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

Rotary club of Chandigarh, RID 3080, celebrated the spirit of ‘one world, one family’ through a week-long art and cultural festival (Oct 16–22) at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), in partnership with the Infosys Foundation, the CSR arm of the IT major, and Bhavan Vidyalaya.

RI Director Raju ­Subramanian recently signed an MoU in ­Bengaluru with Guruprasad Mudlapur, managing director, Bosch Limited, to establish 100 skill development centres in various locations across India to impart the corporate’s Bridge programme.

Parked outside government schools in Udaipur, a huge container truck called Cinema on Wheels is silently championing change and fostering progressive thinking among students.

With an aim to enhance the digital learning skills of students, e-tablets worth ₹20 lakh were distributed by RC Panchsheel Mysore, RID 3181, to 100 ­beneficiaries from 50 ­government schools in ­Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka.