Purpose – To provide heart surgeries for little children from poor income families. Thousands of children in India are born with a whole in the heart and unless this anomaly is addressed through surgery the child cannot live beyond a few years. Surgery however can ensure a healthy and long life to the child. Each such surgery would normally cost $ 3000 to 3500 where as Income of the family is just $ 50 to 70. After a great effort RCC Mahanagar has been able to bring down the cost to $ 1111 or Rs 50,000. So far the club has done more than 80 surgeries from its own resources / donation but the need is very huge.
Project’s International Partners—- Gold Coast Lake Success of USA, Club No 70135, District 7250
- Rotary International
Matching Grant Amount received Rs 14,49,980.
Purpose –To cure the victims of blindness. Eastern India amounts for about 2 million victims of blindness out of which 1.7 millions are avoidable and can be cured by surgery.
Project’s International Partners –- RC Reigate of UK, Club No 20187, District 1250
- RI District Reigate, District 1250
- Rotary International
Work done so far – about 1250 IOL surgeries done.
Purpose –To train teachers in the CLE method of teaching. These teachers in turn would teach English or other Language using this method.
Project’s International Partners –- Rotary Club of Taiwan
- Rotary International
Work done so far –The Project has taken place within the city of Calcutta and some of the neighbouring rural areas. The Club has Organised Training Camps twice for training teachers. Rtn. Shiv Kumar Singh of Rotary Club of Damoli, Nepal, has trained the teachers.