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3-in-1 medical facility in Guwahati
Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta inaugurated three state-of-art facilities — a blood bank, an eye hospital and a physiotherapy unit — at the KGMT Hospital.
Read moreSuccess mantras for incoming leaders
Dream, connect, persist – these are the guiding principles that RIPN Mario de Camargo emphasised to the DGNs at the Bengaluru zone institute.
Read moreInstitute Moments
In more ways than one zone institute 2023, titled RISE, was an elaborately planned and meticulously executed event of the year. While convenor and RI director Raju Subramanian was the visible face of the three-day event organised in Bengaluru, and secretary PDG Sameer Hariani was often seen on the stage as the compere, the chairman of the institute PDG K P Nagesh, who had headed the entire team and provided direction and exemplary leadership in ensuring the smooth conduct of the varying sessions, kept a low-key profile and remained mostly behind the scenes.
Read moreTribal homes get tap water
Rotary Club of Mumbai Kandivli West, RID 3141, has helped each one of the 183 households in the tribal village Chhotyachi Wadi, 120km from Mumbai, in Palghar district, get water at their homes through its rural development project.
Read moreWeaving livelihoods
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RC Chennai Sea View, RID 3232, provided 10 motorised sewing machines and repaired 25 old machines at the Guild of Service Seva Samajam Boys Home. These machines will help provide vocational training for the inmates to aid them in income generation. The club installed an RO plant at the Home to provide safe drinking water for them.
Read moreRC Thane Hills sets up autism centre in Mumbai
The genesis of the freshly minted Dr V Subramanian Autism Centre in Navi Mumbai, an initiative of RC Thane Hills, RID 3142, dates back to nearly two decades. The 100-odd children who will ultimately become students here, and the 1,000 children who will receive various kinds of therapies through special educators, may never know it, but the facility has become available to them, thanks to the sensitivity, concern and passion of one man… immediate past president of the club Jayaram Mendon.
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