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| ROTARY CLUB OF ADYAR |
Fourrts Medical Centre - We started the Rotary Club of Adyar Fourrts Medical Centre at Okkiyam Thoraipakkam, Chennai-97 on 02nd April 2006 to treat the poor and under privileged people. RC Adyar is meeting the recurring expenses of Doctor and Nurse Salary. The medicines as well as two supporting staff are sponsored by Fourrts India Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Amenities like Refrigerator, Chairs, Benches, Tables and Fans are sponsored by RC Adyar Charitable Trust. Rtn.S.V.Veerramani’s brother Mr.S.V.Venkatesh from USA has offered his premises free of rent. The centre treats about 1000 people every month. We are also conducting free Medical Camps at the Centre.
| RC Ambattur |
• The Ambattur Rotary Hospital - quality care at affordable cost - this 14000 sq.ft hospital has airconditioned operation theatre, a gynaec labour ward, a modern clinical lab with auto analyser for pathological, clinical and bio chemical investigations. A imaging centre with a large 50 max X ray unit, a mobile 60 max X ray unit and Ultra Sound facilities. There is a kidney dialysis unit with 5 beds. In recent years the hospital has achieved a milti speciality status.
• Rotary tv Nagar High School. Developing into one of the best schools near ambattur, this school covers 15000 sq.ft. with three floors and has well devoloped facilities like computer lab, multimedia, audio visual teaching aids, library and a solar energy hi tech kitchen. Presently 550 students attend the school and has the distinction of cent percent pass in the 10th standard year after year.
• Sleeping Children Around the World. Scaw is a joint project of rc ambattur and scaw Canada. Slumber kits consists of ground sheet, mattress, blanket, mosquito nets, and personal care items. So far 55,500 such kits and 8250 infant layettes have been distributed to needy children; it is a full time job for a few rotarians who procure, pack and distribute these kits. The project is very popular amongst other rotary clubs who help to identify the children to whom the kits are distributed.
• Micro Credit Project — a pet project of the Anns of Rotary Club of Ambattur, this project launched in 2002 gives small loans to poor deserving women to start a vocation ranging from food business to tailoring.
| RC Coromandel |
• Karuna Vidya — started in 1999 at Adyar, it is a reading centre for visually challenged students. It has facilities like library and computer centre, recording and dubbing, audio and books circulation, scribing services, etc. Rotary clubs of providencialres at turks & caicos islands, british west indies have donated us $ 5000.
• Airtel - Rotary Parallel Music Fest was started in December 2005 show casing the talents of the differently abled.
| RC Guindy |
• Karuna Vidya — started in 1999 at Adyar, it is a reading centre for visually challenged students. It has facilities like library and computer centre, recording and dubbing, audio and books circulation, scribing services, etc. Rotary clubs of providencialres at turks & caicos islands, british west indies have donated us $ 5000.
• Airtel - Rotary Parallel Music Fest was started in December 2005 show casing the talents of the differently abled.
| RC Madras |
BOYS TOWN
• One boys town at Selaiyur having about 80 boys.
• One boys town at Gummidipoondi having about 60 boys.
• Boys are given vocational training in Airconditioning, Refrigeration, Computers, English Speaking and other soft skills.
• Candidates are sponsored to technical training institutes and also referred to prospective employers.
• Expenses of Rs. 20 lakhs per annum.
• Collaboration from Rotary Clubs in uk, Canada.
Handicapped Rehabilitation Centre at k.k. Nagar :
• A very prestigious project of RC Madras to ensure that polio affected handicapped persons are trained for a vocation. The centre set up with a matching grant of us $ 500,000 under 3h.
• Provides corrective surgery, mobility aids and vocational traning in the fields of Secretarial, Computer, Tailoring etc to enable handicapped persons to lead a life with dignity.
Rotary Nagar :
• A slum adopted by rc madras which has been rendering yeaoman service since 1943.
• Has a creche taking care of a few hundred children, a night school, and a community centre providing employable skills to the residents.
| RC Madras Central |
Rotary Central ttk vhs blood bank : Three ofnf the finest service minded organization - the Rotary Club of Madras Central, the Rotary Foundation (3H grant) and the Voluntary Health Service collaborated to set up a state of the art blood bank with facilities for blood collection, processing and storage of blood and blood components. Rc madras Central have put up a building of 8500 sq ft at a cost of Rs. 60 lakhs. The 3h grant was us $ 285,000/- vhs provides the technical expertise and the ttk group takes care of the daily administration. The blood bank currently distributes around 200 units every month.
• Margaret Sidney Hospital. A corner stone of the Community Service activities of rc central since inception, this 28 bed hospital set up at a cost of over Rs. 50 lakhs has two operation theatres, a iccu unit, a opthalmic unit with agarwal eye clinic, a full-fledged lab and a 24 hr pharmacy. Every Sunday the hospital conducts free health camps. A noteworthy addition is a mobile clinic providing free health care in far flung areas.
• Annai Sathya Tsunami Project at Nagapattinam. At the behest of the government, rc Central coordinated and built a massive complex worth Rs 3.6 with residential quarters, old age home and a school in 2 acres of land given by the government. The project was in collaboration with Rotray Clubs in Australia, Mumbai, Amway, Standard Chartered Bank, German Leprosy & Relief Association and others.
