Special GOV Edition Vol.38 Issue No.06 & 07 JANUARY 2015 Rtn. Shivaram A. R. - President Rtn. Raghunandan S. K. - Secretary Rtn. Surya Rathnam V. - Editor GARDEN CITY BENGALURU - IDEAL PARK UPLIFT

DG's MESSAGE RBW has initiated and inaugurated its First Public Image Project of Dear President Shivaram, Uplifting of BBMP Ideal Park along with conducting Kannada As I look forward to my Official Visit to Rotary Bangalore Rajyostava and Childrens'Day celebration inside IDEAL Park on 15th West, I bring Greetings to you from Rotary International Nov 2014. BBMP IDEAL Park is given to RBW for 3 years for up-keep President Gary C K Huang and International First lady Corinna . and maintenance. I am indeed delighted to know that your club is performing very well under your able leadership. The meticulous planning with Welcome DG Rtn.Manjunath Shetty which you started your year and the diligent execution with It is a matter of great pleasure to welcome DG Rtn.Manjunath Shetty and the support of all your Rotarians is quite heartening to note. his gracious wife, Ann Shailaja to our club on the occasion of GOV. This Rotary West is known for your outstanding projects. Your day is a red lettered day for the Club when health and activities of the Club permanent project of Sharada Rotary Eye hospital has been are taken stock off and we have occasion to showcase them to our leader serving the community for years. The LED project which you and benefit from his wise counsel. have taken up in massive scale, Installing E patashale in We are happy to record activities in all avenues of Rotary service. Some different Govt Schools are some of the projects that shows highlights are given below. your commitment in Rotary driven Literacy projects. It is also We have completed Solar Lamp and E- Patashale distribution in 54 schools to the credit of Rotary West that you are producing (36 schools in Mulabagal Taluk and 18 school in Hosanagara / Thirthahalli outstanding leaders for the district. I also would like to Taluk) under Global Grant project. RBW has set up libraries in different compliment the leaders of your club like PDG Rajendra Rai and schools and we are on the way creating many Happy Schools under PP Ramesh VR who are spearheading the T-E-A-C-H mission in TEACH mission. our district. RBW is starting a Nephrology Centre at St. Therasa’s Hospital, One of the needs of the hour is to strengthen our Foundation. I Rajajinagar, Bangalore. am sure you are motivating your Rotarians to contribute Sharadha Rotary Eye Care Centre is conducting eye surgeries every month liberally to our Foundation this year also. and we are expanding the activities by adding more equipment under a Our International leader Gary Huang says members are our new Gobal grant. biggest asset and are our most valuable resource. He has given We are pleased to report that we have added new members to the club as a clarion call to grow in number internally in the club and per the program of RI. externally by extension. I urge you to take this as priority. He Keeping the spirit of Light Up Rotary. Rtn Shivaram A.R. also says Light Up Rotary is not just a theme for the year It is a President 2014-15 call for each of us to take action and make Rotary stronger. As we continue our journey in this Rotary year of 2014-15, Smt.Parvathamma Rajkumar, Sri Govidraju (son-in-law of Dr Rajkumar) Shailaja and I look forward for a year of Happiness and Glory and his wife, Smt Lakshmi and our IWPDC Smt Sharada Shastry were the for your Rotary where we all join hands to Light Up Rotary to Chief Guests. make rotary a shining example of doing good in the world more IPDG Rtn Nagendra addressed the Public and our Rotarians and than ever before. highlighted about Rotary area of service and projects done in Manjunath Shetty Malleswaram and its surroundings. District Governor 2014-15, RID 3190 continued... IDEAL PARK UPLIFT Karnataka flag was hoisted by Sri Govindraju and statue of Dr Rajkumarwas garlanded.SmtParavthammaRajkumar and

Sri Govindaraju addressed the Public/ Rotarians and gave away Books and library pouches to school children. A beautiful dance performance was given by BBMP and Govt school children. Special thanks to a Rtn D.Parthasarthy, Rtn Aradhya S.P, Rtn Bharath B.R, Rtn Vijay Bafna, Rtn Subhash S and Rtn Balaji R for their contributions towards display Boards and message stickers a Rtn M.T.Lakshmipathi for providing us the Dias and Audio for the program, a M/s Epoch Graphics members who pasted the Display stickers and Main Board despite rain the previous night. a DGN Rtn Ananth and his Bangalore Press Team for giving us all the support in designing the Display Boards which is installed in the Park. Also for sponsoring the Library Book Pouches. a Rtn V R Ramesh for coordinating in getting sponsor for the park for monthly maintenance from Adigas Sampige. a Sri Radhakrishna Adiga for agreeing to contribute monthly Rs 3,500/- to RBW towards monthly maintenance. a Sri Srinidhi for fabricating all the Boards in a single day despite heavy rain. a Gardener Sri Chennabassapa who has maintained and will continue to maintain the park for us in future. a Rtn Sampathkumar for the photo story. a Rotaract President Darshan, N.S.S members from MLA College, Civil Defense members a Sri Manju and his members from Karunada Kannada Yuvaka sangha for supporting this park and conducting Rajotsava in this park a Rtn Prassana Kumar was our MC and ably anchored the entire Program. a Youth Service Director Rtn Rajesh who initiated this project right from signing MOU with BBMP until its inauguration.

