Rotary Club of Bombay West is now on FACEBOOK !!!

In keeping with the times and with a view to attracting GenNext to Rotary, Rotary Club of Bombay West now has presence on FaceBook !! 

Do visit our FaceBook Page and Click on "Like".  You may search for "Rotary Club of Bombay West" on FaceBook or you may visit our Website www.rotary-bom-west.org and Click on the FaceBook icon on our home page.  You will be directed to our FaceBook Page. We would welcome your comments and suggestions !!!

Bombay West Rocks

The Community Projects completed so far during the current Rotary Year…

July, 2011

a)     Free Eye Checkup camp for School children at Parle Tilak Vidyalaya for nearly 1000 students and free spectacles are  provided to the needy students.
b)     Distribution of Note books to the needy students of Anjuman Shaan-E-Millad Urdu High School at  Malad
c)     Started Mid-day Meal Project by distributing mid-day meal for under privileged students of  Kanya  Vidyalaya, Santacruz (West)  and Sane Guruji School at Santacruz (West).
d)     Under our continuing project, granted Vocational Loan Scholarship totaling to Rs. 1,60,000/- 

August 2011

 
a)     Blood Donation Camp was organized at BSES Hospital
b)     Inaugurated  Rotary Tailoring  Training Centre for Women at YWCA, Andheri and donated 11 Sewing machines & two special embroidery and special designing machines jointly by  our Club, Inner Wheel Club of Bombay West and  Saheli Foundation.
c)     Tree Plantation Project executed at Anandilal Poddar School, Santacruz (West)
d)     Vedic Maths training was held for 5^th, 6^th & 7^th standard students of Shri Ram Welfare School, Andheri West conducted by Prof. Bhalchandra Naik.
e)     Eye Check up Camp for  1000 school students was held at Hussain Allana  English School, Lokhandwala  Complex, Andheri
f)       Granted Vocational Loan Scholarship to (6)  no. of students for Engineering & Vocational Courses totaling to Rs. 1,43,000/-

Boyz Dayz Out : 28 Rotarians participated in Stag Picnic and had gala time at Bangkok !!

September 2011

Bombay West surpasses its TRF Target by miles:

TRF Promised target US $ _15000 + Polio 2000 US$    Fulfilled till date US $ _31,011.10

a)     Career Guidance Workshop at C.D. Barfiwala School, Andheri conducted by Rtn. Gaurang Mehta. (250) students participated.
b)     Co-hosted Dist. Joint Thalassaemia  Check up and Blood Donation Camp at SNDT College, Juhu 
c)     Celebrated Teachers Day and Felicitated (45) Teachers of Municipal Schools adopted by our Club
d)     Special Programmes on Health,  Education  and Society  Welfare Related Lectures. Our first lecture series was on Sunday, 18^th September, 2011 at 10.00 am  at the Board Room of Rotary Service Centre. Smt. Kalpana Kulkarni  from B.M.C. Water Treatment  Plant, Bhandup  gave a  presentation  on Water Bourne Diseases. Over 35 Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Vocational Loan Students participated.
e)     Co-hosted Dist. TRF Seminar at Hotel Ramada, Navi Mumbai
f)       Celebrated World Elder’s Day- a R.I. Dist. 3140 event  co-sponsored by   23 Clubs and  4 Host Clubs being  Rotary club of Bombay West, Inner Wheel Club of Bombay West, Rotary Club of Mumbai North Island and Rotary Club of Mumbai Midtown respectively. More than 350 Senior Citizens attended . (40)  Senior Citizens  above (75) years of age were  felicitated and  honoured.
g)     Inaugurated  Bhavishya Yaan  Programme on 24^th September, 2011 at 10.30  a.m Municipal Marathi School, Dixit Road, Vile Parle (East). In association with VIDYA, NGO Bhavishya Yaan is a skill  enhancement programme for underprivileged  children of Municipal Schools in Mumbai by imparting  conversational English, Computer skills, Soft skills and such other skills that would make them more capable of handling  the demanding challenges of higher education and  also to make  them  more self reliant. This is an ongoing project  for next three years.
h)     Co-hosted UDAAN – Interact Conference at Bhaidas Hall
i)       Granted Vocational Loan Scholarship to (11)  no. of students for Engineering & Vocational Courses totaling to Rs. 2,35,000/-

Bhavishya Yaan Project Launched Successfully !!

Rotary Club of Bombay West with support of Rotary Club of Bombay and Vidya (an NGO) has successfully launched "Bhavishya Yaan" Project at a Municipal School in Mumbai suburb.

Bhavishya Yaan is a skills enhancement programme for less privileged children studying at Municipal Schools acclaimed by Rotary International as the most innovative project in the field of literacy. We have implemented this programme at a school in Municipal School in Vile Parle East, Mumbai.

Under this programme, a batch of around 120 students are selected from the V to VII standard and given structured coaching for two years in conversational English, Computer Education and Soft Skills outside their regular school hours. Our Club has partnered with a widely acclaimed NGO, Vidya which has a track record of running educational institutes for the less-privileged. The computer classes will be conducted by Bhavan’s Gandhi Institute of Computer Education & IT.

Rotary Club of Bombay is assisting us in this project, having successfully implemented it across four Municipal Schools in South Mumbai. The students who were part of this initiative have generally improved their academic performance and have become either more employable or better equipped to face the demanding challenges of a fruitful higher education. Deserving and meritorious students have also been later given scholarships for further studies to make them realize their dreams of a better future.