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Issue 1 | August 2020
Magazine of Mitrans
Page 1 President’s message
Page 3 Office bearers
Page 4 IChennai
Page 6 Initiatives
Page 9 Mitra in Media
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Magazine of Mitrans | August 2020
From the President’s Desk
Dear Mitrans, Mitranns, and Mitrannettes,
Greetings to all. It gives me great pleasure to resume
our newsletter Anjal which will serve as a fabulous
resource to keep you all abreast of the developments
in our club. You have all heard it before but we truly
are facing extraordinary times amidst the Pandemic
which we are fervently hoping and praying, will end
soon. This year will certainly go down in history as very
special, and, all our efforts to continue functioning
normally, with all the constraints we face will be that
much more appreciated.
Since my Virtual installation on 29th June 2020; which
went off smoothly, thanks to the cooperation of all my
fellow Mitrans and their families-- with all the Anns in
colour coded dresses—it has been a very heartening
journey thus far, with each member of the team
CLUB PRESIDENT-RTN. SURESH SRINIVASAN
outdoing the other in their respective portfolios.
& FIRST LADY - ANN SUDHA SURESH
I feel extremely happy to announce that all Proud to announce the Institution of the ‘iChennai’
our ongoing projects are being continued awards during the current Rotary year. We have
month on month: so far recognized:-
SVRCC — Tally Training Project in Tamilnadu and A Covid Warrior, Surgeon - Dr. Sunita Jayaraman for
Pondicherry her tireless service rendered at the Kannagi Nagar Public
Aid to Paradise Home — Monthly biscuit distri- Health Centre.
bution
Rehoboth and Little Drops — Kilos of Kindness An Orthodontist and social activist — Dr. Issa
Kaakum Karangal - Old age home and orphan- Fathima Jasmine M for her outstanding service project
age — weekly Distribution of fruits "Ayyamittu Unn" , an initiative that works to eliminate
hunger and food wastage from the community.
Besides the above activities, due to the lockdown
on account of Covid’19 and request for addition- We have so far had 3 speaker meetings by :
al support from Paradise home, we decided to Mr. Natanagopal, Past AG and Rotarian from the
support them with Rs.50,000/- Every month from Rotary club of Madurai West
July to September, 2020.
Our heartfelt thanks to Ann Chitra Ramdas for Dr. K.Venkatraman, Retd. Director Zoological
her contribution of Rupees One lakh towards Survey of India
SVRCC; Ann Trishla Vaishnav for the Wheelchair,
Walker, and 2 Bed, handed over to Little Drops. Ms. Radha Nair, Actor on a joint speaker meeting.
Last but not least and the most worthy project till date:
The launch of an 11 day Tally training program as the executing club along with the Rotary clubs of Salem
Galaxy, Coimbatore Galaxy, Chennai Galaxy, and Pondy Galaxy being conducted by YENNES Infotech Pvt.
Limited —The company of OUR VERY OWN SARA, which has received an unprecedented response.
I would like to express my gratitude to one and all for their support and hope to receive the same coopera-
tion throughout my tenure.
Let’s keep the RC Chennai Mitra flag flying high. Rock on Mitrans!
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Magazine of Mitrans | August 2020
RI President’s Message
This does not seem like a time for great optimism, but it has to be.
Long before Rotary was founded, the world dealt with great crises that tested
humankind's ability to progress and endure.
In the age of Rotary, the world has faced many more catastrophes; however, we
have survived, and every step of the way, Rotary has helped the world heal.
Every great challenge is an opportunity for renewal and growth. I revealed the
RTN. HOEGER KNAACK
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
theme of Rotary Opens Opportunities at the International Assembly in San Diego
just as the COVID-19 crisis was beginning, but these are words that I have believed
for many years. Rotary is not just a club that you join; it is an invitation to endless
opportunities.
