Republic Day care for the elderly The Rotary Club of Bombay thanks Rtn. Rahil Shah for organising a diagnostic blood test camp for 75 senior citizens at the new Dr E. Moses Road centre on January 25 as a pre-Republic Day celebration. The elderly were tested for haemoglobin and fasting and post meal sugar levels. Members...
This innocent question was asked by a five-year-old when 40 students from Rotary Club of Bombay’s Lighthouse class visited the Bombay Port Trust Sagar Upvan garden at Colaba on January 25, 2019. Four teachers and three mothers from the machimaar community accompanied the children on this trip. The visit was planned to coincide with the topic of...
Rotary Peace Scholar Retd. Justice Roshan Dalvi threw light on the nature of peace and its importance in society There is a need to look for peace, not only between countries but also between families, societies and relations, says Retd. Justice Roshan Dalvi. “Peace is not just absence of war, but presence of something very material...
Republic Day inauguration of Jal Jeevan plants Jal Jeevan inaugurated water purification plants at Jeevandhara Kanya Ashram Shala, Ashagad, Dahanu city, and at Adivasi Seva Mandal School & Hostel, Talwada on January 26, 2019. The Ashagad facility will benefit 550 children and 25 faculty members while the Talwada facility will provide water to over a thousand...
Birthday celebration with a difference Anvita Seksaria, daughter of Rtn. Alok Seksaria, reached out to 80 senior citizens on her milestone 18th birthday. Anvita meticulously planned an evening to celebrate her big day with family and elders at Ananda Yaan. The evening started with the Byculla members of Ananda Yaan giving the birthday girl a traditional welcome....
The primary children of G K Marg BMC School celebrated Republic Day in school. They started by singing the National Anthem. This was followed by various activities. They made the National Flag, some cards, did a craft activity around the peacock, our National Bird, and participated in a handwriting competition. Rotary Club of Bombay thanks HR...
Dear Friends, Last week, we lost our dear Rtn. (Dr.) Nayna Dastur. She was a member of our Club for 23 years. She was loaned the classification “Medical Practice: Gynaecology & Obstetrics.” We wish her family strength through this difficult time. Under the Water Committee, we recently inaugurated two plants at Ashagad and Talwada on Republic Day. I...
The Urban Heritage Committee organised a wonderful evening of music, featuring acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Richard X Bennett at the Durbar Hall of the Asiatic Library on January 18, 2019. The concert was well attended by a select audience of about 80 guests. Richard, a New York-based musician has headlined in Mumbai at the...
Dear Friends, I am glad to see the increasing number of members at our weekly meetings. I do hope the attendance continues to increase in the coming weeks. Last week RCB took part in the District 3141 Mega Medical camp at Lower Parel. Rotary Club of Bombay put up a stall, the message of which was:...
Raveena Tandon makes an appeal: Save Mumbai’s green lungs, SGNP and Aarey Milk Colony Raveena Tandon, brand ambassador of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), addressed the Rotary Club of Bombay on ‘Taking Mumbai to a Greener Future’ last Tuesday. Taking a blunt approach, Raveena made it clear that she was there not as an actress but...
