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Rotary’s eighth Peace Center inaugurated at Symbiosis, Pune

Rasheeda Bhagat

Most of the conflicts that our world is facing today are the result of fear and failure to understand the other side. Many people speak about “peace as if it is only the absence

Lighting an entrepreneurship spark through RYLA

Rasheeda Bhagat

When Ahmed Ibrahimsha was a final year student at the Kamaraj College of Engineering in Madurai in 2021, he was told about the RYLA — Be an entrepreneur programme being conducted by the Rotary Club of Virudhunagar. He found this

Protecting tribal girls from cervical cancer

Jaishree

Around 550 girls of Adhigam Bhoomi School, a residential institution in Pailan, Joka, in South Kolkata, recently received the first dose of the cervical cancer vaccine, thanks to an initiative by the Rotary Club of Salt Lake Metropolitan Kolkata, RID

Jalna Rotarians provide critical equipment for premature babies’ eyecare

Rasheeda Bhagat

The Rotary Club of Jalna Midtown, RID 3132, has set up one of Maharashtra’s first state-of-the-art RetCam Diagnostic Centre for Neonatal ICU infants, adding a significant service to the highly specialised care required to protect premature babies from the danger

Creating schooling opportunity for street children

Rasheeda Bhagat

Children living on the streets is not a novel phenomenon in several Indian cities and Bhubaneswar is no exception. Here a large number of children live in street situations across railway station areas, footpaths and near temples and market places.

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Using canvas to fund classroom

Kiran Zehra

The sale of a painting titled Crimson Depth, Golden Dreams, has helped in funding the education of children at the Rotary Bangalore Vidyalaya, a school for underprivileged students in Bengaluru. Thirty per cent of the proceeds from the artwork were given to the school through Kala for Vidya, an art-based

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Rotary nurtures young scientists

V Muthukumaran

Path-breaking scientists and technocrats are not born, they are made… on a treadmill of constant, hard learning, and intense research despite setbacks. To nurture future innovators, Young Scientists Forum 2025 (YSF) extended a platform to around 340 students from 42 schools in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Mumbai to display their creative ingenuity through scientific models,

A giant dish for a greener hospital

Team Rotary News

In a landmark initiative to promote sustainable healthcare, the Rotary Club of Bombay Pier, RID 3141, has supported the installation of a mega-sized solar concentrator at Muni Seva Ashram, which houses the Kailash Cancer Hospital in Goraj village near Vadodara, Gujarat. This project was made possible in December 2025 through

Making a difference – March 2026

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A marathon for winged visitors Around 3,600 people ran the Run for the Wings marathon organised by RC Mettur Dam City, RID 2982, to

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