Month: December 2023
Uniting the world through art
Rotary club of Chandigarh, RID 3080, celebrated the spirit of ‘one world, one family’ through a week-long art and cultural festival (Oct 16–22) at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), in partnership with the Infosys Foundation, the CSR arm of the IT major, and Bhavan Vidyalaya.
Sparkling service by RC Chandigarh
There is a striking parallel in the growth of Chandigarh, the union territory and the capital city of both Punjab and Haryana, and the 65-year-old marquee club, RC Chandigarh, RID 3080, the first one to be chartered in this region in May 1958.
Meet your Governors
Friendship and the kind of networking being offered drew Keshav to Rotary in 2002.
Project Vignettes
A meeting with President Murmu RID 3250 DG S P Bagaria, along with PDG Vivek Kumar and Shubham Bagaria, member of RC Calcutta Presidency, RID 3291,
Why cricket fascinates me
October and November were very fraught months for me. The cricket World Cup started on Oct 5 and ended on Nov 19, 2023. That’s 45
A school for mentally-challenged children
Rotary Club of Lakhimpur Central. RID 3120, is running a special school called AASRA for children with mental disabilities on the premises of the Ajmani
Rotary-Bosch partnership to set up 100 skill development centres
RI Director Raju Subramanian recently signed an MoU in Bengaluru with Guruprasad Mudlapur, managing director, Bosch Limited, to establish 100 skill development centres in various locations across India to impart the corporate’s Bridge programme.
Tackling anxiety and depression
The world is going mad… as in crazy. Red hot rage replaces business disputes.
Cinema on Wheels in Udaipur
Parked outside government schools in Udaipur, a huge container truck called Cinema on Wheels is silently championing change and fostering progressive thinking among students.
Scuba diving with a message
Samya Sengupta, a member of RC Calcutta South Circle, RID 3291, led an ocean dive with the message ‘No Blue, No Green’ organised by the
WASH transforms 20 schools in Kolkata
Over 10,000 students in rural Kolkata now enjoy better sanitation and hygiene, all thanks to a mega $142,600 global grant project implemented by RC Belur, RID 3291. The programme, initiated in April 2019 and completed in August 2023, brought clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to 20 schools across six revenue districts. “The project was a significant investment in the future of these children,” smiles project chair Vishnu Dhandhania.
RC Delhi Imperial rejuvenates schools in Delhi NCR, Gurugram
This is a club that has specialised in bringing to life and modernising government schools. In the last few years RC Delhi Imperial, RID 3012, has done three global grant projects to rejuvenate government schools in and around villages in the Gurugram and the Delhi NCR area.
Spine surgery on an African girl
Five-year-old Maïssa from Burundi, a small landlocked and underdeveloped east-central African country, had a successful scoliosis surgery in a collaborative project between RCs Mumbai SOBO,
E-tablets for 100 school students
With an aim to enhance the digital learning skills of students, e-tablets worth ₹20 lakh were distributed by RC Panchsheel Mysore, RID 3181, to 100 beneficiaries from 50 government schools in Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka.
Bengaluru Rotarians “create fruits from poison” in KGF
Of all the places in the world, in the erstwhile cyanide dumps of the Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) township, where till only recently, dusty, dry,