Author: Rotary News
Showcase the Rotary magic: RIPE Stephanie
Now is the time for Rotarians to take action, “to move and make a commitment to increase membership, share ideas and impactful stories in their neighbourhoods, on social media to show the world the magic of Rotary,” said RIPE Stephanie Urchick.
Read moreSlow down on fast fashion
Before you think of buying your next new clothing, stop, evaluate, and reconsider…
Read moreBoosting local healthcare and women’s empowerment
RC Manipal, RID 3182, recently upgraded the physiotherapy departments in two government hospitals in Kundapur and Karkala taluks in Karnataka. The project, valued at Rs.34 lakh, was supported through a global grant;RCs Silicon Valley Passport and Central Chester County, RID 5170, USA, were the international partners.
Read moreA fun day out for girls
Around 150 young girls were the centre of attraction at the V R Punjab Mall in Kharar as they shopped for new clothes to their heart’s content at one of the posh boutiques there. These children, between 8–15 and from an orphange, were escorted to the mall by the members of RAC Chandigarh Himalayan, RID 3080, under the club’s project Choti si Khwaish. “It was heartwarming to watch their gleeful faces as they picked and tried on various garments. It was a magical two hours as their laughter echoed through the store,” says club president Prerna Kashyap.
Read moreA lake in Pune gets a new life
Rotary Club of Pune Kothrud, RID 3131, has embarked on the Ramnadi Rejuvenation Sustainability Project to restore the Ramnadi river originating in the Sahyadri ranges and flowing through northwest Pune comprising Bhugaon, Bhukum, Bavdhan, Pashan, Baner and Aundh regions. The river has turned into a sewage canal due to dumping of construction debris and garbage.
Read moreRC Roop Nagar conducts crucial training to save lives
When he was on a tour last year to a famous winery in Waiheke Island of New Zealand, a very famous tourist destination, Dr BPS Parmar, past president of the Rotary Club of Roop Nagar, RID 3080, noticed, while disembarking at the ferry station, an automated external defibrillator (AED) installed at the waiting area. “I noted that this device, which delivers an emergency shock to the chest in a bid to revive a victim of a sudden cardiac arrest, had been donated by RC Waiheke Island,” recalls the laparoscopy surgeon who has specialised in metabolic surgery.
Read moreOn the reading highway
Where do I begin to tell the story of how engaging it was to read Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway, all 576 pages of it in smallish print? Possibly for the first time in over 60 years of reading, I fell in love with a chapter.
Read moreWhen the privileged wreak havoc
The shocking incident in Pune of an intoxicated 17-year-old overspeeding in a Porsche at nearly 200kmph, and that too on a narrow lane, and killing two young techies returning home after a get-together, has sent shockwaves across the country.
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