RC Bangalore Yelahanka, RID 3192, and the Rotary Action Group for  ­Community and Economic Development (RAGCED) organised a Women’s Entrepreneurship Festival in Bengaluru. Rakesh Babuji, chair of the RAGCED-India chapter, said the objective was to showcase the importance of innovation and inspire women from humble background to start their businesses with confidence.

To celebrate its silver jubilee in 1985, Rotary Club of Sirsi, RID 3170, set up a small charitable hospital. Today that has blossomed into a multi-­specialty 65-bed hospital, offering medical services to the people of three revenue districts of Karnataka — Uttara Kannada, Haveri and Shimoga.

It has always been my dream to visit Pakistan and Bangladesh — the two countries which were part of India before 1947. I could visit Bangladesh twice on business trips in 2019. But my desire to visit Pakistan remained a dream till recently when I got an invitation from my batchmate TRF trustee Aziz Memon to attend his son Sinan’s wedding in Karachi.

RC Mumbai Sion, RID 3141, and Nana Palkar Smruti Samiti, Mumbai, have marked 54 weeks of providing rejuvenation to cancer patients through 1,000 Access Bar sessions.

Rotary Club of Mumbai Kandivli West, RID 3141, has helped  each one of the 183 households in the tribal village Chhotyachi Wadi, 120km from Mumbai, in Palghar district, get water at their homes through its rural development project.

The genesis of the freshly minted Dr V ­Subramanian Autism Centre in Navi Mumbai, an initiative of RC Thane Hills, RID 3142, dates back to nearly two decades. The 100-odd children who will ultimately become students here, and the 1,000 children who will receive various kinds of therapies through special educators, may never know it, but the facility has become available to them, thanks to the sensitivity, concern and passion of one man… immediate past president of the club Jayaram Mendon.

Eighty per cent of the members of the Rotary Club of Jaipur Gurukul (RCJ Gurukul), RID 3056, out of a total of 264, are women, so it is but natural that most of the projects done by the club, especially those related to physical and mental health, are women centric.

An End Polio car rally was ­organised jointly by RCs Pearl City Tuticorin and Tirunelveli Avira, RID 3212, on World Polio Day (Oct 24) to mark the birth anniversary of Dr Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine.

RC Ahmednagar Midtown, RID 3132, under its Project Vidya, set up libraries in 100 zilla parishad schools across Ahmednagar. The