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Rotary International President in Sri Lanka; due to make medical donation
Rotary International President Jennifer Jones on a four day visit to Sri Lanka will call on President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Ms Jones, who is the first woman to hold the post in the organisations’s 115 year history arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday evening from Chennai.
A commemorative stamp will be issued on Wednesday to mark the occasion of her visit to Sri Lanka.
During this visit, a stock of medicines worth US$ one million is to be presented to the Ministry of Health while scholarships for 500 Sri Lankan students to study information technology at a university in the Philippines is to be awarded to the Ministry of Youth Affairs.
The cancer detection center built and donated by the Rotary Club will also be visited by her in addition to a visit to the Colombo stock market.
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