As part of the District’s 3H Project which encompasses Hunger, Health and Hygiene, RCB undertook to feed 6000 beneficiaries across Mumbai in January. Food was distributed to tribal people in Jogeshwari, children in Geeta Nagar and Ganesh Murthy Nagar in Colaba, children in various Salaam Balak centres, the Byculla and Worli Ananda yaan centres and senior...
A charitable dispensary maintenance fund trust, this is the work done at Cotton Green Clinic from October 2020 to December 2020. The Rotary Club of Bombay runs a charitable clinic along with Bombay Cotton Merchants & Muccadams Association Ltd in Cotton Green. All the treatments are done free of cost, by the following doctors as below,...
DGN: Nitin Nohria is an Indian-American academic who serves as the 10th and current Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) and the George F Baker Professor of Administration. He is also a former non-executive Director of Tata sons. During his tenure at the Harvard Business school, Nitin has made a lot of changes; he focused...
A special workshop was conducted on January 12th to familiarise parents of Lighthouse children with online learning and to help them navigate the digital world. Students from ITM Business School, Kharghar demonstrated creation of an email account using the Gmail mobile app. This was followed by a walkthrough of Google Meet and Google Classroom, both of...
The students of ITM Business School, Kharghar, are volunteering with Lighthouse for 15 days. To celebrate Makar Sankranti, ITM volunteers Sugyani Mall, Parth Khimani, Priyanka Tupe and Shruti Rane taught our Lighthouse students how to make tiny origami kites. The students were also shown a video about Makar Sankranti culture and its festivities. Children were told...
In a refreshing break to the rinse-and-repeat nature of most daily schedules, Ananda Yaan members were taken out for a day trip picnic. A generous donor did Ananda Seva for Ananda Yaan (a senior citizen activity centre of RCB in association with Dignity Foundation). A day-long picnic was arranged with transport in a luxury bus and...
I moved to Chennai about a year and two months ago before the pandemic, from the San Francisco Bay area. I had always been interested in rural living, so, I bought myself a ranch and lived there surrounded by cattle ranch – that was my life in US for last 10-12 years. So, moving back...
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY In less than a hundred years, India managed to gain independence from a monarchy, make a mark on the global horizon and evolve in all aspects of community life. But none of this would be possible if not for the historic sacrifices and vision of our hot-blooded Freedom Fighters. Bal Gangadhar Tilak famously proclaimed “Swaraj...
Is it safe to use the free wifi available at railway stations? Should I share my debit card PIN with close relatives? These were some of the queries addressed in an online workshop on financial literacy for Lighthouse parents and senior citizens of Ananda Yaan on January 13th. They together attended a one-and-a-half-hour session conducted by students...
AUSPICIOUS MAKAR SANKRANT As we dawn into the beginning of this New Year, one must acknowledge the auspicious day of January 14 – which is the very beginning of a good start in the Hindu calendar. “Makar Sankranti” or “Makar Sankrant” as it is known, is a celebration of triumph with colour, pride and joy – in...
The Child Welfare Committee of Rotary Club of Bombay thanks Rtn. Satyan Israni for celebrating his anniversary with the Lighthouse children. The children were told to come to their class on January 7th, 2021, in different batches with their parents. Due to the pandemic, we are still having classes online and thus any physical interaction creates...