RC Calcutta Chowrenghee, RID 3291, organised an artificial limb fitment camp under the project Uthe Sabke Kadam (Feet for all). The mega camp, a global grant project, was held in partnership with four RI districts from Finland — RIDs 1385,1390,1410 and1430; RC ­Calcutta Mayfair and Young Indians,

He is almost in tears when I ask him to describe his personal involvement in the Rotary Cancer Research Foundation run by his club, Rotary Club of Madras Midtown, RID 3232. This is a signature project of the club that had seen close involvement of the club’s

When forest ranger ­Manikandan briefed RC Salem Central (RID 2982) past president Sureshkumar about the plight of Koomati tribals in Valparai taluk, the club members did not have any clue about the daily hardships faced by this primitive community living at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, a protected

For the 49 ­visually-impaired families at ­Sakkimangalam village near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Rtn S L Setumadava is  god in human form. This good Samaritan from RC Madurai Star, RID 3000, has been providing all the basic  necessities and utilities for the deprived families, whose ­breadwinners or all

Eight hundred-odd children in Malda can walk normally and enjoy better social life, thanks to Dr Debajyoti Das, a member of RC Mango City Malda, RID 3240. Das is an orthopaedic surgeon and has been passionate about treating children with clubfoot ever since he started practising in

Rotary Club of Deonar, RID 3141, recently gifted 8-inch tabs to 10 teachers and 105 students studying in Class 7 at the Subhaschandra Bose Vidyamandir located amidst a slum colony in Mumbai. “We will be replacing the tabs after three years considering the life span of the

With DG Rajendra Agarwal, RID 3141, declaring 100 heart surgeries on foreign children as one of his thrust areas in this Rotary year (2021–22), RCs Mumbai Divas and Bombay Queen City, home club of the governor, sponsored the surgery on a Nigerian child in July.

Life took a happy turn for 45-year-old Maya Devi, her friends and their families at the Yamuna Khaddar slum colony in East Delhi after 100 handpumps were installed in the area by RC Delhi South Central, RID 3011, thanks to the initiative of club president Rajnish Mittal.

The Sarath Gopal Rotary Club of Jubilee Hills Learning Centre in Hyderabad was inaugurated by RI President Shekhar Mehta in October. The centre came into being thanks to the passion and generosity of two members of RC Jubilee Hills — Sarath Gopal, who donated 1,800 sqft of

Rotary Club of Surat, RID 3060, under its women’s empowerment programme, has started a vocational training centre in Amroli, Surat, to train women in tailoring. The centre, sponsored by club member Babubhai Jariwala,was recently inaugurated by IPDG Prashant Jani in the presence of DG Santosh Pradhan and

Rotary Club of Rewari Main, RID 3011, recently ­renovated an urban public health centre (UPHC) run by the ­Haryana health ­department at Rajeev Nagar in Rewari. The club sponsored