Month: April 2021
Tell your Rotary stories to grow our organisation: Jennifer Jones
A decade ago, I completed one of the greatest achievements of my life. My husband Nick and I climbed nearly 20,000ft to reach the
Project Orange to roll-out 200 hybrid vision centres
Project Orange of RID 3232 aims at combating avoidable blindness by setting up 200 hybrid vision centres (HVC) covering 2,500 villages and one crore beneficiaries in
RC Spic Nagar provides comprehensive healthcare
RC Spic Nagar, RID 3212, on its 47th year of charter, has various ongoing service projects, with major focus on providing healthcare. More than 100
RIPE Shekhar Mehta conferred D Litt
Youth have a role to play in the nation-building process as they are the trustees of posterity for the future, said RIPE Shekhar Mehta, after
Let’s help our citizens fight Covid
An update by the World Health Organisation shows over 144 million Covid cases till April 23, and over three million deaths worldwide. WHO is bothered,
All the troubles worth it to see our grandson
Last month, after a very long time, we got lucky. We travelled to Switzerland to see our grandson who was born last year in July.
This too shall pass
We all know change is inevitable. There is a Japanese term I’m very fond of, it’s called Wabi-Sabi. It simply means, nothing is permanent,
Creating your own ‘black gold’ at home
It doesn’t matter if you live on the seventh floor of a high rise or in a ground floor house with a garden. The person
Girls’ day out
Rotary Club of Himalayan Ranges Mansa Devi, RID 3080, has been spreading smiles among hundreds of children every year since 2018 with their project Choti
Delhi Rotarians form Indian Fellowship for Cycling to Serve
Inspired by the International Fellowship of Cycling Rotarians (FCS, that is, Fellowship for Cycling to Serve), RC Delhi Manthan, RID 3011, took the lead in
Covid vaccination is important, but polio eradication is our DNA
Excerpts: Kamal Sanghvi: Please let us into your thought process on how you came down to this theme: Serve to change lives? Shekhar Mehta:
An abandoned pond rejuvenated near Gwalior
Twenty-five villages and 25,000 habitants are the beneficiaries of a resurrected pond in Kulaith, a reserve forest 25km from Gwalior. The pond was brought to
Human Milk Bank in Guwahati
Rotary Club of Guwahati, RID 3240, has set up a human milk bank at the Satribari Christian Hospital in Guwahati, with a $35,158 global
Grow more to do impactful projects: RIPE Shekhar Mehta
Grow Rotary to do more by increasing membership and taking up impactful projects with 4–5 clubs joining together, said RIPE Shekhar Mehta at the
An innovative sapling project from RC Kangra
If you drink nariyal pani (tender coconut water) in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, you wouldn’t have to throw away the shell. RC Kangra, RID 3070, under
Tailoring skills enhance livelihood for rural women in Thanjavur
It was a defining moment for Savitha Prabhakaran (48) when she received a sewing machine with certificate at the pass-out ceremony. Having lost her husband
Rotary Public Toilets in Dhone
Rotary Club of Dhone, RID 3160, constructed a public toilet block in the centre of the town. “The area has a floating population and is
From RI South Asia Office desk
Every Rotarian Every Year Every Rotarian is encouraged to make a personal gift to the Annual Fund and participate in a Foundation grant or programme
RC Pune Metro sets up a smart class for blind students
What began as a one-time project of setting up a smart class in a school for the visually impaired in March last year turned out
RC Bombay targets 470 paediatric heart surgeries
Neither Covid nor lockdown restrictions has stalled the paediatric heart surgeries project of RC Bombay, RID 3141, which it is currently implementing through two