Rotary Club of Dabolim Goa

Meeting attended at RC Berlin International and RC Bad bergzabern.

Rotary International

Our Club distributed foot and hand operated sewing machines to poor and needy women on the occassion of Independence Day.

The sewing machines came in from the 3 District 3170 MG Projects for 847 Foot operated sewing machines and 156 Hand operated sewing machines. MG # 72544 with Rotary Oceanside, MG # 72915 Rotary Baltic Riga, District 2410 and MG # 73036 with E club of District 7890. Special thanks to Rtn. Bharat Kamat, Rotary eClub of D-7890 who was the prime contact in getting 420 machines. Rtn. Prakash Saraswat was a project contact for all the 3 projects.

Also present at the function were Urbano Rodrigues – Sarpanch VP Bogmalo Chicolna, Laxuman Kaulekar – President Gomantak Dhangar Samaj Onnati Mandal and member VP Bogmalo Chicolna and other members of VP Bogmalo Chicolna Arun Naik, Shalini Lucas and Sebastiana D’Cruz.

Rotary community, International, projects, RID 3170

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.

Toilets have been provided under Matching Grants Programme (MG # 71359) of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International with Rotary Club of Vasco da gama, District 3170, India (our sponsoring club) and Rotary Club of West Hampton as the host and Primary International partners. Thanks also to Rotary Club of Southold and Easthampton Rotary Club, District 7260, USA, and, and numerous donors who have shown their trust in our activities and generously supported us.

Also see http://www.rcdabolim.org/2010/construction-of-new-toilet-blocks-at-schools/ and http://www.rcdabolim.org/2010/new-toilet-blocks-at-yuwak-sangh-school-sada-goa-matching-grants-project/

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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 Matching Grants Programme (MG # 71359) of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International with Rotary Club of Vasco da gama, District 3170, India (our sponsoring club) and Rotary Club of West Hampton as the host and Primary International partners. Thanks also to Rotary Club of Southold and Easthampton Rotary Club, District 7260, USA, and, and numerous donors who have shown their trust in our activities and generously supported us.

Also see http://www.rcdabolim.org/2010/construction-of-new-toilet-blocks-at-schools/

Rotary community, health, International, projects, school

We have completed the construction of Toilet Blocks at 2 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.

Our club has helped in the Planning and Construction of Toilet Blocks, while the Schools have ensured availability of location and necessary permissions, and will ensure that the toilets are maintained properly.

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. Before we started implementing the project, the school had a run-down toilet that was not being used. Since the students did not have proper toilet facilities, this forced some of the students to use the open areas adjoining the school or go back to their homes. This also impacted the drop-out ratio among girls. By providing the toilet blocks, the children including girls will have the privacy and the hygiene of proper toilets. Most schools serving the underprivileged have a higher Girl Child drop out rate. This is also evident in the accompanying data shown below that we measured in one of our partner schools. We aim to improve this metric by our project.

At Anjuman H. I. High School, Baina, Goa – we have built 3 new toilets to add to the existing 8 toilets, and the project will benefit 1348 people – 781 boys, 519 girls and 40 staff.

This is a part of our School Project, where we plan to Improve the Infrastructure of schools. Other focus areas of our School Project include Improving the quality of Teachers and Purchase of Teaching Aids.

Our overall objective is to Improve the education imparted to children, Improve employability of the children who graduate, Focus on children from lesser privileged sections of society.

Toilets have been provided under Matching Grants Programme (MG # 71359) of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International with Rotary Club of Vasco da gama, District 3170, India (our sponsoring club) and Rotary Club of West Hampton as the host and Primary International partners. Thanks also to Rotary Club of Southold and Easthampton Rotary Club, District 7260, USA, and, and numerous donors who have shown their trust in our activities and generously supported us.

Rotary community, International, projects, school

We hosted dinner for Rtn. John Gallen, Vice President Diss & District Rotary Club (Norfolk, Great Britain) from Rotary District 1080 UK, and his wife, Inner Wheel member Jill Gallen at Hotel Mandovi, Panaji.

Rotary International

We hosted dinner for the GSE team from District 9470 Australia at Lava, Chicalim. The delegation included Michael Collin, Rob Pannell, Melissa Croswell, Honor Putland and Belinda Truman. District 9470 currently has 34 clubs from Perth, Western Australia.

Rotary GSE, International, RID 3170

Rtn. Leif R Carlsson, District Governor 2009-2010 of Rotary International District 2410 visited us. RID 2410 includes Southern Sweden and Latvia. Rtn. Carlsson is a member of Rotary Club of TORSÅS-BERGKVARA. We hosted dinner for Leif and his wife Mona at Joets, Bogmalo Beach.

Rotary International

We held our first Garage Sale at Kharewado, Vasco. The items on sale were recieved as donations from various people. Most of the items on sale were pre-used but in a  good condition. Old and new clothing, footwear, toys, household knick-knacks and some home appliances were sold. The sale helped us raise funds for our school project.

Rotary community, fundraiser, GSE, International, school

Visiting Rotarian Elena Matveeva, Youth Exchange Committee Chair, Rotary District 2220, Moscow, Russia. She talked about Russia, their club and their activities, including purchasing a school bus for orphans by raising funds in a charitable ball.

Also attending were Rotarians from the Vasco club: Prakash, Santosh, Piyush, Servulho.

Rotary Guest Speaker, International

Our club distributed hearing aids to 4 elderly patients and 5 deaf and dumb children.

These were a part of the Hearing aids and analog audiometer donated to RC Vasco by the Rotary Club of Birmingham, UK (Rotary International District 1060).

Rotary community, health, International, projects, RID 3170

Rtn. Prakash of RC Vasco, and Rtn. Bharat of RID 7890 talked to us about their visit to the 100th Rotary International Convention held at Birmingham, UK.

Rtn. Bharat elaborated on the proceedings at the Convention while Rtn. Prakash elaborated on the networking effectiveness at an RI convention.

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