We believe in creating opportunities for others and for ourselves. We believe that
our acts of service, large and small, generate opportunities for people who need our
help, and that Rotary opens oppo tunities for us to live a richer, more meaningful
life, with friends around the world, based on our core values.
District Governor's Message
Rotary Greetings!
My best wishes and heartiest felicitations to you, Rtn. Suresh Srinivasan for donning
the mantle of leadership of your Club for the Rotary year 2020-21, we look forward with
positivity as ‘Rotary Opens Opportunities’ to each one of us in the most trying of times.
I would like to congratulate Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra for your efforts in relaunching
your Newsletter Anjal that will be your window to the world and I am certain it will carry
content of class and value.
RTN. S.MUTHUPALANIAPPAN
DISTRICT GOVERNOR 2020-21
I wish your T 20 President Rtn. Suresh Srinivasan and all the Rotarians of Rotary Club of ROTARY DISTRICT 3232
Chennai Mitra an amazing Rotary Year 2020-21 as we work together!
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Upcoming Birthdays
Upcoming Meetings Upcoming Anniversaries
Sep 2nd Ann Sharanya W/o Rtn. Dr. Ramakrishnan
Sep 7th Board Meeting Sep 3rd Ann Shanthi W/o Rtn. Yuvaraj Sep 1st Rtn. Sucharita
Sep 7th Annette Saideep S/o Rtn. SS Rajesh & Sivanand Rajaram
Sep 16th Regular meeting Sep 10th Annette Sri Jayanth S/o Rtn. Saseendran
speaker meeting Sep 7th Rtn. Lakshmi Kumar
Sep 10th Annette Anisha D/o Rtn. Praveen
joint meeting & Ann Kodhai
Sep 12th Ann Sudha W/oRtn. Suresh Srinivasan
Sep 26th Family participation Sep 12th Annette Aajwanthi D/o Rtn. Krithivasan Sep 11th Rtn. Satish
Fellowship Sep 16th Ann Sangeetha W/o Rtn. SS Rajesh & Ann Subashree
Sep 16th Annette Akash Mohan S/o Rtn. Mohan
Sep 30th Regular meeting Sep 12th Rtn. Rajesh SS
Sep 19th Annette Pranati D/o Rtn. Lakshmi Kumar & Ann Sangeetha
speaker meeting
joint meeting Sep 19th Rtn. Sucharita
Sep 29th Annette Ashile D/o Rtn. Dr. Sharmila
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OFFICE BEARERS - ROTARY YEAR - 2020 - 2021
Suresh Srinivasan Bhaskar Krishnamoorthy Praveen.R
President Immediate Past President Secretary
Aathira R Nair
District Secretary - Annette Council
Our Annette Aathira R Nair D/o our
member Rtn. Dr. P. Rajesh Kumar,
currently pursuing her bachelors in
R. Gokul Ramasway Krithivasan Lakshmi Kumar
Director Community
dentistry at SRM Dental College is
Treasurer Director Club Service Development Services
very focussed on what she wants in
life and works hard towards achiev-
ing her goals.
She gives a lot of importance to
fundamentals in life, like respecting
elders, grounded in spiritual faith,
T.V.Yuvaraj Sathish J Srinivasan Balaraman
acts with compassion and is always
ears to good advice and opinions.
Director Community Services
– Health Director Youth Service Director Vocational Services
She is extremely passionate about
western dance and loves to paint
and bake.
She has held the post of Treasurer,
Secretary and President of our
Amit Vaishnav S.Saiseshan Mohan Sadasivam
Director International Service Chairman Literacy
Chairman Membership Retention
& Development
Annette’s club and has made her
way to the District now, as the
District Secretary - Annette Council.
Srinivasa Reddy P Ravindran. A Rajesh Kumar. N
Chairman Project Orange Chairman Foundation Chairman Public Image
President Rtn. Suresh Srinivasan
congratulates and wishes all office
bearers of the club and Annette Aathira
R Nair a very successful Rotary Year
Sr. Ramakrishnan N.S. Saravanan PHF PP. Rtn. S.S. Rajesh
Chairman - Polio Eradication Club Trainer Club Advisor 2020-2021.
