We have completed the construction of Toilet Blocks at our second partner school in Goa.
At Anjuman H. I. High School, Baina, Goa – we have built 3 new toilets for the girl child. Earlier, Anjuman had 8 toilets between 1348 people – 781 boys, 519 girls and 40 staff.
We have completed the construction of Toilet Blocks at one of our partner schools in Goa. The toilet blocks were inaugurated by AG Rtn. Shankar Kirlaparkar on behalf of the District Governor Rtn. Gurudatta D. Bhakta. Also present were the School Management, and Rotarians from the Vasco da gama and Dabolim clubs. At Yuwak Sangh School, Sada, Goa, the Toilet Blocks project will benefit 229 people – 119 boys, 90 girls and 20 teaching and non-teaching staff members.
Our club participated in the pulse polio immunisation drive at the Pulse Polio booth manned by Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Also present was Rtn. Leif R Carlsson, District Governor of Rotary International District 2410, Sweden who traveled to India to participate in in the Immunization program. He and his wife Mona Carlsson personally administered drops to over 100 children. Rtn. Carlsson is a member of Rotary Club of TORSÅS-BERGKVARA.
Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1994 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating annually all children under age five against poliovirus.
Rotary International is the volunteer arm of a global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. In 1985, Rotary volunteers around the world embraced the fight against polio and ‘POLIOPLUS‘ was born.
Till date, the PolioPlus programme has contributed US $ 610 million for the protection of more than two billion children. By 2007 the end of the programme, Rotary’s contribution will touch more than US$650 million apart from the manpower, materials and individual support provided by 1.2 million Rotarians world wide.
Also see the video below: Bill Gates thanks Rotarians for their commitment to the polio eradication effort. Because of the work of Rotarians, says Gates, polio has declined by 99 percent.
Rotary Club of Panjim and R.I. District 3170 hosted a Multi District Conference on Avoidable Blindness at Hotel Fidalgo, Panaji. District Governor Rtn. Gurudatta Bhakta, District Governor Elect Rtn. Mahesh Raikar, PDG Dr. Rekha Shetty , Bangalore, Global Director, Blindness Prevention, Rotary Action Group, Rtn. Shrinivas Malu, District Chair-Avoidable Blindness, 2009-2010, and others attended. Amit Tapadia and Dinesh Heda attended the event.
The staggering facts about Avoidable Blindness: Despite the efforts of governments and eye care professionals, more people in the world are becoming blind each day. Every 5 seconds one person in our world goes blind … and a child goes blind every minute. According t o the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 180 million people worldwide are visually disabled and 40-45 million of them are blind. About 90 percent of the world’s blind live in developing countries. 80% of the world’s blindness is avoidable, preventable or treatable with available interventions. Cataract is responsible for nearly 50% of the world’s blindness. The World Health organization estimates that by the year 2020, the number of blind people in the world will double unless something is done to stop this terrible tragedy. This is high time to initiate Global War against Blindness. Rotary International. , together with the World Health Organization, the One World Sight Project and several other non-governmental eye care organizations has actively embarked on a number of initiatives to eliminate the causes of avoidable blindness, and to provide surgeries for people already blind from cataract, so they might see again.
The visit to Govt. PHC Hospital at Chicalim, where DG handed over the Iron/Follic tables of more than 6500 nos costing more than Rs.15,000/-but donated to RC Vasco by our club member Rtn.Dr. Shubhangi Lotlikar.
The Health Officer Dr.Gaitonde very much appreciated the Rotarian concern for the pegnant women who generally come to PHC from slum area of Vasco town but cannot effort to buy this basic medicine from market and the PHC cannot provide them. This women are generally known to be anemic and badly require supplementary iron and folic acid for better growth of unborn child.
Understanding the plight of these poor women, the Rotary club of Vasco held this programme under the “Reduce the Child Mortality” Programme of Rotary International, this year theme’ Make dream real’ given by RI President Rtn. DONG KURN LEE.
On International Women’s Day, we organised a free “Women’s Health Camp”. 147 women attended the free medical camp at Mangor, Vasco.
Dr. Reena, Dr. Amita and Dr. Shubhangi volunteered to conduct the health checks. We had a pathologist in attendance to conduct the blood tests. Dr. Kapil took charge of disbursing free medicines and explaining the dosage to the patients. Free vitamins, iron and protein supplements were disbursed, as were some OTC medicines. All patients were offered snacks. Abhay, Dr. Amita, Amit B, Amit T, Avez, Charuta, Dinesh, Jennifer, Dr. Kapil, Lalit, Dr. Shubhangi, Snehal, Vidya volunteered. Dr. Reena was invited by Dr. Shubhangi. Nikhil and Pramod of RC Vasco also visited the camp.
Coinciding with the International Women’s Day, we are organising a free “Women’s Health Check Up” on Sunday 8 March 2009 between 09:00 AM to 2:00 PM at St. Theresa’s School, Mangor Hill, Vasco da gama. The free medical check up will be conducted by qualified lady doctors.
Our club participated in the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme by helping man the booth organised by the Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Our guests – the visiting GSE Team from RID 7260 also lent a helping hand. Gwenn led from the front. Over 250 children were administered drops at the booth. Dinesh, Amit B, Snehal, Lalit, Dr Jen and Avez also visited the booth.
The Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa participated in the Pulse Polio drive by helping staff the booth organised by the Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Over 280 children were administered drops at the booth. Dinesh, Snehal, Lalit and Amit T attended.
Pulse Polio is an immunization campaign established by the government of India in 1994 to eradicate poliomyelitis (polio) in India by vaccinating annually all children under age five against poliovirus.
Every child receives a dose of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), a live, attenuated virus which colonises the gastrointestinal tract. This virus competitively inhibits the wild, disease-causing poliovirus. Not only does this prevent pernicious infection in the host, it precludes transmission of the wild poliovirus to other hosts. Since poliovirus cannot survive outside a host for more than two weeks, theoretically it would be eradicated, resulting in the eradication of poliomyelitis.
We have completed the construction of Toilet Blocks at our second partner school in Goa.
We have completed the construction of Toilet Blocks at one of our partner schools in Goa. The toilet blocks were inaugurated by AG Rtn. Shankar Kirlaparkar on behalf of the District Governor Rtn. Gurudatta D. Bhakta. Also present were the School Management, and Rotarians from the Vasco da gama and Dabolim clubs. At Yuwak Sangh School, Sada, Goa, the Toilet Blocks project will benefit 229 people – 119 boys, 90 girls and 20 teaching and non-teaching staff members.
Toilets have been provided under 
Our club participated in the pulse polio immunisation drive at the Pulse Polio booth manned by Rotary Club of Vasco da gama. Also present was Rtn. Leif R Carlsson, District Governor of 
Our club distributed hearing aids to 4 elderly patients and 5 deaf and dumb children.
Rotary Club of Panjim and R.I. District 3170 hosted a Multi District Conference on Avoidable Blindness at Hotel Fidalgo, Panaji. District Governor Rtn. Gurudatta Bhakta, District Governor Elect Rtn. Mahesh Raikar, PDG Dr. Rekha Shetty , Bangalore, Global Director, 
The visit to Govt. PHC Hospital at Chicalim, where DG handed over the Iron/Follic tables of more than 6500 nos costing more than Rs.15,000/-but donated to RC Vasco by our club member Rtn.Dr. Shubhangi Lotlikar.
