Year Book

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Christmas
at Anandi
School

A special Christmas event was
organized on 24th Dec 2021
where several cognitive skill
improvement board games were
donated to the school and activity
books and toys were donated to
the specially abled students to
help with their motor skills and
spatial abilities. A special
christmas treat with Santa Claus,
music, dance, games, gifts and
lots of yummy food and fabulous
chocolate cake was hosted for the
students who had a wonderful
afternoon with the RCMPians.
Special thanks to IPP Rtn.Jyoti
and PP Rtn.Sakthivel.

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Snack Distribution A monthly stock of dry
for Doctors and Other packaged snacks was
Healthcare Worker given to the Covid
Vaccine Center staff
(nurses and doctors).

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Text Books for Rural Students

7-Jan-2022: The needy and
deserving 9th and 10th grade
students of the School in
Kondagaon village; Palghar
District received educational aide
from RCMP. 170 students, most of
them hailing from tribal families
were given complete coursework
Textbook sets .

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from

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Vile Parle (E), Mumbai-400057

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Warm Winter Breakfast

05-Jan-2022: RCMP arranged for warm
breakfasts to be distributed to needy persons
visiting the TB and infectious disease OPD at RN
Cooper hospital. The distribution was done for 10
days with 100 breakfast packs being distributed per
day.

Motivation of Students of Technical School

14-Jan-2022: The Davidcelebrated their raising daymeal and distributed clean

Sasoon Technical School isThe student inmatesreusable water sippers.

home to about 1000 studentdisplayed all the skills theyRtn.Sunita Shetye and

inmates who are under thehave been acquiring likeRtn.Monika Tandon

juvenile protectorate andcarpentry, art, electricalrepresented RCMP

child welfare departmentwork, tailoring etc. RCMP

On 14th January theysponsored a celebratory

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Ration Supply to a Meal Kitchen

10-Jan-2022: Rotary a generous corporate

Club of Mumbai donor. President

Parleshwar donated Rotarian Unmesh Sawant

around 200 kgs of and Club Secretary Rtn

kitchen rations (worth Monika were present

Rs. 25000/-) to the food along with Rtn. Sunita

kitchen run by With Shetye who has

Aarya Foundation. The coordinated the project

Kitchen provides 150 along with With Aarya

meals twice a day, free of Foundations Ms.Shital

cost to the OPD patients

and their relatives who

visit KEM, Wadia, Tata

hospitals. All 365 days a

year this special meal

service called ‘Don Ghaas’

continues without a

break, since last 5 years.

Team RCMP personally

visited the kitchen and

the meal distribution

service. The kitchen

rations were provided by

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Food Distribution
with “Don Ghass”

To relatives who visit KEM, Wadia, Tata
hospitals

Aide to Rural Public Health Center

14-Feb-2022: President Rtn Unmesh
Sawant has carried ahead the good
work of aiding rural primary health
centers by procuring and transporting
A Tricycle Wheelchair, 1000 N95
masks and 15 cartons of hand sanitizer
bottles to Malvan.

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Rations, Vitamins and Water Sippers for Street
School Children

23-Jan-2022: The Rotractors sippers of 600 ml capacity to session on hand hygiene and
importance of basic education
of Parleshwar Gen Z visited the the street children who are for the young children and
their parents.
Sparkling Wings NGO in being helped academically by

Dahisar and distributed 24 this unique NGO completely

ration kits, 30 full courses of run by young graduate

Vitamin D (8 week course) and students. The rotractors also

50 reusable food grade water conducted an interactive

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Space for Utkarsh Bank Advt.
Full Page

20000

Bottles of 500ml Sanitizers distributed
to urban and rural schools

26-Jan-2022: RCMP has Road Public School, Airport High
School, Anandi School, Mulinche
completed distribution of 5764 and Samarth Vidyalaya, Mahila Sangh
School, Hind Seva Parishad School
is in the process of completing the and The rural schools of Sudkoli,
Sanegaon, Karanjveera, Thise and
distribution of a total of 20000 Aare in Roha and Raigad Areas.

sanitizer bottles of 500 ml to school

students The aim of the project was

to generate awareness about hand

hygiene amongst the school going

youngsters returning to offline

school after a long break. The

distribution has been done at

Nityanand Road Public School, Dixit

Sanitizer Distribution
and Hand Hygiene to

Rural Schools

Vanrai

Bandhare

Check Dams being build in in Jawahar Dist.
to build catchment of rain water.

