Director-in-charge: Rtn. Renu Basu Chair: Rtn. Miral Shah; Co-chair: Rtn. Farhat Jamal Status of projects completed during the year: • Housing for Cancer Patients and Families Receiving Treatment at Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai: The objective of this project is to provide affordable housing for outof-town cancer patients and their families, in close proximity to TMH. • Under a formal...
The Adult Literacy Programme (ALP), started by RCB for Mumbai’s Vaidu tribal women in association with TCS, aims to provide education. This month, we invited officers from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to share information with our learners on making documents like Aadhar card and Pan card. An MCGM officer also explained many useful government schemes...
The Mission of Desire Society is to improve the lives children struggling with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in India. They provide shelter, food, treatment, education, and social security to help these victims achieve their full life potential. Desire Society is registered as a non-profit organisation in Andhra Pradesh. Currently, Desire Society has presence in Telangana, Andhra...
A CSR conference was held at NESCO Exhibition Centre Goregaon, Mumbai, on Thursday, December 8th, 2022 The Swarajya Bhumi Kokan Abhiyan in association with the state Government of Maharashtra had organised this conference for the Konkan division which includes coastal districts Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. The CSR conference was aimed at bringing together corporates and...
On October 1st, 2022, 31 students from Colaba Municipal School visited Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. Our children excitedly soaked in information from across centuries. On the one hand, there were ancient civilisations, Buddhist art, Indian decorative art and sculptures from the Gupta period and the Indus Valley civilisation and more. On the other hand, there...
ON SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2022, THE VILLAGES OF SAWADE AND GADADE WHERE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY HAS INTERVENED UNDER THE INTEGRATED VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT HAD SPECIAL VISITORS. Ms. Usha Raheja, Trustee, and Dr. Swapnil Kharnare, Committee Member of Hinduja Hospital, spent the day touring all the changes brought about in both locations. ...
ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CHARITY ON SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2022, THE ROTARACT CLUB OF BOMBAY distributed around 75-80 toys to approximately 40 children of the Vaidu community. The toys included board games, stuffed toys, cars, and toy trains and much more. Some toys were permanently placed in the Balwadi for all the children to play with after they...
Alcoholism has led to an increase in crimes, illiteracy, and domestic violence in the Vaidu tribal community. The basic needs of many families, like food, clothes, and education remain thus unaddressed. To overcome this, Rotary Club of Bombay in association with Rotary Club of Addiction Prevention, has started an alcohol de-addiction programme. To increase awareness of...
On August 15th, 2022, as India celebrated its 75th year of Independence, there was one more reason for Rotary Club of Bombay to celebrate as it inaugurated its 25TH INTEGRATED VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT at Ambu in the Khed Taluka of Pune. The implementation was possible with the support received from Mr. Nelum Gidwani and project partners...
ON AUGUST 5TH, 2022, PRESIDENT VINEET BHATNAGAR VISITED THE ROTARACT CLUB OF ATLAS SKILLTECH UNIVERSITY. President Vineet emphasised how young Rotaractors are key to Rotary, globally, and how young minds making sustainable initiatives is crucial. He explained the importance of designing projects that make communities sustainable and, so, doing projects with exit strategies. RC ATLAS shared details...
OBJECTIVE To enrich the lives of under privileged children and adolescents of the Vaidu Communities of Jogeshwari East and Marol by providing a comprehensive intervention for excellence in education, life-skills and career awareness among tribal children and adolescents of the Vaidu Communities of Jogeshwari East and Marol through contextualized ECCE, quality primary education, life skills...
ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY IS HELPING IN THE CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY with the creation of a biodiversity park on the Mumbai University campus at Kalina. A biodiversity park is one of the innovative and positive approaches to promote the conservation of natural resources in an urban matrix. The term biodiversity (from “biological diversity”) refers to...