Fun events cheer children in Agra
It was heartwarming to look at the happy expressions on the faces of children, and hear their delighted squeals as they watched puppets
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Author: Jaishree
Empowering rural youth in Bengal with Bosch’s help
During its endeavour to improve employment opportunities for the youth, particularly those from rural areas and lower middle classes
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Cabin Schools of Pune
For many children in the slums of Sangvi, Pune, the idea of sitting in a classroom and learning the alphabet was once a distant dream.
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Meet your Governors
Club members are well-acquainted with Rotary’s legacy of global service, “as the more they learn about Rotary, the better Rotarians they become. Hence, as a priority initiative, all the district clubs conducted a Rotary Knowledge Quiz, and zonal competitions were held at six places. In the district finals, 12 teams contested in November last year,” says Santhosh Sreedhar. With 2,865 Rotarians across 84 clubs in the Malabar region of Kerala, his target is to add 500 new members, of which 280 have been inducted already. The DG has chartered four new clubs, and will form 15 more by June-end.
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Rotary miracles do happen
The Rotary Foundation is the one that “keeps all of us together as it is the very soul and spirit of Rotary,” said PRIP K R Ravindran, addressing delegates at the district conference of RID 3231 in Chennai titled Raj Utsav. The Foundation enables ‘dreamers’ to become ‘doers’ as Rotary is now in the formidable business of literacy, healthcare, helping people to live in dignity by providing opportunities, all of these possible due to the strong roots of TRF, he explained. “We need peace, good health, clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to live with dignity, support for women and child care, education, and to help communities to grow — all these form the six focus areas of RI,” he added.
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Reviving rivers in Nashik
Around 45 families have benefitted from a river desilting service project carried out by the Rotary Club of Nasik, RID 3030, across the Nandini River near Mahiravani village. Excavators were engaged to remove silt down to a depth of 2m deposited across the 1.5km stretch of the river which also has a bund to store water. “At least 60 million litres of water can be stored in the bund after this desilting activity,” says club member Vinayak Deodhar.
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Neyveli Rotarians transform a slum
The residents of Ayyanar Street in Neyveli, Tamil Nadu, had a reason to rejoice when their once dark and dismal street lit up, thanks to the installation of solar street lamps by the Rotary Club of Neyveli Lignite City, RID 2981. This narrow street, comprising three lanes and lined with 34 dilapidated mud huts, is home primarily to elderly couples, with just two families having school-going children attending the local government school.
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Meticulous planning behind a magical project
This was the first time in my life that I did Tirupati darshan without any Aadhaar card, PAN card or a security check and the experience was magical,” says an excited Mahaveer Bothra, DG of RID 3233. He is talking about the special darshan he had organised for 1,650 special children and their attenders soon after he took over as the newly carved district’s governor.
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A drawer dilemma
Two months ago, my 98-year-old mother passed away. She was occupying the only bedroom on the ground floor. That was fine except that as I age and become less steady on my feet, going up and down about 25 times a day is steadily increasing the probability of a fall. So last month I decided to renovate my mother’s old bedroom in order to move downstairs. But alas! Life is never so simple. After every detail has been examined and agreed upon between my wife and me, a major policy problem has arisen in my life. It is whether I should ask the carpenter to build drawers in my new cupboard or not. My wife says yes. I say no. My son, usually a very good-natured fellow, says don’t bother me with this trivia.
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Put your backpack to good use
Your shoulders, stooped or squared, are important to first impressions. The former indicates a negative impression, and the latter, a positive one. Real-life examples for both: a village girl carrying a pot of water on her head is the rural example of the urban fashion model. Then, there is the coolie (or railway porter) carrying baggage. The above vocations are external examples of the spinal posture showing longevity and the body’s inner strength.
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Set the birds free Let them fly free rather than trap them in cages.
Our apartment block’s WhatsApp group often buzzes with messages about how a pet bird has flown away and if anyone spots it, she should alert the owner on its whereabouts. Such frequent attempts to retrieve birds have always made me wonder why people keep avians as pets, and whether this a sustainable practice?
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