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Dear Friends,

Last Meeting held on 4th December, 2009 - Attendance 14 Members.

President called the meeting to order and prayer was recited by all. The 4-Way Test was recited by Rtn. Sumul Patel. Rtn. Vijay Bhatt who has come to the Rotary fold again introduced himself in a very brief way. He is a man of action rather than words. He preferred to talk about his impression about Atmanirbhar Project at Dediapada. His actions will be highlighted in the later part of this blog.

President gave opening remarks about December - "Family Month" with the following lines:

1. "We cannot choose our family. They are God's gift to you as you are to them." (Desmond Tutu)

2. "Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see past, present and future."

3. "The only rock I know stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family." (Lee Iacocca).

President offered pins to following Star Performers:

1. Rtn. Alok Desai for his excellent steering of Kalyan Banerjee Felicitation Function.

2. Rtn. Rishriraj Mistry for his excellent DVD on Project Atmanirbhar - Dediapada Camp.

3. Rtn. Vijay Bhatt for making Dediapada Camp a grand success.

NEXT MEETINGS

1. 6th December - Project Atmanirbhar at Dashrath.

2. 10th December - Adjusted against Project Atmanirbhar at Dashrath.

3. 17th December - Family Fellowship & Foundation Talk at Relish Resort at 8.00 p.m. planned by Rtn. Manisha R. Bhatt.

4. 19th December - Regional round of Business Idea Contest BLINK in Baroda at I.G. Patel Auditorium (inside Social Works Department Campus) from 3.00 p.m. onwards.

5. 24th December - Adjusted against 26th December - Wedding of Tanushree (Rtn. Bharat Mehta has invited all personally)

President narrated the above mentioned schedule of meetings alongwith other Board decisions, which are as follows:

1. President welcomed Rtn. Iqbal Hakim as President Nominee 2011-12. He would be attending all Board meetings from now onwards in his new capacity.

2. President informed that she has received names of Rtn. Sunil Vakil and Rtn. Rachna Garg for District Sports Events.

3. RYLA for the youth was highlighted.

4. Polio NID will be held in January and February 2010 and we have to start planning for the same under the guidance of Rtn. Manisha M. Bhatt.

5. IPP Rajan reminded every one for the Piggy Bank Project of this year.

6. Dediapada Camp was a grand success and we have learnt some lessons so that next time we are still better organized. Everyone agreed that we should go to remote areas where help is not reaching like Dang and Tejgadh.

7. President informed all regarding Board's decision for Seminar for Teachers for differently abled children to be conducted in later half of January, 2010, which would be of 4 hours on Saturday afternoon over hi-tea. Details will be finalized by Committee Members - Rtns. Manisha M. Bhatt, Mitesh, Premal, Shehnaz and Sonal under the name of 'Project Tare Zameen Par.'

8. Accounts for the year 2008-09 - IPP Rajan tendered his apologies and committed to circulate soft copy in 2 days time. Rtn. Sunil Vakil volunteered his help for going into the details of the same in order to follow club's final guidelines, which was accepted by IPP Rajan.

9. President informed Rtn. Premal Smart, President (Elect) to decide his Board before 31st December, 2009.

10. Everyone present whole heartedly agreed to go ahead with Polio Reconstructive Surgery of the cases identified at Dediapada Camp. Dr. Manoj Desai will perform surgeries free of cost but medicines, plaster, anesthesia and stay would be costing approximately Rs.3500 to Rs.4000 per patients.

11. There was a brief discussion about how to improve Public Image of Rotary in the month of January, 2010 and it was decided to explore - (1) Mr. Nafiz Khan (Rtn. Iqbal Hakim to explore) for showing Atmanirbhar DVD on VNM. (2) Handbill highlighting our activities to go as newspaper inserts and (3) Rtn. Vijay Bhatt to give pictures with small write up to print media.

BREAKING NEWS

Rtn. Vijay Bhatt was so moved by the sufferers of Dediapada Camp that he decided to act fast. He showed DVD (Sanjay Drashti) of Dediapada Camp, which is already on the blog, to his friends and collected donation of Rs.1,01,001 in less than 12 hours (as under) - that is called 'Man of Action' friends, that is called 'Empathy. ' The world is full of 'Sympathizers' but this kind of 'Empathizer' will definitely get us smiles on the faces of underserved ones of Dediapada.

1. Shri Atik Desai - Rs.10,000

2. Shri Chintan Patel - Rs.11,000

3. Shri Chandan Gyanchandani - Rs.10,000

4. Shri Mukund & Archana Baxi - Rs.10,000

5. Shri Dinesh Khedkar - Rs.10,000

6. Shri Hitendra Upadaya - Rs.10,000

7. Shri Kirit Patel - Rs.10,000

8. Shri Vijay Bhatt - Rs.10,000

9. Shri Arvind R. Haribhakti - Rs.5,000

10. Ms. Hema Kalyan Haribhakti - Rs.5,000

11. Shri Deepak Shah - Rs.5,000

12. Shri P. Uma Maheshwar Rao - Rs.5001

MAY GOD BLESS THE LARGE HEARTED DONORS FOR A WORTHY CAUSE.

Dr. Manoj Desai

Bulletin Editor