Around 35 members of the House of Dreams built three homes for homeless families in Karjat on February 14, Thursday. House of Dreams is an initiative of the Rotaract Club of H.R. College in association with the Habitat for Humanity India Trust, an NGO that builds homes and provides housing-related services to low-income families. Volunteers were accompanied...
RCB’s Night Study Centres’ (NSC) held their annual get-together on February 2, 2019, at YMCA International House. An invocation opened the programme, followed by cultural and entertainment performances by students of different centres. The programme was attended by over 450 students and their teachers from Baradevi Municipal School, Abhyuay Nagar Municipal School, Ahilya Vidya Mandir, Nadkarni...
This innocent question was asked by a five-year-old when 40 students from Rotary Club of Bombay’s Lighthouse class visited the Bombay Port Trust Sagar Upvan garden at Colaba on January 25, 2019. Four teachers and three mothers from the machimaar community accompanied the children on this trip. The visit was planned to coincide with the topic of...
Rtn. S. K. Mitra visits Rotary Clubs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during a trip to USA I have just spent over a month with my daughter, Srimoyee (Director, Stamps Gallery) and her family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. I have been here before but this was a longish stay as Srimoyee delivered her second child a...
Our gratitude to Pratibha Pai and Geeta Dhote who introduced Project Lighthouse to a wonderful educational initiative – Engage Learning Pvt. Ltd. Engage is a classroom magazine that inspires students to want to learn. RCB has started teaching children with the aid of Engage magazines from January; the magazines come with teaching guide support. Our thanks to...
On December 13, Poonam Malani and her team from Sadhu Vaswani Mission Colaba visited the Lighthouse class from 4 to 6 pm to spread the message of love and harmony. Around 120 students from kindergarten to class 4 attended the session. A few mothers from the community were also invited to attend along with their children....
The Night Study Centres provide students with a quiet and secure environment to study in, which they are unable to get at home. At the centres, we provide books, evening snacks and tutors (to guide students with homework). These centres are set up near their homes and localities. Apart from the NSC classes, an annual get-together...
The Night Study Centre Committee, in partnership with the YMCA, organised ‘Project Red’ on Friday, November 30, 2018, at the Abhyudaya Nagar Municipal school. This was an hour-long session on the topic of Menstruation, conducted by President Rtn. Aria Ohri (Rotary Club of Bombay Seacoast) and attended by 65 girl students of the Night Study...
Rotarian Haresh Jagtiani takes a tongue-in-cheek view of a recent flight to New Delhi I’ve come to an unoriginal conclusion that when you fly different airlines domestically you’ll experience a diversity of air cultures that’ll prod you to thumb an inane post. I flew Vistara to Delhi (business, of course) and sat next to a silent...
Project RED reaches out to 450 girls at G K Marg PRESIDENT RTN. ARIA OHRI OF Rotary Club Bombay Seacoast had started Project RED in the year 2014 when she joined Rotary. It is a holistic approach to help girls deal with their menstruation. Since then, she has been conducting “Train The Trainer” models for various...
AT THE TRF SEMINAR ON OCTOBER 7, members were urged to familiarise themselves with the overall district scenario District RID 3141 and Rotary Club of Mumbai Elegant, an all-women’s club, organised a seminar on The Rotary Foundation (TRF) on October 7, 2018. RCB was amongst the co-hosts and the TRF seminar was attended in full force...
Asiatic Society of Mumbai recently published its report for the year 2017 - 2018. In their report they thanked RCB for mobilising funds amounting to ₹3,50,000/- sponsored by Hermès for ‘Restoration and Digitisation of Books’....