Rotary bicycles for Pune girls
Every year, as part of its literacy and community development initiatives, RC Pune Camp, D 3131, donates refurbished and new cycles to girl students who earlier had to walk a long way to school from their homes. Since 2013, 500 cycles have been given.
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In August this year, the club donated bicycles to 30 girls studying in the Sadguru Narayan Maharaj Madhyamik School at Bhiwadi village of Narayanpur taluka in Pune.“The girls used to travel 5 km to school. Although there is a public transport it was erratic and the girls would be delayed reaching school. This resulted in a very high percentage of dropouts,” said Jaideep N Malaviya, the club’s director of Literacy and Community Projects.