ALL PROJECTS THIS YEAR WILL PRIMARILY BE CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS VARIOUS CAUSES, EXECUTED REMOTELY KEEPING IN MIND THE RESTRICTIONS ON MOVEMENT AND THE SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUIRED BY THE CORONA PANDEMIC.

1st July 2020: Multiple Projects!!

Amid the muted celebration of our team's installation, we haven't forgotten our duty to help the under privileged. So on the first day of this new Innerwheel year, we executed the following projects:

1. Planting of fruit trees at Dahanu in the front yard of schools as well as students' houses. Altogether 335 trees of Kesar mangoes were planted in this initiative.
2. Tree plantation at Chirawa, Rajasthan. Altogether 100 trees were planted at this location.
3. Annapurna at Sangopita. Our long standing tradition of kicking off the year with our special needs friends, who look forward to our festive lunches. 60 kids and 15 staff enjoyed our simple yet celebratory meals with us.
4. Our Club contributed towards 908 meals for the Rotary and Inner Wheel District Annapurna project.
5. Ration distribution to 50 patients in Leprosy colony at Ulhasnagar from our Sunshine Collection. The Sunshine Collection is a fund gathered for members' birthdays and celebrates these all at once.

COVID related projects in July 2020

1. Donated 2 Oxygen cylinders to oxygen bank At Bhendi Bazaar . This oxygen bank provides fully refundable cylinders to the lesser privileged. This is much needed in Covid 19 pandemic times.
2. Distribution of Kavach Maternity kits to those women who have recently delivered babies in MCGM hospitals. Each kit is for Rs. 880 and includes towel, soaps, underwear, feeding gown and reusable pads. We donated 5 kits and our own member Bharati Trivedi is a part of Kavach.
3. Wockhardt Foundation's Covid 19 relief vans are providing essential services to the underprivileged and slums in Mumbai. We sent immunity medicines for 50 children through this.
4. They also have an Annaj plus programme in which 1 month's full ration will be distributed to the underprivilege community at a cost of Rs 1100 per family. We contributed towards 5 such families.
5. Cuddles foundation looks after providing care and food to children suffering due to cancer. Don't let COVID stop a child's fight against cancer.The need for ration support is higher than ever now, especially with COVID related disruptions to daily livelihoods. It is often the only incentive for families to continue with their child's treatment. We have contributed towards 5 such children.
6. Donated a fridge to GT Hospital jointly with IWC of Seacoast as they did not have any place to store important medicines and injections to treat covid patients.
7. A dream dreamt and a wish fulfilled.
   This year we took an initiative to help Dayanand Hospital located in PALGHAR. The hospital caters to the medical needs of the tribal (ADIVASI) people of the Palghar District. with the help of our member Ruchita and her son Ansh to pilot this full project.
   We donated ppe kits, surgical masks, nitrile gloves, sanitizer and shoe covers.

District Projects in July 2020

1. We contributed towards the District Urban Medical Project- for 1 Smart COVID OPD centre. These were made in at GT Hospital, Cama Hospital and George Hospital . We did it jointly with it IWC Hanging Garden and IWC Nariman Point.
2. District Urban Environment Project tree plantation for Inner Wheel Forest we contributed for 100 trees.
3. District Rural Project Rainwater Harvesting in villages of Darshet and Dongarpada. Enhanced drinking water quality and less workload on women and children who will not have to go long distances for water. We implemeted water harvesting on 2 roofs.
4. District Rural Alternate Source of Energy Project- we donated 400 Solar kits to those homes having children from Ashramshala at Shantivan (Wakdi) so that they can continue studying. Their teachers go there to teach them, as children can't stay in hostel. Outsiders were not allowed in those villages till now, so we had to wait till the permission was given in October. One kit includes a panel, inverter, 2 LED bulbs, Battery, and a USB port.

22nd July 2020: Education Projects

"Education is all a matter of building bridges" - Ralph Ellison

With our Urban E-Learning, we have tried doing the same.

