Vol. 11 May 2016
GML - RID 3131
ि य िम ानो, ं आप या रोटरी वषातील शवेटचे दोन मिहने उरलेले आहते. मला खा ी आह,े क या दोन मिह यातं आपण सवजण आप या िनयोिजत ल या या जवळपास पोहोच याचा आटोकाट य न करणार आहोत. RI President K R Ravindran
७० पे ा जा त ल जनी R.I. Presidential Citation िमळिव याब ल खरे च सवाचे कौतक ु आह.े अ यतं वेग या प तीने Online Citation हा पिहलाच अनभव ु असनू सवच ल जनी यात शसनीय यश िमळिवले आह.े ं या मिह यातील DLTS-16 हा काय मही आप या Leadership Team या पािठं यामळे ु यश वी झाला आह.े
District Governor Subodh Joshi
गे या दहा मिह यातील ं सव लब या कामकाजाब ल आता याना ं पाठीवर शाबासक ावयाची वेळ आली आह.े िद. २६ जनू रोजी होणा या Awards Night म ये आपण सवाचचे कौतक ु करणार आहोत. या वेळी R.I. माणचे आपण District Awards क रताही काही Criteria आखलेले आहते, व हे सवच आपण District website या मा यमातनू Online करणार आहोत. या वेळी STAR CLUB FAMILY या अतगत ं 3 Star, 4 Star, 5 Star अशी िवशषे नामाकने ं दणेार आहोत.अ पैलू ल जना यापैं क कोणते तरी नामाकन ं / पा रतोिषक िमळणे श य होईल, असे Eligibility criteria बनिव यात आलेले आहते. सबोध ु जोशी
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Editorial ि य रोटे रय स, आप या िडि
टमधील िविवध लब काही दय पश ोजे टस ् करीत आहते. यातं ामु याने दु काळ त भागामं ये तलाव खणण,े न ामधील गाळ काढणे असे जलसधारणाच े उप म करीत आहते. याचबरोबर गरासाठी ु ं चाराछाव याचीदख ं े ील यव था काही लब ं ं करीत आहते. यां या या अ यतं उपयु अशा उप माच ु करावे तेवढे थोडेच! प रि थती िजतक ितकल ू िततक अिधक ेरणा ं े कौतक आप या सद याना ं िमळते, हे यां या उप मावं न िदसते. या अकात ु रौ य व कां य अशा पदकानी ं याचा ं ं पान तीनवर उ कृ काय क न ेिसडेि शयल सायटेशन िमळिवणा या लबची नावे िदसतील. या वष सवण, गौरव के ला आह.े अशा गौरवािकत लब या सव अ य ाबरोबर सव सद याचद े ील मनःपवक ू अिभनदन! ं ं ं ेख ं आता वष सपत ु ं या आधारे पढील ु वष या उप माच ं येत अस याने सग या लबम ये बदलाचे वारे वाह लागले आहते. या वष या उप मातील ं अनभवा ं े िनयोजन चालू आह.े पराग कणक े र सपादक ं 9422094325 dgoffice3131@gmail.com
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COUNCIL GRANTS CLUBS GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN MEETING, MEMBERSHIP
Council member Dominque Dubois holds up a green card to indicate support of a mo on while Sandeep Nurang ponders his response during the 2016 Council on Legisla on. The 2016 Council on Legisla on may well be remembered as one of the most progressive in Rotary history. Not only did this Council grant clubs more freedom in determining their mee ng schedule and membership, it also approved an increase in per capita dues of $4 a year for three years. The increase will be used to enhance Rotary's website, improve online tools, and add programs and services to help clubs increase membership. The Council is an essen al element of Rotary's governance. Every three years, members from around the world gather in Chicago to consider proposed changes to the policies that govern the organiza on and its member clubs. Measures that are adopted take effect 1 July. The tone for this year was set early, when the RI Board put forth two proposals that increase flexibility. The first measure allows clubs to decide to vary their mee ng mes, whether to meet online or in person, and when to cancel a mee ng, as long as they meet at least twice a month. The second allows clubs flexibility in choosing their membership rules and requirements. Both passed. Representa ves also approved removing six membership criteria from the RI Cons tu on and replacing them with a simple requirement that a member be a person of good character who has a good reputa on in their business or community and is willing to serve the community. The $4 per year dues increase was based on a five-year financial forecast that predicted that if Rotary didn't either raise dues or make dras c cuts, its reserves would dip below mandated levels by 2020. The yearly per capita dues that clubs pay to RI will be $60 in 2017-18, $64 in 2018-19, and $68 in 2019-20. The next council will establish the rate a er that. “We are at a moment in me when we must think beyond the status quo,” said RI Vice President Greg E. Podd. “We must think about our future.” Podd said the dues increase will allow RI to improve My Rotary, develop resources so clubs can offer a be er membership experience, simplify club and district repor ng, improve website access for Rotaractors, and update systems to keep Rotary in compliance with changing global regula ons. Also because of this Council's decisions: A Council on Resolu ons will meet annually online to consider resolu ons — recommenda ons to the RI Board. Council