The World Vision India organised the Annual Gift Festival-2014 for its sponsored and non-sponsored slum children here on Friday. Nearly 3,500 children from 54 slums of Bhubaneswar were distributed schoolbags as gifts.
Chief guest BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena lauded various developmental activities of the World Vision in the fields of education, health and sanitation of slum communities. World Vision India progamme manager Golden Kumar Naik encouraged parents present during the event to give their children quality education for building a better life for them. On the occasion, CIHNC Director Prabhat Kumar Rout and local corporator Premananda Jena emphasised on giving moral education and cultural values to every child as part of nation building. The distribution programme was simultaneously held at Bharatpur, Niladri Vihar, Khandagiri and Mancheswar.