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Rotary and CSR

Rotary addresses community issues locally. Rotary members serve in many ways, but we focus on critical areas dealing with some of the most pressing humanitarian issues:

The Rotary Foundation India’s CSR grants program funds sustainable, practical projects in Rotary’s focus areas. Rotary collaborates with community leaders, local cooperating organizations, and other experts to achieve the best results. RF(I) has a long history of project implementation and believes in partnerships and collaboration. The Rotary Foundation India works hard to form corporate partnerships that align with its values. RF (I) collaborates with large and small corporations to identify, design, and implement alliances that utilize corporate strengths.

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corporate partners

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Key Programmes

Health Systems Strengthening

The concept of “universal healthcare” (UHC) has become a popular goal worldwide. RF (I) interventions in the health sector involve strengthening primary health care, which includes preventive, promotive, and curative services. These services must be accessible, physically, financially, and culturally sensitive, as well as available to the local community.

Key CSR Projects

  • Improve the capacity of local healthcare professionals
  • Promote prevention programs to reduce infectious disease spread and non-communicable disease incidence and complications.
  • Improve the infrastructure for health in nearby communities
  • Educate and mobilize communities to help prevent the spread of major diseases
  • Prevent physical disability resulting from disease or injury

Achievements

Dialysis machines across hospitals
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Mobile Medical Units (MMUs)
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Upgradation of Primary Health Centers (PHCS)
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Pediatric Heart Surgeries
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Cataract Operations
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Beneficiaries of Artificial Limbs
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Promoting Education

Universal primary education has been prioritized since the MDGs were established. Education is the most powerful tool for social, economic, and political change, enabling socio-economic mobility and an equitable society. RF (I) aims to improve education quality and provide educational opportunities through educational interventions. Rotary’s programs focus on the following:
  • Invite the community to support programs that improve primary education and literacy for all.
  • Increase adult literacy
  • Work to reduce gender disparity in education
  • Support primary education and literacy studies for career-minded professionals.

Key CSR Projects

  • Tech and training (computer labs, smart boards, tablet distribution with teacher/administrator training on use and teaching methodology)
  • Adult Literacy
  • Teacher Training
  • Classroom construction, upgradation of overall school infrastructure
  • Supporting girls’ education (reduction in out-of-school dropouts, additional learning opportunities)
  • School and Anganwadi refurbishment
Bicycle distribution to girl students
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E-learning systems set-up across schools
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E-tab distribution
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Pedagogical Teacher's Training
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Infrastructure upgradation in schools
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Computer labs for visually impaired students across schools
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Achievements

Providing Clean Water

Sanitation and hygiene are needed to fully enjoy the benefits of improved drinking water. Without these necessities, millions of children are at risk. Water- and sanitation-related diseases kill many children under age. Having clean water and sanitation decreases waterborne diseases, children stay healthier and attend school more often, and mothers can spend less time carrying water and more time helping their families. Rotary projects allow communities to develop and maintain sustainable water and sanitation systems.

Key CSR Projects

  • Improved water sources and sanitation facilities, including toilet construction/ refurbishment.
  • Gravity-fed systems, piping, tanks, wells, rainwater harvesting, dams, and bunds for drinking water and groundwater recharge
  • Rainwater harvesting: dams/bunds/ reservoirs
  • Water treatment/purification.
  • Hygiene and behavior change education and training.
  • Sanitation (excreta disposal, hand washing and hygiene, wastewater management, solid waste management, vector control).
  • Watershed management
  • Wash in schools
  • Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) in schools.
  • Hygiene and behavior change education and training.

Growing Local Economies

Economic development is essential to economic growth, creating high-paying jobs and improving quality of life. Rotary invests in people to improve their lives and communities economically. The Rotary Foundation India helps Rotary members invest in people by improving their communities and livelihoods economically over time.

Key CSR Projects

  • Developing entrepreneurs, community leaders, local organizations, and community networks to help poor communities develop economically;
  • Developing opportunities for productive work
  • Reducing poverty in under-served communities

Achievements

Vocational training of students
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Fruit tree plantations leading to improved livelihood in households across 60 villages
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Women trained in vocational
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Technical training centers for differently abled students

"Grama Lakshmi" skills A microenterprise projects

We support natural resource conservation, ecological sustainability, and community-environment harmony. We help communities access grants, adopt local solutions, and innovate to combat climate change and environmental degradation.

Rotary members always address environmental issues by creating projects, changing policy, and planning.

Protecting the envionment

Key CSR Projects

  • Ecological restoration wastewater treatment plant.
  • Creating a high-density forest of native Indian plants for biodiversity conservation by using the Miyawaki Plantation Method.
  • Mangrove’s Plantation and Multipurpose Community Centre.
  • Convert farming into natural farming for a healthy society, sustaining the environment, & economic sustainability for farmers.

Achievements

Mangrove Tree plantations
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Decentralised water treatment plants providing access to drinking water to over 2 lakh beneficiaries
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Solar panels invarious communities
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