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Rotary Club holds breakfast meeting with business leaders

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BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE Rotary signage in the heart of Abidjan Rotary District 9102,  comprising 66 clubs in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Niger, has held a   special breakfast meeting with 100 leading Chief Executive Officers of corporate Ghana. The Breakfast Meeting, which was held   Tuesday, 20th August   2013  at the Movenpick Hotel  Accra, was intended   for District 9102 to interact with business leaders in Ghana on the ideals of Rotary and also as a platform to introduce Rotary’s humanitarian   and sustainable service projects in the District.

Thousands of Africans benefit from DHL’s free distribution of solar lights

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BY EDMUND SMITH-ASANTE DHL Express, one of the world’s leading logistics companies, is supporting Little Sun, a solar light company, by moving free of freight charges, 4,000 lamps to Ethiopia and South Africa from Germany as part of Deutsche Post DHL’s activities around the United Nations World Environment Day. In a similar move, the courier company has also partnered with Solar without Borders, a Belgian non-profit organisation to get light to some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. After executing all kinds of solar projects from Guatemala to Mongolia, Solar without Borders have combined their expertise and developed the ‘Solar Kiosk’, a central solar installation per village where 100 self-developed solar lamps can be charged.