July 2019: Medical Camp

Our first project, in collaboration with Roshni Foundation, was a medical camp held in Jamshet village, Sawarpada at Dahanu, where we tested 300 children. This was a skin and eye camp and our aim was to detect lazy eye condition which if not detected can lead to blindness in later years. Also the children in this area have a lot of skin problems so we had a skin doctor at the camp, a hygienist and a nutritionist also gave talks on importance of both things.

Medicines were also distributed as required and the entire cost of the project was Rs.40,000. Our club likes to work in the rural areas as these are far more neglected compared to urban. We intend to do these camps regularly and dispense prescription glasses too, where required by the children. Our aim is to check and treat around 2000 children over the period of this 1 year.

July 2019: Alert India

We distributed self care kits and slippers through Alert India to patients with leprosy and deformities. Every year we collect Rs 500 as birthday contribution from our members and we use this for a meaningful project. This project was conducted from the birthday collection. The cost of the project was Rs. 40,000 and 70 people benefited from these kits.

2nd August 2019: Book Donation @ Colaba BMC School

We donated key books to class 5 and class 8 children in a BMC school in Colaba.

5th August 2019: Happy Schools @ Dahanu

Gave tablets to special children of Advitya which is a center for children with Downs Syndrome, Autism, and Cerebral Palsy.

6th August 2019: Access Foundation

7 fans, lights and a water filter was given to Access Life Foundation in Chembur which provides a home for the parents of a children suffering from cancer so the parents can fully focus on taking care of their child and do not have to worry about other things.

7th August 2019: Sangopita, Badlapur

We gave an industrial washing machine worth 2.10 lakhs Sangopita which is a center providing lifetime shelter to children who are disabled physically and mentally and sensory impaired or autistic.

August 2019: Tree Plantation in Dahanu

We planted 3000 saplings along with our Rotaract club in Dahanu which will benefit the entire village

August 2019: Pottery Wheel for Thane Special Needs Kids

We donated a pottery wheel to Jagritu Palak Sanstha in Thane which provides vocational training to mentally disabled children to secure their future.

1st September 2019: Mango Tree Plantation, Dahanu

We supported Rotaract club of Bombay Bayview to plant 200 Kesar mango saplings in Dahanu village. The trees were planted outside houses of adivasi children, in schools and other open spaces. In a few years be able to enjoy Kesar mangoes with their families for years to come.

6th & 9th September 2019: Flood Aid

Due to heavy rains in Mumbai, lot of people lost their shelter and food supplies. We distributed plastic sheets and food to the people affected with rains near Tardeo RTO and near JJ Hospital.

The donees were identified by an NGO PEHCHAN. Thanks to Hemangi & Sonali Bothra and Archana Goenka for their contribution. The people had such smiles on their faces on receiving simple things like plastic sheets and basic ration supply.

8th September 2019: Priyanz

Priyanz is a day Care centre for autistic and slow learner kids. We are associated with this organization since last 7 years. We have donated one computer for e-learning & computer training for the special kids of Priyanz.

13th September 2019: Food Sewa at Old Age Home

We did Annapurna at old age home. This was sponsored by Mita Sheth. About 100 elderly were given a wholesome meal.

21st September 2019: Equipment to TATA Memorial

We are donated equipment required for the skull cancer surgery to Tata Hospital. This equipment cost us app. Rs. 1 Lakh. This was done at the Homi Bhabha department of Tata hospital.

21st September 2019: Safale Community Centre

We have donated Rs 2.5 lakhs towards the community center of Safale - the District's Rural Golden jubilee project. We have sponsored the stage in this centre. 60% of work is already completed.

21st September 2019: SS Sawhney School Career Counselling

We had a superb career counselling event at SS Sahaney school. We had 25 professional from different fields including a few members from our own club who came to guide children on their future career choices. The event was very well appreciated by the school and the parents of the children. We had a concluding session after the Career Fair with the 10th std of S S Sahaney school on Friday 27th where our club member Mona Babla did a Dream Board and a Vision Board Workshop to bring clarity to their career dreams and to set their future goals.

