We conducted our regular fund raiser – Eco Ganesha. Proceeds would be used for the education of underprivileged kids.
We also gave away some Ganesha Idols to the staff here.
The Raging Covid Situation in Bangalore was not the deterrent for our club to organize three blood donation camps when the city was facing acute shortage of blood. Our communities responded with great enthusiasm and donated 120 unit of bloods across all three camps.
Welcoming our newest member Shubhra Mishra to our club.
Open Forum Speaker meet on a very important topic – “ Making your Will “ by PP Rtn. Sanjay Krihna of Rotary RMV
For this “Chai-Pe-Charcha” we got an excellent response & feedback from community.
We had organized a Drawing Competition for the community children. The winners of the competition were awarded with Set of educational books. It was a good change for the kids who were stuck indoors for a long time.
Our International service chairman Mithun joined a meeting at Rotary Club Chittagong Sagorika in Bangladesh and made some new friends. Looking forward to working together with them for future projects.
President Sunil Jain from our club is part of the International Fellowship of Motorcycling Rotarians(IFMR), and enjoys going on Motorcycle rides.
IFMR-Bangalore members meet every first Sunday of the month and ride out for a breakfast meet. There is a fairly large participation with 36 members from 14 Rotary clubs.
More then half-a-ton of E-Waste was collected across 2 drives
Our Club Members generously donated a total of Rs 1.71 lakhs to Karunashraya Trust. The leading donor for this cause was Rtn. Anitha Reddy and her daughter. Karunashraya – literally meaning “abode of compassion”- is a joint project of “Indian Cancer Society” (Karnataka Chapter) and “Rotary Bangalore Indiranagar”. Karunashraya provides free-of-cost quality palliative care to advanced stage cancer patients who are beyond curative medical treatment. This is one of the Flagship projects of our Rotary district, and is a shining example of Rotary’s teamwork with funding from the “Health, Hunger & Humanity – 3H” Global Grant in partnership with Rotary Club of Farringdon and Rotary International District 1090
More History : SEVA – Karunashraya (Special Edition).pdf
Visit https://karunashraya.org/ for more info.
Dr Anita conducted a RYLA Train-the-Trainer workshop at the district level Know more about RYLA : https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/rotary-youth-leadership-awards
Our 3rd President Rtn. Sunil Jain was installed in a Virtual ceremony. The Installing officer was District Governor Elect Rtn. Fazal Mahmood.
Office Bearers:
President: Rtn. Sunil Jain
Secretary: Rtn. Yogita Mehtani
Treasurer: Rtn. Bimal Gupta
Dr Shalu Chawla, who is a Cosmetics skin technologist and skin analyst gave an enlighting talk on Hair and skin care. Dr Shalu creates custom cosmetic formulations based on skin condition. This was our first Virtual knowledge sharing session after the lockdown, and was attended by a wide audience from far and wide.
The Coronavirus lock-down had badly affected daily wage workers, cart vendors and lots more such people. Many people are starving because they do not have a daily source of income. Along with with Rotary Metro and SME OneSource Make-In-India Foundation (NGO), we arranged for Good quality, Essential grocery kits. We distributed a total of 1020 kits totalling to over Rs 5L . Half of the Funds were contributed by the Club Members, and half by residents of PSN and SVG. This was an excellent example of team work across multiple Rotary clubs. Some contributed funds, some worked on the crowdsourcing platform, a member from another club had contact with a Rural food grains packing unit and arranged for the grains. A few clubs joined together and identified genuine beneficiaries, another Rotary member’s children digitized beneficiaries details and gave us tracking reports. You can view the timeline here : https://sites.google.com/view/sponsor-rotary-grocery-kits/home
We conducted a cancer screening camp for residents and staff of PSN. 165 cases were screened. 6 cases went on for further investigation, but fortunately no positive diagnosis was found.
The 43rd yearly RI District 3190 conference “Nexus” was held at Ebisu convention hall and was a grand event. 1500 members from all the Rotary clubs in our district came together for 2 days of Knowledge Sharing, Networking and fun. It was an enlightening experience to learn about various projects done in our district and listen to diverse topics from various personalities in different lines of service.
