Day: October 1, 2024
Cancer care diet for children
On July 1 this year, RC Thane Ghodbunder Road, RID 3142, launched Project Annapurna at the St Jude Childcare Centre in Parel, Mumbai, to provide nutritional support to 100 children undergoing cancer treatment at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. “We aim to provide nourishing diet packs to 100 families with children battling cancer every week for the entire year,” said project coordinator Shankar Bhagat. Each carefully curated pack costs Rs.500 and the total project cost is estimated at Rs.26 lakh. The initiative will benefit less privileged children undergoing treatment at the Tata Memorial Hospital and staying at all the 20 St Jude centres across Mumbai.
A heart care bus to help health camps in villages of RID 3212
In order to provide free and quality heart care to the villagers in all the seven revenue districts that come under RI District 3212, the district has acquired a state-of-the-art healthcare bus costing over Rs.1 crore.
This Rotarian is on a greening spree
Give a gift that keeps giving…. This is the motto of the charitable trust that Janet Yegneswaran, a past president (2017–18) of the Rotary Club of Bangalore Koramangala (RCBG), RID 3191, set up in memory and name of her late husband Rajanet Yegneswaran, a Rotarian of the same club, some 20 years ago.
Mumbai Rotarians help tribals of Palghar
Whether it is enhancing farmers’ income in tribal villages, providing wells in villages where women earlier had to walk across several km to carry water over their heads, giving modern educational aids to children in rural schools, or organising group weddings for Adivasis, the Rotary Club of Bombay Bay View, RID 3141, has done it all.
The Raja of Rotary hearts
Anybody travelling to Chandigarh for a Rotary-associated visit is bound to hear about Rajendra Saboo’s contributions to Rotary, not only as RI President, RI director, district governor or club president… but right from his early years.
Rotary installs AEDs to save lives
A 70-year-old architect was on a morning walk along Bandra’s Carter Road; he suddenly fumbled and collapsed on the pavement. Onlookers rush to him and respond in the usual way, some