Rotary works in seven areas.
This club works in all seven.
Every project below is running now or ran in the last Rotary year. The figures come from the club’s own Impact Workbook.
The flagship
Rotary Palmgrove Eye Hospital
Nearly twenty thousand free sight-restoring surgeries, nine eye camps across six Nigerian states, and the first cornea transplants performed in West Africa.
Read the sight story- ~20,000surgeries
- 9eye camps
- 7cornea transplants
Star project of the year
Wheels of Impact
The club’s star project for 2026-27. A wheelchair is not a comfort, it is the difference between a room and a city.
Every wheelchair is a life moving forward.
What the club has committed to this year
Seven areas of focus, each with a month, a programme and a member whose name is against it.
JulyMaternal and child health- Health camps with free medicine distribution, four times in the year
ChairRtn. (Dr.) Manizha Payeez
SeptemberBasic education and literacy- Project KiND: 100 bench desks donated to schools
- Light 2 Life: solar power installed in a school or primary health centre
ChairRtn. Oke Abiodun
OctoberCommunity economic development- End Polio support
- Vocational services
- Open gifts distribution by CCC
ChairRtn. Siddhanth Rao Nalodae
DecemberDisease prevention and treatment- Mission for Vision: 3,000 free cataract surgeries with the Indo Eye Care Foundation, four camps
- Blood donation camps, six times in the year
ChairRtn. Sonali Pradhan
FebruaryPeacebuilding and conflict prevention- Seminars
- Peace of Mind sessions in schools and mental hospitals
ChairRtn. Kiran Kumari
MarchWater, sanitation and hygiene- An RO water plant for a community
- Nora Dreams: ten months of sanitary product distribution to schoolgirls
ChairRtn. Mukund Garud
AprilEnvironment- Project Tree Plantation
- Patel Park renovations
ChairRtn. PP Ramesh Mallick
The whole programme
Community economic development
Wheels of Impact
The club’s star project for 2026-27. A wheelchair is not a comfort, it is the difference between a room and a city.
2026-27 star project of the Rotary year
Disease prevention and treatment
Mission for Vision
Free cataract surgery at scale. The club’s flagship, and the reason it is known across the district.
2,550 free cataract surgeries in 2025-26
Maternal and child health
Project Nora Dreams
Menstrual dignity for school-age girls, so that a period never costs a week of education.
3,223 school-going girls reached in 2025-26
Disease prevention and treatment
Mega health camps
Free consultations, medicines and screening, delivered in a single day at scale.
1,221 patients seen at one camp in 2025-26
Disease prevention and treatment
Blood donation
Lagos hospitals run short of blood constantly. The club runs the drives that refill them.
342 pints collected in 2025-26
Disease prevention and treatment
End Polio Now
Rotary’s oldest fight, and the one it is closest to winning. Polio cases are down 99.9% worldwide.
6 clubs led in a joint immunisation campaign
Water, sanitation and hygiene
Water and hygiene
Working toilets, clean water and somewhere to sit down and write, in schools that had none of the three.
28 school toilets renovated
Environment
Tree plantation
Tree planting run jointly across two Rotary districts, Lagos and Ogun, under Rotary’s seventh area of focus.
2 districts working together, 9111 and 9112
Environment
Patel Park
A public park in Ilupeju, renovated by the club and maintained by it ever since, named for the charter member who became its third President.
2022 renovated and commissioned, 30 June
Youth and community development
Youth service
Four sponsored clubs, a leadership academy, and the district’s Interact Representative.
4 Interact and Rotaract clubs sponsored
None of this happens for free.
The club funds its programme from member contributions, District Grants and the generosity of people who will never meet the person their money helps.