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My Dear Midtowner’s,
Greeting’s and Compliment’s of the Season, for A Very Happy and Prosperous Diwali, from First Lady Sejal and me.
October was a month of Pooja’s and Diwali Celebration’s, and we at Midtown celebrated the Diwali Nite, with great enthusiasm – by way of our Gujarati Midtowner’s hosting a well attended Fellowship Event on 28th.October 2017.
We followed up vigorously on the Rotary Foundation Centennial Project,(TEACH) and had 54 desk’s belivered to Maruti School, Kanakpura Road. Official handing over will be scheduled sometime during November.
We also finalised our TEACH Project 2017-18, of providing Teaching Aid’s to 20 Schools in association with M/s.Sansera and Meghshala at a Total project cost of Rs.10 lakhs from Midtown.
Our Long Terms Project’s are progressing well and constant monitoring and mentoring are being scheduled.
We look forward to interesting event’s at our Club, during November 2017 – event’s such as Blood Donation Camp’s, Tree Planting Scheme’s and of course our District Governor’s Official Visit to our Club scheduled for 17th.November 2017.
Looking forward to your active participation, and With Best Rotary Regards,
Uday Masturlal
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Greetings to Members, Ann’s and Annets,
Hope the festive Diwali season has brought with it, happiness, joy and good health to everyone. We were able to manage some good things get done for the month and would like to share first and foremost, the tremendous effort our Ann’s collectively have put in to bring about a change at the Friends In Need Old Age Home. Our Ann’s have successfully helped complete terrace restoration work at the old age home and put up a block of Six toilets for use by the lady inmates which was much needed. I am sure the residents of the home will appreciate the work done for a long time to come.
We brought the curtain down on the Diwali season with a well received hosting of a Gujarati Dinner and Diwali nite and were happy to see our members, ann’s and annets enjoy the evening graciously hosted by the Gujarati community in Midtown Club.
We will now be looking forward to a successful GOV meeting and will request all members to heartily participate and showcase the commitment Midtown members have towards Rotary and its projects.
Wishing all a Happy November,
Regards,
Kunal Patel
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In many ways, The Rotary Foundation is an invisible presence in our clubs. Most of what we do in our clubs and our districts, on a weekly basis, we do without the active involvement of the Foundation. But our Foundation is invisible in our clubs in the same way the foundation of a building is invisible when you’re in it: Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not holding you up.
The Foundation that enabled Rotary to take on poli…o is, in many ways, the foundation upon which our Rotary service is built. For 100 years, since it came into existence with a first donation of $26.50, the Foundation has supported and strengthened our service, enabled our ambitions, and allowed us to be the organization that we are. Because of the Foundation, Rotarians know that if we have the ambition and put in the work, very little is truly beyond us.
It is an incredibly effective model that we have here in Rotary, one that no other organization can match. We are completely local and completely global: We have local skills, connections, and knowledge in over 35,000 clubs, in nearly every country of the world. We have a deserved reputation for transparency, effectiveness, and good business practices, and because we are highly skilled professionals as well as volunteers, we achieve a level of efficiency that very few other organizations can approach.
To put it simply, a dollar given to The Rotary Foundation has a great deal more muscle than a dollar given to most charities. If you want to spend a dollar on Doing Good in the World, you can’t do better than to spend it with the Foundation. That is not just me speaking out of pride; it is verifiably true and is reflected in our rankings by independent organizations.
In the Foundation’s centennial year, Rotarians surpassed our goal of raising $300 million. If you were part of that achievement, you have been part of something tremendous. Somewhere in the world, someplace you have probably never been, people you may never meet will lead better lives because of you. Ultimately, it is our Foundation that lets us make good on our core beliefs: that we can make a difference, that we have an obligation to do so, and that working together, as well and as efficiently as we can, is the only way to effect real and lasting change.
Ian H.S. Riseley
President 2017-18
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On 6th Oct 2017, Friday the Speaker meeting was held at 7.00Pm, at Rotary House of Friendship, Lavelle Road, Bangalore.
M.R. Ananth Kumar:
Ananth Kumar worked as an Engineer for about a decade. For 3 years he worked in Pondicherry. There he was attracted towards the concept of integral education of Sri Aurobindo. Later he joined Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari as a volunteer. Inspired by these great personalities, he settled down in a village Srirampura in 1992 and started his grassroots level work. He initiated free supplementary classes for rural children from BPL families during off school hours. He also started income cum employment generation units. The concept of ‘Kaliyuva Mane’ evolved here. Major help came from his ex-employer Shri Lalit Mohan Shah in the year 2003 in building the basic infrastructure. In 2005, he and his wife started ‘Kaliyuva Mane’ with 14 children in a hut. Presently, the couple work as life term volunteers.
