The Little Big Hearts Project of RC Meenambakkam, RID 3232, supports surgical correction of congenital heart defects (CHD) in children from underprivileged families. The club, along with TRF, and 11 Rotary clubs from Canada, Australia, Italy and Africa, had planned to perform 100 such surgeries for children.

RC Rajkot, RID 3060, has set up a skin bank in Rajkot at a cost of Rs.50 lakh with support from RC Cary Kildare, RID 7710, USA, and TRF. An individual donor Sarla Kamdar from Nairobi, Kenya, has also pitched in with her contributions for the cause.

To help treat burn victims in and around Manipal, Rotary Club of Manipal Town, RID 3182, has recently set up the Rotary MAHE Skin Bank at the Kasturba Hospital at a total cost of $113,317  (Rs.80.45 lakh). It is a global grant endeavour executed in association with

Rotary Club of Vapi, RID 3060, recently upgraded facilities at the operation theatre of the Haria Rotary Hospital in the city. Medical equipment such as neurosurgical operating microscope, operating drill, defibrillators, ECG machines, a CR system, tonometer, syringes and infusion pumps, worth $85,123, were funded through a

Bamon Mollar Chak, a tiny village 62 km from Kolkata and close to the Sunderbans, sported a festive look recently as the villagers got ready to welcome 85 foreign Rotarians from RID 3490, Taiwan, led by PRIP Gary Huang, spouse Corinna and DG Chih Ming Tsai; and

Two healthcare projects, a blood bank and a dialysis centre, established by RC Dhule Crossroad, RID 3060, were inaugurated by PRID Manoj Desai and Union Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre in the presence of DG Pinky Patel, IPDG Ruchir Jani and DRFC Ashish Ajmera.

District 3240 is a vast area comprising the eight States of the Northeast and the northern part of West Bengal. The district is a striking mix of heterogeneous communities with varied hues of culture. Here, each of the 88 Rotary clubs tailor their own mega projects to

Rotary Club of ­Udhampur, ­District 3070, set up a ­retina care centre in the KLSM Rotary Eye and ENT ­Hospital in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir, last year. The facility was ­inaugurated by RIPN-­designate Sushil Gupta in the presence of the then DG ­Parvinder Jit Singh, ­Hospital ­Chairman

Chandra Palmer, Regional Grants Officer from The Rotary Foundation, visited different projects of RI District 3054 in Jaipur and Ahmedabad that