Month: December 2017
Letters to the Editor – December 2017 issue
Rotary-GOI partnership As soon as I receive Rotary News every month, I usually glance at the Editorial. The October Editorial, The power… to do good,
Solar power brightens hamlet
Veloshi, a tribal hamlet on the lap of the Sahyadri mountains in Maharashtra’s Thane district, now sports a bright, resplendent look at night, thanks
The printed landscape
The sharp, icy fingers of a howling wind snatched the sheet of paper from my hand. I screamed but no sound escaped my lips.
Rotaractors rock and roll in the Maldives
Clean beaches, clear blue water and no hawkers bothering us. I wish we could make India this beautiful,” says Abhishek Bandodkar, a Rotaractor from
With Love From Kanpur to Amritsar
An all-women group comprising Anns, Annets from the Rotary Club of Kanpur Greater (RCKG), D 3110, set off on an excursion to the Golden City
Handwash Day puts focus on hygiene
Smiling children with placards in their hands greeted the Rotarians of District 3232 at Pathipaga Chemmal K Ganapathy Government HS School in Chennai during
CSR funds Rotary’s vocational unit
RC Pune Gandhibhavan, D 3131, has set up a vocational centre on the premises of Gram Prabodhini Vidyalaya, a school at Salumbre village, 45
Cath lab to save children
The Rotary Club of Raipur Greater, D 3261, recently installed a paediatric heart catheterisation lab at the Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital in Naya Raipur,
Towards a more peaceful world
Dear Fellow Rotarians, Seventy-two years ago, the United Nations was founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war… (and) to practice tolerance and
Power of Partnerships
This month my focus is on the purpose and power of partnerships. We have a history of partnerships at all levels of Rotary. We partner
Club Matters – December 2017 issue
RC Salem Young Town — D 2982 The club provided nutritious meals for visually-impaired students and members of Agavizhi Charitable Trust as part of Annapurna
A Rotary-Bank partnership worth emulating
Dear Rotarians, Twenty-seven years ago I joined Rotary. On my first day, I asked a senior Rotarian about the prefix in his name — what
Involving semi-rural youth
At the crack of dawn, groups of young students from the schools in and around Gummidipoondi Taluk, started arriving at the gates of the
A promise to the North East
Move over Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru; at this magazine, we have decided to turn both our time and energy to focus also on the
106 Happy Schools by a single club in one year
The Rotary Club of Bangalore, RI District 3190, has built/renovated a whopping number of 106 Government primary schools in the Rotary year 2016–17. The
Fun, food and charity… in aamchi Mumbai
The Rotary World Festival organised by District 3141 at Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Race Course was a fun charity event… packed with races, music and dance,
Rotarians should be courageous, counter divisive activity
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has called upon Rotarians from both India and Bangladesh to fight the “divisive forces” that were trying to undermine
Let RI take up the challenge of eradicating TB: Soumya Swaminathan
Now that Rotary and Rotarians have scored such a huge victory in ridding India of polio, it is time “Rotary International takes up as
Regional Editors meet at Bangkok
The biennial Asia Pacific Regional Editors’ conference of the Rotary World Magazine Press was hosted this year by Thailand at Bangkok. Editors from the
4-Way Test Award for Bunkar Roy
Rotary Club of Belur, in partnership with RI District 3291, felicitated veteran activist, educator and social worker Sanjit Bunkar Roy, founder of the Barefoot College,
75 years of doing good
Rotary Club of Tinnevelly, D 3212, turns 75 this year; their platinum journey has brought significant transformations in the community through construction of toilets