Rotary World President Jennifer Jones arrives in SL

 First Women  President of Rotary International, the world’s foremost service organization that also has a seat in the UN General Assembly, has selected Sri Lanka as one of the countries to visit on her global ‘Imagine Tour of Jennifer Jones’.   

The tour is in line with the Rotary theme for the year “Imagine Rotary”, as she urged people to dream big and harness the power of Rotary to turn those dreams into reality. 

During her tour to Sri Lanka, Jennifer Jones will officially launch many key projects and engage in some of Rotary’s ongoing flagship projects. 
Her visit also serves to recognize the great work that has been accomplished by local Rotarians, Rotaractors and Interactors   Ms Jones will plant a tree as part of the Rotary One Million Trees project to grow back Sri Lanka’s depleted forest cover. She will then visit the Stock Exchange of Sri Lanka to highlight the importance of environmental sustainability and responsibility by the private sector that includes gender diversity and inclusive decision-making in the corporate world.

One of the highlights of Jennifer Jones’ visit will be the handing over of the first consignment of urgently required medicines to the Ministry of Health. The medicines are part of a $10 million Life Line project that is funded by Rotary for the people of Sri Lanka in partnership with UNICEF. She will visit the Rotary funded Cancer detection centre, undertaken in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Given the importance of youth, Ms Jones will present IT scholarships to selected youth as part of Rotary Sri Lanka’s programme to provide 500 IT scholarships from a campus in the Philippines together with the Sri Lankan Embassy in the Philippines with the partnering organization being the National Youth Council, Ministry of Youth Affairs.  Jennifer Jones is the Founder President of Media Street Productions Inc.- a 25-year-old award-winning media company based in Ontario, Canada.