ROTARACT CLUB OF BANGALORE,

INDIRANAGAR

ANNUAL REPORT – 2014-15

PRESIDENT’S NOTE

A journey of a thousand

miles begins with a step.

And what a journey this

has been!

They say variety is the

spice of life, and it was

nice to see our club doing

such a plethora of projects,

touching so many lives and

helping so many people.

And the beauty is almost

each and every project

was a unique one that

stands out in its own way.

We did have our share of

ups and downs, successes

and failures, but that’s

what makes the journey a

memorable one, and our

moment of pride did come

to us, when for the first

time we gave back to our

parent club and aided

them in their projects, thus

giving our club a stature of

independency and being

an added support to our

parent club.

I must mention the

wonderful team that I had,

who made this year

enjoyable, successful and

a very very memorable!

Here’s to a smashing team

who truly made this year,

well, SMASHING!!!!!

-- Chatur Pishay

President (2014-15)

Rotaract Club of

Bangalore Indiranagar

AN OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR

To give you a quick overview, the journey of our club this year

has been as follows:

Installation of the team on the 14th of July

Community Service --

The Microproject

This consisted of 13 projects, 1 done every month as indicated

below:

i. The Mandela Week: 15 Rotaractors of our club participated and

completed 12 tasks in 7 days.

ii. Desire Soceity: 9 Rotaractors (and a dog) spent the day with

children affected with HIV and gave provisions.

iii. Diwali at Jnana Mandir: 16 Rotaractors celebrated Diwali with

40 children and distributed sweets and savouries at this

orphanage.

iv. Defeat Dengue Drive: 9 members donated platelets along with

their friends, totaling to 30 people donating their platelets.

v. Srinidhi Charitable Trust: A joint project with RC-Peenya,

where we gave provisions and 11 Rotaractors spent the day with

the children

vi. Christmas Clothes Distribution Drive: 21 Rotaractors collected

26 boxes with more than 1000 clothes and distributed it in 4

slums and a school. Project took place over the entire month of

December.

vii. Marathon by Rotaract Symbiosis: 2 Rotaractors participated

from our club and our club made a donation of Rs. 5000 to Bosco

Foundation through this.

viii. Anantha Sishu Seva Ashram: 8 Rotaractors spent time with 70

children for 2 simultaneous weekends and our club provided

lunch at cost of Rs. 5000 on both days.

ix. The Kidwai Project: 14 Rotaractors participated in this project

where our club celebrated the birthdays of children born in March

in the institute, and organised for a Magic Show and Clown Show

put up for free by Magic Society, and gave fruits and gifts to the

children at a cost of Rs. 10,000.

x. Painting Competition at Need Base India: 70 children of the

organisation participated in this competition organised by our club

9 Rotaractors from our club participated in this project where our

club also gave lunch for the children, totally costing 11,000.

xi. Donation at Need Base India: Our club donated an amount of

Rs. 6000 to this organisation which has been used to pay the

fees of an underprivileged student in M.S. Ramaiah Polytechnic.

xii. Donation of School Uniforms at BKAS High School: Our club

provided an amount of Rs. 30,000 for 100 uniforms for

underprivileged children of the school. 4 members attended the

school opening day function.

xiii. Little Sisters of the Poor: A donation of Rs. 9000 was made by

our club towards this organisation. 3 members visited and spent

time with the elders.

Education of Children at Sumanahalli:

A continual project of our club from 5 years, we gave 18,000 for

the education of 3 boys at St. Joseph School Sumanahalli. In

addition, we gave an amount of Rs. 12,000 for shoes for 40

children at the school.

Pulse Polio Awareness Drive:

Our biggest community service project for the year, it featured

Dhol Players and Puppet Shows been put up in and around

Indiranagar to create Polio Awareness. Project handled by 2

Rotaractors and attended by 21, the cost was Rs. 81,000 and

impacted almost 2Lakh lives. Our parent club achieved 100%

immunization in 2 areas and 99% in another thanks to the drive,

and it was also covered by various Newspapers in town with

mentions of our club.

National & International Service:

Aid to Kashmir Flood Relief: Our club gave an amount of Rs.

10,000 through Goonj towards the victims of the Kashmir Floods

in September, 2014.

Aid to Nepal: Our club gave an amount of Rs. 35,000 routed via

our Parent Rotary towards aid for the victims of the series of

earthquakes that occurred in Nepal in March, 2015.

Fostering of Elephants at David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust: Our

club is currently fostering 2 elephants at this trust in Kenya, at a

cost of 100 Dollars. We hope to be fostering a third elephant too

in the coming year at this organisation.

Vocational Service:

Night for a Cause

i. Marketing: Our members reached out through Radio, which

was sponsored by 94.3 - Radio One FM, through paper write

ups, hoardings to market the event.

ii. Sales: Our members visited various clubs in Bangalore to sell

tickets. A total of around 350 tickets were sold and several

donations also were received, bring a total turnover of Rs. 6

Lakhs and a profit of Rs. 4.5 lakhs through this event.

iii. Accounts: Our members completely handled the accounts and

declared the figures of the event within 2 days after the event.

iv. PR: Our members reached to masses not just personally, but

via Newspaper and Radio too.

v. Event Management: Our members completely organised the

event, right from the theatre group and band for the

performances to the venue, promotions, MC’ing and

management of the entire event.

Club Service:

Dinner attended by 25 members after the Installation at

Frazer Town Eat Street.

Independence Day Celebration with our Parent Club. 12

members attended the same.

