LEAP OF FAITH WITH THE VAIDU COMMUNITY I am truly excited! After months of delay and uncertainty we have finally zeroed in on our initiative of supporting the children of the Vaidu community. The programme CHALANG will finally become reality! Yesterday, we had a very fruitful meeting with the Vipla foundation. Thanks, DGE Sandip Agarwalla, for introducing them to us...
As a part of their community service project SURAKSHA, the Rotaract Club of GDC College and Hospital, Mumbai, and the Rotary Club of Bombay went to the Vaidu-inhabited areas of Jogeshwari and Marol. Volunteers Natasha Mehta, Mansi, Aishwarya, Saumya, Saimantika, Rashmi and Tarun worked to spread menstrual awareness amongst the Vaidu women. Female members of the...
On International Women’s Day, I am celebrating all the men. Yes, men, who have stood in solidarity with women and created a bold and united force for equality. So, a big round of applause to all the men who outnumber the women at the Rotary Club of Bombay today, on International Women’s Day. Recently, during the...
After successfully completing the first batch of RCB’s Adult Literacy Programme in association with TCS, we have started our second batch to educate 100 more tribal women of the Vaidu community. Mission Vaidu development continues. The previous batch still visits the classrooms regularly. Some do this to revise, others to motivate new learners and all to...
MAKE HEY WHILE THE FUN SHINES As I sit looking out at the flower filled garden in the cool morning air of Mahabaleshwar, I recall and anticipate the joy and fun a Rotary fellowship brings. Over the past close to 20 years, we have attended almost every fellowship that our Club has put together. From Corbett, when I...
Rtn. Satyan Israni’s son Samaksh celebrated his 8th birthday with his 375 Bhavishya Yaan friends. Samaksh loves bubbles and wanted the lucky children of BY to experience a life-sized bubble show. He arranged a magician, Mr. Anil Kumar, for the GK Marg children who trapped the children in giant bubbles. The surprise had the children...
I am thankful to the Rotary Club of Bombay and the Godrej family for this award. I remember being in the audience when my father got it some years ago, so there is a considerable familial pride as well. Sohrab Godrej was not only the founder of the Godrej Empire but he was a philanthropist,...
This is a company called Kerala Banana Chips; the founder Manas came to us two years ago. He said he wanted to manufacture banana chips from Nendran Bananas, found only in Kerala. They are supposed to be healthy, nutritious and also tasty. He wanted to make banana chips untouched by hand, hygienic, in oil that...
10 Rotaractors from Sydneham College, led by Rtr. Deepanksha Khetawat, spent Valentine’s Day with the tribal kids of the Vaidu community. These children could not go to school during the pandemic or study online as they did not have the required gadgets. Team RCSC excitedly introduced themselves, prompting the 215 kids to share about themselves too....
With our Bhavishya Yaan students heading back to school, the Rotaract Club of H.R. College welcomed them back to school with a motivating, fun day. RCHR headed to the Ganpatrao Kadam BMC School for to spend a day with students from standards 5 to 7. Our Rotaractors made the entire refresher day into a game...