RC Bombay Worli Rotarians transform a tribal village
The untiring efforts of the passionate and dedicated Rotarians from Rotary Club of Bombay Worli (RCB Worli) were recognised and celebrated by the senior leadership of the entire
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Mega projects dazzle Vizag delegates
Wow!” exclaimed RI President Jennifer Jones, walking up to the sprawling Operation Imagine venue of the RI zone institute that was overflowing with thousands of bicycles, sewing machines and wheelchairs. Jones inaugurated the mega service projects where bicycles were distributed to 1,000 girl students, sewing machines to
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Mumbai gets a green lung, courtesy RID 3141
In Jan 2021, when RI District 3141 Governor Sandip Agarwalla, as the then DGN, was planning major projects for his year, he was determined to do something big for Rotary’s latest focus area — preserving the environment. “I wanted to develop a sustainable large green lung in
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Mumbai Rotarians help Kashmir villagers at behest of Indian Army
About 7 months ago, when Arun Bhargava, DGE of RI District 3141, got a call from a “top army person posted along the Indo-Pak border in Kashmir, I was puzzled about why he was calling me, a person located a couple of thousand km away in Mumbai.”
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Why Indians loved the Queen, even while hating British Raj
Expectedly, the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II was received by most Indians with a heavy heart and a feeling of loss… loss that comes when an era ends. Don’t get me wrong; it wasn’t as though the entire nation erupted into a symphony of collective mourning.
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Where attending school is a luxury
Following the devastation caused to several areas in and around Bengaluru, due to the recent heavy rains, Rotarians from a few clubs in the metro were pained to read about the plight of the tribal residents of a bunch of 28-odd tribal hamlets about 250km from the city.
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RC Jamshedpur keeps hearts ticking through an exemplary project
A 50-year old Afghan citizen Shadaab, with limited means, was diagnosed with a defective heart when a tertiary centre in India conducted a cardiac screening camp in Kabul. He needed a pacemaker and Shadaab, who owned a small farm in Kabul and was the sole earning member
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Storyteller in Chief
At a training seminar for Rotary club presidents-elect at a Dallas hotel in February, sergeants-at-arms wearing yellow vests and stetsons lead participants, grouped by Rotary district, into a small
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A Nepal Rotary club does a transformational project
Can you imagine human beings who cannot have a bath even once a year simply because they do not have the luxury of water available to do so? Nor can they wash their clothes. Appalling, isn’t it? But the 1,363 people of an entire village in Nepal,
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A single club in Bengaluru does 200 projects this year, spending over Rs.1.5 crore
A single club in Bengaluru, RC Bangalore Lakeside (RCBL), has been carrying out projects at a breathtaking speed, participating with full gusto as the lead club in many of the larger projects of RI
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Pune Rotarians gift a home for homeless children
For me, it’s a dream come true… this place is wonderful, fantastic, unimaginable. Particularly as I have watched in the last two years how hard these Rotarians have struggled against all odds associated with Covid and fundraising, etc to give us this wonderful place… itney chhotey chhotey
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