Vol. 59 No. 7 • August 8, 2017
Dear friends,
We are a little over a month into the Rotary Year. And what a month it has been.
Ananda Yaan our new Elder Day Care Centre has been launched. The media embraced it warmly. The kind of mainstream media attention it has garnered has seldom been seen in Rotary circles. This in itself goes to fulfil the other objective of projecting the good work Rotary does in a powerful manner. At the Byculla Centre of Ananda Yaan, Co Chair Chris Bluemel, and Committee members Poonam Lalvani and Devi coordinated with Rotaractors to have young students tie Rakhis to the elders there, signifying the undying bonds between the young and the young at heart. Collaborating with the NM Medical Centre at the RCB Cotton Green Medical Centre, diabetes tests were done on 50 elders at the Byculla Ananda Yaan Centre.
This is inter-Committee cooperation at work. A classic case where the needs of one Committee are met by the resources of another. And the result is an optimization of the work our Club can do. May I request other Committees to also actively explore how they can collaborate with one another and spread the Rotary spirit far and wide.
Bhavishya Yaan celebrated its Annual Day where the wonderful students who have fared so well were felicitated by a rather impressive turnout of Rotarians, senior media people, donors and of course film actor Gulshan Grover. In its eighth year now, this program has truly done Rotary proud. Academic impact, confidence and poise, value systems, as far as students are concerned. Involvement and participation as far as Rotarians and Rotary partners are concerned. And great profile, as far as the the Club is concerned. Every which way, it has been a win-win situation.
And so we head toward the fund raiser event where Shankar Mahadevan will be live in concert for Bhavishya Yaan on 23rd August at the Tata Theatre. I look forward to your very active participation in this event.
And may I thank Ramesh Mehta and his family for the warm fellowship they provided us.