Rotary: Back to School Campaign launched
View(s):Rotary that has contributed to over a 600 million dollars worth of projects in Sri Lanka from the famous Rotary Polio campaign to the first human heart valve bank, Cervical cancer treatment center and the 25 state of the art schools that was built by Rotary has now extended the two billion rupee Stop the Spread campaign.
The new campaign called the Rotary: back to school campaign is a partnership with the Ministry of Education where a 1000 schools across the country with a student population of below 100 students are targeted by Rotary, Rotaract and Interact to make it secure for children to get back school. Rotary is committed not to leave anyone behind said the Rotary Back to School Project Director Dr Rohantha Athukorala. The District Governor for Rotary Sri Lanka & Maldives Aruni Malalasekera said that this is a key district project where all Rotary clubs, Rotaract Clubs and Interact Clubs are taking part and we are giving a 15,000 member support drive this project. The Covid Task Force Chairman Ajith Weerasinghe said we are linking all Sri Lankan associations globally to this key task so that we support Education Ministry to get back the children to the schools. This is a focus all over the world he said. The Global Covid Task Force Head K.R. Ravindran said that equitable vaccination distribution will be key to managing the stop the spread programme globally.
