A well-executed global grant project to set up a girls’ toilet block, along with other facilities, at a government-aided school in Rajapalayam, an industrial town in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu, has boosted the morale of its students and teachers. “When we celebrated Republic Day at the

RC Bangalore Southwest, RID 3190, is on a mission to support treatment of children afflicted with cancer through its Rotary Health For Life (RHFL) series of projects initiated in 2010. Until November, 228 children were being treated at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology and St John’s

Saving mothers and babies is not just a goal for Rotarians at RC Tiruchengode, RID 2982, but a guiding ­mantra in their project ­execution. This ongoing project at the neonatal ward of the government hospital, Tiruchengode, is providing maternity and child care, a focus area of Rotary,

Seventy women were screened at a health camp for anaemia patients hosted by RC Salt Lake Metropolitan, RID 3291, under Project Matri ­Raksha. The club has partnered with RC ­Nidau-Biel, Switzerland, RID 1990, for this global grant project. While 43 had normal haemoglobin, 27 had low count

Educating a girl child means educating an entire village. You are doing a great service by supporting girls’ education in this remote hamlet,” said RI Director A S Venkatesh to the members of RC Sambalpur Central, RID 3261, after inaugurating a water tank and toilet blocks in a

RC Karur Texcity, RID 3000, has constructed a new block at the ­Municipal Higher ­Secondary School in Karur with a CSR and global grant support. It was inaugurated recently by State Electricity ­Minister V Senthil Balaji. The school was started in 1880 as a

In a mega WASH in Schools (WinS) initiative, RC Madras Central, RID 3232, built a slew of sanitation facilities and renovated classrooms at three government schools, which will benefit around 4,400 students. This is through a mix of global grant ($31,000), CSR funds and member contributions under

RC Rasipuram, RID 2982, implemented a global grant project at the Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School and turned it into a Happy School with a host of new sanitation facilities. The project worth Rs.27 lakh benefited more than 1,000 students.

A strategic decision was taken by Rotary in India to build toilets and hold health camps in government schools when Census 2011 put the country’s literacy rate at 74 per cent. “In the next 10 years, we constructed 12,000 school toilets and held 24,000 health camps in

It’s time to revisit Leelaben, the woman from Katarvad, a tribal village in Gujarat whom you had met on the pages of Rotary News in December 2015. Especially as the flavour in Rotary these days is the empowerment of women. To recap… with RC Baroda Metro, RID

To reduce the waiting list of children in need of heart surgery, RC Faridabad Aravalli, RID 3011, inaugurated an operation theatre and ICU command centre at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani International Centre for Child Heart Care and Research, ­Palwal, in ­Haryana through a global grant project