PRASANNA NAYANA NOV & DEC 2014 In the November 2014 camp 18 patients from Mahalakhmipuram were discharged from Sharada Rotary Health Care Center after cataract surgery. We thank PP.Rtn. Prasanna Kumar and Rtn. Rajasheshadri for supporting the Nov Prasanna Nayana project. For the Dec. 2014 camp on 14th Dec, 14 patients were discharged after successful cataract operation. We thank Synergy Global Sourcing, Hosur for their support of this camp.

TEACH MISSION TEACHER TRAINING We completed the three day Teachers Training at Mulbagal successfully under GG 1411620 from 20th to 22nd Nov 2014. The event was hosted by Rotary Mulbagal Central and S N Sharada Institute. About 75 Teachers from 35 schools in and around Mulbagal participated in this three day event. The curriculum was Training teachers in digital learning and CLTi software. M/S Ashpri Infotec and CLTi handled the contents. Thanks to our committed Rotarians like Rtn J Srinivasan, Rtn. Hari and Rtn. Shivdutt participated in this three day event. On the final day our partner from Minneapolis, member of Club 9, Rtn Sukumaran came by and witnessed the programme. President Elect Naveen Kolavara, Rtn Shivdath Barna, Rtn Hari Srinivasan and Rtn Dinesh B.S from our club visited Tirthahalli and conducted Teacher training Programme for Digital Class room and CLTI software on 28th and 29th November. There was a Joint meeting along with Rotary Club of Tirthahalli on the second day to brief about the Project to the members. Literacy Mission Vidya Deepa and E-Patashale - Global Grant 1411620 In continuation of our Club's pursuit for literacy and quality education in rural areas, we embarked on another major global grant with Rotary Club of Minneapolis, USA. We delivered solar powered table top led lamps to govt. and aided schools in Mulbagal, Hosanagara, Jamakhandi, Nagamangala and Whitefield Areas. We also delivered ceiling mounted led projectors having contents for the high school syllabus, designed by CLT, our knowledge partner backed by UPS for schools at Mulbagal, Hosanagara and Jamakhandi. We provided comprehensive training to teachers in digital and content assimilation for proper delivery. The highlight is the remoteness of some of the selected areas much beyond our district boundaries. The Menda Foundation supported us as earlier in the solar light project by equal funding. The total TRF contribution was USD 86,000 and Menda Foundation contributed USD 52,000. The project would be monitored and measured for next seven years.

AUTISM AWARENESS Our PP Rtn Jayashree Ramesh gave a presentation on Autism and its Awareness in India at Rotary Orchards Meeting held on 11th Nov 2014 at The Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road. Rtn Raghunandan and Rtn Sampathkumar were present from our Club. Rotarians became emotional during the presentation and there was good Q&A session at the end. A Rtn of Rotary Orchards announced to donate Rs 25,000/- to ASHA Foundation.

HONOURS TO PDG RR PDG Rtn Rai was invited to USA in November 2nd week for GIFT OF LIFE anniversary and he was Honoured with an award by GIFT OF LIFE for his contribution for Children Heart Surgeries Projects since 2007-08. Further we are Glad to inform that GIFT OF LIFE also committed to support us for 60 Heart Surgeries for children under a Global Grant shortly. He also visited few Rotary Clubs and Exchanged Flags. Congratulations to PDG Rtn Rajendra Rai for his dedication and contribution to ROTARY Projects.

GIRLS SELF DEFENSE TRAINING GITA GLOBAL CONFERENCE On 13th Dec 2014, Rtn Rajesh M.S .Director Youth Services RBW Annets chanted Gita Shloka along with rendering meanings in English restarted self Defense sessions to Girl Students in our Govt High and Kannada on 13th Dec 2014 at the 12th Global Gita Conference held at school campus from morning 8 am to 9.30 am. These Classes Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. Many of these Children are trained at Sandipini will continue hereafter every Saturday In all our Govt high Gurukula located at swimming Pool Extension Malleswaram Bangalore Schools in and around Malleswaram. managed by Mrs Rohini Chakravarthy. Our P.P Rtn D.Parthasarthy distributed agarbathis to all the participating Children.

