Rotaract Clubs of Dayal Singh College and O P Jindal Global ­University, RID 3012, hosted Street Beats, a public awareness event as part of the district ­project — Aaina.

Over 800 children across eight government schools benefitted from Project Pragathi Prothsaha of RAC Vidyaranyapura, RID 3192. The

Fifty-five incoming district leaders — DRRs-elect and district secretaries-elect — from 30 districts underwent elaborate training in various Rotary aspects such as growing members, strengthening The Rotary Foundation, working with grants etc at the Rotaract Zone Institute hosted by RID 3131 and held in Pune from March 21–24 this year.

In and out of the busy streets of Crawford Market, Mumbai, Shazmeen Khan, Insiya Chittorwala, and Rishik Singh, members of RAC Churchgate, RID 3141, were searching for notebooks, stationery items, chocolates and sports equipment.

Rotasia, the South Asian Rotaract convention, is on its silver jubilee year and was hosted by RI districts 3191 and 3192 from Feb 29 to Mar 3 in Bengaluru.

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.