Meet your Governors

Santhosh Sreedhar
Dental surgeon, RC Payyanur, RID 3204

Imparting Rotary knowledge

Club members are well-acquainted with Rotary’s legacy of global service, “as the more they learn about Rotary, the better Rotarians they become. Hence, as a priority initiative, all the district clubs conducted a Rotary Knowledge Quiz, and zonal competitions were held at six places. In the district finals, 12 teams contested in November last year,” says Santhosh Sreedhar. With 2,865 Rotarians across 84 clubs in the Malabar region of Kerala, his target is to add 500 new members, of which 280 have been inducted already. The DG has chartered four new clubs, and will form 15 more by June-end.

RC Kasaragod has donated a blood collection van (GG: $35,000) to the district hospital, while RC Kannur Central will be doing paediatric heart surgery for at least 60 children (GG: $45,000) at two ­hospitals — MIMS, Kozhikode, and Kannur — under Project Gift of Life from June. RC Cannanore has already done surgery on 45 children in the last two years. An RO water filter unit was installed (₹5 lakh) at the Government Medical College ­Hospital, Kozhikode, with a district grant, he added.

Under Project Gift of Smile, over 200 dental check-up camps and oral health awareness classes for students and the public have been done, and more than 60 clubs have created Miyawaki forests in urban areas. His target for TRF-giving is $250,000. Having joined Rotary in 1999, Sreedhar loves the “leadership role Rotary offers through service.”

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Krishnendu Gupta
Obstetrician, RC Calcutta Victoria RID 3291

Rotarians’ welfare matters

A team builder to the core, Krishnendu Gupta says, “my focus is also on looking after the welfare of Rotarians and including them in as many projects as feasible.” With 146 clubs and 3,800-plus Rotarians, he aims at a 5–7.5 per cent net membership growth by inducting over 250 new members with special focus on retention and chartering five new clubs; four new clubs were formed already.

A slew of GG projects ($96,350) is either underway or completed including HPV vaccination camps against cervical cancer (Project Aparajita); library access to visually-impaired students at the ­Jadavpur University; artificial limb distribution (Feet for All  ); rural household toilets (Project Dignity); clean schools; Rotary Vision on Wheels; eyecare at the Rotary Joynagar Eye Hospital; 1,500 free Phaco surgeries and donating equipment; and skill training for ex-convicts.

Sewing machines and cycle rickshaw vans will be donated to the underprivileged under a district grant of $23,000 through RCCs. Under Project Eazy School, English and arithmetic are taught to hundreds of children and adults. Two new RCCs for the transgender community were formed and clubs “have taken up healthcare and rehabilitation projects for the LGBTQ community.” While the official target for TRF-giving is $550,000, “I am hopeful of surpassing $1 million for the first time in our district,” he smiles.

Having joined Rotary in 1992, Gupta will become a member of the AKS Chair’s Circle soon. The late PRID T Ramesh Pai (Manipal) was his mentor in Rotary, and “seeing the ­happiness among countless beneficiaries keeps me inspired in life,” he adds.

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