Friend of the Newport Rotary Club, Professsor M.A. Bari from the Rotary Club of Dhaka, Bangladesh, informs the club that his club received a check BDT (taka) 16,92,984.69 equivalent to US $24,536.00 from the Fiscal Agent of RI Districts 3280 fully funding the Bangladeshi Fisherman Aid Project. For project details: Click here for the article announcing the project.
The project is funded by a Matching Grant from The Rotary Foundation with Grant Sponsors Newport Rotary Club, Dhaka Rotary Club, and Rotary Districts 7730 (Southeast NC, USA) and 3280 (Bangladesh).
Professsor Bari, shown above at the Newport Rotary Club in 2003 as Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team Leader, is the Grant Contact in Bangladesh. He states "My special thanks to you for your special effort for the project. By this time we had a meeting of the project committee for talking action program. I shall let you know the every development of the matching grant off and on." We look forward to receiving these updates!
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