Rotary Club of Cossipore

Achievements in 2004-05

The various activities of the club undertaken during the Rotary year 2004-05 are listed below:

CLUB SERVICE

Bulletin:

The bulletin was printed on a regular basis in which the Club news, District news, RI news as well as some important non-rotary news are being printed on a regular basis. News related to the Rotary designated months was printed accordingly.  News related to major events of the District was printed repeatedly till the events are completed.

Fellowship

1. The 38^th Installation Ceremony was celebrated on 28^th June, 2004 at Gorky Sadan and attended by DG, DGE, IPDG, District officials, neighbouring club officials, guests and about 90% of our members with their spouse.
2. DG visit was held on 9^th August, 2004 and followed by fellowship and dinner. The members enjoyed the evening with their family.
3. Our club co-hosted the International Night, and Indo-Japan cultural exchange programme, where many of our members were present during the programme, fellowship and dinner.
4. Our club was one of the host clubs in an evening with The Centennial Bell at Rotary Centre, where many PDGs, DGE, district officials, and Rotarians of other clubs were present during the fellowship and dinner.
5. After one of the club’s centennial project of ENT Checkup camp for 100 children, the members present during the camp gather for a fellowship meet at the residence of PP Rtn Barun Chatterjee on 17^th October.
6. Bijoya & Diwali Meet was organised by the club at the rooftop of President Avijit’s house. Members and annes shared jokes, poems and songs with each other. There were pleasant exchanges and humours galore. Food was excellent in shape of Briyani, chanp, burhani.
7. After the Health Awareness Camp at Basanti, Sunderban on 16^th January,2005,  club members and their spouse of our club and RC Outram enjoyed the Launch party, with fellowship and lunch which includes prawn, mutton and fish in large quantities.
8. Rtn Awadesh Kumar Sinha, our very active club member, hosted a fellowship and lunch get-together at his residence, where most of our members with their families were present and enjoyed the evening.
9. Finally, Rtn Dhruba Kundu hosted the clubs Charter Night celebration at his residence on 15^th June, 2005.

Club Assembly

1. The first club assembly was organised on 23^rd May, 2004 at Dalhousie Athletic Club, followed by fellowship and lunch.
2. The second club assembly was organised on 26^th July, 2004, during the AG visit at Outram Club.
3. The third club assembly was organised on 9^th August, 2004
4. The fourth club assembly was organised on 24^th April, 2004

Meeting

1. Regular Weekly Meeting was held as usual with frequent Guest speakers who spoke on various subjects related to Rotary and non-Rotary matters.
2. The club organised a special meeting with spouse, where the members were requested to bring in their spouses in the meeting,
3. Our club has organised joint meetings with various other Rotary clubs in our District.
4. Bulletin was published in each and every Regular Weekly Meeting by the most efficient Bulletin Editor,
5. A total of nine board meetings were held during this year.

Inauguration of Inner Wheel Club of Cossipore

• This is something special for the spouses of our members.  Inner Wheel Club of Cossipore was formed and Chartered in this year, with the strongest support of our members who motivated their spouse to form this organisation.

COMMUNITY SERVICE  

1.       School bags were donated to the underprivileged children of Pally Unnayan Samiti of Baruipur and The Calcutta Orphanage of Shyampukur in North Kolkata.

2.       A cheque of Rs. 5000/- was donated to Father Fernandez of Pally Unnayan Samiti, Baruipur.

3.       The club was one of the co-host clubs in the District programme -‘World Zoonosis Day’.

4.       Study materials were distributed to the Calcutta Orphanage at Shyampukur, Kolkata.

5.       One of the co-host of the 57^th Independence Celebration at West Bengal Kabaddi Association.

6.       Organised a Sit-n-Draw competition for little children, jointly with Darjeepara Milon Sangha, the theme being “Preserve Planet Earth’ and ‘Drug Abuse’. DGE Swapan Mukherjee handed over the prizes at a later date.

7.       Club donated sarees  to Senior Citizen Commiittee Chairman Rtn Bhupen Roy to be distributed to Senior citiznes

8.       T-shirts, sweets and biscuits were distributed to 100 children before the Puja festival in the month of October, 2004.

9.       Jointly with 10 other clubs, our club donated an ECG machine to the mobile unit of Bharat Sebashram at Kasba. DG Prabir Chakraborty handed over the machine and medicines on behalf of the clubs.

10.   As a Centennial Project, club organised an ENT Check-up camp for 100 small children at Corporation School, Shyampukur.  Three eminent ENT specialists of UDICHI Head-Neck centre supported us in this noble cause. T-shirts, biscuits and sweets were distributed to the children, while magic tricks were shown by magician Prabhat to entertain the children.

11.   Our club was one of the host clubs in the ‘Anti Drug Rally’, organised by the District.

12.   The club organised a mega event of the year at Basanti, Sunderban. A Health Awareness Programme with a follow-up plans for the emergency patients. Around 200 patients were treated by eminent doctors in the field of ENT, Gynaecology, Paediatrics and General Surgery.

13.   An Eye Screening Camp was again organised at Basanti, Sundeban at a later date, jointly with RC Calcutta. About 160 patients were screened and 23 patients were selected for free Cataract Operation at a later date.

14.   Six IOL operations were conducted jointly with RC Calcutta at Lake Town Alokon Nursing Home. The club arranged for the sunglasses and post operative medicines for the patients.

15.   Our club started with a continuing project of ‘Arsenic Awareness’ jointly by Global Matrix. This project is unique of its kind.

VOCATIONAL SERVICE

VOCATIONAL AWARDS

The vocational appreciation awards and felicitation were given to Smt Mahasweta Debi for her Vocational Excellence in the field of Literature and to Sri Amarnath Ghosh for his vocational excellence in the field of arts and crafts.

YOUTH SERVICE

1. Our club was one of the host clubs to organise a Seminar on ‘Swami Vivekananda – an Icon of Indian Youth’ at Nehru Museum in the month of September.
2. Our club was one of the co-host clubs to organise RYLA at IIM, Joka. President Avijit demonstrated Aikido and spoke on its functions related to Time, Space and Conflict management, in one of the session.
3. Again our club was one of the co-host clubs to organise the District Sports Meet for Children, organised by District Naba Disha Committee.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

1. PULSE POLIO

All the Mop-up Operations, NID and SNIDs were successfully organised by the club in KMC Ward No 3, Borough No. 1. Large-scale publicity was made and food packets were distributed to the health workers in all the booths under this ward area.

2. We are one of host clubs to organise the ‘International Night’, an Indo-Japanese cultural exchange programme, held at Rotary Sadan, with fellowship and dinner for all those present during the evening.
3. During Durga Puja we had honoured guest in Rtn Dr. Peter Mossman from Rotary Club of Barcelona, Spain, Mr Peter Scidler of Caricus Disaster Relief Society of Germany, his counterpart in New Delhi, Fr. Faustin and Fr. Fernandez. Our club members took all of them for a Puja Pandel hopping with the District Sharad Samman Committee team. Later they were taken to Outram Club for fellowship and dinner. Rtn Peter Mossman assured to have service activities relating to women empowerment and training with our club in future.
4. Rotary Foundation Workshop was held in one of our Regular club meeting, where members of our club and neighbouring clubs exchange an interactive session with the District Officials regarding Matching grants and TRF contribution.
5. One of our member PP Shankar Bhowmick represented our club in the Rotary Convention held at Chicago.