Greenery - September

ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY NORTH WEST - MALAD VOLUME : 50 ISSUE : 1 R.I. President : Rtn. Shekhar Mehta R.I. District: 3141 Club President: Rtn. Jatin Patel District Governer : Rtn. Rajendra Agarwal Club ID: 15498 Club Secretary: Rtn. Mihir Vora Namaste Everyone! Hope you all are doing good! Every few weeks we feel the situation is improving, and then there is some ODD news about a surge in the Covid Cases! BUT the real fact is that Vaccinations have played a very effective role in controlling the spread of the virus. Also let us not put down our Moral obligation of wearing a Mask and maintaining Social distancing. Let us all follow this golden rule and remind our fellow community members to follow this rule I have some good news to share with you all; our rotary service centre is almost renovated & ready for use. We are looking forward to welcome you all soon to our physical meetings at our renovated rotary service centre. And with ALL the Rotarian members vaccinated, this is going to be pretty safe! I am glad to inform you that all the Directors and Committee Chairmen have been very active in making all the projects successful till date. Also we are planning many more projects as below. The greenery team is doing really good, taking help from our your Rotractors. Kindly give us your suggestions to make this year a memorable one. Your suggestions are most welcome and let us hear them, so that we can try and make the maximum of your inputs! Rtn. Jatin Sharad Patel President SEPTEMBER 2021 CLUB PRESIDENTS VISIT TO RAJ BHAVAN Chance to Visit Raj Bhavan the Best Residential location of Maharashtra! Being a Rotarian & serving the community as the President of our Rotary Club of Bombay North West - Malad gave me once in a life-time opportunity to visit Raj Bhavan & see the Governor in person! We had our Dream Presidents meet at Lonavla two weeks back. In this meet during one-to-one discussion with our group DG Rajendra Agarwal requested for donation of Rs.25,000 for mask to be given to various Government employees. Myself with other two co- presidents immediately responded to DG’s call and said “YES” DG Rajendra Ji Agarwal has kindly arranged a meeting for all the 12 donors of mask today morning with Honourable Governor of Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari @ Raj Bhavan, Malabar Hill. I was so impressed by Governor’s witty nature & presence of mind!! He Actually took out time and insisted to know about each person and not the rotary president. Also he was quite updated about the ground realities and posed some smart questions about certain projects that Rotary is doing and expressed his willingness to see them. Honourable Governor gave all attention and time and asked each and every one of us to introduce ourselves and give our background. A total of 1.5 Lakhs masks are to be distributed to various front-line workers & agencies, Rotary Club of Bombay North West - Malad contributed by donating 10000 Masks. Really it was a Great Honour to be at Raj Bhavan today. Thank You DG Rajendraji on behalf of all the Dream Presidents, for giving us an opportunity for being a part of such a noble cause !!

KNOW YOUR ROTARY EYE HOSPITAL Greetings from L M Patel Rotary Eye Hospital. Hope everyone is safe and healthy. We take this opportunity to give an insight into our Eye Hospital. L M Patel Rotary Eye Hospital is a state-of-the-art ophthalmic service center. We render quality eye care services with the highest moral, legal, and ethical standards. We provide services in all the fields of Ophthalmology - General Ophthalmology, Cornea Oculoplasty, Glaucoma, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Retina, and Neuro-ophthalmology. The Consultants of our hospital are well trained in clinical and surgical procedures of their respective subspecialties. We are committed to excellent and complete patient care. We wish to enlighten you with a brief review of our Cataract service. Cataract is a condition in which the lens of our eye becomes cloudy and affects vision. It is one of the commonest causes of blindness in India. Cataract is mostly seen in elderly people but can be seen in young and pediatric cases. We deal with all types of Cataract patients in our hospital; be it simple or complicated and provide free Cataract surgeries to very needy patients. There are various types of intraocular leaves that are available in the market - Monofocal, Multifocal or Toric. We implant all types of intraocular lens depending on patient’s need. Cataract surgery is done under topical anesthesia using the Phacoemulsification technique. The charges of all the categories of Cataract surgery are very minimal. If you wish to get any further info, please feel free to contact us!

PROJECTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST MEDICAL PROJECT - SUGAR STRIP DISTRIBUTION Number of Beneficiaries: 100 Persons Rotary Club of Bombay North West - Malad & Rotaract Club of Bombay North West Malad distributed Sugar Strips at Prem Bhavna Society, SV Road Kandivali West on Sunday. The camp was organised for Blood Sugar check-up for senior citizens. We provided 100 nos of Sugar Strips and equipment to do the blood test. The project was conducted to create awareness about blood sugar level and the importance of maintaining good health and how to manage diabetes. TREE PLANTATION Trees Planted: 100 nos. Tree Plantation Project was done by Rotary Club of Bombay North West - Malad on 14th August, Saturday at Umroli, Palghar. A Total of 100 Trees were planted.

