The white walls of RC Kankaria, D 3051’s Rotary Vedic Apparel Training Centre, are decorated with fabric, thread and instructions in Gujarati on the different types of sewing patterns. A group of Rotarians give instructions to freshly qualified trainees on their D Day — an opportunity to get placed in big textile houses like Arvind
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Nandhini, a Rotaractor from PSNA Engineering College and a Pink Warrior of RC Dindigul Queen City, D 3000, talks to her college mates about breast cancer and how it can be self-detected. “Initially they giggled and made fun. But the PPT and
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Have you seen the movie ‘The Twister,’ asks Rakesh Jain, President of RC Calcutta Mahanagar, referring to the Hollywood thriller which
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Sitting on the banks of the sparkling Kodai Lake and listening to stories of leadership from the life of Dr APJ Kalam is everything I could ask for, says an emotional participant of D 3000’s CLIFF RYLA 2015. The chief guest Dr V Ponraj, former Scientific Advisor to Kalam, completed his 55 minute lecture
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I see the world through my mother’s eyes,” says Ravi Hiremath who was born blind. The 16-year-old Dharwad resident led a thousand participants in a Blind Walk organised by Rotary Districts 3170, 3180, 3190, Nayana Jyothi Trust and
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The story of little Raghav, who was facing death in February 2011, is heartrending. The four-year-old child had damaged his neck bone in an accident and was at a risk of permanent paralysis. After multiple surgeries he was discharged but needed extra help. When he enrolled at the AN Chaturvedi Rotary Physiotherapy Centre, his head
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Ansu goes to the local taluk school and can now “come back home instead of staying at the Ashram,” that houses many other tribal students like her. Lack of electricity had left them with no choice but
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The finest part of Mumbai was just under our nose and we never paid heed to its beauty,” commented Rtn Karthik Sha, RC Bombay Seacoast. He was referring to the Heritage Walk recently organised by the National Society of Friends of the Trees (FoT) and the Rotary Clubs of Bombay Seacoast and Mumbai Queen’s
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Kumar felt helpless when his daughter decided to spend the money she had saved for her marriage on his cataract surgery. “Bade aspatal mein ilaj karvana chahti thi (She wanted my treatment to be done at a big hospital),” he says. The next day a mobile van arrived in the village and ophthalmologists conducted screening
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When one man dies, he takes a tree with him. We don’t have that many trees left. Think about the future,” says Rtn Indrajit Barot, RC Mehsana, D-3051. Passionate about people switching over from traditional methods of cremating bodies to the much more eco-friendly gas based crematorium, he and his other club members have been
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Doing good with TRF help While pregnant women across the world are opting for 3D and 4D ultrasound tests at plush clinics to see their baby’s development, “this centre in Uganda didn’t have a couch, or
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