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

It was a proud moment for members of RC Puttur, RID 3181, when its dream project, a ­dialysis centre, was inaugurated by Union chemicals and fertilisers minister D V Sadananda Gowda in the presence of DG Ranganath Bhat, local politicians and past district governors on Feb 20 this

Rotary Club of Guwahati, RID 3240, has set up a human milk bank at the Satribari Christian Hospital in Guwahati, with a $35,158 global grant support from TRF and RC Moorpark, RID 5240, USA. The facility will help to pasteurise and store in a deep freezer breastmilk

Neither Covid nor lockdown restrictions has stalled the paediatric heart surgeries project of RC Bombay, RID 3141, which it is currently implementing through two global grants. While the first GG project (Rs.1.3 crore) will be wrapped up by March-end with a target of 125 heart surgeries (119