During his recent visit to India, incoming RI President Mario de Camargo took out some time in Madurai to sit down for an interview with Rotary News. As candid as always, he did not mince his words as he expressed serious concern about Rotary’s stagnant, and even falling membership in some countries, and said this was “because we are still male, pale and stale”.
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The autobiography of PRIP Rajendra Saboo, titled My Life’s Journey: A Personal Memoir, was released on his 90th birthday in Chandigarh by former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court S S Sodhi.
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Students from the Interact Club of Sushila Devi Lakshmi Girls Senior Secondary School, sponsored by RC Delhi North, RID 3012, participated in the National Leaders Homage Programme in Parliament.
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Dr Prithika Chari, past president of RC Madras Temple City, was the first neurologist (she is a qualified neuro surgeon too) to join the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai.
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School uniforms were distributed to children at a government school with project chairperson Shalini Singhal coordinating the event.
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The mammography bus had come to her neighbouring village near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, to screen women for breast and cervical cancer. “I was asymptomatic, hence did not feel the need to go through such a medical procedure. But following an awareness campaign by Rotarians, I went for the screening inside the diagnostic bus. I was shocked to know that I had an early-stage cancerous lesion on the cervix.” She then underwent a minor surgery to remove the lesion at a hospital in Coimbatore. Ditto is the case of Rani (58), her friend, who was detected with a tumorous lump in her breast at the Rotary camp.
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In an outreach to socially disadvantaged students, RC Nagpur South East, RID 3030, distributed 6,000 books, 300 school bags, 500 water bottles, 300 lunch boxes, 300 geometry boxes and 175 uniforms to students in 23 zilla parishad and five urban schools in and around Nagpur.
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