Civil Defense member and Taekwondo Black belt Champion Mr Thirumaal J and his Team has agreed to support us in this regard. KALAANGANA 2014 KALAANGANA 2014 was inaugurated by Sr J. P. Gadkari, Secretary, KPAMRC on 3rd Dec 2014. Sri Gadkari was Conferred with "LIFE TIME CONTRIBUTION AWARD" by DGN Rtn Ananth, President Rtn Shivaram A.R and Inner wheel President Madhavi.

Day 1 started with Painting/Drawing Competition and display of talent and performance. Day 2, 4th Dec 2014 at KALAANGANA 2014 was fun filled with ART, DANCE AND MUSIC Performances by special children from all the schools participating lively on the stage. Hundreds of Children participated in different competitions with zeal and enthusiasm.

Day 3, 5th Dec 2014 - the Valedictory Function at KALAANGANA 2014 was a great success. First half was for Solo and Group Singing and Instrument performances by special children followed by Valedictory Ceremony in the afternoon. Invocation song was sung by Akhil. Lamp was lit by our Padmasri Gowri Shankar CEO of Sringeri Sharada Mutt, Chief Guest Lion P.R.S Chethan - Chief warden Civil Defence Corps, our DG Rtn Manjunath Shetty, Inner Wheel Chairman Mrs Malvika Krishnamurthy, and President Rtn Shivaram A.R. Chief Warden Lion Chethan spoke to the Audiences about Special Children and he abbreviated word DISABLED CHILDREN as GODSABLED Children by just adding GO in the first and replacing I letter. These children are like GOD as they never do Bad or Harm anybody in their life. DG Rtn Manjunath Shetty Spoke to the audience and said Special children are no were less than normal children and they take little more time to pick up in their capabilities, he also gave an example of a person called Robert whose wish came true because of his dedication and Hard work. Award ceremony started and all our Dignitaries Padmasri Gowrishankar,Lion Chethan,DG Rtn Manjunath Shetty,Inner wheel president Mrs Malivika Krishnamurthy,Professor Vijay from City College whose students were Volunteers, Mr Deepak Jain from Kwality foods - one the sponsorer of this event and our President Rtn Shivaram A.R gave Prizes to the children for all the children who performed in this 3 day Event. Thanks to our P.P Rtn Ramesh V.R and Team IRC who stood all the 3 days and conducted this Wonderful event. Team Rotary Bangalore West, Team Inner Wheel West, PMI, The Sponsors, The Caterers , Crew of Shankara TV., Press and Media and Sringeri Sharada Mutt for making the event a grand success. VIDYAMITRA PORTABLE E-LEARNING The club's VidyaMitra portable e-learning unit was displayed at the function at Abhiman Studios on the occasion of the fifth death anniversary of Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan on 30th Dec 2014. Smt Bharati Vishnuvardhan visited the stall. Vibha Charitable Trust, the social service organization set up by Smt Bharati is sponsoring two VidyaMitra units to schools selected by them. Awareness about the VidyaMitra e-learning unit was given by IPP Rtn. G Shantaram to over five hundred curious visitors, many of them from rural areas. A few visitors have expressed their desire to contribute towards VidyaMitra units in schools of their choice. Two TV channel teams also collected details of the project.

