Creating awareness on menstrual hygiene among young girls and women under Project Nirbhaya is on the priority list of RAC

Over 100 pregnant and lactating women at the Jan Seva Hospital and nearby primary health centres in Vapi, Gujarat, received

Over 200 people from BPL families benefitted from Project Cardiocare, a heart health camp organised in Belgaum, Karnataka, by RAC

Now more than 1,200 students at three government schools at Kanakapura taluk of Ramanagara district, around 70km south of Bengaluru, have access to clean drinking water as they have new water filter units installed by the Rotaract Club of Koramangala, RID 3191, under its maiden Project Paatashala.

RAC Nagpur United, RID 3030, organised a 10-day Raincoat Rescue project, distributing 50 raincoats at different places including Nagpur Railway Station, Kharbi, Hingna and Dosar Vaishya Square.

A five-day Rotaract project, Hausla (willpower) being conducted by RAC Shri Aurobindo College, RID 3011, for the last five years has benefitted over 1,500 Rotaractors and college students as they were inculcated with a proactive mindset to take care of their mental well-being through a series of programmes.

Members of RAC Panvel Elite, RID 3131, helped their parent club, RC ­Panvel Elite, with registration and logistics during an HPV vaccination camp against cervical cancer as part of Project Hope Guard led by the Rotary club. The club aimed to vaccinate 190 girls from ­underprivileged girls against cervical cancer.

Cancer patients being treated at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru, who find it difficult to pay the hospital bills are approached by members of RAC BMS College of Engineering, RID 3191, and “after doing a quick background check and consulting the doctors, we clear all their pending bills,” said Vinit Jain, club president.

In a mammoth initiative reaching out to the rural belts of Maharashtra, Project Theia (vision), the brainchild of IPDRR Siddhesh Gaikwad, RID 3131, had done 53 cataract screening camps in Raigad and Pune districts which benefitted over 3,000 people, mostly elderly villagers.

Cancer treatment is expensive and it is unfortunate if the poor is further burdened by the disease. We try whatever best we can