BLOOD DONATION CAMP Units Collected: 100 nos. Blood Donation Camp was organized on 15th August 2021, Sunday at Rotary Club of Bombay NorthWest center on occasion of Independence Day. A Total of 100 units were collected and the occassion was graced by Honourable Cabinet Minister Mr. Aslam Shaikh EDUCATION PROJECT Number of Beneficiaries: 90 Students Rotary Club of Bombay NorthWest - Malad and Inner Wheel CLub has sponsored fees for 90 students of SVPVV School - Kandivali West

BLOOD CHECKUP CAMP Number of Beneficiaries: 98 Staff of SGNP Sanjay Gandhi National Park employs local adivasi villagers whose comprehensive blood check was carried out for 98 staff members along with Rotaract Club of Bombay North West - Malad & Rotaract Club of D.TSS College. This will be followed up by medical advice and treatment in coming days. VACCINATION CAMP Number of Beneficiaries: 500 People Under the guidance of Honourable Cabinet Minister, Mr. Aslam Shaikh and Rotary Club of Bombay NorthWest - Malad. A camp was organized to administer 500 free Covishield vaccines for the local residents of Malad. The event took place at ASPEE NUTAN ACADEMY

INNERWHEEL PROJECTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST Inner Wheel Dist 314 under the chairmanship of DC Sunita Jain has taken up new project of Women’s Entrepreneur it is tie up with Local self Govt. under the scheme women will be trained in many courses and then will be certified so in future they can become employee of govt job. As myself Zonal Coordinator Zone 3 we began the Warli Paintings project for the benefits of Aadivasi 20 women. Myself as Zonal Coordinator conducted 3 virtual meetings with Chief Executive Officer Dr Sneha Patilnker from Local self Govt. also with our project Chairman PDC Amita Timbadia. Zone 3 Presidents and my team of Women’s Entrepreneur.The Presidents and team members all of them got the proper details and convinced for the benefits of Adivasi Women by training programme they will learn Skill and Art of Warli Paintings which will make them independent. In our West Zone Meet on 28th /29th of August the products were kept in shopping area. I’m very much grateful to DC Sunita Jain, Project Chairman PDC Amita Timbadia, for giving me the opportunity to serve the Aadivasi Women. I’m also thankful to Chief executive officer from Local self Govt Dr Sneha Palnitkar for her guidance. I’m also thankful to my Zone 3 Presidents and team members for continuous supporting and this only will make our efforts to get success. As Project coordinator of Women’s Entrepreneur IPP Jayshree Bhatt reports here the details. IPP & ZC.

Dear all, with immensece pride I inform you that Immediate Past International IW President Dr.Bina Vyas has acknowledged some clubs of our District 314 of which Bombay Northwest President Jayshree Bhatt received Citation for fulfilling goals set up by International Innerwheel President, Dr Bina Vyas I was handed over citation for outstanding performance and work on 29th of August 2021 at West Zone Meet. IPP Jayshree Bhatt ADDITIONAL PROJECTS A) IWC Bombay Northwest send NEFT of Rs 45000 to SVP School Kandivali west for the benefits of 45 children @ Rs 900. B) Send cheque of Rs 15000 for the benefits of 15 deaf n mute children from Dr.Kusumtai Narvane school Kandivali west. C) Distribution of Longbooks and Notebooks to Dayanand BMC school Liberty Garden cross road no 1 Malad west. D) District Urban Medical project we send NEFT of Rs 51000 E) District Rural project we send NEFT of Rs 25000 F) IWC Bombay Northwest contributed Rs 14, 400 to Women’s Entrepreneur Zonal project.

KNOW YOUR ROTARIAN I am also a Hobby painter and works with Acrylic and Oil colours in free time. I wish I could display my work - RTN TARAK PANCHAL at Jahangir art gallery sometimes. I am attaching few of paintings here. Greetings to the Chairman Rtn. Jatin Patel, secretary My family is my support mechanism. My parent stays Rtn. Mihir Vora and all the fellow Rotarians of Rotary at Udwada, Gujarat. They have moved to my native club Bombay NorthWest Malad. place after my dad’s retirement. My best half…. my My Name is Tarak Panchal and I have become a wife, Aarti is a house maker. She is commerce graduate member of Rotary club recently. The sole reason of and a fashion designer. She works as fashion designer my Rotary member ship is my long association with in her free time. She is also a good dancer and great Rotarian friends. I have always been doing many things cook. She is a hobby poet and writes small sayari’s in in the company of Rotarians while not a part of Rotary her free time. and ultimately decided to become a part of it. Now I I have two lovely daughters. My elder daughter Riya feel like travelling in Train with a valid confirmed ticket is Fine art graduate. She is great artist. She wants to (LOL) pursue her Masters in fine Arts. My younger daughter I am Dec-1972 born person. I have completed my is Hely. She is studying in 12th standard and preparing primary schooling from Nutan school Malad and for pre-medical entrance exam. She is trained kathak secondary schooling from Bhuta school Vileparle. dancer and also good at all forms of dance. I have completed by Mechanical Diploma from In a very short span of 2 months with Rotary, I was Bhagubhai and Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering involved in many projects. I have not been able to from K.J.Somaiya college, both in Mumbai. I am devote my free time to social causes earlier. Now I am working in the field of Oil & Gas projects as a Piping doing it through Rotary. It’s a good and satisfactory Engineer which is highly specialized engineering field. I feeling. Looking forward to serve my role sincerely with have worked with many companies in India and abroad Rotary. but currently working with UK based Engineering multinational (Petrofac Engineering). I stay at Borivali Thanks East near Thakur village vicinity. Tarak Panhal Talking about my other interests. I am long distance marathoner by hobby and ran many 21K and 10K marathons in last 10 years. Started running 10 yrs ago on advice of doctor to control Triglyceride and ultimately started enjoying running. Now running for joy.