members will be selected for three-year terms. They'll par cipate in the Council on Resolu ons for three years and the Council on Legisla on in their final year only. The Council on Resolu ons will free the Council on Legisla on to concentrate on enactments — changes to Rotary's governing documents. Proponents predict that the Council on Legisla on can then be shortened by a day, saving $300,000. Rotaractors will be allowed to become members of Rotary clubs while they are s ll in Rotaract. Proponents argued that too few Rotaractors (around 5 percent) join Rotary. Some mes it's because they don't want to leave their Rotaract clubs before they have to, upon reaching age 30. It's hoped that giving them more op ons will boost the numbers of qualified young leaders in Rotary. The dis nc on between e-clubs and tradi onal clubs will be eliminated. The Council recognized that clubs have been mee ng in a number of ways, and given this flexibility, the dis nc on was no longer meaningful. Clubs that have “e-club” in their names can keep it, however. The reference to admission fees will be removed from the bylaws. Proponents argued that the men on of admission fees does not advance a modern image of Rotary. A standing commi ee on membership was established, in recogni on that membership is a top priority of the organiza on, and polio eradica on was also reaffirmed to be a goal of the highest order.
By Arnold Grahl Rotary News
A WAVE OF COMPASSION Kers n Jeska-Thorwart (le ) talks with a nurse at the Mahamodara Teaching Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka.
What Kers n Jeska-Thorwart remembers is the silence. No birds chirping, no dogs barking, no car engines revving. Nothing. “I've never heard such a silence before, and never since,” she says. “I knew something must have happened.” It was 9:35 the morning a er Christmas 2004, and in Sri Lanka, it was a Poya Day, a Buddhist public holiday held every full moon. JeskaThorwart, a lawyer from Germany, was on vaca on in Hikkaduwa, on the island's southwestern coast. Any other morning of her holiday she and her husband would have been on the beach, but today they stayed back at their vaca on home, up a small hill about a half-mile from the water's edge, to clean and prepare for guests. A er a few minutes, sound returned, as though it had been switched on. Now she heard people running, crying. She went down the main road to see what had happened. She saw people in swimming suits, shoeless, covered in blood. They told her there was a big wave. The tsunami, as she later learned, was caused when an earthquake with the es mated force of 23,000 atomic bombs ra led the floor of the Indian Ocean. The seabed rose 10 feet, displacing 7 cubic miles of water. A wall of water, in some places up to 100 feet high, slammed into countries throughout Southeast Asia and as far away as Africa. All told, more than 230,000 people died in 14 countries, and 1.7 million were le homeless. More than half of the dead were in Indonesia, followed by Sri Lanka, where 35,000 people were killed. Sri Lanka was hit by several waves that day. They knocked out cellphone service, land lines, electricity, television, radio. Jeska-Thorwart, then governor of District 1950 (Germany), opened up the house as a makeshi first aid clinic. Four days later, when the situa on had stabilized, she and her husband, the late Carl-O o Thorwart – himself a member of the Rotary Club of Nürnberg-Sigena – together with some Sri Lankan friends, drove down the coast looking for clues to the extent of the damage. “We had no informa on about what had happened,” she says. “Was it only Hikkaduwa that was hit, or other towns too?” The first city they came to was Galle, about 12 miles south. Conquered by the Portuguese in the 16th century and for fied by the Dutch in the 17th, the city had long served as the main port between Europe and the East. The tsunami killed 4,000 people in the city and damaged 12,000 houses. “Every minute that went by,” Jeska-Thorwart says of her Sri Lankan companions, “they were more and more silent. They were completely shocked. They realized their country was destroyed.” On the edge of the city, directly across the road from the beach, the group arrived at a hospital. It was Mahamodara Teaching Hospital, the primary maternity hospital in the province of 2.5 million people. “It was totally empty,” Jeska-Thorwart recalls. One of the women in the car had delivered four children there, and when she saw the devasta on, she cried out: “Where are the babies?” When the first wave of the tsunami slammed into the hospital, deliveries had been underway. Although the 10-foot wall around the hospital could not stop the wave, it buffered its force, so the water was only 4 feet high by the me it reached the prenatal ward that faced the sea. The power failed, the backup generator failed, the water supply and sewer systems failed. Pa ents' ma resses were soaked with foul-smelling water. The 349 pa ents were evacuated, first to a nearby temple, then to the Karapi ya Teaching Hospital, a couple of miles inland. By the me the subsequent waves hit Mahamodara, no pa ents or staff remained on site. One baby had died. Upon learning that the pa ents and staff had been moved, Jeska-Thorwart and her companions went to check on them. Only the most urgent cases had been transferred – others were sent home – and the maternity hospital had been squeezed into 70 beds in the male
neurology wing and por ons of two other wards at Karapi ya. Jeska-Thorwart saw pregnant women si ng outside in the rain. They lay in beds to deliver and moved to the floor to recover. There were not enough toilets; there was nowhere to eat or drink. “It was a horrible situa on,” she says. She asked to speak to a doctor. Her first words to him were: “Don't worry. We will help you.” “Excuse me, may I know your name?” asked Malik Goonewardene, the head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Ruhuna in Galle and a consultant at Mahamodara Teaching Hospital. He eyed Jeska-Thorwart, who was dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, like a tourist. “I'm from Rotary. I want to help you.” Goonewardene invited her into a mee ng where the Mahamodara doctors were gathered. Jeska-Thorwart explained who she was and asked the doctors to compile a list of everything they needed. (She s ll has it.) A few days later, she drove to Colombo, which – because of its loca on on the island's western coast – had not been damaged as severely. She asked local Rotarians to email the list to her office in Germany. By the me she returned home on 6 January, her office was jammed with medical equipment, and by 10 January, German Rotarians had shipped the doctors 2 tons of supplies, including scalpels, drapes, arm slings, gloves, three ultrasound scanners, and 1,360 diapers. Less than a month later, they shipped another 7 tons. And that was only the beginning. A decade later, Mahamodara Teaching Hospital's only ward that has not been replaced or refurbished a er the tsunami stands empty. Inside, pieces of plaster are falling off the walls. A couple of old bed frames are stacked in a corner, and wires hang from the ceilings. The building dates to the 1800s, when the hospital was built to quaran ne South Indian immigrants arriving to work on Sri Lanka's planta ons and vaccinate them against smallpox. In contrast are the bright and airy new buildings designed by Lakshman Alwis, an architect and a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo. Inside one, lo ed ceilings with vents allow the tropical heat to rise, so the building stays comfortable without air condi oning. Large windows illuminate a room filled with beds where women rest, wai ng to deliver. Since pa ents come from all over the province, many arrive before their due date so they don't have to travel while in labor. The hospital serves the en re socioeconomic spectrum; the wife of its deputy director delivered her baby here. Within a few weeks of the tsunami, more than 6,000 German Rotarians had donated €1.3 million, and in 2008, The Rotary Founda on supported the project. Other partners included German-headquartered global corpora ons such as Siemens, Trumpf, and Ejot, as well as a founda on set up by former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had been vaca oning at a coastal resort southeast of Galle when the tsunami hit. In the past 11 years, this funding has helped renovate or build 10 departments and wards, and provided equipment worth more than €1 million. The Rotary Club of Colombo, which partnered with District 1950 on the Founda on grant, managed much of the construc on. Since work started, 160,000 babies have been born and more than 2.5 million women have received gynecological care. In 2014, a year the hospital saw more than 12,000 births, not one mother died – a sta s c many Western hospitals would covet. “That speaks volumes about what we have been able to achieve here,” says RI President K.R. Ravindran, a member of the Rotary Club