Kim visits WB-funded projects in Barisal

Barisal: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim visited two WB-funded projected in Babuganj and Wazirpur upazilas here on Tuesday.
Social Development Foundation (SDF) is implementing the projects at Rakudia of Babuganj and Bharshakathi of Wazirpur, reports UNB.
During his visit to Dakkhin Rakudia Gram Samity, the WB chief heard the beneficiaries like Sheuli Begum and Sonia Begum.
Talking to reporters, Jim Yong Kim said he experienced that the people of Bangladesh are hardworking. Such industrious people could change their condition in that way without any drawback, he said.
He also visited cyclone a centre cum primary school and solar electricity structure at the house of Manataz Begum at Bharshakathi village in Wazirpur and planted a coconut sapling at the school ground.