ANNS AND ANNETS DAY CELEBRATION PMPC CONFERENCE FUND RAISING RBW put up a Stall in 9th Project Management Practitioners' Conference The evening of 27th Nov 2014 was for the Anns and Annets (PMPC) organized by PMI Bangalore Chapter between 20th and 22nd Nov for Celebration. Before that, President welcomed Rtn 2014. PMPC Conference was inaugurated on 20th Nov at 5.30 pm by Mr R.S Sodhi Managing Director AMUL India and plenary session was addressed by Rtn Deepak Kapur Chairman, Rotary International's India National Polio plus Committee. PMI Project Excellence award was given to M/s Akshara Foundation for Providing Mid-day meals for Govt School Children, Rotary for selfless service towards Polio Eradication in India and ISROMangalyan Team for successfully launching our first satellite to mars in the first attempt.IPDG Rtn Nagendra spoke about Rotary area of service and also requested the audience to support Rotary in Projects. Mr Murali Santhanam and Mr Amar Bhaskar were kind enough again this year to give us a Stall to display our projects and campaign for Fund raising for our Vidya Mitra Project.IPP Rtn Shantaram has worked on this new c o n c e p t c a l l e d Narasim Katary from Canadia Trust and Rtn Sudhakar from VidyaMitra where 32 Rotary Club of Cantonment. Rtn Narasim Katary spoke to our i n c h L E D Members about the monitor/android long term relation Mini PC loaded with between Canadia CLTI software in a Trust and RBW. Rtn SD slot, Battery S u d h a k a r back and option for presented a brief solar connectivity is P P T a b o u t assembled on a Y O G A K S H E M A single stand with Programme to our roller wheels.This members. system can be used Then followed the for Digital learning Anns' and Annets' which covers 8th to performance 10th std both in English and Kannada language.This system was displayed in our stall at PMPC conference as a fund raising initiative. Rtn Deepak Kapur visited our stall after the inaugural session and IPP Rtn Shantaram explained about our RBW projects and also about Vidya Mitrasystem.Our President handed over one of the VISMAYA Photograph to Rtn Deepak Kapur during his visit to our stall. IPDG Rtn Nagendra,DGN Rtn Ananth H.R, P.P Rtn Parthasarthy, P.P Rtn Bharath B.R,P.P Rtn Jayashree Ramesh, Rtn Krishnamurthy,Rtn Raja Sheshadri,Rtn V.G Raman,P.P Rtn Sampath kumar, Rtn Raghunandan were also present in the Programme. RBW DRAMA HENGAS KATRI This year too we had a very good response to our RBW Drama with jam packed audience in our auditorium. This time over we had Inner wheel members joining us on the stage. It was a flawless performance by al. We got to see great direction by Rtn. Gururaja Rao and excellent dialogue delivery by all the actors. Audience enjoyed every moment of the performance and excellent rendering of the songs by the Inner Wheel members. The Welcome dance and the ones that followed were done very elegantly. Congratulations to Rtn. Gururaja Rao and Actress Anu Prabhakar and all the drama actors for making the Sunday Evening a memorable one.

WHEELS CHAIRS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED Photographs showing Distibution of wheel chairs by Vasavi Club in association with Margadarshi and Canadia Trust. RBW is also part of this continuous Project and we will have similar Programme shortly. This is first Phase where 14 Physically challenged people were given wheel chairs.

CONGRATS Congratulation to IPDG Rtn Nagendra K.S for his achievement in his Rotary year 2013-14 and also winning the following awards at Zonal level. In the Zonal Awards (Zone 5) our district bagged Six Awards under Rotary Foundation and One under Membership Development. This was presented in the Zonal Institute on 14th Dec 2014 at Chennai. * TRF Awards From our Club P.P Rtn G.R.V, Rtn Srikanth Parthsarthy and Rtn * District with Highest contribution to Annual Fund Sudheendra Bhandare and Secretary Rtn Raghunandan were * District with Highest Total Contribution to TRF present. * District with Highest per capita giving to Annual Fund * Districts with highest Per Capita Total Giving to TRF * Districts with Per Capita APF contribution of $100 and above * Districts with Per Capita total contribution of $100 and above * Membership Awards for Rotary year 2013-14 * “Highest Growth in Women Members - Rank 3” LITERACY MISSION SCIENCE LAB AT RBW Literacy Mission stickers were put on 3000 SOLADEVANAHALLI Books with the Help of Civil Defence Volunteers. Our Rotarians Rtn Naveen Kolavara, On 14th Dec 2014, 15 Volunteer's for Civil Defence Rtn. Hari Srinivasan, Rtn Dinesh helped us in Putting Literacy Misson stickers to Installed science lab and also set up around 3000 Books kept in our Library Building. Library at Gopal Vidya Kendra President Rtn Shivaram sponsored Lunch for the Soladevanahalli on 20/12/14 . entire group. Our RBW Rtn Dinesh, Rtn Rajesh and Rtn Raghunandan joined the Volunteers.

COUNSELING AND MENTAL HEALTH M/s Sneha Society for Counselling Conducted a seminar on subject "Role of counselling on Positive Mental Health” at Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha, Malleswaram on 16th Nov 2014. Seminar was supported by Rotary Bangalore West. Three eminent speakers spoke about counselling and Mental Health. Wg Cdr Dinesh Kumar spoke about "Inside View of Emotional Trauma"; Dr Shaibya Saidanha spoke about "Trusted Adults and Safer Children" and Dr Sandeep Desphande spoke about "No Health without Mental Health". More than 300 people attended the seminar and the Hall was totally occupied. Information shared by the Speakers was very helpful especially for young couples with kids.

