If you think farming is an easy job, you should spend an entire day at the farm with a pitch fork and shovel,” says Suren Poruri, President of RC Secunderabad West, D 3150. In association with the Grameenmall Foundation, the club recently spent an entire day at Jaidupally
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Enthused by the prospect of further upgrading the vocational training of orphan boys looked after and educated by the Ramakrishna Mission and giving them a bump-up in their starting salary, Rotary Club of Madras East, D 3232, has executed yet another, and this time their biggest ever single
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Sneha Thomas instructs her friend to dial 108 for the ambulance, even as she bends over a dummy body, compressing the chest and giving a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation into its inflatable chest cavity. The scene was part of a mock drill in providing basic first aid in case
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Households in our city are growing healthy vegetables in their backyard or terrace. The practice is catching up quite fast. More than anything, these vegetables are free from chemical pesticides or fertilisers,” says Oomen Thomas, a member of RC Alleppey, D 3211. [caption id=”attachment_18881″
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It is not Delhi, Mumbai or Chennai, but just the small town of Sonkatch in a relatively underdeveloped State of Madhya Pradesh with a population of barely 20,000. It is only a tehsil and not a district headquarter. A small but extremely vibrant Rotary Club of Sonkatch
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At a government school in the scenic Madikeri in Coorg, students of Classes 8, 9 and 10 are excited. Some of the boys quickly brush up their chemistry, biology and physics lessons with great enthusiasm. The reason: they are all set to receive the mobile science van,
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Normally Gujaratis welcome the onset of winter by celebrating winter mornings with food that keeps the body warm through the day — such as dishes made of fresh garlic leaves or a halwa — yes halwa in the morning, remember this is Gujarat… made with methi (fenugreek)
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When Nihal Kaviratne, who retired from Unilever after 22 years of postings across the world, returned to Mumbai in 2005, he and his wife Shyama were disturbed by the sight of children, afflicted by cancer, and their parents, sleeping on the footpath opposite the Tata Memorial Hospital
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For those of us who are huge fans of the clean and green Kerala and grab the first opportunity to holiday in this nature-friendly State, it will come as a surprise to know that DG Suresh Mathew of RI District 3211 has undertaken an initiative to make
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While 11-year-old Arun Shankar spoke about his family members, eight-year-old Gayatri Devi, who has a speech problem, described her colourful wooden dolls that her father got her from Thanjavur. All this thanks to the Rotarians of RC Madras T Nagar, D 3232, who have been putting a
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As Indian Rotarians get ready to sign an MoU with the GoI to ensure wide coverage of universal immunisation for preventable diseases such as rubella, measles, tuberculosis, etc a Rubella Awarenee walk was conducted on the Elliot’s beach in Chennai by Inner Wheel District 323.
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