The Rotary Club would open up happy schools in Odisha for children belonging to poor families who are deprived of education. The club would also draw the dropout children back into its happy schools so as to impart education including health services through charity.
Through ‘Asha Kiran’ programme, the charitable club of global repute would bring those dropouts back to blackboard and take care of them giving all facilities. Besides, the club would also emphasize on setting up more eye hospitals to help the poor sections get treatment with free of cost.
On the concluding day of the 3-day session of Rotary Club Nilachal in a hotel of the city on Sunday, as many as 1,376 Rotarians of 81 clubs across the State assembled to brainstorm on the deprived sections and their upliftment through services such as education, healthcare and employment opportunities, besides providing them basic amenities in every sphere in the society.
The delegates discussed various ways as to how to impart opportunities to deprived sections and bring their children to schools. Besides, decisions were made to set up a number of low cost schools and shelter homes for the children of poor people. The club would also undertake constructions of new libraries, toilets and eye hospitals in the State so that people below poverty line get facilities free of cost. Besides, the delegates deliberated a number of social issues like eradication of poverty, superstition, health awareness among the economically and socially backward classes and chalk out future roadmap of club in service of poor people in the State.
The three-day session was inaugurated by Nalco CMD Tapan Kumar Chand.
Among others, its former India president, LN Banerjee, representative of international president Siva Gopalkrishnan, Puri district governor Bhabani Chaudhury, former director of Rotary Club Sekhar Mehta, Puri club president Santosh Mohanty and chairman of the session Satya Prakash Panda were present in the session.