RBW MUSICAL EVENING Musical Evening JAZZ & RETRO by Thomas Chandy Group was conducted by Rotary 3190 at Hotel Chancery Pavilion on 19th Dec 2014 towards fund raising for our TEACH MISSION project Event was lively with many of our Rotary members and Anns' participating in the Musical Programme. We thank all our RBW members who purchased tickets,attended the Musical evening and Joined our Fund raising Programme for our project TEACH MISSION.

BARRIER TO THE SUCCESS President gave brief introduction about speaker of the Day Dr Rajdeep Manvani to our members and invited him to the Dias. On the eve of Christmas, President requested Dr Rajdeep Manvani to cut the cake . PP Rtn Jayashree Ramesh played Christmas song through her mobile. Dr Rajdeep Manwani spoke about the subject "GREATEST BARRIER TO THE SUCCESS".He highlighted that Fear is the main Barrier to our success and explained few practical cases which illustrated different ways to overcome Fear in our life. Dr. Rajdeep Manwani is an academician, trainer, motivational speaker and quizmaster par excellence both by training and by choice.An eloquent speaker he has won several debates and was adjudged the best speaker in the International tape speech competition held by toast masters International in 2008. He also received the Rotary award for vocational service in education, the Extraordinary Pathfinder award by Rotary International and the Positive Health Hero award given by Dr. Batra's Clinic and Bajaj auto in October 2012.He firmly believes in the motto of his life “Touching lives, making a difference” A Memento was given to our speaker Dr Rajdeep Malwani by our P.P Rtn Parthasarthy and P.P Rtn G.R.V .Thanks to Mr Rakesh Jain for nviting the speaker to our Club. YOGAKSHEMA” AN EVENT FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS on 25th/26th Jan We hereby like to inform that YOGAKSHEMA a 2 day Sr Citizen welfare event Inauguration was done Sri Sridhar Murthy Chairman and Mentor from Federation of Senior Citizen forum Karnataka.

Our Senior Rotarians P.P Rtn G.R Venkatanarayana, PDG Rajendra Rai, P.P Ramesh V.R ,DGN Rtn Ananth from RBW and President Rtn Jasbir Singh Dhody and Rtn Sudhakar from Rotary Club of Cantonment joined for Lighting the lamp . Malleswaram Constituency M.L.A Dr Ashwathnarayana arrived later and visited all the stalls along with our Rotarians. Totally 32 Stalls have been put by different service providers for Senior citizens. Objective of the event: Rotary International has identified Senior Citizens as a specific Thrust Area to be addressed in view of the large number of Senior Citizens and the specific problems they face. These problems are : Medical / Psychological / Vocational / Financial / Life style improvement / Companionship / Leisure / Home care, Old Age Homes & Need of community living and so on. We also plan to hold Lecture Series from prominent professionals in different lines for the benefit of the Senior Citizens and Care givers.

DERMATOGLYPHICS On 6th Nov 2014 we had Guest Speaker Mr Balasubramanian from M/s GODDS to Present a PPT about Dermatoglyphics . Mr Balasubramanian gave a very good presentation and explained the concept of Dermatoglyphics. Just by scanning the Finger prints and loading on to a software programme reports can be generated about Multiple Intelligence and Aptitude of any individual from the age from 2 to 70 years. This helps to understand the strength and potential of any Individual so that he can work on that area of strength. For parents it will be very helpful to know the strength of their children and motivate them in the same line of their Interest.

Harmonious Returns Birthday Bouquets DECEMBER 2014 DECEMBER 2014 JANUARY 2015 Rtn Bhaskar B.K & Ann Suma 14/12/14 Rtn Ram Bhat 02/12/14 Rtn Ananthraju K.R 09/01/15 Rtn Kishen P.V & Ann Sowmya 14/12/14 Rtn Manjunath T.S 05/12/14 Rtn Sudheendra Bhandare 09/01/15 Rtn Gurunath M.N 14/12/14 Rtn Manjunath U.M 12/01/15 JANUARY 2015 Rtn Ravishankar S.B 19/12/14 Rtn Ravikumar S 14/01/15 Rtn Janardhan S.R 24/01/15 Rtn Sundari Iyer 21/01/15 Rtn Raman V.G 26/01/15 Rtn Janardhan S.R 29/01/15 Rtn Gopinath S 28/01/15

We meet at 7.00 pm on Thursdays at Rotary Silver Jubilee Auditorium, Govt. Girls High School, 4th Main, 13th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore - 560 003.