22nd September 2019: Teacher Training, Dahanu

We arranged for a teacher training workshop in Dahanu, which was a super hit. These teachers never experienced this kind of training ever. Teacher's response was amazing. More than 57 to 60 teachers came. The trainer was highly appreciated.

27th September 2019: Eye & Skin Care Camp, Dahanu

We conducted our first eyes & skin care camp in July in Dahanu. During the follow up after one month, the results of the treatment given in the camp were very satisfying. So we conducted another skin care camp in another school in Dahanu only, where the doctors checked 160 children and gave medicines as required. It was very much required there as the skin problem is rampant in adivasi people especially children and hardly any treatment is available. About 300 children benefitted.

1st October 2019: Gandhi Jayanti

On our Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, and in solidarity with the Government's initiative to ban single-use plastic from 2nd October, we had a session on Environmental Sustainability and Waste Management in S S Sahaney school with 106 children.

Ritika Gadoya, a lawyer and social worker in the waste management and sustainability space, delivered the session and explained the waste problems in our country to the students how they could make their surroundings much cleaner.

7th October 2019: Nair Hospital

We donated an AC to the psychiatric department of NAIR HOSPITAL. They have regular workshops for patients and parents of children who are challenged and the air conditioner will make the 6 hour class more pleasant.

11th October 2019: Happy School Diwali Party

As a Diwali celebration, we distributed around 2,000 cotton shirts to the adivasi kids of Dahanu on Friday morning. We gave each kid banana and biscuits also. The joy on the faces of the kids after wearing the shirts. This is the first school, where we distributed shirts, banana, biscuits and games.

30th October 2019: Diwali @ Jaslok Cancer Ward

Distribution of gift hampers to the cancer patients of Jaslok Hospital, to wish them Happy Diwali and a speedy recovery.

30th October 2019: Diwali Party @ Worli Khel Khel Mein

We celebrated Diwali with a party for the children at Khel Khel Mein in Worli. The kids had a really good time and enjoyed themselves so much! It was a sight to see them delighting in the magic show.

Thank you Chaitali Sariya & Sonia Gupta for the magic show, Kanan Mehta for the delicious snacks, Charu Shah & Aditi Yagnik for the chocolates and our anonymous donor for the return gifts. Meghna Sanghvi & Tejal Desai volunteered for this event.

14th November 2019: Surakshit Bachpan for Children's Day

Zone 1 conducted introductory session on "Life Skills - Surakshit Bachpan" at Aryan School Girgaon, with students of the 7th std. This session was conducted by Yamini - IWC of Shivaji Park, Dhruma - IWC of Hanging Garden and Anuja - IWC of Bombay Bayview, to help children recognise their emotions & equip them to strengthen them.

14th November 2019: Shirt Distribution - Dahanu

We held the second round of shirt distribution to the remaining kids in Dahanu yesterday, along with bags and the game of chess. The beautiful smiles of these kids spread joyful colour to our day!

22nd November 2019: Saphale Centre Inauguration, Dahanu

Innerwheel District 314 has built a community center in collaboration with SHED(Society for Human and Environmental Development) in Saphale as the Golden Jubilee rural project. It will benefit 92 villages and around 2 lakh villagers.

Activities such as health check ups, counselling for various problems, skill development, mobile health clinic, mass marriage, vocational training, guidance to farmers etc. will be carried out for the villagers' overall development.

23rd November 2019: Good Touch, Bad Touch @ Sparsh

18th December 2019: Good Touch, Bad Touch and Vedic Maths @ Sparsh

We did a educational talk on good touch bad touch at S S Sahaney scool in Khar. We also conducted a class on vedic maths for children of class 7 onwards. Altogether 350 children benefitted from this program.

23rd December 2019: Endoscope for TATA Memorial Hospital

For the first time our Innerwheel Club of Bombay Bayview did a project under District Grant. We donated an endoscopy machine costing 5.6 lakhs to the OPD department of Tata Memorial Hospital, jointly with Rotary Club of Bombay Royales.

