When IPDG Chinnadurai Abdullah appealed to the students of the Ramanathan Chettiar Municipal High School (RMHS) to contribute  Rs.1 to the Polio Fund, little did he realise that it will garner Rs.96,000 on the occasion. Abdullah, as ARRFC, presided over the installation programme of the school’s new

Rotary in India has signed an MoU with the Fairfax India Charitable Foundation to put up, in a partnership of 75:25, dialysis machines to serve the underprivileged in government hospitals across the country. The MoU was signed in Mumbai recently between the Foundation CEO

Rotary clubs across the country observed World Polio Day (Oct 24) by sensitising the public on the need to immunise children to prevent life-threatening illnesses, besides maintaining the momentum for immunisation against polio though India is declared polio-free. Participants of

RC Salem Metropolis — RID 2982 An ENT camp was organised at a government school in Periapudur village in which over 120 people were screened for ailments. This was followed by distribution of hearing aids to over 80 patients at

Rotary Club of Patna Midtown, RID 3250, has set up the R S Cancer

It was ideas galore as delegates from four districts gathered at a menstrual hygiene management (MHM) seminar hosted by RC Seven Hills Dharwad, RID 3170. Discussions ranged from why men should also understand menstruation and how they can help in making it easy for women, to how girls need not stay

As Rotary Club of Guindy, RID 3232, celebrates its silver jubilee year, the members are excited about their project Sight Now, which was launched two years ago as a global grant project worth $87,500 to sponsor 900 cataract surgeries. RC Niles Fremont, RID 5170, US, and TRF are the international partners,

Combining two of Rotary’s core areas — enhancing livelihood and protecting the environment — into a single project, and adding a third dimension critical to the distressed Indian farmer, Rotary Club of Nasik, RI District 3030, has successfully launched a project making organic farming profitable and sustainable for farmers of the

If sustainability is the crucial factor in getting an award, then one should go to the Rotaract Club of Akash, sponsored by RC Madras Fort, RI District 3232. One of the few Rotaract clubs in India with most of its 45 members being young professionals, the club

That acts of kindness are seldom forgotten can be seen from a Facebook post of the parents of three-year-old Miracle, a Nigerian girl, on the completion of one year of her successful heart surgery facilitated in Kolkata by RC Belur, RID 3291, particularly one of its members R K Bubna, last November.

As Rotary Club of ­Calcutta, RID 3291, is poised to celebrate its 100th charter day in Jan 2020, its members go on a flash-back journey of the lives they have touched through a variety of projects over the last century. The club was installed in Sep 1919 and chartered in Jan