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NEWSLETTER OF
VOLUME 23 | ISSUE 10
www.rcpmt.org APR. 2021
RI PRESIDENT : Rtn. Holger Knaack DG 3170 : Rtn. Dr. Sangram Patil PRISIDENT : Rtn. Yatin Parekh
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
RTN. YATIN PAREKH 2020-21
The GREATEST Wealth is HEALTH Let Rotary Grow…. Rotary International President- elect Rtn. Holger Knaack is encouraging Rotarians to seize the many opportunities. Rotary offers to enrich their lives and the communities they serve with presidential theme, ```Rotary Opens Opportunities```
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We begin this year by observing world polio day. We participated with enthusiasm in POLIO NID and helped in administering the two life- saving polio drops to children below five years. Rotary isn't just a club for people to join, but rather “an invitation to endless opportunities.” Our club improves the lives of our members and the lives of others though our service projects. All our service projects, big or small, create avenues and opportunities for people who need our help. Our Club has grown in a sustainable and organic way with induction of new member Rtn Vasant Agshikar and many other new members are envisaged to follow. As we welcome our new members, we encourage their new perspective and experiences that will create a constant change renewal of ideas and energy. During the last 23 years since the existence of our Club, we are bounded by strong ethics, our passion for service above self, and our unique approach to problem-solving. One of our greatest strengths is how we reach across our communities and across national, ethnic, religious and political divides to unite people of all backgrounds and help others. This year besides our regular service projects we shall also concentrate on sports events, fellowships, family get together as these events which will endeavour to be another opportunity to grow stronger, more adaptable and aligned to our core values.
R.I. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
RTN. KNAACK HOLGER 2020-21 Take Action to Support India: An appeal from RI President and TRF Chair We hoped that 2021 would bring us relief from the virus sweeping through the world. Unfortunately, the horrifying second wave in India and the worsening situation in Brazil leaves us disconsolate. There is not a region which remains unscathed. The development and distribution of vaccines brought hope, promise and a vision of a return to normalcy in some parts of the world. Unfortunately, much of the world is lagging far behind, aggravated by the recent outbreaks that are helping to drive daily infections worldwide to their highest levels yet. With new cases topping 400,000 a day, a critical oxygen shortage, lack of hospital beds, and a mounting death toll, the situation in India shows no sign of waning, and help is urgently needed. Likewise, Brazil and numerous other countries are facing some of the same issues and there is great need for support. We are calling on District Governors to provide assistance by sending supplies and equipment, such as oxygen concentrators and ventilators and anything else they require. We encourage you to work with clubs in your district and coordinate with Rotary clubs in the country in need to facilitate an in-kind donation of supplies, and coordinate shipping-either through a private company or paying to have supplies shipped yourself. You can also establish a joint effort by partnering with other clubs, districts, or local organizations. Districts, clubs and members have already leapt into action by providing critical supplies and services, and thinking outside of the box to assist India, as well as Brazil. Examples include: ŸRotary District 6400 and the Rotary Club of Essex are
partnering with Rotary India's COVID Task Force to coordinate donations that will go toward supplying oxygen concentrators. ŸRotary District 6900 is partnering with other organizations, including UPS, to ship medical equipment such as ventilators, anesthesia machines, oxygen and respiratory supplies to India. ŸThe Rotary Club of Madras donated two 8-foot refrigerated trucks able to transport 2 million doses of vaccine, and Rotary Clubs in Kerala State have reported nearly 51,000 free vaccinations through Rotary Centers and camps over the last three weeks. ŸRotarians in the United States are procuring and sending equipment to India. A club in Rockford, Illinois coordinated with a private aerospace company to send equipment via jet. ŸA Rotary Youth Exchange alumni association has initiated a crowdfunding campaign to procure 50 oxygen concentrators. ŸIn Brazil, Rotary members are looking into ways to improve the vaccine cold chain to better distribute COVID-19 vaccines, and help is needed to support the funding of refrigeration equipment. As Rotarians, we have come together in the name of service to support communities in inspiring ways throughout the COVID19 pandemic. We are asking you to dig deeper and help India and other countries in need to find the light at the end of the tunnel and overcome the current wave of infections. Thank you, Holger Knaack, Rotary International President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran, TRF Trustee Chair Source: Rotary International
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SECRETARY’S REPORT
RTN. RAJIV SHIRODKAR 2020-21 MEETINGS 40th Weekly meeting, Club Assembly on Tuesday, 6th April 2021, President Rtn.Yatin Parekh gave a brief update of the events and weekly meetings held in the month of March. He also shared the decisions taken at BOD meeting held on 26th March and informed members about the events planned for the month of April.
