Rotary International District 9104 has officially inaugurated Jack Andrews Dotsey, PhD, as District Governor (DG) and Kingdom Kededor Avisseh as District Rotaract Representative (DRR) for the 2026/2027 Rotary year.
The joint investiture ceremony was held at the Premier Event Centre (The Dome) at the University of Ghana, Legon, and brought together Rotarians, Rotaractors, development partners and other stakeholders committed to humanitarian service.
The inauguration was held under the Rotary International President’s theme for the year, “Create Lasting Impact.”
In their inaugural addresses, Dr Dotsey and Avisseh outlined plans to strengthen youth leadership, promote community development and expand sustainable humanitarian interventions across the district.
Dr Dotsey, a member of the Rotary Club of Accra—the first Rotary club chartered in Ghana—said his administration would focus on improving local service delivery while strengthening international peacebuilding and humanitarian partnerships.
A management professional and educator, Dr Dotsey has been actively involved in youth development initiatives, including the Digital Youth Village project and the University of Ghana Annual New Year School and Conference.
For his part, Mr Avisseh pledged to position Rotaract as a key driver of grassroots community transformation by promoting collaborative youth leadership and strengthening Rotaract clubs across the district.
As part of its agenda for the 2026/2027 Rotary year, District 9104 announced a series of strategic humanitarian projects for which it intends to mobilise more than US$1 million in funding.
The projects include the construction and equipping of libraries in at least 20 schools under the District Library Project to improve literacy among children.
The district also announced plans to implement Operation Eradicate Malaria from Ghana, a healthcare initiative aimed at reducing the country’s malaria burden through targeted interventions.
Other flagship programmes include the Commonwealth Youth Peace Project and the Rotaract Youth Leadership Academy to equip young people with leadership, mediation and peacebuilding skills.
The district also unveiled the National Humanitarian Dialogue and Policy Practice Project, which seeks to bridge humanitarian service delivery with policy development to support sustainable national growth.
Additional initiatives include the District 9104 Cultural Heritage Preservation and Promotion Initiative, which focuses on environmental conservation and the protection of Ghana’s cultural heritage sites, as well as Operation Document Rotary Ghana’s Contribution, an initiative to archive Rotary’s contributions to Ghana’s social and national development.
District leadership used the occasion to appeal to Corporate Ghana, financial institutions and development partners to support the implementation of the projects through strategic partnerships and funding.
Delivering the keynote address, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, underscored the importance of collaboration, institutional partnerships and sustainable resource mobilisation in advancing national development.
The ceremony was also attended by a representative of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, who commended Rotary International for its humanitarian contributions and urged institutions to uphold Rotary’s Four-Way Test, which promotes truth, fairness, goodwill and mutual benefit in decision-making.
The event also featured the formal handover of leadership and was attended by Past District Governors, Past District Rotaract Representatives, Rotarians, Rotaractors and guests from Ghana and abroad.
Rotary International is a global network of approximately 1.4 million members dedicated to advancing peace, fighting disease, promoting education, improving access to clean water, supporting maternal and child health, protecting the environment and strengthening communities. Rotary International District 9104 comprises Rotary and Rotaract clubs across Ghana, implementing projects that align with the organisation’s global humanitarian priorities.
