The Bhavishya-Yaan Committee members were over the moon last week when they learned that their students have started going places and moving up in life. During a recent visit to the Kala Ghoda outlet of the Westside department store, one of the Coordinators was pleasantly surprised to bump into two former Bhavishya- Yaan students who...
After its first successful event featuring the author Sudha Shah, the In Camera Committee is back with another one, this time involving the screening of the film "Daughters of Mother India," followed by an interactive discussion with film-maker Ms Vibha Bakshi. The session will be held on Friday, September 18, between 5.30 and 7 pm...
The Women's Empower ment Committee, Chaired by Arin Mster and Dr. Rajeev Narvekar, was formed last year as a collaborative effort by a handful of members who believed it was time to put into action initiatives which created an understanding of women's issues, offered solutions to women for health and sanitation and increased the overall...
The Inner Wheel Club of Bombay, with Rashna Cooper as President, is a major contributor to District 3140's Rural Development Programme covering 40 economically backward villages near Panvel, providing infrastructure, drinking water, sanitation, fodder and so on. The Club also supports 227 children at the Ashramshala Tribal School under the aegis of the Balvantraj Mehta...
Mr. Sachin Bajaj from CCI came to the last meeting to present cricket kits to three of the schools where the Club conducts the Bhavishya-Yaan programme. He said that the kit-distribution project was launched in memory of the former CCI chief, the late Mr. Raj Singh Dungarpur. It had already distributed kits in Afghanistan, China...
The G.K. Marg School students were in for a surprise when instead of a coordinator entering their classrooms on Skill Development Day, they had a dog, named Rani, who came in with her master Mr. Abodh Aras of the Welfare of Stray Animals. He revealed that Rani was a stray rescued from the streets and...
The Rotary Club of Bombay Kandivli has donated a highly sophisticated microscope to be used in ophthalmic surgeries at the Rotary Club of Bombay's Hasanali Tobaccowala Eye Centre at Talwada. Described as the "Opmi Lumera 300" microscope, it is a quality product of the Swiss giant Carl Zeiss and is said to be worth a...
The Rotaract Club of Jai Hind College launched a drive, Koshish, against taxis and auto-rickshaws that say "No" and refuse to travel short distances. The Rotaractors have been conducting a signature campaign in and around their college and have received a very good response. They aim to collect about 5,000 signatures and submit a memo...
The Rotary Club of Bombay in partnership with the YMCA is involved and invested in the successful management of six Night Study Centres with a total of 11 classrooms across the city. Classrooms within municipal schools, post school hours, make for a clean and safe environment for the children to come and study. Each classroom...
In its attempt to encourage members to mix and interact, members of the Assimilation Committee, with Manoj Patodia, co-Chairman, stood at the registration counter at the meeting of August 11 and requested members, as they trooped in, to pick a ribbon of any one of four colours. These were then pinned on their sleeves. As...
They were told that they would visit a film studio to witness the "shooting" of a reality show for television. There, they would learn a thing or two about the intricacies of the craft. They would also form part of the "live" audience and if they were lucky, they might even see or interact with...
The super-successful ISRO fellowship will now be followed by a "marathon" twonight fellowship, beginning Friday, September 11 and ending on Sunday, September 13. The venue will be Chairman Jai Advani's Hotel Parc Estique in Pune. Only 40 rooms are available, to be allotted on a first-comefirst- served basis. On the first day, members will drive...