Author: Rotary News
When Interactors inspired Rotarians
When IPDG Chinnadurai Abdullah appealed to the students of the Ramanathan Chettiar Municipal High School (RMHS) to contribute Rs.1 to the Polio Fund, little did he realise that it will garner Rs.96,000 on the occasion. Abdullah, as ARRFC, presided over the installation programme of the school’s new
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Rotary signs MoU with Fairfax Foundation for expanding dialysis service
Rotary in India has signed an MoU with the Fairfax India Charitable Foundation to put up, in a partnership of 75:25, dialysis machines to serve the underprivileged in government hospitals across the country. The MoU was signed in Mumbai recently between the Foundation CEO
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Letters to the Editor – December 2019
Let’s give to TRF generously The Editor’s Note captioned Undaunted by their disability in the Nov issue is apt, for nothing can stop those who want to achieve big. Hats off to wonder women Kuhu Das, and Jeeja Ghosh, who are fighting for the rights of the disabled.
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Rotary India observes World Polio Day
Rotary clubs across the country observed World Polio Day (Oct 24) by sensitising the public on the need to immunise children to prevent life-threatening illnesses, besides maintaining the momentum for immunisation against polio though India is declared polio-free. Participants of
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From RI South Asia Office desk
Guidelines on Major Donor recognition / Global Grant beneficiariesGuidelines on Major Donor recognition / Global Grant beneficiaries In view of several instances of non-compliance of guidelines for Major Donor and Major Gifts recognition in the region, the policy is being reiterated here: m
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Club Matters – December 2019
RC Salem Metropolis — RID 2982 An ENT camp was organised at a government school in Periapudur village in which over 120 people were screened for ailments. This was followed by distribution of hearing aids to over 80 patients at
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Cancer diagnostic facility in Patna
Rotary Club of Patna Midtown, RID 3250, has set up the R S Cancer
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What’s not to like about reading?
Oh, I don’t read.” Like, it’s a waste of time. Like, it’s the in thing. Like, bro, who does that! The frequency and nonchalance with which I’ve heard this statement being tossed about over the last few years should have finished me off but
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Women Rotarians celebrate Rakhshabandhan with BSF jawans
Rotarians from RC Dombivli Midtown, RI District 3141, celebrated Rakshabandhan with the jawans at the BSF outpost at Dholavira in Kutch, Gujarat. Women Rotarians tied rakhi to over 125 jawans. “It was an emotional moment when one of the soldiers pulled out a rakhi he received from
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