BUSY WEEK AT RCB It’s been a busy week at RCB and the beginning of many firsts! On Sunday last, we were in Palghar at a school in Boisar inaugurating the IT Innovation lab that was set up through DGE Sandip Agarwalla as an RCB project supported by other Rotary Clubs of Palghar. It has been set...
Team Partners-In-Service of the Rotaract Club of Hinduja College conducted ‘Blast of Love’ for Lighthouse students, to share the idea that Valentine’s Day is only for romantic love. The host explained how love can be felt by everyone. They encouraged students to express what love meant to them and what they would like to tell their...
On February 6th, 2022, members of the Rotaract Club of HR were out to deliver smiles to unsung heroes like a watchman, a BMC worker, a taxi driver and a vegetable vendor. We had four teams and each of them gave these heroes food like idli vada, banana, water, samosa and bhel. We also kept...
Rtn. Anil Harish The finance minister was commended for brevity in presenting the budget speech, it was shorter than the last few years. She talked about 13 different tax proposals: the amendment she proposed to the Income Tax Act and then in para 138 of her speech she said there are a few more amendments....
Colourful balloons greeted K.G. tots as they entered Lighthouse to attend their first offline class on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022. After sanitising their hands and a temperature check, as per Covid protocols, the little ones enjoyed putting together alphabet foam puzzles. It was all song and dance for the babies as they jived to Hokey Pokey and...
CHARITY AND PARENTING In a tweet on charity and parenting, Rotary International explained how children whose parents were charitable were more likely to make their own donations as adults. Apparently, there are five ways that one could encourage our own children to be part of a community that serves, putting them on a path of a giving...
Members of the Rotaract Club of HR College went to the Dr. E. Moses Road branch of Ananda Yaan to share love to the senior folks there. Rotaractors decorated the place with heart-shaped balloons and played a few games with our members. There was Musical Chairs, but with a small Valentine’s twist to it: every woman who...
Fun, Learn & Grow 2 was a twoday workshop conducted by RC Hinduja for students of Bhavishya Yaan at the G K Marg School. On the first day, ‘Who Am I’ was played and students were asked to solve riddles. This helped them improve their thinking capability and creativity while enhancing their vocabulary. On the second day,...
Please note the Alibag Fellowship is on February 19th, 2022 (not February 20th, 2022), to ensure that our generous donor Anita Parikh is with us. Take the 8.30 am RoRo to Mandwa Arrive at the jetty by 9.30 am Drive to the Elders Center at Awas …. Directions Inauguration at 10 am Leave for Vaid Wadi. Directions: turn at Awas...
BY at G.K. Marg, which had been closed for 18 months, reopened on Tuesday. There was great enthusiasm among the students who said they prefer normal class in school to online classes. We thank all the teachers and coordinators of our education partner NGO Vidya for going beyond their call of duty during these trying times...
Ananda Yaan celebrated Haldi Kumkum on February 8th, 2022. Haldi Kumkum is a Maharashtrian tradition from the time of the Peshwas that comes around the same time as Makar Sankranti. Married women dress up and go out to meet other women, their friends and relatives, have fun, sing, and dance. This event helped them get...