Mulund Rotaractors help young and old V Muthukumaran
RAC Mumbai Mulund South secretary Mansha Dedhia (right, back row) and Rotaractors with elderly women at an old age home during Diwali.
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clutch of diverse projects and programmes enables the Rotaractors of RAC Mumbai Mulund South, RID 3141, to reach out to less privileged children and families, thus earning goodwill among the communities. “We have 100 members including lawyers, bankers, financial analysts, entrepreneurs, students and businessmen, who contribute generously for our projects,” says Mansha Dedhia, club secretary. The community-based club was revived 17 years ago, “after we got it re-chartered on November 25, 2005 as it remained inactive for long years before that. Now, we are 28 ROTARACT NEWS JANUARY 2023
into full steam with community projects,” says Archie Chhadwa, club president. Project Period Pride creates awareness on menstrual hygiene among rural women and less privileged girls through interactive sessions. “So far, we have done a campaign in which 30 girls from an NGO took part and over 65 sanitary pads were distributed in that event. We have distributed over 300 hygiene pads to rural women at a village in Badlapur,” she says. Under Project Aarogyam, a RID 3141 initiative, over 200 students of Navbharat Nutan Vidyalaya, Mulund, were diagnosed for general illnesses, dental woes and had their ‘basic physiotherapy evaluation’.
It was a satisfying moment for a team of 10 Rotaractors who visited an old age home to spend Diwali with 25 elderly inmates under Project 2nd Innings. “We distributed sweets, delicious items like farsaan; and diyas to celebrate the festival,” says Archie. They also had fun games and interacted with the elderly people. In a unique donation drive, the Rotaractors collected worn-out shoes and slippers and got them recycled and refurbished. “We donated over 650 pairs of footwear after they were mended under project The Sole Purpose,” she says. Similarly, they collected over 500kg of e-waste, old furniture, books and other discards, all of which were upcycled
