Project Vignettes – April 2025
PRID Venkatesh: Moderator at RI Assembly
Past RI Director A S Venkatesh made history as the first Indian to serve as moderator at the 2025 Rotary International Assembly in Orlando, Florida. “I was in your seat as governor-elect 18 years ago at San Diego, and have since travelled a long path,” he said, as he officially opened Rotary’s largest training session for governors-elect. Venkatesh served as RI director during 2021–23, and as RI treasurer in 2022–23.
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Mega projects in Moradabad
RIDE M Muruganandam and DG Deepa Khanna were chief guests at the golden jubilee event of RC Moradabad Mid Town, RID 3100. Marking the milestone year, the club completed projects worth ₹12 lakh, including reconstruction of a school building, distributing 1,000 jackets across 20 schools, providing ceiling fans, water coolers and furniture to schools, organising a medical camp and sponsoring school fees for 30 girls.
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A diagnostic centre in Mansa
The Rotary Charitable Diagnostic Centre was inaugurated by RC Mansa Royal, RID 3090, under a GG project ($31,860) done in partnership with four Indian RI districts, RID 7255, US, and RID 1145, UK. The project was supported by IPDG Ghanshyam Kansal, PRID A S Venkatesh and PDG Ravi Bhooplapur from the US.
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Rotary Peace Pole in Manipur
To mark Rotary’s 120th anniversary (Feb 23), RC Imphal and RC Polo City Imphal, RID 3240, organised a blood donation camp, collecting around 40 units with support from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal. A Rotary Peace Pole was put up at the Rotary Bhavan, Mantripukhri.
