Washing Hands Posters

The Community Services Team handed over 300 posters to the Interact Club of Thiru vi Ka School. The posters have been designed to create awareness about Washing one's hands to bring down the incidence of infections.

Rtn. Vasanthi spoke to the Interactors about the project and what they need to do.

The President of the Interact Club accepted the posters and said that he would ensure that these posters would be put up in strategic locations not only in the school but also in the community.

Vocational Service awards

This evening at Thiru Vi Ka School the Club presented Vocational Service Awards to
1. Ms. Jayanthi - a nurse form the Kilpauk Medical Hospital who speacialises in nursing terminally ill patients.
2. Sudhakar - security guard with Group 4 Securities, for his kindness and generosity to a destitute male and for his dedicated, committed and sincere service as a security guard.
3. Krishniah -Conservancy worker with the Chennai Corporation in Kilpauk locality.
4. Arumugam - watchmen at Thiru Vi Ka School for his over 50 years of continuous dedicated service to the school.

Each was chosen for dedication to their respective vocations over many years and for their huge contribution to the Institutions they work for. Every organisation they work for was well represented at the awards function and their respective Boss spoke well about everyone of them.

Food for the people of Irukkum distributed

Representatives of the Chennai Food bank and from the Rotary Club of Chennai Kilpauk went to the island of Irukkum about 60 Kms from Chennai to distribute rice, dhal and oil to the residents of the village. We took the ferry from the mainland to the island where the rice and oil and dhal were waiting to be distributed. These provisions had been sent to the island a day earlier. We were greeted with smiles, happiness with everyone wishing us well in our lives, happiness forever and good luck to our children and families.

We left the island happily, knowing that a good job had been done to provide relief to these people.

Food for people at the Island of Irukkum in Pulicat Lake

30 Tricycles were distributed at Uthukottai on 27th November 2011, soon after Arumugam the boatman from Irukkum came to see me to give a CD of pictures taken at the tricycle distribution function. Arumugam made an appeal for food for his villagers at Irukkum, I immediately posted the following in facebook and also sent out an email to members of RCCK - 

The island of Irukkum in Pulicat Lake, the recent rains and the rising waters from the sea have flooded their agricultural land and all crops have been damaged. These people are suffering for want of food. I have received an appeal for food from about 300 families. When I asked them why they have not thought about a possible line of business that will sustain them throughout the year they looked blank and then said that they were islanders and not used to anything other than agriculture. If anyone could help them they would be happy to learn. Remember they live inside a bird sanctuary so there would be restrictions on what is possible. BUT right now, they need food, they are willing to eat rice KANJI, they do not want dhal, oil nothing they just want to fill their stomach for a few days and without having to borrow, which could be disastrous.

 Rajasthan Youth Association - Metro responded immidiately with an offer of 1500 Kgs of rice and RCCK will put together oil and dhal for 300 families. 

Arumugam is on his way to Chennai (11 AM on 3rd Dec 2011) to pick up the rice, oil and dhall. Members of the RCCK and RYA Metro will go tomorrow to the island of Irukkum to distribute the rice, oil and dhal and to assess what can be done for these people in the long term.

Tricycles Distributed at Uthukottai

We have over the last many years provided mobility aids to so many disabled people and every time we move to a new location to help the disabled it is always true that there are more disabled than we thought there would be. An Association for disabled people in Chithoor approached us for some help with the disabled and in the first stage we said that we would give away 30 tricycles out of a total of 67 that were requested.

The first batch of Tricycles were distributed on Sunday the 27th of November 2011. While members of the Club were not able to reach the location due to heavy rain and this coupled with road maintenance work being carried on.

The Chairman of the project Rtn Ravindran had just before the rains visited the venue and had inspected the tricycles while they were being assembled. He had a few weeks earlier met with all beneficiaries. As a process every beneficiary has to be  met and proper documentation collected, the documentation includes a disability certificate issued by the Govt, ration card copies were available, ID proof, photograph and details of disability.