Over the coming months, the extensive polio infrastructure Rotary helped build will be used to support preparedness and response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on decades of experience stopping polio outbreaks, Rotary and our partners have a critical role to play in protecting communities
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A week before the COVID-19 lockdown, Rotarians of RID 3060 got their act together to ensure that the eight Rotary Youth Exchange programme students in their district reached home safely. “We wanted them to be back with their families,” says Nehal Shah, District IYE Co-chair and member
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To help respond to the global COVID-19 crisis, The Rotary Foundation is offering several options that Rotarians can use to help care for and protect people in their own communities and others around the world. The Rotary Foundation supports disaster relief and recovery efforts through grants from the Rotary Disaster Response Fund.
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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, on a web conference with senior Rotary leaders and Rotarians across the country, thanked Rotary for the commendable work they have done across India in providing relief to people hit hard by the corona pandemic. “You have collected Rs.26 crore for the PM CARES Fund and your
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In a Zoom meeting convened by RIPN Shekhar Mehta with Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Information and Broadcasting, over 300 Rotarians discussed issues ranging from literacy, environment and the COVID pandemic. Mehta requested Javadekar to organise a five-minute virtual
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While the rest of India took its time in reacting to different and innovative ways of dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and the three-week lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, members of RC Solapur were quick on their feet in ensuring the lockdown doesn’t affect the
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It had to be in Mumbai… if not in the financial capital of India, where else can you raise Rs.5.5 crore in 15 days to respond to the unprecedented COVID-19 calamity which left lakhs of migrant labourers, daily wage workers and other marginalised sections totally helpless when
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RI Director Bharat Pandya is Treasurer for Rotary International for 2020-21, when Holgar Knaack will be RI President, JohritaSolari will be the Vice President and Stephanie Urchick, the Executive Committee Chair.