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Dear Friends,

President welcomed everybody and invited Rtn. Ahmed Munavvari to recite the prayer in Arabic. Friends, this has happened for the first time. He did it in a beautiful way and explained the meaning of the prayer. It was appreciated by all. RCBM is truly a Trendsetters' Club. Then President invited Jt. Secretary Rtn. Utkarsh Hathi to recite the 4-Way Test.

This was yet another meaningful meeting with great fellowship before and after (from 7.45 to 10.20), without losing focus on Project Atmanirbhar. At 8 O'clock the meeting started and as per request from new Member, few senior Rotarians briefly introduced themselves.

Then Preisdent Sharmishtha invited new Rtn. Shahnaz Tayyibji. In less than 7 minutes she introduced herself in a unique way. She narrated about her journey from childhood and the lessons learnt because of transferable job of her father Mr. Tayyibji, who was then an IAS Officer (Vow!). She narrated her experiences vividly and everybody gasped when they heard that she had opportunity to have pets like deers (nothing new) but six lion cubs (Vow! Vow!). While she was talking, it occurred to me that she looks and talks like Indira Gandhi, remembering Jawaharlal Nehru and the childhood. They settled down in Baroda finally where she did her studies and later on settled in Mumbai with her husband who was practicing law.

Her son is a well known architect, married an architect and happily settled. She faced crisis in life when her daughter was seriously ill and she came down to Baroda to be with her but unfortunately she lost her. She was faced with a dilemma - What to do? Where to go? At that time she was introduced to Friends Society and she again found the joy and meaning of life. When she heard about Atmanirbhar Project and heard our talks, she felt that this is a club worth joining. Now she is our member for many months and has committed to make a difference. She is an Educationist and is one of the key persons in running Muslim Education Society with more focus on education of girls. She has joined our club with classification of Educationist. We welcome Shahnaz to the club of Pathfinders, Trendsetters and Difference Makers.

Significant time was allocated to Project Atmanirbhar. After that, meeting of Primary Contacts, Treasurer Anil, Secretary Pratima and PDG Manoj was held last week and the guidelines were decided which were informed to all Members.

Listed below are the points discussed and agreed for the MG PROJECT "AATMANIRBHAR" concerning documentation, record keeping and modus operendi of payment.

1. All Registers and Registration Forms must have following names printed on it:
- PROJECT "AATMANIRBHAR"

- TRF MG Project - 70325.
- Rotary Club of Baroda Metro.
- Rotary Club of Jackson Breakfast.
- Shree Navdurga Seva Trust.

2. Shree Navdurga Seva Trust will maintain the hard copy of the all the Visiting Patient Register and Form of Patient who has received the benefit at the Camp, signed / Thumb marked. Seperate List of patients who has received the benefit at the camp will be listed separately and soft copy of the same will be emailed and kept for the record of following persons:

Sharmistha Desai, Manoj Desai, Premal Smart and Nilesh Patel.

3. At the end of the camp, Total Expense Statement of the items distributed under the MG should be prepared at the agreed rate of TRF MG, to be signed by the 3 contact persons Sharmishtha Desai, Premal Smart & Nilesh Patel and the same amount bill will be raised on RCBM by Shree Mahavir Vikalang Samiti for payment. Payment must be done to SMVS for each camp separately.

4. Soft copy of Pictures, posters etc. shall be maintained of each camp for possible RI audit.

PAVIJETPUR & CHHOTAUDEPUR CAMPS

Dates - 23rd to 25th April, 2010

Five doctors have committed their time due to Shroff Foundation. The details were discussed and it was decided that we should have six Rotarians minimum for each Camp to look after (one for each room for Counseling and making patients comfortable):

1. Room No. 1 - For Orthosis

2. Room No. 2 - For Prosthesis

3. Room No. 3 - For Wheel Chairs and Tricycles

4. Room No. 4 - For Polio Corrective Surgery patients to enroll

5. Room No. 5 - For Kits for earning livelihood to be given

6. One of us has to look after distribution of food at lunch time and water arrangement for differently abled people and their relatives (see the blog of Dediapada camp where Vrajesh and Anilbhai effectively did it).

In addition to this there would be Camp Incharge who would take care of coordinating, travel arrangement as well as enroute fellowship.

It was encouraging to see the following Rotarians volunteer their time for the Camp:

23rd April -Pavijetpur

Alok

Nilesh

Pinky

Vijay

Manisha

Premal

Rajan

Himanshu

Rishiraj

24th April - Chhotaudepur

Nilesh

Leena

Sharmishtha

Sonal

Ahmedbhai

Iqbal

Premal
Rajan

Manisha

26th April - Hansot
Nilesh

Vijay
Pinky

Shahnaz

Shantibhai

Bijal - Rishiraj

Sumul

Dr. Manoj Desai

Bulletin Editor