30th December 2019: Assistive Aids to differently abled kids

We helped with required assistive aids to the children with different neurological disabilities like cerebral palsy, spina bifida etc. It will help in mobility and preventing further disability in these kids. The parents were so grateful to Bayview.

6th January 2020: Water Motor for Special Needs School @ Airoli

We replaced a water motor and completed required plumbing work at the school for the special kids in Airoli, New Bombay. Their water motor was broken and they urgently required new one.

9th January 2020: Jan Swayyam @ Wadia Hospital

26th January 2020: Indradhanush 2020

Our annual art competition for NGOs, which is our flagship project, was held on 26th January at Kamla Nehru Park. Every year the children look forward to this day of fun, music, drawing, food and laughter, and this year we met those expectations fully!

Five NGOs took part with a total of 130 children in the competition. The theme was abstract and the children excelled in their creativity and imagination. They went home with goodie bags full of school supplies, stationary, chocolate, candies, cake and other snacks.

15th February 2020: Computers to NGOs

IWCBB donated 15 CPUs and 3 laptops, to different NGOs, which will use these in their different vocational training programs.

We gave these for the Adivasi and other deserving kids of Roshni Foundation, Samatol Foundation, Supervasi and Jagruti Palak Sansthan.

Some of their apprentices are eagerly designing machines in 3D modeling software. Coming from a background of educational poverty, this support is important to improve their abilities.

26th February 2020: Priyanz Office Equipment

We gave a Xerox machine and printer to Priyanz, the day care centre for special needs kids. This printer will come in handy to make many teaching aids and worksheets for the kids, to assist them in their upcoming exam as well as during the year in their daily classwork.

4th March 2020: Sponsored Wheelchairs

Today we donated 4 wheelchairs to Dayanand hospital at Talasari.

7th March 2020: Women's Empowerment

We inaugurated a project of Beautician course with the registration of 20 girls in ULhasnagar. Along with that, we distributed small scale business materials to needy, poor but motivated women as part of our encouragement for self employment at the office of NGO Jyot at Ulhasnagar. These ladies have promised to return back the money given to them @ at least Rs 100 per month from their income.

Projects during COVID Lockdown

Distributed ration to the people of Anand Nagar, Jogeshwari West opposite to Mega Mall. They had received only rice from the government. So we gave other requirements to them. It was IWCBB's good fortune that we could help them with our limited resources.

We donated two infrared digital thermometers and distributed food to the members of Paraplegic Foundation at Sion.

Rations and grains were distributed to the blind and physical handicapped families at Municipal Grounds, Sewree.

We distributed raw food packs comprising of dal, salt, spices, potatoes and onions at Palghar Vikramgarh Taluka. We did this distribution through Suhrid foundation with whom we are associated since last six years.

We donated 30 PPEs, 5,000 face masks, and food grains to app. 2000 families as well as food to birds & animals too, in different interior areas of Maharashtra and Goa.

Five thousand face masks were provided to the Navy people as they were in dire need of masks at the beginning of the lockdown.

We distributed food grains to 50 families of Mahatma Phule Nagar, Bandar pada, Kansal Nagar in Ambivali, next to Kalyan.

We gave rice, dal, salt and onion to the very poor 20 families of Osarwadi village in Palghar district, who hadn't yet received their rations from the government.

We distributed foodgrains in Geetanagar and Ambernath.

Distributed food grains to 110 families in 2 interior villages of Karjat-Chinch Khambla and Vadvihir Aadivasi Pada, where people had nothing to eat due to lockdown.

We donated PPE kits(protective gears for the medical staff), food grains to poor families in Ambernath, Karjat, Dadar, Tata Hospital and Arpora and Nagoa in North Goa, through our regular NGOs and one Gurudwara.

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ONGOING PROJECTS - from previous years

WEEKLY FOOD SEWA @ TATA Memorial Cancer Hospital

MONTHLY ANNAPOORNA

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