30-Jan-2022: 15 Goni Bandhare/Vanrai
Bandhare or barrier stacks (gunny bags
filled with soil and gravel) have been
made after the monsoons to
catch/harvest the rivulet water in Jawhar
Taluka

Donation of Home Care Essentials to a Hospital

14-Feb-2022: Mr. Subhrajit Kar of was introduced to Kar Ji by Rtn. Dr. Gopinath Menon of
Chembur is a sterling example of true RC of Mumbai Mahakali Heights. Thank You Kar Ji, this
service oriented spirit. He has is genuine homage to a loved one who has passed on.
generously donated and transported
the below listed home care essentials
worth Rs. 10000 approx. which were
donated by President Rtn Unmesh
Sawant, PP Rtn.Nitin Vichare and PP
Rtn Sakthivel to Babasaheb Gawde
Hospital where they will be used for
those in need of these home care
essentials. The whole donation was
coordinated by PP Rtn Sakthivel who

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Sanitizer Distribution and Hand Hygiene

21-Feb-2022: Team RCMP has been
hard at work. Hand sanitizer
distribution and hygiene awareness
drive in schools continues. This week
President Rtn Unmesh and PP Rtn
Sakthivel visited Shramik Vidyalaya
at Jogeshwari to distribute sanitizers
and propagate hand hygiene.

Sanitizer Distribution in various schools

Encouraging 2-Feb-2022: The young ones in
Creativity Airport School had a wonderful
surprise today when they received
their gifts of art books and
colouring kits from Team RCMP.
President Rtn Unmesh IPP Rtn
Jyoti and PP Rtn Sakthivel
represented the club for the
occasion. The art and colouring kits
have been sponsored by Smt.
Veenatai and Sakthivel Sir.

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Encouraging

Creativity

amongst

School

Students

28-Feb-2022: President Rtn
Unmesh Sawant, PP Rtn Sakthivel
and IPP Rtn Jyoti Babladi were at
Airport School to participate in a
day long event where face masks
and yummy goodies were
distributed to kindergarteners and a
drawing competition was conducted
for 500 first to fourth graders. Mask
distribution to the little Angels,
thanks to Kindness Unlimited;
Happy Charts for visual learning of
the tiny tots, thanks to PP Rtn.
Bhalchandra Barve and Drawing
Competition for the 500 Primary
Children, thanks to Rtn. Vinod
Shete, Rtn. Nitin Kharde and Rtn.
Atul Karkhanis. The yummy
biscuits were procured thanks to
IPP Rtn Jyoti.

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Starter Kit
for enabling
employment to
Blind Women

As a pre-Diwali activity,
25 women members of a
local blind association
received starter kits
which will help them to
start their small-goods
vending business and
earn sustenance for
themselves and their
families.

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Day Picnic for Special
Students of Anandi School

25-Feb-2022: On Friday 25th
February 2002, the ever smiling
children of Anandi School were
ceremoniously flagged off for a
fun filled day picnic at Jeejamata
Udyan ( bus, yummy goodies and
many more surprises). This entire
activity was sponsored by IPP Rtn
Jyoti and Rtn Satish Babladi.
Team RCMP was represented by
PP Rtn Sakthivel, Rtn Satish
Babladi and Rtn Shivanand
Katdare Smiles and Cheers All
Around

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Supporting the Police
Personnel - Nirbhaya Squad

8-Mar-2022: On the occasion of
International Women’s Day President Rtn
Unmesh Sawant and PP Rtn Sakthivel
participated in the special celebrations
organised at Vile Parle Police Station
where they felicitated the brave women
police personnel, especially the Nirbhaya
Squad and distributed Masks, sanitizers
and Multivitamin supplement tabs to the
Women Police Staff, Women of Police
Mitra Force and Women of Mohalla
Committee. A truly befitting gesture.

Sanitizer, Visual Learning Aids and Multivitamin

Supplement Distribution to Vasai School

9-Mar-2022: President Himalaya Drugs, Visual was a very well

Rtn Unmesh Sawant and Aid Learning Charts appreciated service

PP Rtn Sakthivel visited courtesy PP Rtn project, thanks to the

the Saraswati Bhalachandra Barve and President and Past

Madhyamik Vidyalay Vitamin Supplements President and our

Tilher, Taluka Vasai, Zilla courtesy Somatico generous donors.