1. We donated smart phones to Tanuj a grade 4 student from Seva Sadan School and a grade 9 student Aradhna from St Joseph's School for their online studies.
2. Our dear members generously donated a yearly fees for a college going boy Jainam Jain from Prahladrai Dalmia Lions College in Malad.
3. Diksha Yogi and Sailee Mandavkar of grade 5 from the Foster Care Committee founded by Maharashtra State Women's Council.
4. We also donated a Dell laptop to a social worker from Ulhasnagar.

1st August 2020: Food Sewa

We distributed ration to the families of physically/ mentally challenged kids, for whom even getting basic food is also a bigger challenge as some of them don't have any earning member and some are abandoned by the earning member of the family.

Kudos to our volunteers who did ground work for us to reach out to such deserving families amid pandemic. We want to do it every month as an ongoing project every month along with Sangopita's Annapurna. Ration for one family costs around Rs. 1000/- per month. We are planning to help around 15 families each month.

2nd August 2020: Project Baghban Palghar Old Age Home

Swargiya Gopichand Poniya Charitable Trust is an Old Age Home located in Palghar. It houses senior citizens isolated by their migrant children.

Since November 2018 it has been taking care of their needs by providing them with basic necessities like food shelter and entertainment with the aim of living together as one big happy family. We donated 4-Beds with mattress, 4-ceiling Fans, Food/Grocery for 3 months. It felt really great to begin the month by there for them.

We did this project along with our Rotary Club.

August 2020: Shudhu Tablets

We sent water purifying tablets made by Wockhardt foundation to Hyderabad which will get distributed in slum areas. We sent almost 8000 tablets. Each tablet purifies 20 litres of water . Much needed during monsoons.

15th August 2020: Freedom Charity Walk

"Together we are making a difference". Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Bayview celebrated Independence day in an unique way by conducting A Freedom Charity Walk for the welfare of our Jawans.

Our 191 patriotic participations walked the miles with high spirits. The proceeds from the event will go to aid the Bharat ke Veer Foundation.

Participants walked on 15th August and submitted their walking data by a google form. Each participant will receive a e certificate.

23rd August 2020: PARVADHIRAJ - King of Festivals

We shared our joy, celebrating the festivals of Paryushan and Ganesh Chaturthi with a Lunch at Ashadaan old age home. Member Charu sponsored 25 kgs of rice.

25th August 2020: Ration donation at Vithalwadi

We distributed ration to 30 families having 1 or more handicapped members and another 20 very poor families at Vithalwadi near Kalyan.

Our volunteers identified these families after visiting them personally.

This was a joint project with IWC Bombay Hanging Garden and IWC Bombay Bayview.

27th August 2020: Drawing & Essay Competition

We held a drawing and essay competition for nearly 46 enthusiastic kids of different age groups. The kids were from the following institutions:
Asha Sadan
Foster Care Centre
Shardaashram Vidhyamandir Boys High School
Martha High School
St Aloysius High School
Canossa High School

They took part in the Essay writing competition in the languages of Marathi, Hindi, English on the topics of Traditional Games versus Modern games, Reasons to play Traditional games, Effects of traditional games on childhood.

Prizes in different age categories were given to the kids on basis of creativity and language skills.

The kids also took part in a Drawing competition on topics like Games and Art, My favourite traditional games, Favourite play area.

Prizes were given to the kids based on Proportion and perspective of figures and use of colours and the topic used.

A big Thank you to our member Rupali Shah for helping us with the above project as well as prizes.

Our members actively participated as well:
Payal Sheth judged the Drawing competition
Tanvi Parikh judged the Marathi Essays
Reepa Jasani judged the English and Hindi Essays

A heartfelt Thank You to our club members for giving their time in judging the competitions.

August 2020: Nitrile Gloves @ Nair Hospital

We donated 10,000 Nitrile gloves to Nair Hospital. Our Executive Committee Member, Charu Shah piloted this project.

August 2020: Fees for 2 children

Paid for 2 children's education fees. Firstly, for a boy named Tanuj, he is studying in the 4th grade, whose parents are without employment. We also gave the fees for a young girl in her last year of college.

Both send us letters of appeal/gratitude.