of Colombo. “When this hospital got damaged and we had to evacuate, it was an absolute calamity. We didn't know what to do,” says Goonewardene. “Without our donors, including Rotary, who came to our aid from the start, I don't know how we would have managed.” The project has included many steps over the years: first, opera ng rooms and intensive care units for mothers and babies; then the prenatal wards; and, finally, training. Jeska-Thorwart, whom Rotary honored as a Global Woman of Ac on at the United Na ons in November, says they plan to celebrate the comple on of the project in January 2017. Since 2010, a team of doctors, midwives, and nurses has traveled once a year from Sri Lanka to Germany, and another from Germany to Sri Lanka, for training. At the biggest hospital in Nuremberg, where Jeska-Thorwart lives, only a couple of babies are born each day. In contrast, the Mahamodara Teaching Hospital delivers 70 babies daily. Because of the number of births in Sri Lanka, the German doctors get more experience in the neonatal intensive care unit dealing with birth complica ons. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan doctors get experience on state-of-the-art equipment in Germany. The neonatal intensive care unit, one of the few air-condi oned buildings at the hospital, is a world of beeps and scrubs and needles. A 19-day-old infant lies in an incubator, connected to a neonatal CPAP machine to support her breathing, donated by Rotary, which equipped the en re unit. The newborn, who arrived two months premature, was transferred here because the hospital has some of the most advanced equipment in the country. “When I started here, I was amazed,” says Selvi Rupasinghe, the chief neonatologist. “Rotary's contribu ons have made a tremendous change to neonatal care.” Outside the unit, a woman holds a sleepy toddler in her arms. The child's eyes are closed and her head droops as her mother, a dance teacher, smiles and hugs her daughter ght. The child, now 21 months old, was born premature, weighing only 2 pounds. She spent a month in the neonatal intensive care unit and today loves to dance, like many girls her age. “Without all of this equipment, she would not have been able to survive,” says Sumith Manathunga, the hospital's deputy director. English isn't the mother's first language, but she does know four words: “Thank you very much.” Our video crew visited the Mahamodara hospital. By Diana Schoberg The Rotarian
SERVICE PROJETS
Computer Dona on Beneficiaries : 350 President : Sadanand Nayak Descrip on : 2 computers were donated to a Z.P. school at Mohitewadi
Health Check-up Club – Pune Kalyninagar Beneficiaries : 110 President : Sejal Mehta Descrip on : Full Body Check-up was organized for Firemen and Fire Marshal.
Knee Brace Camp Club – Pune University Beneficiaries : 62 President : Deepa Gadgil Descrip on : We organised a Knee Brace Camp for the pa ents suffering from knee joint pains. 62 pa ents benefited from it.
Blood Check-up Club – Chinchwad Pune Beneficiaries : 200 President : Sanjeev Datye Descrip on : On the occasion of World Health Day on 7th April, this project was organised at Tonagaonkar Hospital at Akurdi. More than 200 pa ents were examined for Haemogram blood sugar, blood group and thyroid func on tests. Making of Paper Bags Club – Pune Baner Beneficiaries : 30 President : Unmesh Risbood Non-Rotary Partner : Ms. Vichare Descrip on : A detailed training of making paper bags was given to the Adivasi people.
Mammography Camp Club – Pimpri Town Beneficiaries : 40 Descrip on : a mammography camp at DY Pa l Hospital, Pimpri. 40 ladies were treated under this project
Dental Check-up Club – Magarpa a Elite Beneficiaries : 320 President : Vimala Su a Descrip on : Dental check-up for Magarpa a city security and house keeping staffs.
Blood Dona on Bags collected : 1250 President : Sadanand Nayak Descrip on : Blood dona on camp 1.4.16
Dona on of E-learning kit Club – Pimpri Town Beneficiaries : 300 Descrip on : Our club donated an e-learning kit at Walhekar wadi which includes a computer set and a projector.
Water Arrangement Beneficiaries : 275 Club : Pune Parva Descrip on : Water tank installa on and pipeline and wash basin in school
Dona on of Sound System Club – Kaharghar Midtown Beneficiaries : 36000 Descrip on : CIDCO has started a centre specially for Women training and guidance. The centre guides women on legal ma ers, health, personality development etc. We donated a sound system and chairs that were a necessity.
