Arsham Hirani, a 12th-grade student from the Cathedral and John Connon School, embarked on a commendable project to assess the potability of water in disadvantaged areas of Mumbai. Dissatisfied with the results of his lab tests, Arsham felt compelled to take action. Through dedicated fundraising efforts, he aimed to provide safe and clean drinking water to underprivileged...
Aditya Thackeray, Minister of Environment, handed Team Chirag the Green NGO of the year award! Project Chirag is our valuable partner in our rural village project....
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...
ONE VILLAGE AT A TIME. NINE VILLAGES. 4055 PEOPLE. 745 HOMES. Please join President Shernaz Vakil as she inaugurates the integrated rural development project at a Gram Panchayat of three villages (Nilmati, Dandwal & Chinchutara) and reviews the impact of our work in the other projects nearby. Solar power, safe drinking water, sanitation, education, environment, security, livelihoods. A...
Each of us has that one box, drawer or shopping bag in a closet filled with old cell phones, obsolete chargers, broken tablets, defunct MP3 Players which is our own personal pile of electronic waste. One of the initiatives of RCB’s Environment Committee e-waste disposal. These piles are getting bigger, forcing us to consider why e-waste disposal is...
Miyawaki is a technique pioneered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, that helps build dense, native forests. The approach is supposed to ensure that plant growth is 10 times faster and the resulting plantation is 30 times denser than usual. It involves planting dozens of native species in the same area, and becomes maintenancefree after the...
The Rotary Club of Bombay has installed pheromone traps to help the cotton farmers of the Chopda area, district Jalgaon, control the attack of the Pink Boll Worm. The pests not only affect the farmers’ yield and profit but also the quality of produce. A pheromone trap is an environment-friendly, natural method of pest control. Lures...
Director-in-charge: Rtn. Jamshed Banaji Chair: Rtn. Priyasri Patodia Co-chair: Rtn. Hursh Meghani Members: PP Ramesh Narayan, Rtn. Ashok Jatia, Rtn. S V Prasad, Rtn. Christopher Bluemel, Rtn. Anand Parikh, Rtn. Peter Born, Rtn. Manoj Patodia, Rtn. Varsha Daiya, Rtn. Mudit Jain, Rtn. Ptn. Avaan Vakharia, Rtn. Ptn. Malti Jain Project I Donation towards sanitation workers: A fund-raiser towards contribution for contractual...
LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT FRAMROZE MEHTA WOULD HAVE INAUGURATED THE LIFE-TRANSFORMING RURAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AT JOGULWADI AND TOKPADA (MOKHADA DISTRICT). Perhaps the extraordinary circumstances prevalent postponed our visit to the villages by a month but progress wasn't halted. A large solar grid and a pump in the river pumped up water. Storage tanks have been built. Piping...
Connectivity and reliable electricity supply continue to be a distant dream for lakhs of homes across India. Project Chirag’s visionary ‘Light For All’, spread across nine states, has touched the lives of 1,09,897 rural Indians in 500 villages. The project’s objective is to use solar energy as a pivot for rural transformation by impacting homes, education,...
Director-in-charge: Rtn. Peter Born Chairperson: Rtn. Madhusudan Daga Vice-Chairperson: Rtn. Christopher Bluemel Committee members: President Preeti Mehta, PP Rtn. Ramesh Narayan, Rtn. SV Prasad, Rtn. Anand Parikh, Rtn. Varsha Daiya, Rtn. Alok Sekhsaria, Rtn. Priyasri Patodia, Rtn. Mudit Jain, Rtn. Rajesh Shah, Rtn. Ptn. Avaan Vakharia RCB took the momentous decision to adopt Gumbadpada village, a hamlet about 3.5...
The drive to contribute something precious to art and culture made the art collector in Rtn. Manoj Israni donate Rs 75 lakh towards an LEED platinum certification for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya and its façade lighting. Taking into consideration the climate change, the museum hopes to preserve the art collection against perpetual climate change by...