September 2020: Ration Distribution

Ongoing project of Ration distribution to 15 families of mentally/physically challenged children in Thane. for them even basic grocery is hard to get.

September 2020: Tiffin service for senior citizens

We started our tiffin service to seniors in Nalasoparo on 1st Sept, and the response we got was heart touching. These daily tiffins are given to 11 senior citizens who are living alone. The food is prepared for the tiffin by women whose husbands have lost their jobs, so earning them some much needed income in these troubled times.

September 2020: Jeevdaya Anna Daan

We distributed dalia to 150 cows in Surajgarh, Rajasthan, for 7 consecutive days in the week of Pitru Paksh.

September 2020: Clothes Drive

Nandadeep Foundation in Kalyan's orphan home shelter for boys and girls required old clothes for 2-15 year old children. Bedsheets and rations were also much needed. All our members and friends contributed generously and in large numbers for this.

Sept & October 2020: Tiffins to seniors

From his tiny kitchen in Borivali, 59-year-old Mark D'Souza has been delivering free lunches to needy senior citizens in Borivali's IC colony since 2012 without a single day's break; the number of lunches is slowly growing.

Every afternoon, about 80 senior citizens in Mumbai wait for a certain man to walk through their doors, for he comes bearing son-like devotion packaged in wholesome meals for the whole day - lunch, dinner and next day's breakfast.

Mumbai's Mark D'Souza is the lifeline for those who do not have the means to eat healthy meals, but his service to the community goes way beyond the dabbas he personally delivers to their doorsteps. Our Club donated for 9 meals for 80 seniors in September and 10 meals in October, sponsored generously by our members on their special days .

1st October 2020: Generator donated to Samparc, Alibaug

We installed a Kgen generator in Alibag at the Samparc Balgram orphanage to help the children there to continue their online studies even during power cuts. This was done jointly with Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Pier and Inner Wheel Club of Mumbai Nariman Point

2nd October 2020: Talk on organ donation by Jaya Jairam and 4th GBM

A salute to The Father of our Nation Bapu taught us to work hard with truth and perseverance to achieve our goals as an individual self.Selflessness, along with his other teachings are just a few drops in the ocean of knowledge.

Let's do the most selfless thing one can do; let's be that someone who makes someone else look forward to tomorrow. LEAVE A LEGACY OF LIFE.

We made a dance skit video on Organ Donation Awareness which was directed, conceptualised and choreographed by Urvi Vora. It is available on both our YouTube and Facebook channels.

We also had a talk on organ donation by Jaya Jairam of Mohan Foundation. the skit and the talk was a wonderful way to show that our 1 life can save 55 lives.

October 2020: Medicines to Police

We donated medicines to the Satara Police personnel suffering from Covid. These much valued essential services people are the lifeline of our country in these troubled times.

October 2020: Jeevdaya

Many Gaushalas in Gujarat are facing a crisis to sustain themselves in this Pandemic. We have provided fodder for 10000 plus cows who are nurtured at the Rajaram Gaushala located Bhabhar village near Deesa. Thanks to our generous donors who made this possible.

October 2020: Dayanand Hospital Project

Dayanand hospital at Talasari is handling lots of delivery cases and other ailments with fever cases without any prior covid test. So the doctors and sisters are taking lots of risk there. They needed gloves, masks and sanitizer. We donated them all these with the help of Enel X company.

October 2020: Water Purification Tablet Distribution, Hyderabad

We have distributed water purification tablets to Gurubramhanagar, a basti in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. Approximately 500 families live here in shanties with no clean drinking water. These tablets are essential to maintain their health in these times.

October 2020: Food Sewa, Ulhasnagar

We distributed ration to the very poor families at Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Ulhasnagar. Thanks to Enel X company for sponsoring this with us.

October 2020: Annapoorna Diwas

Our ongoing project of a special meal on the first of each month for the children of Sangopita in Badlapur.

October 2020: E Waste Management

We are delighted to inform that we started our E waste Project from Friday 25th October. Our club contributed over 350kgs of e waste. Meghna Sanghvi, Tejal Damani and Smeeta Jhunjhunwalas building contributed towards this . The District E Waste committee at the end of the year will be using it for a worthy project.

