The Hindu : Round Table focus on dental check-up for kids

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Monday, Nov 11, 2002

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Round Table focus on dental check-up for kids

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM NOV.10. Nearly 10,000 school children have been targeted for dental check-up during the Round Table India Week celebrations that Vizag Round Table-77 is undertaking in the city as part of a nation-wide programme.

Giving details of the community service programmes being organised during the ongoing the RTI week at a press conference here on Sunday, the president of VRT-77, P. Madhav Rao, and secretary, G. Sridhar, said that while one round of dental check-up was already conducted at the Municipal School in Bheemunipatnam on Saturday, two more camps were being held on Wednesday and Friday.

They said the club had earmarked Rs. 10 lakhs for the dental camps towards free distribution of toothpaste, tooth brush, medicine and literature on dental care and hygiene. The other programmes for the week include donation of pressure cooker and wheelchair to the Rani Chandramani Devi Hospital and books to the inmates of Seva Sadan Municipal School and arranging a visit to the aquarium for the inmates of the YMCA project for street children.

Explaining the Round Table movement in the country, Mr. Madhav Rao said RTI was a non-political and non-sectarian organisation of responsible young men between the ages of 18 and 40 offering a practical means of self-development, fostering friendship, participating community service and promoting international understanding and goodwill.

RTI, which was launched in 1957 in the country, has a network of 150 tables in 70 cities and towns with a membership of nearly 2,200 and the highest per capita expenditure of Rs. 40,000 on service and charity, he pointed out.

Mr. Madhav Rao said the RTI laid a thrust on community service work by launching a national project concept in 1992 and undertaking programmes like identifying 30,000 potential blood donors through a blood typing drive in 1992, covering three lakh children on dental care in 1995 and designing a `right to learn' project in 1996 for providing school infrastructure.

As part of a long-term project `freedom through education' launched in 1998, the VRT-77 has planned providing school infrastructure in the city at a cost of nearly Rs. 20 lakhs this year.

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