It was a chance encounter during her duty for the NGO Sanghadip that led Payal Shil, president of RAC Dharmanagar, RID 3240, to meet 14-year-old Binay Das, a spirited young boy fighting cerebral palsy and locomotive disorder. She learned that Binay’s education was at stake as he couldn’t be carried from home to school and back by his mother.
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In a major health campaign, all the 27 Rotaractors at the RAC Shri Aurobindo College, RID 3011, are involved in Project Tamaacha to Tobacco (slap to tobacco) which is held in phases through five-day camps on the outskirts of Delhi. This year, they conducted the mega anti-tobacco campaign from October to March by holding awareness-cum-treatment camps at seven city suburbs — Old and New Seelampur, Sangam Vihar, Samalkha, Madangir, Jaitpur and Govindpuri.
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Over 550 physically-challenged people experienced the gift of mobility, thanks to the Rotaractors of RID 3040 comprising Madhya Pradesh and eastern Gujarat. A mega prosthetic limb distribution camp was organised in Bhopal, in association with Narayan Seva Sansthan, an NGO based in Udaipur. The Rotaractors helped identify 457 individuals from slums, railway stations, bus stands and other marginalised areas and brought them to the camp site. Ten Rotaract clubs of Bhopal, along with the Rotary Club of Bhopal Hills, extended support for the project. Measurements were taken and prosthetic limbs were fitted for the physically-challenged, enabling them to walk with ease. A wheelchair distribution camp organised in Khandwa in MP benefitted 100 individuals. RAC Khandwa and RC Khandwa helped in executing the project.
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A young entrepreneur decided to form a new Rotaract club in Delhi after he convinced around 15 Rotaractors who had either quit a club or looking for a new group to share their like-minded views and ideas to join his brainchild. “Earlier I used to be in a community-based club, but members started leaving to join other district clubs for personal and other reasons,” recalls Rajat Kapoor, charter president, RAC Delhi Dynamic Leaders, RID 3011.
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All the 10 tribal families at Sindalachiwadi village in Raigad district of Maharashtra are happy that they don’t have to suffer the daily ordeal while preparing meals in their mud huts. With their new biomass, smokeless stoves donated by RAC Panvel Elite, RID 3131, “cooking has become easy and painless for us. Also, the cooking time is reduced by around 40–50 minutes,” says Pallavi (35). Earlier, she recalls, “with mud chullahs we were exposed to excessive smoke, suffered from frequent cough and eye irritation.” Also, the chullah had to be fed with firewood from tree branches, thus it resulted in shrinking green cover in their locality.
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Over the last eight years, Project Joy of Giving has brought smiles and happiness to at least 10,000 children, issueless aged couples and elderly people through distribution of sparingly used clothes, toys, cooking utensils, stationery items, bags, shoes and a range of groceries which were collected from houses across Mumbai. Explaining the flagship project of RAC Mumbai Salt City, RID 3141, club president Pranati Chheda says, “We do this project in three phases. A few days before Diwali we reach out to poor children in an institution or charity home and provide them with all useful items including clothes, utensils and crockery which we had collected in a special drive.”
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