President Blog
Dear Sports City Rotarian family ,
Law of Synchronicity: which means that certain events are connected through
meaning rather than casualty , reflecting a deeper order in the universe.
Meaning , how events are interconnected in ways that transcend the traditional cause and effect relationships.
Being a contributing Ann. In 1996 & First Lady of the club from 2006-2008, I got a chance to look into all the nitty grittiest of functioning of a Rotary Club.
Since then on I have been able to help every president – be it preparing a DG report / often organizing dinners for the BOD to help the president have better team work, hosting Pot Luck Dinner for the ANNETTS Getting married and many more….This helped me , equipped me & prepared me to understand the pulse of Rotary Sports City.
And that guided me to think in my mind “How this family should be – Idealized, Looked up to, Stand out away from the rest of the Rotary world.”
And let me keep everyone here, be made clearly aware of “IT IS NOT GOING TO BE AN EASY / BUSY ONE MAN SHOW” Instead it will be “ SUBKA SAATH , SUBKA VISHWAS, SUBKA VIKAS” So this begins with me.
THE ILLITEREATE OF THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE THOES WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE BUT THOES WHO CANNOT LEARN, UNLEARN & RELEARN….
So with a positive mental readiness to do this, I am here to relearn. What are my goals I would like the members to work / help me with?
Community Service: looked after by PP. Brij Sethi.
Our DG for 24-25 Sheetal Shah has allotted 11 Thrust areas covering all 7 avenues of Rotary International . as informed before at the Planning assembly we , RCPSC has already been working on 80% of those areas on our own before they became the District Thrust areas. Other than those we have many projects planned like
- Cervical Cancer Vaccination for approximately 500 adolescent girls Which includes girls with special needs from Balkalyan
- Gyneac health checkup like Mammography & Bone Density test for 450 women employees of PMPML.
- Establishment of Vocational Training Center at Gram Prabodhini School at Village Salumbre for students passed out from HSC boards.
- Building primary health center at village Dhamane in order to make it a Happy Village.
- In Vocational services , we have planned a visit to Poona Serum Institute
- In CSR support we aim for 500 cateract corrective surgeries, Free pediatric Squint Corrective for better future of School children. Eye checkup camps at schools with Free spectacle distribution with the help of Ratnanidhi trust from Mumbai and also Pediatric health checkup camp at Gurukulam. Dr. Rajesh and Dr. Madhav will be playing major rolls here.
These and Many more such projects will be supported by CSR Funding Majorly, which is being looked after by our CSR Director Jane Basu. With our current year’s performance by meeting all the legal compliances for the existing CSR partners and also Meeting all the due diligence criteria from the Indian Charity Commissionerate , we are confident of reaching higher. We will be putting in our best efforts to make sure of the consistant Support of the existing CSR Partners with demonstration of high performance.
Our Club is well known for very popular Annual event of Rotary Dandiya Evening which has helped us raise funds to support the various service projects. Our aim will be to explore other ways of Sustainable revenue generating sources to be initiated by our fund raising chairman Suresh Beri.
Our club is known for under taking high no. of Global Grants for which, contributions to Annual Programme Funds is very important to earn good District Designated Funds. We plan to apply for a global grant this year for 25 Congenital Pediatric Heart Surgeries- and explore ways to add more to that no.
PP Jayashree Halbe has worked out very smooth& subtle plan to make RCPSC a 100% contributing club and then aims to convert the status to 100%PHF Club. We are not too far from that let me tell you. She is already on the job and has received strong commitments. I am sure many more will step up & add to the kitty.
Membership: Being looked after by Biren Dharamsi We need hands to carry out good projects for such a cause. Hence we are looking for good Quality members and we are not going for high quantity of nos. What we seek is a contributing member and not a beneficiary – needless to say one who becomes a Rotarian Is always a Beneficiary.
To keep the existing members happy , involved & Interested in club activities , we have a very able & enthusiastic team lead by Rtn. Shikha .They have planned interesting speakers , variety of cultural events , day time outings , Overnight Picnic, visits to interesting places and not to be missed POT LUCK DINNER.
For all the Rotary projects & activities we need to get new generation of Rotarians ready in the form of Rotaractors . We have 2 Rotaract Clubs Rotaract Club at D.Y.Patil Business school & Rotarct Club at Mitcon Institute. Blood Donation, Tree Plantation, Rotaract vs Rotary Sports Day … events like will be keeping Rotaract clubs connected to RCPSC by Rtn. Moiz Bohri.
The new generation of Interact club is being proposed to be initiated at Loyola High School & will be looked after by Shikha & Jaya. All these Good efforts need to be communicated well to the rest of the world.
We are stepping into the current new era of Reels / Podcasts / Youtube videos which our Information Technology and Public Image Team lead by Neeraj & Vinod Will be working on. Neeraj with his usual prompt & timely actions will be keeping the RI as well as District website updated with project reports in a desired formats.
Extensively travelled Rtn. Amita Kotbagi will look after International services will be guiding the members on how to be active on Rotary International platform with different avenues like Friendship exchange, Rotary International fellowship programmes , and many more.
To make sure Big dreamers like all of us remain within the limits of budgeted allowances, Rtn Sushrut will be holding the financial leach tight.
How do We Plan to achieve all this? My Appeal to all of you is to “ THINK BIG “
Let’s think ourselves as people from different cultural backgrounds, high educational and occupational qualifications with strong ethical standards who have come together voluntarily to be a big joint family .Lets not expect others to be like ourselves, think and act like you would want them to be.
As I have already said at the Planning assembly “I want to Enjoy my Presidential year and I want to try my level best that the whole RCPSC family enjoys with me.
Hence my appeal to all of you will be :-
1) Think to yourself “What has been my Rotary Moment?” When is it that I gave my services at Rotary?
2) I appeal to each Rtn/ Ann to step forward & offer your help, services in any form that you are comfortable with & check the satisfaction that you will get at the end of it.
3) Each One Reach One- Try & Identify one new member per family. Enjoy the Rotary year so much by being active that your friends & relatives should feel the need to join Rotary with you.
4) Last but most imp.a msg for you from everyone’s favorite actor Nana Patekar – We all OWE it to the society. Our hands are going to be empty while saying GoodBye to this world. Let’s make Best Use of these two hands God has given us… Let’s Give…
Thank You all and look forward to strong support for the year.
Rtn. Sadhana Nitin Joshi