• In its Silver Jubilee Year, rc Madras Central has joined with the Vivekananda Society to build a new Rotary Central Vivekananda School at Sivan Koil in Tiruvallur School was inaugurated by ri President Wilf Wilkinson and currently has 350 students.
| RC Madras East |
Genesis :Rotary Club of Madras East, founded in 1985, has strongly believed in Public:Private Partnership in furthering its community initiatives. The Bhemannapet Community College was launched as a result of this effort with the Chennai Corporation and Covansys Computers being the other two partners. The College has been imparting basic computer skills like OFFICE 2000 package, personality development and spoken English to poor girl students dropped-out from various Corporation schools. Over 100 students have passed the certificate course and close to 90% have been suitably and gainfully employed.
More Vocation-related education : Spurred by the success of the Computer Course, the club embarked on the second initiative there. This time, the Knight in shining armour was Hot Breads headed by businessman Mr. Mahadevan who is a philanthropist nonpareil. Teaming up with the group was Mrs. Chandri Bhat, Chennai`s Culinary Guru of sorts. The idea was to build a Bakery and Confectionary training programme suitably tweaked to meet the demand for good bakers in India who are very hard to come by. The job is in great demand as is evidenced by the rather pleasant salary levels prevailing in the market for them. The entire machinery for the institute valued at Rs. 1. 5 million was contributed by Mr. Mahadevan who imported state-of-the-art machinery from France. The club invested in human and monetary resources and got the building up that houses the institute and the sales outlet, at a total cost of Rs. 1 million, by pulling down a dilapidated unused structure.
Bakery of a kind : The institute looks plush and the retail outlet looks swanky and well appointed. The layout of the machines and the practices employed in keeping the premises clean and hygienic have won plaudits from potential buyers. Arguably, the institute sports one of the cleanest Bakery shop-floors that you can get to see here. Over the months further investments were made including a full back-up power generator. There are no black-outs at this institute anymore! The project was inaugurated on 17th August 2005 in a simple but elegant function with 2l students enrolled in the first batch. They completed the course in about 6 months and 90% of them have been placed at different locations in India. The students are drawn from amongst dropouts of various Corporation schools after class X. The bakery programme is a free programme. They are taught special skills in an array of baked products that are usually taught only in Catering Colleges of national stature. At the end of the roughly 6 month programme during which time students keep rolling in, our students are adept at baking different types of bread rolls, croissants, cookies, tarts, doughnuts, muffins, cakes and confectioneries.
Winner! all the way : Mention needs to be made of the child like enthusiasm of Mrs. Chandri Bhat, the first and long serving principal of the Institute. She is a celebrated chef and a business woman of substance. Yet the zeal with which she pursued this job is bewildering. The team that followed her have sustained the level of enthusiasm and spirit. If this project looks a winner for all, wouldn't it be after all appropriate to brand the products from the institute.
Well, the stake holders in the project were a precocious lot. They saw this victory coming and thereby created the WINNERS brand of bakery and confectionery products. In just under 30 months WINNERS has arrived and how. Today it walks tall among peers in the segment. And to the consumers in Chennai, the message that the products are coming from an institute that teaches the poorest among the poor of the city who also get gainfully employed, is like the icing in the cake!
| RC Madras Fort |
• "Kannoli" started in 1994 at Sankara Hospital, Pammal to help those in need of eyesight. Offers more than eye sight - a total care with love. Also a outreach programme covering villages near Chennai, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Chitoor. 60 iol surgeries daily, 3538 eye camps, 1,06,599 cataract surgeries, performed so far.
• B P Jain Hospital, Pammal. Run by Sankara Health, Education and Charitable Trust, this hospital donated by rtn b p jain has a 30 bed general hospital providing round the clock medical attention including maternity, cardiac and iccu facilities. Over 4.5 lakhs patients benefitted so far. Through project life saver the hospital has undertaken to perform 100 heart surgeries free of cost out of which 18 have been done so far.
• Sankara Rotary Academy of Health Care professionals. This project is a one year para medical and opthalmic certificate course. So far 345 para medics and 36 opthalmic asistants have been trained.
| RC Madras Industrial City |
• "Sanctuary" is a project of rcmic to demystify cancer and empower patients to participate in their healing and care. Sanctuary Kids Can is a programme for children with cancer. A host of support activities like counselling, special care, film shows, bhajans etc. are conducted for the patients.
| RC Meenambakkam |
• Regularly conducts a ryla for the physically challenged at Nehru Stadium during September.
• Language lab at mgr Janaki Womens College will set up as a matching grant project worth us$ 40,000/- in July 2008.
| RC Madras Mid Town |
• Mega tb Camps. Rc midtown organised mega tb camps with the help of huma specialities and Sai Bio Science Research Institute. 3 camps were organised last year at a total cost of Rs. 1.40 lakhs.
• Rotary Cancer and Research Foundation - a charitable trust created to provide care and relief to cancer patients. Till now 50 patients have been cared for. Also a novel insurance scheme along with United India Insurance Co.Ltd. has been developed to give a Janata Insurance Policy to poor cancer patients. Till now 1000 patients have been covered.
| RC Madras North West |
• A project to support hearing impaired children at the Mary Clubwala Jadhav School at Anna Nagar West with all relevant facilities like special acoustic classrooms, meals programme etc.
| RC Madras South |
• Saradambal Neelamegam Rotary Club of Madras South Medical Centre set up at a cost of 30 lakhs in March 2008 at Nerkundram is a diagnostic centre with X-ray, ecg, Ultra Sound and other facilities. Needy patients treated at cost.
