Rotary Darakhshan’s webinar highlights virtues of image building

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Rotary Club of Karachi Darakhshan, with the collaboration of Rotary Club of Dhaka Central, hosted a live webinar on the subject of promoting, building and enhancing the image of Rotary on August 22.   

The event, broadcast live on various social media channels, was followed by hundreds of Rotarians in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia besides many other countries. 

The webinar was organized under the auspices of Jahangir Moghul, Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator (ARPIC), with the blessings of Sam Showket Hossain, the Zonal Rotary Public Image Coordinator.

Sam Liu Chi Tien Surgeon, Director, Rotary International, was the keynote speaker in the webinar, which began with the welcome speech from Asim Murtaza Khan, President, Rotary Club of Karachi Darakhshan, at the designated time of 1330 hours (Pakistan Standard Time) and concluded with vote of thanks from Irfan Qureshi, a Past District Governor, at the scheduled closing time of 1600 hours.

Zia-ur-Rahman, President, Rotary Club of Dhaka Central, which was co-host for the event, also welcomed the participants for attending the session.

There were presentations from Past District Governors, Akhtar K Alavi, Salim Raza, Shahzad Ahmed and Sajid Pervez Bhatti, District Governor, Prof Dr Farhan Essa, Past President, Syed Khalid Mahmood, and District Rotract Representative, Iqra Sajjad.

“I would like to request all the club presidents and district leaders to generate maximum activities and carry out maximum possible projects for their respective communities so that our Public Image team could continue feeding the media with success stories on a regular basis. This will impact far too greatly than publicizing occasional events,” ARPIC Jahangir Moghul observed in his speech outlining the policies of his committee.

;“Our club and district leaders should be motivated further to devote their energies and resources in executing large number of projects aimed at helping out the community and let our public image team spread the word across with consistent policies,” he urged.

The most comprehensive presentation in the session was witnessed from the veteran Rotarian Akhtar K Alavi, in which he spoke at length about the real challenges being faced by Rotary as he also offered suggestions to earn more goodwill for one of the largest voluntary service organizations of the world.