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Club’s Major Projects
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During 2005-06, two major projects received the Matching
Grant from The Rotary Foundation.
Rotary Open Hearts to Pakistan
This project was initiated with the help of Rotary Club of Gold Coast Lake Success,
New York, with which Rotary Club of Chandigarh enjoys Twin Club relationship.
An agreement to that effect was signed on behalf of the Club by former Rotary International
President Rajendra K. Saboo in USA during his visit to this newly formed club.
Later on a visit to Chandigarh, Rtn. Ravishankar Bhooplapur
of Lake Success, USA, was impressed by the Club's Heartline Project providing
free cardiac surgery to children. He offered to start a project exclusively
for children from Pakistan who have no access to such medical facilitiies and cannot
afford the high cost of cardiac surgery.
The project was born and ultimately with the Rotary Foundation
sanctioning the grant, this USD 30,500 project would be able to provide free cardiac
surgery to at least 18 to 20 children from Pakistan.
As of date, eight children have successfully been operated, and three children are
awaiting surgery in the Fortis Hospital who arrived on 2nd April.
The Partners in this project are :
Rotary Club of Chandigarh
District 3080, India
District 3010, India
District 3270, Pakistan
District 7250, USA
Rotary Gold Coast Lake Success
RF Matching Grant
Total Project Cost
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USD 2,000
USD 4,000
USD 2,500
USD 2,500
USD 2,500
USD 3,000
USD 14,000
USD 30,500
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Past Rotary International President
Rajendra K. Saboo with members of the Rotary Club of Gold Coast Lake Success
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Dental Chairs for the Institute of
Dental Sciences & Research, Panjab University
This project was conceived in 2004-05, in association with the Rotarians of UK.
During 2005-06, the Club approached The Rotary Foundation for the Matching Grant
which was approved. The total project cost is USD 22,000 under which the Club
shall be providing 10 Dental Chairs to the newly established institute for Dental
Sciences in Panjab University.
The Partners in this project are :
Rotary Club of Mill Hill, UK
District 1130, UK
Rotary Club of Chandigarh
District 3080, India
TRF Matching Grant
Total Project Cost
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USD 8,000
USD 2,000
USD 2,000
USD 2,000
USD 8,000
USD 22,000
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Rotary Heartline
The Club is involved in various initiatives to help the the poor children suffering
from congenital cardiac disorders who are being provided free cardiac surgical facilities
in association with the PGIMER. However, the cost of consummables and other medicines
costing about Rs.65,000 are met through contribution by the Rotarians and the philanthropists.
So far the Club has done over 150 such surgeries including for 14 children from
Pakistan, Nepal, and South Africa.
You can join us by making contribution to the 'Chandigarh Rotary Club Service
Trust' payable at Chandigarh, India. All contributions are exempt under section
80G of the Income Tax Act.
Rotary Heartline
Project : (Please click the link for more
details on the project)
To contribute to this project, please email to Rtn. PP Charanjit Singh, corepr@gmail.com
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Junaid
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Chandigarh is Rotary Peace
City
Rotary Club of Chandigarh has set up a Rotary Peace Monument at Sukhna Lake and
on 12th December 2003, the Club has been declared as 'Rotary Peace City'.
Rotary International President Jonathan B. Majiyagbe was in the city to formally
unveil the monument and hand it over to His Excellency Justice O.P. Verma, the Governor
of Panjab and Administrator UT, Chandigarh, at a glittering function at the lake.
The project had been the brain child of PRIP R.K. Saboo, who is also the Special
Administrator of Rotary Peace Communities worldwide, and executed under the dynamic
leadership of DG Kawal Bedi and Pres. Vijay Wadhawan.
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Rotary Vocational Training Centre
Rotary Club of Chandigarh runs a Rotary
Vocational Training Centre (RVTC) which is housed in its own building in the
centre of the city. Over 4,000 children have been benefitted so far.
RVTC, besides hosting the regular club meetings in its spacious centrally air-conditioned
auditorium, runs regular classes for the boys and girls hailing from economically
poor families. They are provided basic skills in various disciplines
to enable them earn their livelihood with pride.
The following programmes are run
at the RVTC at the moment :
 Tailoring & Embroidery Course for Girls
Typewriting & Shorthand for Boys and Girls
Computer Basics for Boys and Girls
Beauty Culture for Girls
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Rotary House, which also houses the auditorium, where
Rotary Club Chandigarh meets every Monday.
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Rotary Blood Bank Society Blood
Resource Centre
The Club has set up a Rs.3.5 crore
Rotary BBS Blood Resource Centre in collaboration with the city's Blood
Bank Society under the Rotary Foundation's Matching Grant. The Centre
is state-of-the-art Centre, set up in Sector 37, Chandigarh.
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Intercontinental Medicare Mission
Initiated by Past Rotary International President, R.K. Saboo, the Intercontinental
Medicare Project has demonstrated the spirit of selfless service, where Rotarian
doctors along with volunteers go to different countries to conduct surgeries, implant
IOCs, etc.
In the past 10 years the mission led by him has travelled to different countries,
including Cambodia, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia.
During 2005-06, the Mission went to one of the poorest districts in India, Kalahandi
in Orissa. Later, another mission went to Lesotho in Africa.
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Other Major Rotary Projects
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Rotary PGI Serai
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The first one to be built and handed over to PGI
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Funeral Van
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To the PGI
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Blood Van
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To Blood Bank Society
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RVTC
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Imparting training to children from economically backward
backgrounds
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International Dolls Museum
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Set in in Bal Bhavan, Sector 23, Chandigarh. Set up in
1983-84, the
museum houses dolls from almost every part of the world, as also
a toy railway station gifted by Rotary Club of Ebingen, Germany
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Dental Van for Slums
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Under TRF Matching Grant, provided to the UT Health Department
for dental care in slums
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Rotary Balwaris
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In Maloya and Dhanas village for children from slums
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Govt School, Bapu Dham
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School adopted for granting scholarships to the needy
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Bal Bahar, Bapu Dham
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Creche cum nursery school being run in Bapu Dham colony
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