Independence day ride to Kodaikanal by 5 Rotaractors.

Youth Generation Month at Rotary House of Service: An

average of 15 members attended the meetings and our members

organised for all speakers at the Youth Generation Month,

Night For a Cause: 25 members of the club attended the same,

which was our main fundraising event for the year that garnered

a turnover of Rs. 6 lakhs and a profit of almost 4 Lakhs.

Fashion Show: A joint fellowship with our parent club. 3 of our

members choreographed the fashion show sequences for both,

our club and parent club which featured 4 rounds of ramp

walking. 16 of our members participated in the ramp walk.

Visit to Lepakshi: 17 members took to the road and drove down

to Lepakshi and visited the temples and places around, spending

an entire day in the temple town.

Christmas Party: 12 members of our club attended the

Christmas party organised by our parent Rotary.

Vintage Car Show: 6 members assembled for the vintage car

show at Bangalore Club and had lunch there too.

Rotacamp: 1 member from our club attended the same.

Annual Rotaract Conference: 10 of our members attended the

conference – Samyog, where our club were platinum sponsors,

and made a purchase of Rs. 5000 worth articles from stall put up

by WARDS school.

Apart from the above, our members went for lunch/ dinners

after every community service project .

ROTARACT

INDIRANAGAR –

2014-15

DEFEAT DENGUE DRIVE!!!

With the number of people

being affected with Dengue

rising in Karnataka, our club

decided to try and help

support in defeating dengue.

We had a small “Defeat

Dengue Drive” which was

spread among members and

their friends. A total of 30

people donated platelets over

2 weekends in TTK

Bloodbank Jeevanbheema

Nagar and Mallya Hospital, 9

of which were our own

members.

Special thanks to President

Chatur and Chaitali’s friend

Rahul Parmar in helping the

club garner almost 15 people

to donate platelets.

AID TOWARDS KASHMIR FLOOD

RELIEF

In the wake of the floods that occurred in

Kashmir, our club donated an amount of

Rs. 10,000 to the J&K Relief fund through

Goonj.

SUPPORTING OUR PARENTS!

For the first time in the history of our club,

we gave an amount of Rs. 2 lakhs to our

parent club, Rotary Indiranagar for their

projects.

The amount given was used for Pulse Polio

(Rs. 80,000), 1 Heart Surgery through the

Needy heart foundation (Rs. 30,000), and

towards the E-learning School Module (Rs.

90,000), which are ongoing projects of our

Parent Rotary.

AT THE MARATHON!

2 members of our club, namely our

President, Chatur Pishay and Rtr. Renu

Prasad participated in a marathon

organised by Rotaract Club of Symbiosis

College.

Our club made a donation of Rs. 5000

towards the marathon, the proceeds of

which went to Bosco Foundation.

AT THE ROTARACT CONFERENCE -

SAMYOG

Our club was a Platinum Sponsor at

Samyog, the annual Rotaract Conference

and provided an amount of Rs. 6000

towards the district for the same.

Our club also made a purchase of gifts

worth Rs. 5000 at a stall in the conference,

the proceeds of which went to special

children of WARDS School in Jeevan

Bheema Nagar.

PAINTING COMPETITION AT

NEED BASE INDIA

Our Members had a

Painting Competition for

the Children of Need Base

India Hebbal, Bangalore.

The competition was held

among 70-75 fanatical

kids , of age 5yrs - 17yrs.

The "exertive rotaractors"

pushed the kids beyond

their threshold which

indeed became difficult to

judge as each painting

had its own depth and

meaning .

This was followed by gifts

, chocolates and

stationary distribution to

all the participants

(moment of ecstacy for the

kids).

The club also donated

₹4000/- for

lunch, ₹6000 towards

books and uniforms of

the kids ,which in total

sum upto ₹17000 as

the total project cost

including other

expenses of the project.

By the end , we all had

immortal memories of

the day with the

photographs that we

took with the young

ones .

"WE SAW THEM

SMILE" that

substantiates our

objective of conducting

the project.

God bless them all :)

Ronak Dhagra

Member.

AID TOWARDS THE NEPAL

EARTHQUAKE RELIEF

With our neighbouring country – Nepal,

being severely hit with a series of

Earthquakes, our club decided to show its

support towards the victims.

Our club and its members donated an

amount of Rs. 35,000 towards the relief

of the victims of the earthquake.

We pray for the well being of the citizens of

Nepal.

DONATION OF SCHOOL

UNIFORMS

The last of our community service projects for the year, under the guidance of Ann Kavita Pishay, our club provided an amount of Rs. 30,000 in the month of January, for getting school uniforms for 100 children in B.K. Samaj High School in Ulsoor, a school for children from unaided back grounds.

The school conducted a wonderful opening day program and also launched a new kind of uniform for the children which was distributed by our members.

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AT

SUMMANAHALLI

As a part of our continual project, which

our club has been doing from the last 5

years, we gave an amount of Rs. 18,000 for

the education of 3 boys in St. Joseph

School, Sumanahalli.

In addition to this, our club gave an

additional amount of Rs. 12,000 on request

from the school towards school shoes for 40

children at the school.

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR

In support of senior citizens, our club made

a donation of Rs. 9000 to Little Sisters of

the Poor, an NGO that looks after Senior

Citizens in need of Support.

DRR’S OFFICIAL VISIT

Our DRR’s Official Visit has been

scheduled for the 7th of June, 2015.

Rotaract Club of Bangalore, Indiranagar 2014-15