Palghar. This visit was Pharmacal. Team RCMP

along with the President is back with a very

and Club Secretary of RC enthusiastic and

of Mahim. Team RCMP encouraging feedback

distributed Hand about how well the school

Sanitizers courtesy is being managed and it

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Nutri-Kits 14-Mar-2022: As a honourary teacher in
BMC school IPP Rtn.Jyoti Babladi came
Distribution Kits across Manilal Joshi Manapa Vishesh
Madhyamik Shala, a MCGM run school for
to Autistics Kids special children in vileparle west. The
children come there from far and near .
Some mild to severely challenged ,Autustic
but a happy lot! She reached out by
supporting them with poshak aahar kit
through her contacts. Each kit included
Poha-1kg, Sooji-1kg, Dalia-1kg, Peanuts-
500gms, Roasted Gram-500gms, Jaggery-
500gms, Soya Chunks-250gms. Each kit
weighing 5.75 kgs. and 1 litre Milk in tetra
pack with neat sipper bottles which were
sponsored by a generous corporate donor.
The children were excited to recieve these
gifts (as they thought) But the parents were
pleasantly shocked to recieve this kit, more
overwhelmed as this was the first time
anyone reached out to them. The RCMP
team returned promising to visit them and
give more such gifts if they attend school
everyday and do well . All in all RCMP
continues its commitment to the societ

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Sanitizer Distribution
and Hand Hygiene

at Anandi School for
Specially Abled Children.

14-Mar-2022: Team RCMP was back
at Anandi School in response to a
request for hand sanitizers and
President Rtn Unmesh Sawant and PP
Rtn Sakthivel ensured that sanitizers
sponsored by Himalaya Drugs were
distributed to the ever smiling students
and their parents and school staff. To
add to the goody bag; IPP Rtn Jyoti
sent some yummy biscuits and PP Rtn
Bhalachandra Barve sent some
interesting Visual Aid Charts for easy
learning. It was a visit which filled the
team with gratitude as usual for being
given the opportunity to spread smiles.

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RYPEN for MBH

School Interactors

23rd March 2022

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Team RCMP conducted a RYPEN workshop
for the interactors & students of grade 8 & 9 of

Mahila Sangha’s Marathi Medium School

oordinator for the s hool Tandon Rtr. President

m for o r irst ady rs. a ri vyay Tandon. ot to for et

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ssion ames were om letely okhale lots of ratit de

s for lanned s onsored by to the tea hers staff of the

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s a Rtn yoti Babladi s onsored deli htf l wat hin yo n

m some y mmy deli hts for minds stret h their hori ons

Team the ea er beavers beyond their te tbooks ot

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of shar minded hi hly smilin eenatai. The

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event Rtn vinash ishra Rtn e erien e.

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Blood Donation

Camp organized by Rotractors

16-Mar-2022:Rotaract Club of the heat, pending exams and a Rtr. Ravi Yadav and his core

Mumbai Parleshwar Gen Next mega rejection rate of female team. Principal Dr. Seema

conducted a Blood Donation donors due to low haemoglobin, Malankar and Rotaract

Camp in their College- The they collected 28 viable units. coordinator Prof. Dhanawade

Hind Seva San ha’s P bli The Rotaract Club of were personally supervising the

Night College at Vakola. This Parleshwar Gen Z was process and it was a successful

was their first event as our represented by President Rtr. event.

Rotaractors. It was a pleasure to Avyay who also donated blood.

witness their enthusiasm and All Gen Nextites were on duty

drive to do a good job. Despite very sincerely, led by President

With Best Compliments

from

Samita Aiyer

Music System for School

24-Mar-2022:The New English School
at Pendur in Konkan got an amazing
sound system today! All the more power
to all their curricular and extra curricular
activities. The Club President’s visit has
surely added melody to the music.

Nutri-kits distribution in Slums

25-Mar-2022: Rotractors
of Gen Next , President Rtr
Ravi Yadav and his team
along with IPP Rtn Jyoti
Balbladi, PE Rtn Rajesh
Shah and Rtn Prachi Rane
distributed Nutri-Kits in the
slums of Vakola today. The
kits were procured by IPP
Jyoti through a generous
donor and the occasion
brought smiles to all
beneficiaries and brighter
ones to our team.