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Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra have been presenting Voca-
tional Service Excellence awards, year after year during our
grand Annual Award function, and it has been our absolute
privilege to have honoured many distinguished individuals
who have demonstrated excellence in their chosen fields.
Our past distinguished awardees have been
Mr. Dhananjayan and Mrs. Shanta Dhananjayan - Dancers
Ms. Jayanthi Raman - Social Worker (USA)
Dr. P.K. Bhaskar MDS, FICD
Mr. Sunil Kumar, IPS
Mr. Ritesh Mastipuram - O2 Spa
Dr. Sultan Ahmed Ismail - Vermitech
Mr. Uvaraj - Founder - Poorvika Mobiles
Mr. Delhi Ganesh - Cine Actor
Kalaimamani Abirami Ramanathan - Abirami Theatres
KT Srinivasa Raja - Adyar Anandha Bhavan
This year all of us are faced with an unprecedented crisis &
hardship due to Covid 19 which has remained a pandemic of
unimaginable proportions. In these tough and extreme times,
some individuals have risen above the call of duty and shown
that they are indeed our Covid warriors.
Going with the Rotary theme of the year “Rotary Opens
Opportunities”, it has been unanimously decided at Chen-
nai Mitra to honour such warriors every month for their
On the 19th of August 2020, iChennai was
officially launched through a modest Zoom
meeting by the District Governor
Rtn. S. Muthupalaniappan in the presence
of distinguished guests & Rotarians from all
across the globe.
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Our special thanks to Rtn. NS. Saravanan (known more as
Namma Sara in the Rotary circle), Managing Director of Yennes
Dr. Sunita Jayaraman
Infotec Pvt Ltd, a philanthropist and a senior Rotarian of our club
to put forth this noble suggestion and making these awards a
reality.
In the words of Rtn. NS. Saravanan, "The nominees for this
award can be from any field who have inspired and motivated us
through their action and thoughts. We all come across many
such unsung heroes going that extra mile with their indomitable
spirit and a sense of service that is extraordinary.
They have been in the forefront, leading by example and provid-
ing a foundation for other individuals / organisations to emulate
and explore and our job as a responsible Rotary club would be to
identify such individuals and honour them.
Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra would like to use these awards as a Dr. Issa Fathima Jasmine M
platform to showcase such exemplary individuals to the public
as our inspiration. These awards are aptly titled as iChennai -
Inspiration of Chennai. What better month to choose than
August, which is the birth month of Namma Chennai.
The first 2 awardees were Dr. Sunita Jayaraman, a surgeon, for
her tireless service rendered at the "Kannagi Nagar Public
Health Centre" and Dr. Issa Fathima Jasmine. M for her
outstanding service project "Ayyamittu Unn", an initiative that
works to eliminate hunger & food wastage from the community.
We at Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra appeal not only to every
member within our club but also to all other clubs and the public,
to come forth & nominate future awardees, so that we can
choose the most suitable, to award every month.
Our congratulations and best wishes to the two awardees,
while we pray for their utmost well-being, as they continue
their tireless service to the humanity.
iCHENNAI AWARDS COMMITEE
N.S. Saravanan Srinivasan Balaraman Suresh Srinivasan Praveen.R Srinivasa Reddy P Ravindran. A
Chairman Director Vocational Services President Secretary Chairman Project Orange Chairman Foundation
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INITIATIVES
Community Development
We Mitran’s works closely with “Paradise Homes”, a home for the intellectually challenged in Muttukadu, a village 30
km from Chennai. The home has about 70 inmates aged between 5 and 40.
Mitran’s regularly partake in the events at the Home, sponsor food on birthdays and anniversaries, sponsor the entire
cost of two children every year, and provide them with 400 packets of biscuits every month.
