RC Cuffe parade

Dear Friends !! Welcome to  https:// rotarymumbaicuffeparade. blogspot.com/ Its our Club Blog. Most of the activities (Almost all) is covered here . If anyone would like to write they are most welcome. It may be the Short Stories, Poetry, Recipes, Motivational Message or Shayri. Any languages , Hindi and English preferable. ONLY one condition, It should be Original , From you and not WA Forwards.  So, Waiting for what ?  Wear your Thinking cap and Pick up your pen , Don't forget to Send it with your picture. Waiting for you. Warm Regards . Pinki Dalal President 2018-19  RCMPC

Area of focus: Fighting disease Host sponsor: Rotary Club of Madras East, India International sponsor: Rotary Club of San Antonio, Texas, USA Total budget: $70,242 Background: India has more than 800,000 new cases of cancer every year; many people, especially in rural areas, are not aware of, cannot afford, or are afraid of screening for the disease. Late diagnosis of breast and cervical cancer leads to high mortality rates. Scope: Rotarians identified a significant public health problem in their area, then found a strong cooperating organization to work with. They helped design a special vehicle to bring screenings to women in rural areas and mobilized their networks to ensure that the mobile unit would reach as many women as possible. Impact: 3,650 women were screened during the project. Top tip: Cooperate with an organization that is already experienced in the work your club plans to focus on. Equipping a specialized medical center in New Y

  Being a Patron of the International Federation of Astrologers and Indo-Japanese Association. Recently, he was nominated Chairman of the Gems and Jewellery Trade Committee of the Trans Asian Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Dr. Pala said that most of the time so called gems can be fake, synthetic so they will not give results as expected. Being a qualified medical practitioner (MBBS), R.D. Pala was a speaker of August 29th . Meeting was held at IMC library lounge. Dr. pala is a renowned Psychotherapist who has deeply studied the sciences of astrology and gemology. He threw lights on real, semi real, semi Precious and synthetic Gems. Especially Diomands. It says that Diomands are woman s real friends but reality differs. Thats   what he said with examples. How a real gem works, he explained in details.   Being a Patron of the International Federation of Astrologers and Indo-Japanese Association. Recently, he was nominated Chairman of the Gems and Jew

Hello friends Greetings for the festivals !! As all we know the month of August brings the festive mood with it. Shravan, Independence Day, Eid... And now September,  Naag pancham, Sheetla satam, Krishna Ashtami.... The list of festivals take off and goes till November, till Diwali comes. Every festivals signify some or the other duties to mankind. Needless to say Religions and Science walks hands in hands. Its a different story that we don't bother to understand the ideology, the secret behind it. With our myopic vision we don't acknowledge the significance of any festivals. The reason is changing time. Everything changes with time. Then why not way of celebration? This time we have planned the celebration of our Independence Day differently. For that We had planned Blood donation camp with the association of Western Railway Motormen association and Nair Hospital. Ofcourse, it was a collective efforts of four clubs. In Six hours time we co

Health Aweraness programme with HN Relaince Hospital  RC Mumbai Cuffe Parade had arrange the health awareness Seminar on 19th Sept.18.It was held at HN Reliance Hospital, Prathna Samaj. Two other RC clubs, Bombay Central and Downtown Sealand also joined in.  Welcomed By Dr. Rekha Davar , HOD Medical Education and Consultant OBGY. She gave very basic reality and focused on myths for women health in society .Women's health includes a wide range of specialities and focus areas, such as: Birth control and gynaecology, Breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and other female cancers The Community Awareness Program (CAP) was free, interactive program designed to. provide Rotarian with the basic tools needed to recognise and help prevent unhealthy  activity within our communities.  India s NO 1 killer is no one but diabetes. Dr. David Chandy , Consultant Endocrinologist explains the connection between Diabetes and other diseases.  'Prevention is the best cure' He said. Preven

जो जल बाहै नाव में, घर में बाहै दाम । दोऊ हाथ उलीचिये, यही सयानो काम । – कबीर RCMCP (RC Mumbai Cuffe parade has collected more than 8 bags of clothes from the members. We are thankful to Rtn.Vijay Kumar Gupta, Rtn. Tarun Gadia, Rtn.Preeti Gada, Rtn.Sangeeta Bang, Rtn. Anisha Shah , Rt, Geetika Agrwal , Rtn.Bharti Bhatija ,Rtn.Pinki Dalal . PROJECT by Rotary club of Mumbai Cuffe Parade, CLOTHES DONATION to NGO GOONJ. Specially Pre Diwali one so Clothes can reach to deserving people on time. Many members generously dontated, One more installment will be next month. Goonj is an NGO ,works for re-positioning cloth and other underutilized material, beyond charity, adding dignity and turning it into a big resource for development. Spreading the idea beyond geographical boundaries so that world over people take it as a subject to work on. GOONJ works on 3 levels:material, people & idea Material level: GOONJ started with 67 personal clothes, today dealing with more than 1000 tonnes of

The prayer (condolence) meeting in honour of Dear Rtn PP Namarta Agrawal  was held on 27th August 2018 at 6 pm at IMC, Churchgate , Mumbai. Most of the Club members, her Co Presidents, District dignitaries including Namrata s immediate and extended family members, Mr. Pramod Agrwal , Son ,Daughter in law, Son in law Anirudhdh and two sisters  were present for the meeting The prayer ceremony began with a few minutes of silence in honour of the departed. It was followed by a Shivoham Stotra by Rtn. Geetika Agarwal and New member Rtn.Nandini Trivedi gave a tribute by singing Hume itni Shakti dena daata ...  Most of her Co Presidents Cherished the memories and said kind words. Her Co prez Dr.Batra, PP Devang Goradia, PP Riaz , PP Yamini fondly  described her qualities and rapport with them.   Ave Chair Rtn. Rajendra Agrawal and PDG Gopal Mandhania specially came for this meet. Mrs. Seema Mandhania wrote a very special note forNamrata which was read by Prez Pinki Dalal.  Prez Pink

RCMCP organised a speaker meeting with eminent Poet, Desendent of Aadi Kavi Narsinh Mehta, an  Authority on Krishna  celebration of  Janmashtami . In his talks he made it clear that the distinction between love and attachment should be realised to liberate ourselves from the restraints of life. He elobarated his talks on Bhagvad Geeta and Upnishad. He gave the messsage of Krishna s way of Living in very palatable and subtle way. Club members were engrossed with it. The Bhagavad Gita informs, “One who does work which is worth doing is renounced, not the one who renounces activities.” Time, place and circumstances determine these duties that must be done.  Love is a selfless service, while attachment is a strong feeling of affection for something. One can figure out if there is attachment by certain symptoms. One will be obsessed by the thoughts of somebody or something and will be unable to bear the thought of losing the same. We should never be attached to anyone or anything e

We live in an age of miracles. ~ Levon Helm Residing in Borivali, Mumbai, poor Mahanto is a father of two daughters. He was very unhappy for them as both the girls are heart patients. When I met Mahanto at SRCC Children Hospital one of his daughters had already undergone surgery. He was so overjoyed he could not hold back his emotions and tears as he spoke to us. His 5 year daughter was successfully operated and is now stable. I have captured his joy in a video clip which I am wish to share here as an attachment. After meeting Mahanto, I believe that miracles truly occur. Its impossible to believe this unless one looks into Mahanto's eyes. A painter by profession, he earns Rs. 550 per day, he has no choice but to work daily being a daily labourer. Both the daughters kept falling ill. Breathlessness, fever and weight loss being common symptoms. Once when the elder daughter was very ill, the parents rushed her to the doctor and the general physician found out that both