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MurbadVisit to

Learning the challenges faced by this
agrarian community

13-Feb-2022: Team RCMP went decades. As he has penned it ”
on a Day Trip to Murbad. The Society suffers from chronic and
intention was to understand first- acute problems. In many cases,
hand the challenges faced by the chronic problems, directly or
people living in this agrarian indirectly, are the cause of acute
community and also to know about problems. The Rotary is arguably
some of the unique sustainable the only world class and world level
solutions that are being put into organization which has the
place by some very dedicated local wherewithal to do sustainable
visionaries. The entire trip was co- projects on such scales.”
ordinated by Rtn.Dr.Mahesh
Bhagwat who has been working in
this sector over the past two

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Ashramshala at Talvali

We visited a government aided ashramshala
for tribal children in Talavali which is run by
Shri.Digambar Vishe. The shaala house
nearly 400 tribal children and has been
consistently a 100% result in grade 10 and 12
examinations. Shri Vishe is a proponent of
the ‘Gau adhaarit sheti’ model for r ral
economic development wherein he runs a
Gaushala in Talavali which houses only desi
varieties of cows and gives all the milk got
from gir-cows to a local group of doctors for
treating patients. Shri. Vishe has included,
gobar-gas plant, poultry and many other agro
based cottage industries in his model.

Desilted Lake at Talvali

We visited a de-silted lake (Vasundhara
Sanjeevani Mandal – VSM) in Talavali and
saw how de-silting revives a water source
which is essential for agriculture

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Organic Farm

We paid a visit to the unique organic farm of
Dr.Suroshe at Khevare. Dr. Surose is a
doctorate and teacher of agriculture and the
knowledge and passion for sustainable
agriculture was totally seen and tasted – the
awesome bananas, ginger, bottle gourds,
okra, moringa beans, green gram beans and
so much more. Most interesting was the
experiment that he is conducting in onion
growing to identify which type of mulching
works best – the silver tarp sheathed, the hay
covered mulch pits or uncovered growing.

Desilted Lake by RCMP

We also saw the lake at Asose-Hireghar
village which was desilted by RCMP in the
Smart Year, this has created a water
storage and percolation capacity of 1.2
crore liters

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We also saw the bore-well put up by
Rotary in the Katkari community and how
it has benefitted them. The entire trip was
also a fantastic fellowship experience what
with the superb sandwiches courtesy
Veenatai (spouse of Sakthi Sir), the
delicious lunch at the school in Talavali,
the tasty fruits and breakfast got by
Rtn.Mahesh and not to forget the simply
mind-boggling grape packing by IPP Jyoti.
Special Gratitude for Rtn.Dr.Mahesh
Bhagwat and president Rtn. Unmesh
Looking forward to many more such trips
and having many many more RCMPians
along...

Nutri-kits Distribution
to MBH School

30-Mar-2022: Team RCMP backward students of the school.
with Rotarat GenZ visited 50 families received this valuable
Madhavrao Bhagat High School support. The kits were procured
to distribute mega ration kits to by IPP Rtn Jyoti Babladi from a
the families of economically generous corporate donor.

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Meetings &
Fellowships

2021-22

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Knowledge & Information

Live Love Sound Understanding
The Fiscal Budget
Life Again Healing
04-Feb-2022
21-Jan-2022 28-Jan-2022

The World Shiva A Wildlife

of Colours Discovery Photography

25-Mar-2022 04-Mar-2022 25-Mar-2022

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TRF Seminar
21-22

A grand 3141 TRF Seminar 2021-22 was
held at Trident Hotel on 15th Dec 2021. It
was a great opportunity to listen to and
interact with RI president Shekhar
Mehta for all the participants. RCMP was
represented by Dr. Monica, Rtn. Avinash,
Rtn. Ganesh, Rtn. Vinayak along with the
President Rtn. Unmesh Sawant.

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Online Eco Friendly Ganesha Making

With Kutuhal (an initiative by women to promote
traditional arts and crafts), RCMP conducted an online
workshop on making eco friendly Ganesha idols using
‘shaad maati’. veryone from 60+ year olds to 10 year
olds worked at getting their Bappa right. The trainer
Ms. Sahasrabuddhe taught the participants how they
could recycle the same shaadu soil each year and yet
have the most traditional and satisfying Ganesh Utsav.

