Day: April 1, 2024
Rotary upgrades neonatal ICU in Hyderabad
Now doctors and paramedical staff at the Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad, can have access to the latest medical equipment to
Rotary eye care for villagers
Chartered on Feb 19, 1974, RC Neemuch, RID 3040 (Madhya Pradesh), celebrated its golden jubilee where RI director
RC Alleppey builds houses to celebrate platinum jubilee
Project Rotary Village aims to build 10 houses on 20 cents of land bought by RC Alleppey, RID 3211, and the housekeys will be handed
Project Vignettes – April 2024
In response to a critical shortage at the Jhalawar Medical College blood bank
Letters to the Editor – April 2024
The obit piece “Age had dimmed neither the vigour nor intensity of Fali Nariman,” by Sriram Panchu is a fitting tribute to the almost ‘infallible’
Cotton bag making unit in a Maharashtrian village
Rotary Club of Walhekarwadi, RID 3131, along with the Jijau Social Foundation, an NGO, has helped set up a cotton bag
All about Mars, diversity and STEM
On International Women’s Day, Swati Mohan, an Indian-American aerospace engineer who was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 mission,
Club HOP – April 2024
RC Manora Pattukkottai — RID 2981 An upgraded toilet block with sanitary pad incinerator (₹60,000) was inaugurated by former HC judge Bharathidasan at the Alandur
Dealing with the invasion of the idiots
About 30 years ago, while travelling on a train from Delhi to Chennai I was able to observe a very Indian phenomenon: all the six people sitting around me knew everything about everything. The total journey time was 36 hours of which 18 were spent sleeping. But the remaining 18 hours were available for incessant discussion on all subjects under the sun.
Interactors make adults literate
Manju, Babita, Gudiya, Hema, Rakhi and Kajal are happy that they can now read Hindi dailies, sign their names, and transact business (buying and selling) without help from others. These six middle-aged women employed as domestic helpers, shop assistants and doing unskilled work at Naukuchiatal, a hill station near Nainital, have completed their two-month Adult Literacy Programme (ALP) conducted by the Interactors of RC Nainital, RID 3110. All of them wrote the exam formulated by the Rotary India Literacy Mission, and got their certificates.
Keep giving to TRF for a better world
Never stop giving to The Rotary Foundation as “we are the number one humanitarian NGO in the world making a big difference to communities.
A good Samaritan Rotarian
In a joint initiative, RCs Jaunpur, RID 3120, and Mumbai Khar, RID 3141, had sponsored the forearm surgery of an underprivileged woman living in a village near Jaunpur, a small town in Uttar Pradesh.
A treat for the disabled
It was Children’s Day 2000. Some members of Rotary Club of Burdwan South, RID 3240, were attending the celebrations of the day in a school.
A medical camp near Salem
Over 400 people benefitted from a one-day medical camp organised by RC Elampillai, RID 2982, at Elampillai, a town near Salem, Tamil Nadu. The camp comprised diagnosis and treatment for eyes, ENT, varicose veins, and joint and shoulder. Cataract surgeries were performed for 200 people and physiotherapy sessions were scheduled for over 90 individuals with joint and shoulder issues, said club president Obuli Venkatesh.
Empowering district leaders
No forming phantom clubs and no more tarnishing India’s image through election disputes,” said RI director and convener Raju Subramanian at the training and goal-setting meet, Disha, held in Delhi.
A dialysis centre to serve remote villages
A three-bedded dialysis centre has been set up by RC Sathy, RID 3203, at the Riteesh Hospital in Sathyamangalam in Erode district, Tamil Nadu.
A Republic Day celebration with a difference
This year, the Rotary Club of Aurangabad, RID 3132, in collaboration with the SBOA (State Bank Officers Association) School’s Interact club, decided to celebrate Republic Day with a different kind of initiative.
The change within
These are times that cry out for peace. The Middle East is in its most volatile condition in years. The war in Ukraine is the
Incoming club presidents in Sri Lanka prepare for positive impact
We are not living in a world draped in silk or bathed in sunshine; rather, it is etched with challenges that grow daily. Thanks to escalating tension in the Middle East, naked aggression in Ukraine, the blocking of trade routes, and disruption in global shipping, local economies are left devastated. Amidst these trials, as you step into your roles as club presidents, it won’t be a cakewalk,” said PRIP K R Ravindran, addressing over 50 presidents-elect from RID 3220 at the Presidents-Elect Training Seminar (PETS) in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. P S M Charles, Governor of the Northern Province of Jaffna, was also present at the inaugural event.
To make change, just get started
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