Dear Friends, Next Tuesday, we will present the Shyam Munshi Lifetime Achievement in Arts Award to artist Laxman Shrestha. We will also honour former Mumbai Police Commissioner Julio Ribeiro with the Citizen of Mumbai Award. We are a month away from the final meeting of the year. Our journey for 2018-19 will be celebrated on June 25th...
[caption id="attachment_18654" align="alignright" width="300"] Departments inaugurated: Accident & Emergency department, Orthopaedic OT, Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery department, Burns Department, Endoscopy Department and NICU Department.[/caption] On May 24th, 2019, around 30-35 Rotarians gathered to witness the inauguration of several departments of Rotary Club of Bombay’s landmark project at the 109-year-old Masina Hospital, Byculla, Mumbai. A spend of...
The Yoga Committee of RCB is training children in 10 BMC schools. A heartening case study is that of eighth standard student Sahil who seemed to have enjoyed it the most. He gave it his best, insisted he wanted to learn more and said that yoga should be taught every day. Meha, who volunteers at GK Marg, knew...
Trusting the creative process with the magic and mystery of moving from nothing to something, the Child Welfare Committee of RCB planned outbound learning activities for street children. These children have no homes to keep them away from the heat and no school to go to in summer. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Bombay, the...
The Maneckji and Shirinbai Neterwala Foundation generously donated 20 new computers to RCB’S Vocational Training Centre at YMCA, Mumbai Central. The inauguration took place on May 21st at 5.30 pm. The Vocational Training Centre has touched the lives of close to 50,000 people since its establishment in 1993 at Agripada Municipal School. Last year, approximately 2000...
Thirty-seven children of Ambedkar School, Worli, visited the CSMVS museum on Friday, May 17th. Thanks to Rtn. Priyasri Patodia and President Vijay Jatia, everyone was well looked after at the museum. The children enjoyed the archaeological pit and were delighted with the natural history section, especially with the animals! They saw the Egyptian mummy on display...
Dear Friends, We have a couple of events lined up this week. The Maneckji and Shirinbai Neterwala Foundation has generously donated 20 new computers to our Vocational Training Centre at YMCA, Mumbai Central. I invite everyone to participate in unveiling the same on May 21st at 5.30 pm. We will also inaugurate various departments at Masina...
The much-awaited Panel Discussion on Right To Information and Public Interest Litigation took place on April 23rd, 2019, organised by the Club Service Avenue V – Legal Literacy and Consumer Awareness of RI District 3141. A galaxy of legal luminaries attended the Panel Discussion including: Retired Supreme Court Judge B. N. Srikrishna, Shailesh Gandhi (former Chief Information...
THE School Excellence Program (Teacher’s Training) for a hundred Municipal schools in Thane was launched by PP Rtn. Nirav Shah, Rtn. Mudit Jain, Rtn. Hiren Kara and Rtn. Anar Shah on September 1st, 2017. The programme was undertaken by the Rotary Club of Bombay and the Rotary Club of Colombo with the help of Kaivalya...
Rtn. Kalpana Munshi, PP Rtn. Sandip Agarwalla and PP Rtn. Pradeep Saxena addressed the District Assembly this year. Kalpana addressed the District Assembly as the Head Avenue Chair for the Year 2019-20 on Vocational Service, Consumer Awareness/ Protection, Indian Journalism/Ethics and Values and the Four-Way Test. PP Rtn. Sandip Agarwalla addressed the District as the...