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Rotary Club of Lagos - Palm Grove Estate
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Rotary International District 9111Chartered 2008

Create Lasting
Impact

For eighteen years, the Rotary Club of Lagos - Palm Grove Estate has done one thing above all others: given people back their sight. Nearly twenty thousand times.

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Rotary year 2026-27Create Lasting Impact

P.31The ledger

What eighteen years actually add up to.

Every figure below is taken from the club’s own Impact Workbook, the document it submits to the District Governor each year. Nothing here is rounded up.

  • Sight restored, since inception~0Free cataract and eye surgeries through Mission for Vision and the Indo Eye Care Foundation.
  • Free cataract surgeries, 2025-260The flagship Mission for Vision project, in a single Rotary year.
  • School-going girls reached0Project Nora Dreams, across Opebi, Surulere and neighbouring communities.
  • Patients seen at one mega health camp0With LFZ Convention Centre and the Tolaram Group.
  • Pints of blood collected0Donation campaigns supporting Lagos healthcare institutions.
  • Cornea transplants0The first performed in West Africa.
The full record, year by year
P.32The flagship

Rotary Palmgrove Eye Hospital

Twenty thousand people
woke up able to see.

It began with a partnership with the Rotary Eye Institute in Navsari, Gujarat, and became free eye camps across Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa and Enugu. Seven cornea transplants, the first performed in West Africa.

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P.45Seven areas of focus

Rotary works in seven areas.
This club works in all seven.

  • 01

    Disease prevention and treatment

    The club’s largest programme by far, and the reason it is known across the district.

    • Mission for Vision
    • Mega health camps
    • End Polio Now
    • Blood donation
  • 02

    Basic education and literacy

    Desks, books, and the physical fabric of schools in Ilupeju and beyond.

    • Bench desks
    • Lab in a Box
    • School renovation
  • 03

    Maternal and child health

    Dignity and health for school-age girls, and care for mothers.

    • Nora Dreams
    • Cleft surgery support
  • 04

    Water, sanitation and hygiene

    Working toilets and clean water where schools had neither.

    • 28 school toilets renovated
    • WASH in schools
  • 05

    Peacebuilding and conflict prevention

    Supporting the District 9111 Peace Institute and district peace committees.

    • District 9111 Peace Institute
  • 06

    Community economic development

    Vocational and youth empowerment that outlasts a single donation.

    • RYLA
    • Kinderpreneur
    • Leadership seminars
  • 07

    Environment

    Tree plantation run jointly across two Rotary districts.

    • Tree plantation with D9111 and D9112
All projects
P.09The president

19th President · Rotary year 2026-27

Rtn. Prasan Kumar Jena
Lead with Impact. Serve with Simplicity & Respect.

Rtn. Prasan Kumar Jena joined this club in March 2017 and has served it as Joint Secretary, Membership Chair and twice as Club Secretary. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and has sponsored more than twenty members into Rotary.

Meet the 2026-27 board
Rotary International President
Olayinka Hakeem Babalola
District Governor, D9111
Bukola Olabisi Bakare
Assistant Governor
Rtn. Bisi Kayode
Theme
Create Lasting Impact
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The next page of this
workbook is yours.

Every surgery, every desk, every pint of blood in the ledger above started as one person deciding to turn up on a Saturday afternoon. We meet Saturdays, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. at ICA Premises, 1 D’Alberto Street, Palm Grove Estate, Ilupeju.

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