Rotary Club of Hyderabad provided three Sewing Machines at the cost of Rs 15000, to REACH, a school for Deaf and Dumb at Hyderabad. This school is run by a an organisation with their branches in Karachi and Lahore. These machines will be used by girls studying in Home economics class. The machines were delivered [...]
For Helen and “Lon” Penna, Pakistan is their second home. Lon said during his address at RM&CC recently that some of his own club members think he is actually a Pakistani. Helen and Lon belong to Rotary Club of Glenville, located in Rotary International District 7190, New York, USA. And why not? Home is where [...]
I rang Wasif Mir, Vice Principal of SISA, School of International Studies in Sciences and Arts this evening and told him what Rotary is doing for IDPs of Swat and Malakand. Since my kids study in that school and we have a rapport, he did not have trouble believing my pitch. I told him we [...]
On the 11th of May, The Interact Club of Karachi Cosmopolitan held a modest ceremony for an event of much greater significance: the granting of Charter to this community based Club. It was handed over to the President of the Interact Club, Mariam Asaad, by the President of The Rotary Club, Professor Dr. Sahabzad Fariddudin [...]
Photo coverage of distribution of school supplies by Herat Rotary Club at Qala Safid Primary school of Karukh district of Herat Province, Afghanistan. The photos have been contributed by Dr Katiby.
Wow! Isn’t that quite a mouthful to say all of that in a single sentence? Well, not just mouth-full, but even quite a rare feat, and worth sharing here. So, here we have the coverage as reported by Maibritt Babri: Blessed are those club meetings where new members are inducted, Paul Harris fellows recognized and [...]
Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust, Lahore, popularly known as LRBT, recently received a generous donation of $60,000 from Rotary to purchase an Ophthalmic Operating Microscope. Here I wanted to provide a link to LRBT’s own website, but since that is down, I had no option but to link to their US website. Here are the pictures [...]
Our club organized Hepatitis awareness camp at Chowk Zahirpir (65 KM away from Rahimyar Khan) on 10.05.2009, in which approximately 1000 people participated, out of which 700 people were tested for the Hepatitis. The event was covered by print as well as electronic media, which was telecasted by Express TV Channel on 11.05.2009 and also [...]
This Rotary year, Rotary Club had planned as one of its goals to provide Gift of Life to two children suffering from heart ailments, which they have achieved by the benevolence of Allah Almighty. The first beneficiary of their Gift of Life Programme was Master Ali Raza a 1-1/2 year old boy son of a [...]
The Rotary Club of Karachi Kehkashan and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) have reached a formal understanding aimed at harnessing the corporate-social sector linkages to fighting poverty in the country. Rtn. Irfan Qureshi, District Chairman, Rotary Club of Karachi Kehkashan and Mr. Kamal Hyat, CEO/MD PPAF, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect [...]