Due to the steep rise of Covid-19 cases in the State, the meetings of the Club scheduled for 13.04.2021, 20.04.2021 and 27.04.2021 were cancelled
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EVENTS Distribution of Covid Immunity Kit to Rikshaw Operators On 22 April, 2021, President Rtn. Yatin Parekh distributed Immunity Kits and Sanitizers to Panaji Rickshaw operators
SECRETARY’S REPORT Handing over essentials to Covid Care Centre at Shyama Prassad Mukherjee Hall On 25th April 2021,President Rtn Yatin Parekh along with Rtn. Siddha Sarsessai and Rtn. Sanjiv Desai handed over the toiletries required by Sandeep Warlikar, officer in charge of the Covid Care Center at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Hall. Thanks to Rtn Ashok Menon and Rtn Rajesh Salgaocar for donating the same.
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ARTICLE
MY LIFES JOURNEY THROUGH BOOKS
Lying on my grandmother's lap, listening to tales of Ramayana and Mahabharata is the time my love of stories, fact or fiction, coursed through my veins The moment I could read, I would snatch whatever reading material i could find around my house and try and read the wobbly, upside down script. Our house was always full of books as my parents were ardent readers naturally the gene jumped into my two siblings and i Oh! how we would fight for the books! As we were not much apart in ago
depth of Mrityun jaya or the within your soul, make you ponder, controversies in different novels muse, write and dream and ofcourse Anyway, let me not keep you from make uou want to write a book too telling you how I read books. In school, i hid them in my textbooks while the teacher was teaching, then came the break and off i would rush to the library to catch a favourite novel At home too, it was books through and through Though eating and play time was a must, not that I didn't enjoy that too Books opened a whole wide world for me. A world of fact, fiction tales and troupes I had actually started making up stories to tell my stories. You know that's how books affect you
Here I must tell you something I still regret having studied in an english medium and that too in Bombay Scottish, I looked down my nose at my mother's marathi novels of Kadambaris. Little did know, the You mean no harm but they go deep APR 2021 | PG 6 NEWSLETTER OF
-Ann Swati Shirodkar
CHEF'S RECIPE
-by Ann Smita Shirsat
BEBINCA Ingredients:) Ÿ Maida – 200gm. Ÿ Egg yolks – 12 Ÿ Sugar – 500 gm Ÿ Nutmeg powder – 1 nutmeg Ÿ Coconut milk ( thick– 750 ml and thin - 500 ml) Ÿ Amul butter – 100gm Ÿ Caramelised sugar – 3 tbsps sugar n 3 tbsps water Procedure Ÿ Extract coconut milk. (Thick coconut milk – 750 mi. and thin coconut milk 500 ml. ). Ÿ Whisk the egg yolks and keep aside . Ÿ Sieve the maida and keep aside. Ÿ In a vessel mix maida and the thin coconut milk. Pass it through a sieve
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for no lumps. In other vessel mix the thick coconut milk and egg yolks . Add both mixture together and then add nutmeg powder to it. Now divide the mixture into two. In one half, add the prepared caramel and mix well. It will get brown colour. Pass this mixture through a sieve. Now we will have two coloured mixture cream and brown. Apply butter on the base of the baking dish. Now add a laddle full of brown mix. Grill this layer for 10 mins. or until small golden spots appears on the top. Remove the dish out from the oven and add a laddle full of cream mixture. Grill this layer for 10 mins. Until small golden spots appear on the top. Repeat this procedure till your finish both the mixtures. Apply butter on every layers before you add the next layer. See that every layer is of equal. Your top and bottom layer should always be brown colour.
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100 PERCENTERS
CLUB DIARY Yatin Parekh Rajiv Shirodkar Manoj Caculo Sunil Mone Madhav Nevrekar Dr. Vinaykumar Pai Raikar Bhupesh Shah Milind Shankwalkar Gaurish Shirodkar
30-April Rtn. Gauresh & Shruti Nayak
Club Information:
Four Way Test
Rotary Club of Panaji Mid-Town Club No: 51217 R.I District: 3170 Founded on: 14-04-1998 Chartered on: 20-05-1998 Charter presented on: 02-08-1998 Meets every Tuesday Time: 19.00 hrs Venue: Clube Tennis De Gasper Dias
Of the things we think, say or do • Is it the truth? • Is it fair to all concerned? • Will it build Goodwill and better Friendship? • Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
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EDITOR’S MESSAGE
RTN. SANDEEP NADKARNI 2020-21 Friends,
Health is a relationship between you & your body
The month of April was really a nightmare especially after the second week. The second wave of Covid-19 with its variants hit the state and there was a disarray in the State and its occupants. The cases went on rising and deaths also were on a unprecedented high. Rotary in this hour showed its true colours by helping in a lot many ways, by supplying kits, oxygen concentrators or supplying food for the family of those affected or to the front line warriors. In this hour of need, we should do our best to help our fellow citizens and those affected including their families and also maintain the protocol like wearing masks, keeping social distancing, etc. Let us all hope and pray to almighty to give direction, resolve, health and compassion for all those endeavouring to fight this pandemic to move towards the silver lining of the dark clouds that have assembled in the Country in general and State in particular “ A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one positive action right now. Go ahead and go for it. Stay safe. ”
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Theme for April
Maternal and Health
Issued in public interest by Rotary club of Panaji Mid-town