A physical workshop was also conducted to encourage
eco friendly 'shaadu maati' Ganesha idols. There were 29
participants and the enthusiasm and the positive energy
were actually palpable! Director Youth PP Rtn. Smita
Puranik has spearheaded these projects along with Ms.
Shweta Nakhate from Kutuhal. Our new Rotractors
served as volunteers (President Rtr.Avyay, Rtr. Nandan,
Rtr. Pratiksha and Trask) at the venue, the Gymkhana at
Sathaye College, which was very graciously lent out to us
by Shri Rajwade ji for the occasion.

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Dharamshala Calling

RCMP team visited Dharamshala as part of the 3141
District picnic. The picnic tour included Amritsar, Delhi
and Dharamshala. RCMP president Unmesh Sawant
exchanged flags with the president RTN. ER. SANGRAM
GULERIA of the host club RC of Dharamshala.

One Dream Is Not Enough

Badri shared his epic road trip from Mumbai to
London, along with his granddaughter Nishi, in a
speaker session with RCMP. Badri is an adventure-
thrill seeker through his life and shared his
experience on performing Mt. Kailash parikrama at
the age of 60. o He cruised to Antarctica at South
Pole in 2006. Mr.. Baldawa’s passion for adventure
lead to several self-drive expeditions, he drove on
his own from Mumbai to Badrinath temple, 30
years when no proper roads existed

Mr.. Badri Baldawa

Ex-President of All India Stainless Steel
Industries Association

‘ज ंिकलो ऐसे म्हणा ’

by Dr. Sanjay Upadhye

A highly entertaining and informative was a new
one-man sit-down act by Dr Sanjay Upadhye. It is
was an act, which was both, humorous and
inspiring, enabled the listener to look at life with a
clear vision. The session
focused on looking at
life with a sense of
content and sense of
victory rather being
worried with the past.

Great Participation from RCMPians at
first Physical club event after the
pandemic. Over 3 hours presentations,
information, Fellowship and Lunch.

Digital Training on Leveraging Social Platforms

Digital Marketing growth and job hunting session along with lead

expert Ms. Pallavi platform. It was a very host Rotary Club of

Sakharkar conducted a well attended (total Kandivali West.

wonderful interactive attendance peaked at

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maximise LinkedIn as a appreciated session.

networking, business RCMP co-hosted this

Women’s Empowerment Initiative

Under the District Women's can create accountable

Empowerment Initiative, communities. It was well

RCMP conducted an attended and well received.

Awareness Program along DG. Rajendra Agarwal was

with RC of Juhu where the Chief Guest

leading Activist, Ms. Smita

Bharti spoke about how we

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Foods and Folks of Maharashtra

Dr. Kurush An archaeologist by profession and food-historian by
Dalal vocation, Dr. Kurush Dalal, dissected the evolution of
modern food to talk to us about Food and Eating in
PhD. Archaeology Maharashtra. This session was co-hosted with 18 Clubs
and an insightful 2 hours of learning right from the
origination of the word “ er ” to “vada av”.

A large audience on zoom enjoyed this Kurush treat.

Why Do We Eat What We Eat ?

Kojagiri
Karaoke Night

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A grand family night at Avion Hotel with Diwali Night
a Fantastic Entertainment programme Dhamaka
put up by the RCMPians - the theme was
Humor. Let there be laughter and joy all
around! And what a show it was!
Rotarians DIlip and Priya Kulkarni
danced the entre - dafliwaale and there
was a fabulous kavi sammelan where
Rtn.B.G Barve sang a parody and
President Rtn.Unmesh had the audience
in splits with his rendition too! The
fabulous ladies from Akashwani - IPP
Rtn.Jyoti Babladi, PP Rtn.Smita Puranik,
Rtn.Prachi Tillu and Rtn.Devyani Gore
were absolutely inimitable! Rtn.Prachi
Rane and spouse presented a real foot
tapping number and Rtns Ganesh
Narayanan, Sundeep Gokhale and Suresh
Mahalingam along with spouse got
everyone dancing to their tunes. The
whole show was strung together by the
unmatched hosts - Rtn.Hemant Shidore
and spouse. The food, the fellowship and
the pure undiluted fun made sure it was
another RCMP bash to remember.

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18th March 2022

A MUSICAL EVENT

With

LIVE ORCHESTRA

Excellent fellowship and the
thrill of celebrating together as
a family- the Holi celebrations
of the Dream Year were truly
filled with the colours of hope.
It was a “Get your family to
Sing Along” event where RCMP
family members sang to the
tunes of the orchestra at Hotel
Avion, Royale Hall.

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