Rotary Club of Vasco da gama

Rtn. Vinay Pai Raikar, IPP of RC Panaji Mid Town was the Guest Speaker on TRF.

Dr. Vinay as President has the record of the highest ever club contributions to Annual Giving with over $ 100,000 collected in a single year by a single club. This was incidentally almost half the total District annual Giving for 2007-08.

He spoke of how he motivated the members to give, starting with himself... and how they responeded

Our Club has sponsored a new Rotary Club in the suburbs of our Town.

The Charter of ROTARY CLUB OF DABOLIM-GOA shall be received soon and Dinesh Heda shall be the Charter President and Amit Bandekar will be the Charter Secretary.

We have submitted our application form for our first ever Matching Grants project complete with all signatures of the Partners to TRF on 13th November 2008.

Asha Deep Special School is a School for the Intellectually Disabled Children. It is located at Headland Sada, Mormugao, Goa and has about 140 students from Mormugao Taluka (20 kms radius). The School is run by an independent Trust and has been serving the Community for over a decade.

Children's day was celebrated at the Club with a fancy dress competition.

Rtn. HAJI RAZAIO HAJI REHMAT, from Malysia attended the Club as a visiting Rotarian.

Vocational Award presented to following persons:

1. Mr. Anil Kundulkar – Music Teacher from Vasco -30yrs of devoted service.

2. Mrs.Bona Dias – Nurse in Vasco serving people for last35 years.

3.Mr.Shashikant Padwal – Municipal Worker in Sanitary dept. picking up garbage/sewage for last 20 years keeping the city clean and stenchless.

4. Dr. Verendra Gaoncar – A peadician doctor from Panjim who bring hope and smile on the faces of parents and child for last many years.

The All Goa under 15 chess tournament organised by our club on the 18th and 19th was a great success. Rtn.Dattaraj in his unassuming style organised the event in a manner that drew a lot of accolades for the club. Sadly due to the loss of an aunt he could not attend the closing and prize distribution. M.L.A. Milind Naik attended the event in the capacity of Chief Guest and encouraged the participants to look towards greater glory. Rtn.Madhav, Rtn. Sanjay Satardekar, Rtn. Sandesh Kundaikar were a great help. During the day Rtn.

Today the Headmistress of Government school,Vasco,Mrs.Belivia Valadares was felicitated by the teachers of the school on her retirement. I have not experienced such a farewell earlier which was emotionally charged and with the teachers taking over all the aspects of organising including singing the farewell songs specially written for the occasion. I was pleasantly surprised that I ,as the Rotary President, was honoured with the task of felicitating Madam on behalf of the teachers. Such is the love and affection of the school towards our Club that I could only sense it today.

Rtn. Prakash Saraswat and Rtn. Shakil Manerkar in Lusaka, Zambia

Rotary Club of Vasco da gama organised a All Goa Spelling Competition on 31st August.