Rotary Club - Tiruvallur

1. Installation Function 15-16

The Function was a huge success! There were over 200 Participants attended the Function. The excitement about this Installation function was palpable, and attendees were inspired to get involved. There were numerous opportunities for gathering and sharing ideas.

2. World Breast-feeding Week

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Rightly so, for a mother is truly the one that moulds her child from the moment of birth. Enabling the child with the best right from the word 'Go' should not be mere wishful-thinking, and in this age of information, the goodness of breast milk must be clearly understood, as a foundation for all round health....

3. Weekly Club Meetings

Club meetings allow Rotarians to learn more about Rotary, provide opportunities for fellowship, and develop future leaders.Club meetings give members an opportunity to enjoy fellowship and provide them with the information and motivation they need to increase their participation in activities that serve the club, the community, and the world.

4. Blood Donation Camps

As a part of the mega blood donation drive by all the 103 Rotary Clubs , the Rotary Club of Tiruvallur conducted a Blood Donation Camp in partnership with the Tituvallur Government Hospital. The event started at 10 a.m. with a target of about 100 units of blood to be collected. Finally, 150 units of blood were collected.

5. Medical Camp for Disabled

A one-day medical assessment camp was held at Poondy Block for identification and issue of Special Needs.

Around 500 different categories of physically challenged persons participated in the medical assessment camp.

Opportunity of Services

Activity

Opportunity of Services

Celebrate Rotary in your club

• Encourage diversity of membership and promote a balanced membership. Induct new embers from demographic groups not currently represented in your club.
• Sponsor a new Rotary club.
• Appoint a family of Rotary committee to assist with projects and activities in support of Rotarians and their families.
• Invite members to bring their partners and/or children to a club meeting or event on at least five occasions.
• Welcome and include non-Rotarian family-members (e.g., spouses, adult children, parents, widows, or widowers) into the family of Rotary through service and fellowship activities.
• During Family Month (December), recognize the importance of Rotarians families and their contributions to your club's success.
• Appoint a centennial committee and a club historian to coordinate and promote centennial activities and create or maintain a club history to be presented at one meeting.
• Invite a least one Rotary Foundation alumnus or alumna to join your club.
• Recognize a club member with the Four Avenues of Service Citation for Individual Rotarians
• Develop and initiate a new project in support of club service or the family of Rotary.

Celebrate Rotary in your vocation

• Ask each member of your club to share information on Rotary International and the club's activities with their places of business and/or their professional associations.
• Hold one or more club meetings at the workplaces of newer members.
• Hold a forum on ethics and the application of The Four-Way Test in business and professional life or present all new club members with a copy of the Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions (200-EN).
• Ask each member of your club to mentor a young person.
• Sponsor a day for Rotarians to bring young people to their places of business to share career opportunities.
• Sponsor or participate in a career development project for people with disabilities.
• Sponsor or participate in a skills retraining project for those returning the work force.
• Organize a special vocational service activity during Vocational Service Month (October) or register a club member as a Rotary Volunteer.
• Nominate a community member as a candidate for the Rotary Centennial Service Award for Professional Excellence to your governor.
• Develop a project to improve literacy and numeracy in the workplace.
• Develop a campaign to improve vocational or professional skills in the workplace.

Celebrate Rotary in your community

• Actively participate in Rotary's centennial celebrationactivities.
• Conduct a Centennial Community Project.
• Contact local media to publicize Rotary's role in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
• Conduct a community needs assessment and establish one new service project this year. Ensure that a significant number of club members and their partners participate in new service projects.
• Initiate an ongoing community water project (e.g. water resources, water conservation, safe drinking water).
• Sponsor or participate in a project designed to promote urban peace or conflict resolution.
• Sponsor or participate in a project to improve literacy and numeracy.
• Sponsor or participate in a health awareness campaign or a project that addresses health concerns.
• Sponsor or participate in a project that addresses the problems of child abuse, street children, and/or domestic violence.
• Sponsor a new Interact club, Rotaract club.

Celebrate Rotary in our world

• Participate in at least one Polio Plus or Polio Plus Partners project.
• Achieve the Every Rotarian, Every Year goal of US$100 or more per capita in Annual Programs Fund Contributions.
• Support the Permanent Fund Initiative by securing at least two new bequest commitments.
• Participate in the Centennial Twin Club program.
• Sponsor a Centennial Group Study Exchange (GSE) team.
• Participate in The Rotary Foundation's Individual Grants program by sending a Centennial Rotary Volunteer from your club.
• Sponsor or host a Youth Exchange student or conduct a Rotary Friendship Exchange.
• Identify a qualified candidate to compete at the district level for at least one Rotary Foundation Educational Programs award (Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary World Peace Scholar, Group Study Exchange [GSE] team member or leader, or Rotary Grants for University Teachers participant).
• Support or register a project on the World Community Service Projects Exchange.
• Seek a Foundation Matching Grant for a water resources, health, or literacy project.
• Register both the club president and incoming club president for the 2005 Rl Convention in Chicago.
• Develop and initiate a new project in support of international service.