The Rotary Club of Baripada Heritage on Wednesday held a seminar on its six areas of focus. The speakers highlighted how the Rotarians have played significant roles in the fields of peace and conflict prevention, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy and economic and community development.
The programme, held at the Baripada Stadium Conference Hall, began with a welcome address by club president Engineer Aniruddha Prusty and a keynote address by club adviser Dr JP Nath. While Mayurbhanj District Child Development Officer Mamatamayee Biswal was chief speaker, writer and social activist Kavi Vishnu Satpathy was chief guest.
Rotarians Santanu Pani, Birendra Nath Sahu and Arun Kumar Dash, who spoke, dwelt at length on the activities and achievements of the Rotarians across the globe. Several achievers who have distinguished themselves in different fields of human endeavour were felicitated on this occasion.