TRF Chair’s India Moments
During his recent visit to India, TRF trustee chair Barry Rassin visited Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru and Kolkata in India and Kathmandu in Nepal.
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2025-27 RI Directors for zones 4,5,6 & 7
RI President Gordon McInally declared past district governors K P Nagesh (RID 3191) and M Muruganandam (RID 3000) as directors for 2025–27.
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Beedi workers of Solapur
Everyday life is a testament to strength and resilience for the women beedi workers of Solapur.
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Check out cancer
We have written about holistic health and aerobics at some length in our recent columns. The cynic and the couch potato may dismiss this as a good-in theory-but-does-it-actually-work in practice? Time then to take our Fitness-for-Life approach from the library and test-run it on the killing fields of real life. Pit it against the arguably Enemy Number One, Cancer. Cancer is a fatal disease if it runs its course. But the good news is holistic health and lifestyle can nip cancer in the bud (read cell) if treated at an early state and stage. Aerobic exercise is both a shield and sword in this ancient all-pervading perennial disease. And aerobic exercise is the missile to launch and target a preemptive strike on cancer. Prevention is the best cure.
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An eye hospital in West Bengal gets a new building
In keeping with its legacy of providing eyecare to the poor and marginalised, RID 3291 has shifted its Joynagar Eye Hospital.
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RC Jammu Stars helps autism clinic
When the Department of Paediatrics, in partnership with the NGO Children in India, recently started an Autism Clinic at the government SMGS Hospital in Jammu to offer a range of services to children with autism and their families, the Rotary Club of Jammu Stars, RI District 3070, happily pitched in with some colourful, modern play equipment that was required for training and therapy for these children.
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Water is not for wasting The precious liquid that nurtures life must be judiciously used.
Do we take water for granted? Unfortunately, we do. Despite knowing that it is a vital natural resource essential for our survival and that of all the animals and plants that inhabit the Earth. In fact, most of us don’t give a second thought to water since we assume that it will perennially be in bountiful supply. Isn’t it ironic that water comes into focus only when there is a drought or a flood — when there is too little or too much of it.
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English coaching for rural students
Nearly 30,000 school students in rural Karnataka can confidently converse in English and comprehend simple sentences, all thanks to the Remedial English programme being conducted by RCs Bangalore Yelahanka and Bangalore West, RID 3192. The clubs undertook the first phase of the project during 2019–21 with global grant support from RC Austin, RID 5870. It was continued to the next phase in 2021, this time in partnership with RC Cupertino, RID 5170.
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