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.
Orphaned Mahima Patil (13) says, “I got my grandparents during RYLA and am grateful to Rotary for creating
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.
It’s a tale as old as the Rotary International Convention: Two members from different clubs bump into each other, start chatting, and get the spark of an idea for a project.
Sometimes chance meetings can lead to major initiatives. It was one such encounter that led to the much-feted Mithai Mission of the Rotary Club of Chandigarh, RID 3080. My better-half Usha was travelling to the national capital on the Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi Express in 2016 when she met this dashing young army officer. The affable young man who wore a big smile struck a conversation with Usha. Intrigued, she inquired about the challenges faced by army personnel.
Thank you for saving 777 lives,” said RI President Gordon McInally to the members of the Rotary Club of Chandigarh, RID 3080, as he visited Fortis Hospital in Mohali, which has been partnering with the club since 1991 in the Rotary Heartline project under which free heart surgeries are done. Till date, this project has saved 777 precious lives by doing cardiac surgery on children with heart problems. “I would say you have not just saved 777 lives… you have actually given new lives to 777 children, a commendable feat,” he said.
Archers Aditi Gopichand Swami (17) and Ojas Deotale (21), who made India proud at the Hangzhou Asian Games, were felicitated with the Arjuna Awards by the Union government. They had been nominated for the Arjuna Award when they were honoured at the Rotary zone institute in Bengaluru. (For more details, read Now India matters in global games — Rotary News, January 2024.
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Having come up in life through hard work, RC Banjara Hills president Durga Prasad Madasu
India had never won 100 medals in world games, until the Hangzhou Asian Games in Sept-Oct 2023, when our sportsmen set a new benchmark with a record tally of 107 medals.
An 18-bed chemotherapy ward at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital (TNGMSSH)
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You can tell more than a million real life stories that inspire people to join Rotary. “But you have…