Blood Dona on Club – Poona Down Town Beneficiaries : 67 President : Supriya Banerjee Descrip on : A blood dona on camp was conducted at Ins tute of Biotechnology and Bio Informa cs, University of Pune on 21st April. Dr Bora of Ruby Hall Blood Bank along with his team of 9 technicians and nurses had made a very organised setup with six beds for the donors. The camp started at 9.00 AM. A total of 67 Units of blood was collected during the day ll 4 PM. The students had come to the camp in good numbers even though the temperature was very high and lot of departments had preparatory leave for the final exams. Rtn Rajesh Gupta, Rtn Pinky Mehmi, Rtn Shashank Jauhri, President Supriya Banerjee, Rtn Anil Latey and Ann Meena Latey were present at the camp. There was also a very dedicated team of volunteers from the Ins tute totalling 10 in number but with very high par cipa on from their friends also! Special thanks to Dr Ameeta Ravikumar for making all the arrangements at the department seminar room and for supervising it.
SERVICE PROJETS ... Eye Check-up Camp Club – Pune Ganeshkhind Beneficiaries : 200 President : Babanrao Bondre Description : On the occasion of Dr. Babashaeb Ambedkar Jayan an eye check-up camp was arranged at Dr Swa Pa l Clinic on Gokhale Nagar Road. About 200 pa ents were screened. The numbers were given. Spectacles & eye-drops were given free of cost. The inaugura on of the camp was done at the hands of the Deputy Mayor of Pune City Mukari Anna Alagude.
Donation of Computers President : Ranu Singhania Club : Nigdi, Pune Beneficiaries : 155 Description : 3 desktops donated to ZP school Kalus for their computer lab Beneficiaries : 252 Description : 3 desktops dona on to ZP school at Satarakavas . Beneficiaries : 202 Description : 3 desktops donated to Babasaheb Raut school Gotewadi.
Donation of E-learning kit Club – Chinchwad Pune Beneficiaries : 120 President : Sanjeev Datye Description : Our club donated an E-learning kit and Track-suits to 120 students at a ZP primary school in Ralegansiddhi in the presence of Padmabhushan Shri Anna Hajare. A demostra on of Elearning kit was shown to the students and the parents.
Beneficiaries : 218 Description : 4 desktops donated to ZP school Koye Beneficiaries : 104 Description : 4 desktops donated to ZP school Rakshe wadi. Beneficiaries : 103 Description : 3 desktops donated to ZP school Palet
Dental Check-up Club – Pune Horizon Beneficiaries : 85 President : Rajendra Harale Description : We did the dental check-up of 85 students of a madrasa at Mithanagar, Kondhwa, Pune. We did the dental checkup with the help of Rangoonwala Dental College, Pune Camp. Five doctors were present. We started the check-up at 10.0 am and finished the check up at 12.30 pm. We distributed biscuits to these children.
Water for wild animals Club - Bhigvan Beneficiaries : 400 President : Sanjay Chaudhary Description : Our club has created two water tanks in forest area where the wild animals were almost about to run away from Bhigwan forest, could get enough water for their survival. The water is a very vital thing for these animals and it will be provided by our club twice a week.
Donation of E-learning kit Club – Nigdi-Pune President : Ranu Singhania Beneficiaries : 95 Description : A TV set with a dongle is donated to a ZP school at Thugaon
Help to Drought-affected Pune University students Club – Pune Gandhi Bhavan Beneficiaries : 50 President : Prakash Bha Description : We assisted 50 students affected by drought by taking the responsibility of paying for their meals for two months to ensure con nua on of educa on
Donation of E-learning kit Beneficiaries : 96 Description : An E-learning kit with a projector is donated Donation of Computers Beneficiaries : 350 Description: 10 desktops computers were donated to Dynamic English Medium School at Kadus for their computer lab.
Donation of toilet block Club – Pune Shaniwarwada Beneficiaries : 60 President : Sanjay Barve Description : Two toilet blocks in Bhavani Nagar School at Pirangut
Organ donation Club – Poona Downtown Beneficiaries : 100 President : Supriya Banerjea Description : This year’s 11th Eye & Organ Dona on program was conducted at Arya Samaj Mandir at Pimpri. Rtn Pradeep Munot , Rajesh Gupta & Jitu Mehta planned their Sunday Morning to drive across the city and reach Pimpri to make Eye & Organ Dona on Presenta on to about 100 Arya Samaj devotees. Oath was administered by their President Murliji Vaswani. Thanks to Rtn Subhash Sanzgiri for arranging and giving wonderful audience for this successful event which concluded with lunch.
AWARDS
JUNE 26 2016