Food, Medical Equipment & Hope: The Rotary Way
PROJECT #1: Free Wellbeing Helpline
Over 500 volunteers enrolled and trained and more than 50 professional counsellors in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. They are available daily from 8 am to 8 pm.
PROJECT #2: Distribution of free meals
The Rotary Club of Bombay, in a joint project with the Rotary Club of Versova has served over 100,000 meals at the time of going to print with almost 18,000 meals daily.
We have planned free distribution of meals until April 30th. In addition, RCs Bombay, Mumbai Versova, Mumbai Western Elite are applying for a combined GG for $45,000 today (Sunday, April 5th) for meal distribution.
PROJECT #3: Donation of medical equipment
Our Club has donated a total of 15 ventilators to Government of Maharashtra so far at a total cost of Rs 61 lakh.
PROJECT #4: Installation of handwash stations in Palghar
10 HWS are being installed in areas where a large footfall is recorded like vegetable markets etc in Palghar District. The first HWS was installed by the Rotary Clubs of Bombay and Palghar on April 4th. In the picture, Kelvaroad gram panchayat near vegetable market.
PROJECT #5: Distribution of ration bags
In conjunction with YMCA and Helping Hands, the Rotary Club of Bombay has already distributed this to 850 families and smaller packages to 550 families.
