Royal Health Keep-Fit Club Launched
The benefits of exercising the body regularly may sound too good to be true, but decades of solid science has confirmed that it improves health and can extend one’s life, and it is for this reason and many others that the Royal Health Keep-Fit Club has officially been launched.
The keep fit club which was launched last week Friday ‘’looks beyond the physical exercising of the body, it also touches on the mental and spiritual well-being of their members’’, president of the Club, Mrs. Mary Kyei Baffour has said.
According to her, the formation of the club was to minimize the spate of diseases in the community by promoting and maintaining quality health living among the people.
‘’ the Royal Health Keep-Fit Club has also come to stay to equip club members especially, the unemployed to gain requisite vocational skills in soap making, sewing, hairdressing, Batik making among others. Schooling members on basic financial management training like savings and investments, and as well to foster unity among the people in the community through keep fit’’, she noted.
Briefing chiefs and other dignitaries at the ceremony, Mrs. Kyei Baffour revealed that Chantan A1 and its environs (suburbs of the Ga Central Municipal Assembly), apart from their poor sanitation state were said to be also crime prone areas as a result of most of the youth converging within the said community to engage in all kinds of nefarious activities like smoking of Indian hemp, pilfering and others, and in discussing ‘’these worrying trend with my husband and other people in the community, we came out with this idea of forming Royal Health Keep Fit Club so that we could bring the entire community together to address some of these concerns through Keep Fit’’.
The activities of the Club so far, according to the president, have been jogging and aerobics every Sunday morning from 5am to 6:30am with very renowned, vibrant and professional instructors, ‘’and we encourage members to keep proper Hygiene and maintain clean environment to avoid certain communicable diseases’’, she added.
Touting on some achievements so far chalked by the Keep Fit Club in less than four months of its existence, Mrs. Kyei Baffour said they organized breast screening exercise last year at the Chantan Market during the Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, where over 250 women were screened for free. ‘’Birth Certificate, registration and renewal of NHIS, Eye screening, etc. was made for the entire Chantan Community’’, she affirmed.
The Club is also on record to have organized a street talk awareness program which was held at Ofiesasare, opposite the Chantan market, where members were taken through topics, on kidnapping, road accident and mobile money fraud, among others by top police personnel from the Ghana Police Service.
‘’with contributions from Patrons and some members, the Club was able pay for the full surgery of a member who was diagnosed with Breast Cancer and currently doing very well after the surgery’’, Mrs. Kyei Baffour hinted.
At the launch, the president also placed a clarion call on philanthropists and other stakeholders to support one of their objectives to make donations to inmates at the Nsawam Prisons, as part of the Club’s social responsibility.
‘’It is also in our plan to make donations to certain hospitals and the children’s home in the foreseeable future’’, she said.
Patrons and other dignitaries who graced the launch included Nana Baafi Okoto (I), Adontenhene of Asante Akyem Adonfe, Mr. Kofi Kyei Baffour , a Financial control analyst at Ghana Gas Limited, the Chief Executive Officer of Angel TV, Mrs. Akua Amoakoa , Mr. Owusu Sekyere, IT and Support Unit, Forestry Commission, and Mr. Victor Owusu Boakye , the Director of Finance at GLICO.