RC Kallianpura, RID 3182, handed over three haemodialysis machines to the Goretti Hospital in Kallianpura, a village 6-km from Udupi, Karnataka. PDG Sadananda Chatra inaugurating a haemodialysis machine at the hospital in the presence of (from L) AG Devdas Shetty,

A Rotary Dialysis ­Centre with three dialysis machines was set up in Kumbakonam by RID 2981 at a cost of Rs.24 lakh. This global grant project was made

It was about 11 in the night when Parimal Naik, member of RC Gandevi, RID 3060, received a distress call from Dr Pradnesh Parmar. “We had no masks or PPEs and we have to work with Covid patients tomorrow. I know your club will help as it

Besides contributing Rs.1 lakh to the PM CARES Fund, Rs.1 lakh towards PPE kits for health workers, Rs.66,000 for faces masks and sanitisers and feeding the returning migrant labourers at a cost of Rs.1 lakh, RC Jodhpur Padmini, an all-women club in RID 3053, has transformed three

At the Indore Zone Institute, a session that generated lot of interest and debate, pertained to global grants (GGs). Many expressed unhappiness over the rejection of their grant applications. The general feeling was that they weren’t given any reasons or explanation on why their grant applications were

Rotary Club of Virudhunagar Elite, RID 3212, has facilitated safe drinking water for 15,000 schoolchildren by installing RO plants in 11 schools in Virudhunagar, a town near Madurai. The project costing $65,265 was implemented through a global grant with RC FMAM, RID 5580, USA, as international partner.

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