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cooperation to the
victims of different natural disasters like
the cyclone Sidr and other activities in
health and education sectors in Bangladesh.
He also praised the Rotary International's
humanitarian and disaster relief programmes
for the distressed people as well as its
active cooperation to the victims of
different natural disasters like the cyclone
Sidr and other activities in health and
education sectors in Bangladesh.
The activities the president specially
mentioned included Rotary's pioneering role
to set up Cancer Hospital, prevent
polio, mitigate arsenic, build law-cost
cyclone centres, expand non-formal
education, impart vocational training and
establish new schools side by side with
undertaking different awareness building
programmes.
President Iajuddin Ahmed apprised the Rotary
President of Bangladesh's achievement in
attaining Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)
of the UN, particularly in the fields of
primary education, women empowerment,
sanitation and reducing child and mother
mortality rates.
Wilfried J Wilkinson also apprised the
President of various humanitarian and
development activities of the Rotary and its
different programmes in Bangladesh.
"Rotary International is one of the major
partners of the government in its polio
vaccination drive, contributing a total
of Taka 150 crore to the programme," he
said.
Describing poverty and illiteracy as
worldwide problems, Wilfried J Wilkinson
lauded Bangladesh's achievement in
alleviating poverty, reducing illiteracy,
empowering women and developing human
resources.
Military Secretary to the President Major
General Mohd Aminul Karim, Secretary of the
President's Office Md Sirajul Islam, Press
Secretary Abdul Awal Howlader and District
Governor of Rotary International, Bangladesh
Rafiq Ahmed Siddique were present.
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