October 2020: Nandadeep Orphanage

Eat right...Live good ! Learn today ....Lead Tomorrow!

In our project for educating and nourishing the children of Nandadeep Orphanage in Kalyan, we provided clothes, educational books, colors and ration for a month for 75 children looked after by Nandadeep Foundation. This foundation helps orphans and street children with their basic care and needs.

30th October 2020: Medical aid to leprosy patients

We distributed medicines and bandages to the leprosy patients in Ulhasnagar. Thanks to Dipa and Enel X THE ENERGY MANAGEMENT for their contribution

1st November 2020: Elocution and Recitation Competition

As a part of CC project we carried out an elocution and recitation competition on the topic of "Water Conservation" amongst 30 students of various schools in English, Hindi and Marathi, for grades 6th 7th and 8th respectively.

The kids did well in their respective language chosen. Congratulations to all the winners.

As per the given guidelines we sent our 2 best speeches (Elocution) in each of the languages - Hindi, English, Marathi and 1 best Recitation from each of the same languages.

The winners are as follows:

ENG ELOCUTION

• 1. Candidate 17- Meer Ayesha- St Joseph
• 2. Candidate 18- Shaikh Alina- St Joseph
HINDI ELOCUTION

• 1. Candidate 3- Akifa- St Joseph
• 2. Candidate 10- Payal- St Joseph
MARATHI ELOCUTION

• 1. Candidate 5- Ritika- St Joseph
• 2. Candidate 13- Sanghi Surga- St Joseph


• Eng Recitation: Candidate 12- Zaini- St Joseph
• Hindi Recitation: Candidate 9 - Arva Shamsi - St Joseph
• Marathi Recitation: Candidate 15- Afifa -- St Joseph school

1st November 2020: Girls' Education

Tuba Khan is studying in Anjuman E Islam College Bandra in the 12th std in Science stream. An extremely bright and intelligent girl but right now is not faring too well as she is unable to attend online college lectures. She and her sister share a cell phone and since the sister uses the phone for her classes Tuba has no access to her lectures. We paid the fee of coaching classes for Tuba Khan and gave her a mobile phone for her online classes.

1st November 2020: Rejuvenation of water bodies

Cleaning and rejuvenation of existing water bodies is one of the aspects of Government of India's water conservation policies. Association President Vasudha is working on an acknowlegdment from the Central Government's water department for Inner Wheel Clubs' participation in this initiative. She thinks it is easy to do for all Inner Wheel Clubs in India as it doesn't require much funds and any specific expertise. We contributed towards this noble deed.

2nd November 2020: Community Fridge, Dadar

Today our club donated a community fridge at Dadar west in coordination with the organisation Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry. It is going to be managed by the local corporator Nitin Sardesai to see to it that the fridge is loaded with food everyday and maximum nubmer of people can get the benefit of the fridge.

Club President Smeeta, PP Mita Sheth, Club Secretary Kanan Mehta, CC Meghna and members Tejal and Charu were present for this project. It is a very fulfilling initiative and many needy will benefit from this fridge.

2nd November 2020: Covid Prevention Kits to Police

We provided Covid precaution kits to policemen.

3rd November 2020: Annapurna, Seva Sadan

We treated 90 children plus staff of Seva Sadan School to cheese sandwiches and biscuits.

1st to 3rd November 2020: Ek Naya Prayaas

Ek Naya Prayaas, is a charitable eCommerce platform which has brought together 30+ NGOs to showcase and sell products and raise funds for their activities. Impacted by the effects of the virus, these NGO's are limited in their outreach, and so Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Bayview has come up with this unique concept to ensure that they find a simple and sustainable platform to sell their wares. In its part, IWCBB invites its family, friends, and donors to visit the portal and contribute to the development of society.

Inauguration of the website was on 31st October and our chief guest was District Chairman Amala Mehta. the ceremony was commencerarted by our club member Lotca Mehra who sang a beautiful Ganesh Stuti. Puja pur club member navigated the entire website to show how user friendly it was and was ready to go online after the inauguration.

