When he was on a tour last year to a famous winery in ­Waiheke Island of New ­Zealand, a very famous tourist destination, Dr BPS Parmar, past president of the Rotary Club of Roop Nagar, RID 3080, noticed, while disembarking at the ferry station, an automated external defibrillator (AED) installed at the waiting area. “I noted that this device, which delivers an emergency shock to the chest in a bid to revive a victim of a sudden cardiac arrest, had been donated by RC Waiheke Island,” recalls the laparoscopy surgeon who has specialised in metabolic surgery.

Tata Power’s Mumbai headquarters was lit in blue in April (Autism Awareness Month),

RC Dombivli Midtown, RID 3142, through a CSR grant of Rs.35 lakh from Bharat Petroleum Corporation has donated a 25-seater bus and a Mahindra Bolero to the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Khopoli, an industrial city in the ­Raigad district of Maharashtra.

In a major fillip to classroom and sanitation facilities at the Government Primary School in Aralumallige village in ­the ­Doddaballapur taluk, a part of ­Bengaluru rural district, RC Bangalore Lakeside, RID 3191, joined hands with ITC ­Filtrona to build two classroom blocks, two toilet blocks and a mini science centre through a CSR grant project of Rs.32 lakh.

All the 10 tribal families at Sindalachiwadi ­village in Raigad district of  Maharashtra are happy that they don’t have to suffer a daily ordeal while preparing meals in their mud huts. With their new biomass, smokeless stoves donated by RAC Panvel Elite, RID 3131, “cooking has become easy and painless for us. Also, the cooking time is reduced by around 40–50 minutes. With mud chullahs we were exposed to ­excessive smoke, suffered from frequent cough and eye irritation,” says Pallavi (35).Also, that chullah had to be fed with firewood from tree branches, and this resulted in shrinking green cover in their village.

Now doctors and paramedical staff at the Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad, can have access to the latest medical equipment to

Chartered on Feb 19, 1974, RC Neemuch, RID 3040 (Madhya Pradesh), celebrated its golden ­jubilee where RI director

In response to a critical shortage at the Jhalawar Medical College blood bank

Manju, Babita, Gudiya, Hema, Rakhi and Kajal are happy that they can now read Hindi dailies, sign their names, and transact business (buying and selling) without help from others. These six middle-aged women employed as domestic helpers, shop assistants and doing unskilled work at Naukuchiatal, a hill station near Nainital, have completed their two-month Adult Literacy Programme (ALP) conducted by the Interactors of RC Nainital, RID 3110. All of them wrote the exam formulated by the Rotary India Literacy Mission, and got their certificates.

Over 400 people benefitted from a one-day medical camp organised by RC Elampillai, RID 2982, at ­Elampillai, a town near Salem, Tamil Nadu. The camp comprised diagnosis and treatment for eyes, ENT, varicose veins, and joint and shoulder. Cataract surgeries were performed for 200 people and physiotherapy sessions were scheduled for over 90 individuals with joint and shoulder issues, said club president Obuli Venkatesh.