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

Under Project Sankalp, spearheaded by RACs Sushant University and Young Visionaries, RID 3011, 18,000 sanitary pads were

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.