Ek Naya Prayaas was an experience which I will always remember in my year. The team has worked so hard to make it a huge success.

Team Ek Naya Prayaas :
NGO Coordinators - Anuja, Meghna, Kanan, Nimisha, Sonia, Manisha, Insiyah, Rituu, Tejal D, Tanvi, Priyanka, Sarita, Renu, Puja, Rajni

Website designing and technical - Vedika Jhunjhunwala & Kartik Kapadia

Backend team for all troubleshooting & logistics - Dipa & Vinita (they had the toughest job, could not have been possible without their support)

Inauguration event team - Tejal D, Mitali, Puja and Grishma

November 2020: Tiffins to Borivali senior citizens

We continue with assisting seniors in lockdown with food distribution to 80 elderly people in Borivali, for the third month in a row. We have donated till the end of the month of November for their daily meals.

From the month of December onwards, we request anyone who would like to step up to continue this food sewa. If anyone wants to sponsor food for them, the per meal cost for 80 people is Rs. 4000/- per meal, for the regular food.

Old uncles and aunties were delightfully surprised to receive biryani, shrikhand, kheer and coffee these days though, a change from their usual meal fare.

November 2020: Tiffins to Nallasopara senior citizens

Third month in a row, we also continued serving warm meals to 11 senior citizens at Nalasopara. These meals are cooked by needy women, thus providing them with a source of income as well. This, too, has continued through three months without a break. The elderly being served these senior citizens were overwhelmed and very grateful to our club.

We invite and welcome sponsors for this food sewa as well - Rs. 27,000/- provides a month of meals to all 11 senior citizens we have identified in need of this service. Please do take this opportunity to give something back to the underprivileged.

This tiffin service would not have been possible without the support of our generous donors. A very big thank you to all of you! The project was executed with Shree Aadi Jin Yuvak Charitable Trust.

10th - 15th November 2020: Spreading Diwali Cheer

Our second community fridge was inaugurated during the Diwali week at Dadar East Naigon. There is a 3rd one being inaugurated next week.

IWCBB helped make Diwali special and sweet for 100 poor families of Karjat by giving them groceries for festival.

We gave Diwali bonus to 7 employees of Manav Foundation.

We also gave a smart phone to a student - Tuba Khan - for her online studies.

14th November 2020: Khelo India Children's Day

A part of the CC projects for 2020-21, Khelo India event was held to help shape a better personality in kids. We kept them in touch with nature and helped them build essential social skills. We also conducted outdoor games with the girls of grades 6th-8th at Seva Sadan School in their outdoor premises.

We relived our forgotten childhood by making the girls play games like Lungdi, Lemon n spoon race, Kabbadi Tournament, hop scotch and enjoyed watching the joy on their faces.

As celebrations of Diwali and Children's Day the girls enjoyed snacks and goodies were given to the winners.

19th December 2020: Online Career Fair

We held a Career Fair to help shape the future of the girl child. The main aim of this career counselling was to help the children choose the right career track so that they perform their level best and succeed in the field they pick.

Done jointly with our Rotary club of Bombay Bayview, we conducted a Career Fair for the girls of grade 10 from St Joseph Girls School. The participating institutes and key people were: DMTI SOFTPRO - Mrs Poonam Mashru, INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA - Ms Anu & Mr Shardulbhai, PVP SNDT WOMEN UNIVERSITY - Ms Madhuri Khachane, VIDYALANKAR POLYTECHNIC - Ms Helina & Ms Trupti.

A big thank you to our club member Ms Poonam Mashru who was on the panel, and a big thank you as well to our Club Sec (2020-2021) Dr Kanan Mehta as well as Ms Meghna Sanghvi (CC 2020-21) for all their impeccable coordination.

December 2020: Food Sewa

While the Food Sewa at Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital is no longer permitted by the authorities, we have nonetheless stepped up our Food Sewa initiative by expanding the scope to many such people suffering hardships with food in this pandemic.

The tiffins to senior citizens continues this month. From his tiny kitchen in Borivali, 59-year-old Mark D'Souza has been delivering free lunches to needy senior citizens in Borivali's IC colony since 2012 without a single day's break; the number of lunches is slowly growing.

