Garden City Bengaluru - Ideal Park Uplift
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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.