Joginder P Kundra:
Immigrated from India to USA in 1971; presently living in New Jersey, USA.
Recently retired after a long career with Mobil Oil Corp, and lately ExxonMobil and other international Oil & Gas, and Engineering & Construction industry. Joginder met Gopal Bhatia in 1992 in Singapore, when he was there for two years with my family. They have since been friends, for 25 years.
Joginder has been supporter of many school construction projects, associated with children in India and lately with women empowerment project in Uttrakhand, India.
Divya Deepa Charitable Trust, believes in :
- Natural Resources & Human resources are two vital ingredients that are too valuable; not to be wasted.
- Education is the tool to transform ordinary human being into a valuable resource.
- Every educated person is an asset to the society.
- Every child deserves an opportunity to learn.
Deviations from the Regular School:
- A Child-centric education system
- Admission process throughout the year
- Adequate time for a child to feel comfortable and settle down
- Curriculum tailored on the child’s current knowledge and age
- Flexible teams rather than dividing children into rigid standards
- No fear instilling exams. Only informal tests.
- Neither a formal Kannada medium school nor an English medium school
- Individual attention to each child’s emotions, interest & abilities, as happy minds learn faster
Required infrastructure:
Converting into a fully residential school
- Phase 1 (In progress)
- Dormitory for 36 children & for resident staff
- Expected completion by February 28, 2018
- Estimated Cost : $75,000 or Rs 48,75,000
- Phase 2: (Expected start date in April 2018)
- Additional dormitory for 36 children
- A new kitchen
- A new dining hall
Estimated Cost: $125,000 or Rs 81,25,000/-
Donations pledged by Mr & Mrs. Himanshu and Amisha Desai and Mr & Mrs. Gopal and Kshama Bhatia towards this project.
Regards,
Gunashekar Vuppalapati
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Business Meeting at Soul City Restaurant, U B City, Bangalore
Long Term Project Presentation:
Maanasi Project
Dispensary Project
TEACH
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Glimpse of Midtowners Diwali Night hosted by Gujarati Fraternity
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Friend’s in Need Project
Midtowner’s would like to thank ’The Ann’s of Midtown, for their generosity in supporting the Friends in Need Society’ Project. This Project was a huge success, and it would, not have been possible without the support of our ‘Ann’s.
Total Cost of the Project: Rs.4.00 lakhs.
The Fund’s, so contributed were apportioned as below:
1) Towards – Waterproofing of the roof’s of 2 Cottage’s.
2) Construction of 4 Toilet cum Bath for the Ladies.
3) Painting of 2 cottages
Thank you Dear Ann’s for making a difference in the lives’ of the Aged. The Friends in Need Society joins us in thanking you all, under the stewardship of First Lady Ann. Sejal Masturlal for successfully implementing and completion of this Project.
Contribution for this project received from :
| Sejal Masturlal |
Aasha Patil |
Vinder Bindra |
| Rajni Sharma |
Uma Yadalam |
Shilpi Patel |
| Shoba Murthy |
Suma Bhandari |
Sunita Jain |
| Sangita Poddar |
Ritu Agarwal |
Veena Hinduja |
| Aarti Sud |
Asma Peeran |
Nivrita Hamirvasia |
| Sudha Manandi |
Anuradha Sikka |
Rajshree Shankar |
| Aarti Bhatia |
Yashodhara Shroff |
Shruti & Sneh |
| Amina Mukaram |
Aaradhana |
Asma Nadeem Ahmed |
| Rajni Vuppalapati |
Chanchal Bhandari |
Madhu Gupta |
| Sabeena Pandit |
Sonia Singh |
Lalitha Singhvi |
| Sangita Lala |
Nandita Sanghani |
Anheeta Pinto |
| Namita Kejriwal |
Madhavi K Amin |
Rekha Saraf |
| Archana Bajaj |
Parul Sastri |
Aarti Pramod |
| Suma Nedungudi |
Reena Anjaria |
Darshana Shah |
| Asha Chamaria |
Kokilaben Mastrulal |
Nivedita Prasad |
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Distribution of Sewing Machine to the needy by Ann Sejal Masturlal.
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The empowered women is a powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description
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Rotary Bangalore Midtown
Unit No. 109, Prestige Towers, Residency Road, Bangalore – 5600025
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