Every afternoon, about 80 senior citizens in Mumbai wait for a certain man to walk through their doors, for he comes bearing son-like devotion packaged in wholesome meals for the whole day- lunch, dinner and next day's breakfast.

Mark D'Souza is the lifeline for those who do not have the means to eat healthy meals, but his service to the community goes way beyond the dabbas he personally delivers to their doorsteps. Our Club donated for 9-10 meals for all 80 seniors, from September to December, generously sponsored by our members on their special days. We have now made this one of our ongoing Food Sewa service.

The daily tiffen to 11 seniors living alone at Nallasopara also continues through to December. Mention of our initiave was made in the Gujarati Midday with the headline - not just food, but care and warmth is also what our elders want. We are so glad that with the support of our generous members, we can provide them with this loving care through warm meals.

Also going steady into December is our distribution of ration to the families of physically/ mentally challenged kids, for whom getting even basic food is a huge challenge. Some of them don't have any earning member, while others have been abandoned by the earning member of the family.

Our beloved monthly ritual of lunch with the Sangopita special needs children continues, as it has for years.

We have not forgotten our animal Food Sewa either, and our Jeev Daya program continues uninterrupted.

January 2021: Multiple Projects

[1] Sweaters, blankets and shawls were distributed at Vrindavan.

[2] We contributed towards paying the school fees for a child who studies in Balasaheb Gavade English Medium School at Worli. Her parents , after having lost their jobs due to the pandemic, were unable to do so.

[3] Four Food Sewa initiatives were carried out this month:


1. Special meal for the differently abled in Sangopita, Badlapur.
2. Nandadeep Orphanage was given monthly groceries for the birthday celebrations of a member's child.
3. Snacks were distributed at Geetanagar.
4. Groceries for 2 months were given to YMCA Andheri - a shelter for women and children.

[4] Under Jeevdaya, our ongoing animal food sewa project, we gave food to dogs and puppies at the centre known as "In defence of Animals (IDA)". This was again for the birthday celebrations of members'children.

23rd January 2021: Community Fridge

We attended and inaugurated our COMMUNITY FRIDGE at LOWER PAREL, which was donated by Charu Shah. The location is Hotel Radheshyam, opposite Phoenix Mills Mall, in Lower Parel, Mumbai.

Mayor Mrs Kishori Pednekar inaugurated this project, with Marathi celebrity Sharad Phongey and Ex MLA Worli Sunil Shinde as well as Vibhag Pramukh Shiv Sena Ashish Chemburkar.

The kids of DY Patil school distributed 50 boxes of homemade food to the needy there.

26th January 2021: Indradhanush

Our much anticipated flagship event of every year was not held back by the pandemic. We applied technology to continue this decade long tradition without a break. Click here to view the YouTube video for this event.

Indradhanush was taken online and conducted virtually this year. While this event is usually held at Kamla Nehru Park, in person, with various schools from Mumbai in attendance, this year we went virtual.

We sponsored the prize of a Drawing competition organised by Confederation of UNESCO Clubs and Association of India. The media partner for this event was Sakal newspaper.

The topic this year was a Covid=free India and participants were accepted from across the country. All submissions were made at unescoclubsmh.in from 5th Nov to 31st Dec 2020. A total of 4431 entries were sent in, with Participation Certificates provided to all participants who followed the guidelines of online form submission. Their schools were honored with certificates too, and this led to schools motivating their most eligible students to participate in this competition.

The Competition Controller was Shri Vijay Balasaheb Pawbake, who was the State Coordinator, Maharashtra. Our special thanks and acknowledgements to the many who made this event a resounding success!

