Commemorating National Cancer Awareness Day, the Rotaract Club of Ingenious Minds, RID 3011, under its Project Nivaran, hosted a cancer screening camp in Dwarka. Over 70 individuals participated in the camp, undergoing comprehensive screenings facilitated by healthcare professionals. The camp successfully conducted over 120 screenings, specifically targeting three types of cancer — cervical, oral and breast cancer. The initiative was done in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre.

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.

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.

More than five decades old RAC Government Dental College, RID 3141, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bombay, has tied up with Yasham Foundation of Rtn Sunita Mandelia to hold dental screening and treatment camps in and around ­Mumbai. “We will start with once-a-month dental camp with 4–5 ­Rotaractors, who are also interns, examining patients. In due course, we will hold more camps with more participation from our college students and doctors,” says club president Mukta Kasture.

In a proactive move to raise awareness and combat obesity among children, RAC Panvel Elite, RID 3131, in partnership with the National ­Paediatric Association, recently organised an obesity awareness camp at the Dr Pillai Global Academy, Panvel. “We designed the camp to provide practical solutions for children facing weight-related health issues,” says Samruddhi Munot, club president.

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A two-year old RAC ­Parleshwar Genz, RID 3141, is into hectic membership drive…

It was heartwarming to see college girls seated in rows holding up their shining locks…