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To promote the benefit of those persons now residing in Newport and its surroundings who were born in Bangladesh or are descendants of persons born in Bangladesh without distinction of sex, or of political, religious or other opinions by associating the local authorities, voluntary organizations and inhabitants in the common effort, by the advance of education, the protection of health and the relief of poverty, and the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. |