We also support “Paradise Homes“ by donating a sum of Rs. 50,000/-, every month from July 2020, as an ongoing
support initiative during this tough pandemic period.
Another ongoing support initiative of Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra's is with “Kakkum Karangal”, a non-governmental,
non-religious, non-profit; institution with the aim of providing homes for the old aged and children. We Mitran's provide
them with nutritious fruits as part of our weekly initiative every Saturday.
We also offer our support in whatever little way possible to “Little Drops“, a non-profit organization that serves the
elderly destitute, orphan and vulnerable children.
Kakkum Karangal Paradise Homes
Weekly Fruit Distribution Sharing a Meal
Kakkum Karangal Paradise Homes
Kozhukkattai Distribution Monthly Biscuit Distribution
Little Drops Paradise Homes
Back support & Wheel Chair Monthly Support Initiative
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INITIATIVES
Community Health
We Mitran’s work closely with “Paradise Homes”, “Kakkum Karangal” and “Kannagi Nagar Public Health Center” and
offer the best we could when it comes to any health-related activities.
Kannagi Nagar PHC
500 Face masks were distributed each to Paradise Handing over of Sanitizer
Homes, Kannagi Nagar Health Centre & Kakkum
Karangal, as part of regular initiatives.
UPSRTC Sanitation project
We Mitran’s sponsored 35 litres of Sanitizer to
Mask distribution
Kannagi Nagar Public Health Centre and the
material was personally handed over by our club
President Rtn. Suresh Srinivasan to Dr. Sunita
Jayaraman.
Our President Rtn. Suresh Srinivasan has taken up Kakkum Karangal
Generic Geriatric medicines
the project of hygiene and sanitation for all public
transport buses (about 1500 buses) of UPSRTC; an
ongoing project with the Uttar Pradesh Government, that will last till the duration of the pandemic.
One of the major collaborative projects under our health services initiative for the current Rotary year, executed
under the joint banner of Auro Renewtek India Pvt.Ltd and Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra at a cost of INR 7.00 lacs per
month.
A small ongoing community service effort by Mitran's yet again, during these tough times.
Vocational Services
It is this time of the year where we Mitran’s come together to
support the needy with educational fees and this year despite the
pandemic and economic recession, we are quite happy to have
been in the service of deserving and needy.
iChennai - Inspiration of Chennai, awards program was launched by
Contribution to Educational Needs
our DG Rtn. S. Muthupalaniapan on the 19th of Aug.
IChennai is an award program that is conferred upon by Mitra to
those individuals who continue to inspire us and the many others,
whom they touch upon in their lives.
iChennai Award iChennai Award
Dr. Issa Fathima Jasmine M Dr. Sunita Jayaraman
A multi district FREE online Tally Training program was organized by
Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra in association with Rotary Club of
Salem Galaxy, Chennai Galaxy, Coimbatore Galaxy and Pondicherry Galaxy.
This 11-day certificate course that commenced on the 25th of August is being offered
FREE (which if valued, would run to a Crore of rupees) by our Rtn. Saravanan, Manag-
ing Director of M/s Yennes Infotec Pvt Ltd, as part of his Vocational services initiative
to the society.
Tally – Tally Training
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INITIATIVES
Literacy - Health - Youth Services International Services
Rotary Club of Chennai Mitra is proud to announce that Olcott Memorial Higher Despite the Covid 19 and the
Secondary School, an Interact initiative of the club has secured a 98% pass global pandemic situation, we at
percentage in the 2019-20 board exams, a quantum jump from 48% in 2016. Mitra have renewed our sister
club agreements with Rotary
Olcott Memorial Higher Secondary located at Besant Nagar, Chennai, is a free Club of Istanbul - Adalar, Turkey
school providing free education, school uniforms, educational materials, and & Rotary Club of Capital City,
nutritious meals to about 500 underprivileged boys and girls. Colombo, Srilanka.
