By Moses Nyirenda

Lilongwe, July 9, Mana: Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe has partnered with Child Legacy International (CLI) to expand its work of supporting vulnerable communities in the country.

This comes after the club, on Monday, visited CLI Centre at Msundwe in Lilongwe to appreciate some of the works being carried out at the Centre including provision of free healthcare to members of the communities surrounding the Centre.

Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe President, Innocent Mofolo, said what CLI is doing is in line with the club’s focus areas hence their interest to partner with the organization.

“What CLI is doing exemplifies the rotary spirit; rotary has seven focus areas and CLI has all those areas mainly; disease prevention and treatment, sanitation, economic empowerment, justice and agriculture,” Mofolo said.

He said, through the newly formed partnership, Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe and CLI are eager to serve vulnerable communities through economic empowerment, disease prevention, maternal and child health, among other things.

Through the partnership, the two institutions would like to ensure that vulnerable people as well as communities in the country are well served.

“The motive of our partnership is to serve together. Rotary is service above self and, therefore, we want to serve those that are less privileged,” he said.

CLI Co-founder, who is also Chief Executive Officer for the organization, Jeff Rodgers, hailed the partnership between his organization and Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe.

“Child Legacy is honored to be part of Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe. We are happy to be part of what the rotary club is doing to help develop this country and bring quality life to people,” Rodgers said.

During the visit, Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe inducted Jeff Rodgers as its honorary member alongside a data scientist and healthcare worker, Laura Munthali, who was also inducted as Rotary Club of Bwaila-Lilongwe member.