• Shri Yogesh Kulshreshta (Hon . General Secretary CUCAI)
• Mrs. Shashi Bhaduria (competition convener)
• Member Manisha Shah for her contribution towards the prizes
• Shri Vaidy Sir (Sakal media reporter)
• All Regional and District Coordinators of Maharashtra

The panel of judges for this event was:


• Shri Shirgave Sir from Pune
• Sau. Manisha Shejole
• Sau. Varunakshi Andre
• Shri Vijay Pawbake

The Top 10 winners are:


1. Rohit Bandu Madvi Maharashtra
2. Amar Laxman Sankapal Maharashtra
3. Ayan Raghav Uttar Pradesh
4. Sonali Ramesh Bhagyawant Maharashtra
5. Prachi Atul Danej Maharashtra
6. Gayatri Vilas Patil Maharashtra
7. Soham Deepak Patil Maharashtra
8. Sunita Madhukar Bhoye
9. Abhishek Nande West Bengal
10. Bote Kaviraj Chander Maharashtra

9th February 2021: Kashmiri Women Cricketers

Our Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Bayview hosted a lunch for the Anantnag Kashmiri women's cricket team at Chaitanya Towers Garden, and I am happy to share that the event was a big hit!

We sponsored 5 girls, along with Aseem Foundation, a Pune based NGO working in the strife stricken border regions of India, like Jammu Kashmir, Ladakh & Assam.

This year they want to bring 16 of the best women cricketers from Doru to Pune for exposure, coaching and play friendly matches with the local clubs. These 16 players have been selected from the local women's teams from Kashmir that participated in the recently held Women's Cricket League.

The Friendship match for these teams was held at Nehru Stadium Pune on 13th February 2021. The Anantnag cricket team from Kashmir was overwhelmed by the welcome they got from our members and the other guests present. They were so excited to have our guest of Honour and cricket legend Dilip Vensarkar amongst them. Also in attendance were Dr. Anant Joshi, the famous orthopaedic sports surgeon, two Kashmiri Doctors - Dr. Raina and Dr. Davinder. All Doctors addressed the team, some in their native Kashmiri language, and we also had media presence at this event.

February 2021: Multiple Projects

[1] We gave smartphones to 3 sex workers daughters to enable them to continue with online schooling.

[2] Under our Jeevdaya initiative, we collaborated with In Defense of Animals to feed stray dogs and puppies.

[3] We paid school fees for a 13 year old girl named Radha, studying in the 7th grade at Balasaheb Gavade School at Worli. She was unable to pay her fees for the full year as her father who is a cook cannot afford it. By paying her fees, we prevented the disrupted of her education.

[4] We also paid school fees for a child named Suraj, age 14 years, studying at St. Mary English Primary School Nalasopara.

[5] We contributed Rs 5000 towards milk for HIV patients in Malad, being looked after by the Desire Foundation. We have promised to do this every month till June 2021.

[6] Reepa Jasani donated her TV to a deserving family in Badlapur.

8th March 2021: Women's Day Odhna Distribution

Our PP Rajni on her holiday in Rajasthan made sure our Women's Day projects happen. She distributed food and Odhna(which is a pride for every woman in Rajasthan) to celebrate Womes's Day on 8th of March and also gave uniforms and lunch to their school going kids in Surajgarh. She truly made it a special day for these women.

March & April 2021: Food Sewa & Jeevdaya

This month saw the second wave of the viral pandemic and so we carried out many food related activities and initiatives:

As an ongoing project, we once again distributed monthly ration to the families of physically or mentally challenged kids. For these families during these time, getting even basic food is a big challenge. We added 8 more families to our family list this month.

We distributed lunch at Borivali on different occasions like birthdays of our members or death anniversary of their parents. We made it special for them by adding curd, some sweet dish, some bakery items or a bottle of coffee with 2 mugs.

Jeevdaya is caring for the well being of animals and birds . Supporting them by providing their food, shelter, taking care of their medical needs. For the month of March and April, with the onset of summer in certain parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat, green grass is scarce. So we contributed towards their cattlefeed to two cowsheds - one in Vada and the other is Godara, near Baroda in association with Shri Aadi Jin Yuvak Trust.

We also contributed towards medical aid to Bhumi Jeevdaya centre in Vashi - a shelter for animals who are injured and unwell. We contributed towards treatment of dogs who had kidney failure, liver failure, injury due to accidents and insect bites.

A very big thank you to all our generous donors.

