Who We Are

Who We Are

We are a diverse bunch of enthusiastic and passionate people who have come together purposively under the Rotary banner. We collaborate and drive exponential change, whilst of course building friendships along the way.
Our members include start-up CEOs, educationists, lawyers, developers, entrepreneurs, bankers, perfumers, fashion designers, chefs, stock brokers, and an airline pilot! When we say diverse, we really mean it. We have a well-balanced ratio of men and women, and are a young club with most members in their 40’s and early 50’s.

Who We Are

We are a diverse bunch of enthusiastic and passionate people who have come together purposively under the Rotary banner. We collaborate and drive exponential change, whilst of course building friendships along the way.
Our members include start-up CEOs, educationists, lawyers, developers, entrepreneurs, bankers, perfumers, fashion designers, chefs, stock brokers, and an airline pilot! When we say diverse, we really mean it. We have a well-balanced ratio of men and women, and are a young club with most members in their 40’s and early 50’s.

What We Do

Chartered in February 2021, second year going strong, we have
URJA Foundation
Door Step School
OSCAR Foundation
Global Grant – Paediatric Heart Surgeries – SRCC

Project Coordinators: Rajiv Punater & Niharika Ma

Khel Khel Mein – Rotary Activity Center

Project Coordinator with other clubs: Els Reynaers Project Coordinators SOBO: Jaishri Kimmatkar & Jasraj Vidhani

Beekeeping

Project Coordinator: Rajiv Punater

Project KGA

Project Coordinator: Diju Dangwal

Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation, Karjat

Project Coordinator: Suresh Rajani

Health Camps, Cancer & Addiction Screening

Project Coordinators: Dr. Rahul Salunkhe & Pushpraj Nadar

AURED

Project Coordinator: Jasraj Vidhani

Wadia Hospital – Renovation Children Ward

Project Coordinator: Priti Doshi

Digital Study App

Project Coordinator: Rakesh Jhaveri

Mangrove Foundation

Project Coordinators: Heather Kaikini & Els Reynaers

EndPlasticSoup

Project Coordinator: Sunayana Vora

In-House Group "PAWZ"

Project Coordinator: Premal Sanghvi

Why Associate With Us?

When you join the Rotary, you are participating in a gamut of activities across 5 avenues of service, which are Community (medical and non-medical), Youth New Generations, International, Club and Vocational. You are entrusting your commitment and contribution to people that make a difference; and come from highly successful professional backgrounds with the necessary skill sets and networks that allow them to do so. This of course is under the ambit of Rotary, a charity behemoth with substantial resources at its disposal across 35,000 clubs worldwide and with presence in close to 200 countries. We ensure every effort you make is worthwhile and the very last rupee you entrust to Rotary makes the maximum impact towards lasting change.

Why Associate With Us?

When you join the Rotary, you are participating in a gamut of activities across 5 avenues of service, which are Community (medical and non-medical), Youth New Generations, International, Club and Vocational. You are entrusting your commitment and contribution to people that make a difference; and come from highly successful professional backgrounds with the necessary skill sets and networks that allow them to do so. This of course is under the ambit of Rotary, a charity behemoth with substantial resources at its disposal across 35,000 clubs worldwide and with presence in close to 200 countries. We ensure every effort you make is worthwhile and the very last rupee you entrust to Rotary makes the maximum impact towards lasting change.

How We Engage

We endeavour to strengthen bonds within our community of 100+ members, all go-getters and change makers. To this end we have organised a host of talks with eminent and interesting people like fitness guru Mr. Mickey Mehta, Ms. Amruda Nair of Leela Hotels fame, philanthropist Ms. Ritu Hinduja Chhabria, marathoner and State Bank of India Foundation CEO Mr Nixon Joseph, theatre doyens Ms. Mahabanoo Kotwal and Ms. Dolly Thakore, Lt. Gen. Shokin Chauhan from the armed forces, Bharat Dhabholkar the theatre personality; and conducted a Knowledge Series with stalwarts of the Rotary. We have enjoyed musical evenings with the composer extraordinaire Leslie Lewis and have celebrated festivals together. We have hosted a predictor challenge during the IPL T20 cricket tournament. We also have interest-based fellowships, like trekking, a book club, wine appreciation, health holistic and golf. All work and no play is certainly not the SOBO way!

Where Can I Contribute?

Our live projects wherein we are actively seeking contributions are:
Setting up a 2nd football team of underprivileged children with a program that uses football as a medium for developing life skills, leadership roles, computer literacy and inculcating a commitment to education in the children.
Providing meals to students at a school-on-wheels that imparts education to underprivileged children, and to govt. hospital staff, patients & their relatives.
Extending support to a shelter for women at-risk by way of personal health and hygiene products, as well as counselling, training and skill upgradation.
Facilitating onboarding of traditional artisans to digital marketplaces.
Beautification of community spaces in the city using street art.
Supporting the Farmer community to help raise their yield and income.
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Child Name: Minara Safikul Aalm
Program: NFE (School on Wheel Bus)
Age: 9
Gender: Female,
Location: Wadi bunder
Minara resides in Wadi Bunder No 12, railway yard of central railways of Indian government. Her father is a mason and mother is a house maid by profession. Minara’s house does not have an access to basic amenities as such electricity and water. She has a responsibility to look after her younger brother post departure of her parents from the house for their work. When Minara was introduced to our NFE- School on wheel bus program that runs on the Mumbai streets for the wearer’s section of the society, she was not able to read and recognize the alphabets even in her regional language and she was kind of reluctant to learn from Hindi medium as it was not her first language, but later she expressed her interest in learning Hindi Language post teachers’ intervention with her.
Initially, her attendance in the class was recorded satisfactory, but later it was observed miserable. Our teacher noticed the same and made a home visit to know the root cause of her irregularity in the classes. It was found that Minara has to perform all the domestic work as such cleaning, clothing and cooking as well along with her younger brother’s care at the age of just 9 years. Our field team made her parents aware on the importance of education and why Minara should avail it. Her parents were worries about her and her brother’s food as her mother was not able to give time to cooking in the morning as she has to rush for the work. In result to Minara had to take all the responsibilities on her shoulder in place of her mother. The large reason was food and cooking. Our team addressed this issue and share the details of our Mid-day meal program on bus, and how Minara can avail the benefits and can continue with her studies as well. Her parents were delighted to know on about the midday-meal intervention and started sending their both children to the classes regular.
The problem of Minara was easily identified and addressed, hence she is vey happy now and receiving quality meal on bus along with the quality educational service. Both her parents Thanks to Mid-day program for resolving their issues and bringing joy to ger Minara and her brother’s life.