Second Kidney Care Camp

The second Kidney care camp organized by Rotary Club of Poona Downtown and KEM nephrology department was held on Wednesday March 12th at Sane Guruji Arogya Kendra , Hadapsar to commemorate ‘World Kidney Day’ which was on March 13th, 2025.  About 90 beneficiaries took advantage of the camp. A 10 min skit by the KEM doctors and nurses was held in the lobby of the hospital. With Advocacy and early detection club  hopes to help individuals detect and treat kidney disease early and prevent going through Dialysis.

Playing 11 Bicycle Project

The handing over of 12 Bicycles to the beneficiaries, (9 girls and 3 boys) took place at the picturesque Jalmeen Resort, Village Hatve Budruk at 11 am on Sunday, 16 March by RCPD.

The Club was represented by PE Rtn.Aditi Bhende, PP Rtn.Pallavi Sable, PDG Dr. Madhav Borate, PP Rtn. Vikram Nabar and other members of the club.

Club is  grateful to Rtn. Mrs. Meena Borate (RC Pune Yuva) for providing the venue for the Function and also co ordinating with Parents and Beneficiary children and ensuring their presence. President Rtn.

 Deepa Badve from RC Pune Yuva was also present and donated water bottles from her club, to the children.

It was heartening to see the joy in the children's eyes and smiles as each came forward to receive their bicycles. Many of them have now been saved nearly 6 kilometres of daily trudge from their homes to school

The Bicycles were procured from Pune and transported to the Village for the distribution. The Project cost is  Rs 60,000/- approx.

A REPORT ON THE VISIT TO SRI SATHYA SAI SANJEEVANI HOSPITAL, KHARGHAR, FOR THE INAUGURATION OF GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT (GG2463403) FOR (23) CARDIAC SURGERIES AND (50) WOMEN’s ANTE-NATAL CARE, by PP RTN VIKRAM NABAR

On Monday, the 17th of March 2025,  a group of 27 Downtowners joined the day trip to Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani (SSSS) Hospital at Kharghar, (Navi Mumbai) organized by RCPD’s GIFT OF LIFE team.

The purpose of this visit was to inaugurate the GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT (GG2463403) FOR (23) CARDIAC SURGERIES AND (50) WOMEN’s ANTE-NATAL CARE.

This project was initiated by PP Rtn. Yezdi Batliwala in 2023-24 during the Presidentship of IPP Rtn. Aruna Rathi.

In addition to RCPD, two Clubs from the American continent (SUNRISE-LANCASTER, and CHARLES COUNTY-LA PLATA), joined hands and contributed. Untiring very good networking done by PP Rtn. Yezdi Batliwala is quite inspiring.

It was an extremely emotional moment for all the members to meet these small children, with Dr. Srinivas summing up the most important bottom line that (although most of us present there would not be alive to see it happen), RCPD will be providing something like 80 years of life to these children.

RCPD’s GIFT OF LIFE Team and all participants came home with full contentment and peace of mind.