At the beginning of our weekly meeting, Zinia Lawyer, the Chairman of the Scholarship Committee, announced the progress of the committee thus far. With a budget of 25 lakhs, they are looking at helping the students from the Club’s Bhavishya Yaan program, and have already received applications from the top students at multiple schools around...
The In Camera Committee hosts a fabulous meeting on appreciating fine malt whiskies with Keshav Prakash Founder of The Vault at Rtn. Rekha Tanna’s residence on July 20th....
The Rotary Club of Bombay (RCB), launched its first Elder Day Care Centre for the underprivileged, “Ananda Yaan” (Mission to Happiness), in collaboration with Dignity Foundation at Byculla on 21st July. As the time to start the first day of the Ananda Yaan day care centre came close by, senior citizens from the area started trickling...
Our Tuesday meeting was bustling with energy and chatter when the call to take one’s seat was announced. Perhaps this only paralleled the noise that our speaker, Faye D’Souza from the newly-inaugurated TV news channel Mirror Now, would discuss during her speech: With all the noise and clamor that surrounds Indian media, and news especially,...
Dear friends, We are a little over a month into the Rotary Year. And what a month it has been. Ananda Yaan our new Elder Day Care Centre has been launched. The media embraced it warmly. The kind of mainstream media attention it has garnered has seldom been seen in Rotary circles. This in itself goes to...
The Women's Empowerment Committee (WEC) began the current Rotary year with continued support to the International Women's Association (IWA) in an on-going effort to help underprivileged slum children, who are being prepared by the "Prem Daan" nuns and teachers of Garden School, to enter regular schools. Last year’s health check-up was an eye opener to the...
Bhavishya Yaan committee of Rotary club of Bombay is grateful to Dr Radhika Krishnan for agreeing to do free eye check up camps for all 1000 BY sudents of 5 schools through her foundation Aditya jyot of which she is the CEO. They will not only do the check up but also provide free spectacles to...
Rtn. Shailesh Haribhakti was grateful to be the ‘opening batsman’ for the new president; a well chosen analogy, considering that he was the first speaker to inaugurate the new term, and that the inauguration took place at the Cricket Club of India. He was invited to speak about the Goods and Services Tax and give everyone...
President Dr. Batra and Rtn. Shernaz Vakil inaugurated a new computer lab at the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar municipal school on the 20th June. 16 new computers were given by Rtn. Shernaz to Bhavishyayaan through the Neterwala Foundation. A small opening ceremony took place to inaugurate the new center. Amidst a great deal of excitement, Rtn Shernaz...
The Rotary Year begins. I wish to thank you all for the good wishes you have conveyed to me over the last few days and I commit myself to furthering the cause of Rotary and strengthening our Club. We need to concentrate on a few things. Our on-going projects are all well-conceived and properly planned. Let's...
Rotary Club of Bombay Director and sometime Gateway correspondent was among the members at the Rotary International Convention at Atlanta. He sent us a snap shot view of the huge event. Seen here, among others are Mudit and Malti Jain, and Kalyan Bannerjee....
"We are the warriors we were waiting for"!! So what is Rotary to me? A global family committed to alleviate misery and make a positive change to the lives of the billions of less fortunate people around the world. Closer home, the Rotary Club of Bombay has been a very rare experience for me. At a time when I...