The Olcott Project is an Integrated Literacy, Youth Services and Health project
taken up the Mitrans and the largest in formal education so far. Various activities
that have been accomplished that include construction of separate toilets for
both boys and girls, revamping classrooms, repairing and maintaining the reverse
osmosis (RO) plant providing water fit for drinking, laying of flooring tiles for most
of the classrooms, blood typing, blood grouping, sports training, providing
footwear, teacher awards, motivational talks etc to name a few.
OLCOTT SCHOOL
Sister Club Agreement with Adalar, Istanbul
Teacher Award Floor Relaying
Sister Club Agreement with Capital City, Colombo
Toilet Block RYLA
Blood Typing
Dental Camp Computer Lab
Girls Kabbadi Trophy
Motivational Programs are regularly conducted for the students of 10th and 12th standards making them take on the
board exams without fear and the results achieved this year is a standing testimony to our continued efforts.
We Mitrans, along with fellow Rotarians, Donors & well-wishers congratulate the Students, Teachers and the School Man-
agement on this success!
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ROTARY - NATIONAL NEWS
RC Nagercoil Blossoms — RID 3212
A statue of Rotary Founder Paul Harris was installed at a children’s park on the YMCA
premises. IPDG Sheik ¬Saleem and DGN Jacintha Dharma were the guests of
honour at the event.
RC Karimganj — RID 3240
A waiting shed for visitors was constructed at the ¬India-Bangladesh border and
this facility costing over ₹5 lakh was sponsored by club members with main ¬contri-
bution from Project Chair Saumyabrata Dutta. BSF Inspector General Prafulla
Kumar Roushan inaugurated the visitors’ shed.
RC Delhi Mayur Vihar — RID 3012
The club, in association with an NGO Dastak, is supporting the education of girl
children hailing from underprivileged families for the past 10 years. The Rotarians
recently distributed stationery items and masks to the students.
RC Kushinagar — RID 3120
The club distributed food packets, masks, soaps and ration kits to needy and
migrant families during the pandemic for 20 consecutive days. The ration kits
comprise 5kg of rice, soya bean, mustard oil, gram, salt, potato, onion, starch and
toiletries.
RC Vizag Elite — RID 3020
An electric buggy for easy movement of patients between different blocks at Homi
Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre was donated to the hospital authori-
ties by the club.
RC Tiruvarur Midtown — RID 2981
The frontline warriors against Covid including policemen, conservancy workers,
and ambulance crew are being given food, gloves and masks on a daily basis by
club members as part of their ongoing relief work against the pandemic.
RC Belthangady — RID 3181
On the eve of World Environment Day, the club distributed 3,000 saplings to differ-
ent milk societies through Taluk MLC Prathap Simha Nayak in the presence of a
large gathering of Rotarians.
RC Alleppey East — RID 3211
A high-end ICU ventilator worth ₹10.5 lakh was installed at the Alleppey Medical
College Hospital with Club President Dr Binu Mathew handing over the equipment
to District Collector A. Alexander in an event.
Source - rotarynewsoline.org
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ROTARY - INTERNATIONAL NEWS
THANK YOU
Jennifer E. Jones
Jennifer E. Jones makes history,
becomes first woman named
Rotary president-nominee
Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the
Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland,
Ontario, Canada, has been nomi-
nated to become Rotary Interna-
tional’s president for 2022-23, a
ground breaking selection that will
make her the first woman to hold
that office in the organization’s
115-year history.
Jones is founder and president of
Media Street Productions Inc., an
award-winning media company in
Windsor.
She was chair of the board of
governors of the University of
Windsor and chair of the Wind-
sor-Essex Regional Chamber of
Commerce.
She has been recognized for her
service with the YMCA Peace
Medallion, the Queen’s Diamond
Jubilee Medal, and Wayne State
University’s Peacemaker of the
Year Award, a first for a Canadian.
Jones holds a Doctor of Laws
(LL.D.).
GOOD-BYE POLIO
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