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...
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...
“Think Big!” exhorted DGE Sandip Agarwalla, as he set the tone for the inauguration of Rotary Club of Bombay’s new IT Innovation Laboratory in Palghar on Sunday, February 13th, 2022. Funded by a generous donation from the Mahansaria Group of Industries, courtesy of our own Rtn. Yogesh Mahansaria, a one-ofits- kind, state-of-the-art has been set...
Hungry Paws is an annual project by Team RCISME to help and feed stray animals in our localities. The project began on December 12th, 2022, with a webinar by Ms. Chandini, an animal activist. The hour-long session was an insightful look at how to achieve our goal. On December 16th, 2022, the team collaborated with famed dog feeder...
RCB’S NUTRITION PROGRAMME FOR GIRLS AT MAROL RIYA SHINDE Eldest of four, Riya lives with their parents in Vanicha Pada. Her mother is a house maid. Her father is ill and stays home. Riya does home chores and cooks. She goes to a nearby municipality school whenever she gets time or when her mom stays home. One...
A couple of weeks ago, the Rotary Club of Bombay initiated a camp for the filling of MGNREGA forms demanding work for the unemployed of Gale village. RCB is happy to report that 38 people have now received work. We have also opened bank accounts for 216 people in partnership with Central Bank of India. ...
Two days, six villages, 30 RCHRites, over 200 villagers and uncountable memories. We, at the Rotaract Club of HR College (RCHR), undertook our first village visit of the 36th year under our project Aashyein – Adopt a Village. The objective of the trip was to inspect one village that requires the building of a well,...
The tribal women of the Vaidu community are now learning numbers, beginning with simple counting, and writing from 0 to 10. Numeric literacy and addition have been embedded into the functional literacy model of TCS which RCB has adopted in its Adult Literacy Programme. While they are learning to read and write words, simple mathematics has been introduced to...
Last Saturday, Sandip and Jamshed distributed water filters to 92 households. This morning, I distributed school kits to 100 children and cycles to 12 older children to enable them to travel to Wada town for higher classes. RCB also donated a mobile library for the school. Additionally, we also conducted a Mahila mandal meeting and plan...
Now the sun will shine all night in the Dandwal-Nilmati Gram Panchayat. Solar home lights and street lights have been installed, positively impacting 341 homes and 1705 villagers in this remote belt just a few hours drive out of Mumbai. Thanks President Shernaz Vakil, PP Preeti Mehta, IPP Framroze Mehta, Rtn. Varsha Daiya, Rtn. Ravi Fotedar and Pratibha Pai...
A few weeks ago, President Shernaz Vakil wrote about the varied community service projects undertaken by Rotarian children. While editing our Know Your Rotarian column on Rtn. Anand Dalal this week, we came across another gem, his daughter Naisha. We’ll let her proud papa say it in his words: “Naisha is currently at Grade 9 at Bombay International...
We’ve received word that the final phase of tree saplings distribution is complete at Nilmati. Streetlights will be installed later this week, and home lights, to brighten the lives of the villagers, will reach by the month’s end. The grids’ positions and final measurements have been taken, the system designed and ordered. On a recent trip,...