In today’s discussion, I am going to talk about Omicron but also focus on developing resilience because the past two years have taxed our inner resources considerably and many of us have developed pandemic fatigue. I hear people saying ‘what is the point? I can’t go on like this, I might as well face the...
SERVICE BEF ORE SELF What is a life well lived ? How do you measure the effect you have made on the world once you’re gone ? How will you be remembered by your community after it’s over? A Rotarian is expected to put service before self. How many of us can actually do this? How many of...
There is a forgotten Bharat with no electricity, one room and one shelter. It is probably 200-odd kms away from Mumbai and it only has a kerosene lamp as light. This is a sight seen in rural India where power remains unaffordable, inadequate or simply non-existent for around 200 million people. This is the Bharat...
The Rotaractors of the Rotaract Club of HR celebrated Christmas with children less privileged than themselves. Called Jingle All The Way, the programme was divided into four phases: Advent Calendar (distributing toys, clothes and smiles); Graffiti (painting walls, t-shirts and faces with social messages); Christmas Carnival (playing and engaging with children, sharing toys and chocolates) and Midnight...
Last year, Rotary Club of Bombay collaborated with MCGM on the Mumbai Billboard-Bus shelter project. The project was helmed by RCB’s Urban Heritage Committee and Priyasri Art Gallery. MCGM recently published a coffee table book on the same and it was released by Mayor Kishori Pednekar at her office last week. RCB’s Rtn. Priyasri Patodia...
Schools have been running mostly online classes since Covid began, although there was a small window when offline classes were resumed. Unlike 2020, this provided a great opportunity to conduct the aptitude test in class at the individual schools of BY students of 10th standard in partnership with Young Buzz. We hope to cross 100 students this year,...
Death is inevitable, and when one has lived to a ripe old age, the inevitability always seems imminent. Inevitable or imminent, a deep sense of sorrow is what I felt at the sad news of the passing away of PP Dr. Rahim H. Muljiani. In a Club boasting of several eminent people, Rahim was an institution....
Join Rotary Mumbai SOBO’s motivating talk on January 20th, 2022, by Rtn. Willem Falter, Board Member, EndPlasticSoup, on a green, international, Rotary movement! Rotary’s EndPlasticSoup initiative was started in 2018 by clubs in Amsterdam to end plastic waste in our environment: on land, the air and in the waters by 2050. They believe in the global...
A storytelling Lit Fest was held in November; in December, the children were given Christmas and New Year-themed speaking assignments. Storytelling classes were conducted once a week for classes 5th to 9th. The students were introduced to fairy tales and mystery, understanding the elements, role playing of the story, sequencing of events, pronunciation of new vocabulary...
December reports show increased levels of dedication and commitment to education amongst the women of the Vaidu community Students show engagement and dedication with most reaching class before time and waiting for teachers to begin. They often bring their children for the classes. Students have been learning Marathi vowels, and, also to derive words from them....
