Dar es Salaam over the weekend held its 10th Annual Fundraising Golf Tournament at Gymkhana Grounds, raising some Tsh 40 million to transform the teaching and learning environment at Mtakuja Beach Secondary School in Kinondoni District.
The Mtakuja Beach Secondary School serves almost 1300 pupils and is housed in a campus in the Kunduchi area.
The Rotary Club of Bahari, in partnership with the business community, Rotary Foundation and the school will be investing in rehabilitating the water and sanitation systems in the school, so as to bring clean water, sanitation and hygiene services directly to the children, thereby reducing their exposure to waterborne diseases. Creating healthier water systems in schools creates a positive cycle by significantly improving school enrollment, attendance and improved academic performance. Children who attend school and learn positive health behaviours like washing hands take these behaviours home to their families. The project will also assist the school to rehabilitate the classrooms and the furniture and also provide assistance to the school in accessing a reliable printing service.
Speaking during the event, the Rotary Club of Bahari President, Rotarian Fred Laiser said the objective of the project is to form an effective partnership between the school management, the parent community and The Rotary Club of Bahari, to transform the learning environment and put in place processes to ensure that the improvements are sustainable thereby resulting in lower school drop-out rates, decrease in the spread of diseases and an overall improvement in educational achievement
President Laiser believes that by engaging and working together, Mtakuja Beach Secondary School can become amongst the leading schools in the region and a model for effective partnership between the school and the community.
He said that the past nine annual golf tournaments have raised over Tshs 300 million which contributed towards various club service projects, making a significant difference in the community especially providing support to the underprivileged.
In the past, The Rotary Club of Bahari has supported projects that aim to improve literacy, sports and creativity, building of school libraries and equipping the libraries with textbooks and youth economic empowerment. The Rotary Club of Bahari also made a donation to Sister Carmel Welfare Center for underprivileged girls and built two tailoring rooms, donated ten sewing machines and five knitting machines so as to sustainably empower the underprivileged women economically.
The sponsors for this year’s golf tournament are: ABBA Auto Ltd, Clear Services, Diamond Trust Bank, Heritage Insurance, Jamana Printers, Minet Insurance, NAS Tyre Services Ltd, NCBA Bank, Neelkanth Salt, R.K Chudasama Ltd, Rotarian Steven, Satcom Networks Limited, SBC (T) LTD, Scania (T) LTD, Steelmasters, Strategis Insurance, Softtech Consultants, Tarmol Industries, Toyota Tanzania, and Vigu Trading Limited.
This year Minet Insurance have sponsored golfer t-shirts and a special prize of a pre-owned vehicle to one golfer who can hit a hole in one on the 10th Hole. This should provide additional excitement and competition amongst our golf community.
‘’We expect around 120 golfers this year,” said Laiser, noting, “it’s going to be another great year and we are very grateful to our sponsors who have continued to support us in this grand social undertaking”.
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Youngest winner Dhruv patadia receiving this prize from Past President Mahmood Panju
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