KHULJA SIM SIM Yes, this is what exactly we want all our club members to feel when we restart our physical meetings in October for this Rotary year. Well friends ,as we are celebrating GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR of our prestigious club , our centre & Hall needed a long time pending up gradation. Currently due to pandemic there were no physical meetings since past many months so we thought this was a right time to carry out the work. It gives me immense pleasure to share with you few upcoming up gradations developments in brief. 1. LIFT : We are installing Energy Efficient High Speed Otis Lift with newly designed lift cabin. 2. CANOPY : We have made grand double height entrance canopy with very good lighting & prominent name boards. 3. ENTRANCE LOBBY : An elegant entrance lobby with plush interiors giving a warm welcome to visitors. 4. RAMP : A gentle slope ramp with proper hand rails for senior citizen’s easy & seamless movements 5. FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM : Now our centre is equipped with modern Fire Fighting systems as per Government Guidelines. 6. 5TH FLOOR LOBBY : Our 5th floor lobby has been upgraded with better lighting & ambience. We are doing bigger & better display of RC & IWC Past Presidents & Secretaries name boards. 7. THANDA THANDA COOL COOL : Yes that’s what members will feel during the meetings as we have installed high end new Split AC Units. 8. ACOUSTICS : Under the guidance of Professional sound engineers walls & ceilings of hall have been fitted with acoustic panels for better sound qualities during the meetings. 9. SOUND PROOF WINDOWS : To enhance acoustics we have replaced Road facing windows with new sound proof windows. 10. PAINTING : Finally to give a freshness & feel good factor to our members our hall has been nicely painted to give an AMAZING & AWSOME AMBIENCE YEH TO SIRF TRAILER HAI, PICTURE TO ABHI BAKI HAI MERE DOSTO REAL PICTURE RELEASING SOON IN OCTOBER

INSPIRATION CORNER - PP RTN KIRAN PATEL THE GOOD YOU DO COMES BACK TO YOU The new helicopter was being chased all over the compound by children before it went into Bunty’s house. Bunty was studying for his test, his eyes brightened as he saw it come inside. He had no intention of returning the helicopter, but looking at his mother’s angry expression, he grudgingly returned the helicopter. In the evening when his mother had cooled down, Bunty asked his mother to buy him a helicopter. His mother explained to him that she would instead buy him a laptop, which will more useful for his studies. He get very angry and tells her that he would prefer both, laptop and helicopter. He asked her, why she was wasting her time teaching the poor children for free when she could easily charge fees like all other teachers. His mother replied that the free tuitions for the children who could not afford to pay was “Vidyadaan”, which is the noblest thing as a teacher I need to do. Years later, an old beggar lady followed a man on the railway platform, the man lashed out in anger and said, “Why don’t you work for a living instead of begging?” She said, “Beta, by mistake you dropped your wallet and gave it to him.” Realising his mistake, Kapil took out a 10 Rupee note and was about to give it to her and he recognized her. She was the same teacher who had given him free tuition in his crucial years when he could not even afford books. Immediately, he took her home, made his wife help her get cleaned up and fed her food. And then he inquired about the turn of events in her life that had brought her to this condition. She told him how after the untimely death of her husband, her children had to sell all the property to pay off the debts. And none of them were ready to take her to their house. She was left with no choice but to beg. Kapil told her about all her other students, who always kept in touch and no one was aware of her whereabouts. Through social media, he got intouch with all his friends and informed them about the teacher and her plight. Money started pouring in from across the globe, soon Kapil bought a place for the teacher to stay. All the friends decided that they would send a fixed amount every month to the teacher to sustain herself through Kapil. Thus the seeds of kindness that she had sown in her good times had now become trees with fruits. Everyone should do good without any expectations, whether it’s in the office with colleagues, friends, neighbors and even with family members. One never knows when you would need help in life and who might help you in which form. What you give always comes back to you. So never hesitate to help anyone.

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