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Promote literacy, fight-hunger - Rotary Chief Wilkinson

Rotary International President Wilfrid J. Wilkinson urged all Rotary Clubs to take on projects that promote literacy, fight hunger and disease and alleviate the water shortage plaguing much of the developing world. "Our work in these areas address the root of poverty and conflict and thus further the goal of world peace and understanding,"Wilkinson told at a ceremony to mark the successful completion of the "School Re-Awaken Project" implemented by the Rotary International District 3220 Sri Lanka.