March & April 2021: Desire Society

Desire Society is a non-profit voluntary organization registered in Hyderabad with many centres all over India. It supports upto 1200 children affected by HIV / AIDS in India through Institutional care homes having centres in Hyderabad, Bangalore,Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Noida.

These children have been abandoned by one or both parents who belong to the poor socio -economic strata of society. These centres provide shelter,food, treatment, education and psychological support for all these children.

These kids are housed there till they are financially stable with a good job and then help them in getting married as well.

We are supporting one such centre in Chincholi, Malad which is a shelter for around 25 girls. We are sponsoring their Milk - an important nutrient for children. From April we are sponsoring their Sunday breakfast.

March & April 2021: Ring Well Project, Dahanu

We donated for the most basic need - that of water - to the underprivileged tribal villagers of Shisane Malpada.

85 families living nearby are benefited. Many women from far off distances (more than 10 to 15 kms away) also come to get water from here, as the word has spread amongst them that water is now available in this area.

The women of Shishane are extremely happy and relieved from their everyday struggle of getting a pail of water from kilometres away. Earlier the women had to go at midnight and wait till the water oozed out slowly.

We have made RWH at least 9 ft broad around the ring well and 18 ft deep. This was done under the guidance of a hydrogeologist from IITB.

The water in the well will be recharged due to the RWH and will have water for many many years to come. As trained workers were not available (due to lockdown and second wave) for this project, the villagers themselves participated as labour for the completion of this project.

6th & 16th May 2021: Toys for Children

We sent all these gifts for the children in the BMC hospitals: protein powder (vanilla and chocolate flavour), rattles, dolls, slates, chalk, colouring books (for age

May 2021: Multiple Projects

1. Restocking of community fridges in Lower Parel and Worli 2-3 times each week.
2. Donated 3 oxygen machines and 1 Bipap machine to a COVID centre at Dahanu.
3. Distributed face masks and PPE kits to Dayanand Hospital.

May 2021: TATA Global Grant

Our global grant project with the Rotary club of Bombay Royales and Mumbai North End is now completed.

Our PP Rajni Barasia not only identified this project, but also identified a foreign partner. Together we contributed Rs. 5L.

The project is worth Rs. 31 lacs. A Microlaryngoscopy and other laser equipments required to perform laser surgery for mouth and throat cancer was donated to Tata Memorial Hospital.

May 2021: Desire Project

This is an ongoing project since March 2021. DESIRE Society is a non-profit voluntary organization which looks after the well being of children affected by HIV/AIDS in India.

These children have been abandoned by one or both parents, are children of sex workers and children who belong to poor socioeconomic conditions.

They have centres in 5 cities of India. In Mumbai they have a centre for girls in Malad and for boys in Vashi.

Our Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Bayview is supporting the centre for girls at Malad. Here they look after the well being of all the girls, from medication and nutrition, to providing a loving home and education. We even help them find jobs to support themselves till they can get married.

Our club sponsors Milk (an important nutrition for them) along with scrumptious Sunday breakfasts!!

10th May 2021: Jalgaon Ration Distribution

IWCBB was mentioned in the local print media of Jalgaon - Tarun Bharat, Divya Marathi etc. - for our ration distribution to 25 families of mentally and physically handicapped kids on 10th May. Since then the local Rotary club and many wholesalers are keen to join hands with us and do more projects with us. We are planning further ration distributions there to the daily wage workers, who have literally no means to earn. We further distributed rations in Jalgaon along with Udaan Foundation and Rotary club of Jalgaon Star to 60 daily wage earners like transgenders, photographers, potters, physically handicapped people etc. They have no means of food or earning due to the Second Wave lockdown.

May & June Projects: Multiple Projects that were conducted during the Second Wave of Corona

1. Toys and protein powder were distributed to multiple government hospitals like SRCC, KEM, NAYAR AND JJ hospital. Brought a lot of smiles to many young faces.
2. Medicines were distributed to 18 Parkinson's patients.
3. On 9th May and 30th June, dadas and dadis at the old age home Jeevan Sandhya Maganlya Sansthan enjoyed breakfast and lunch, courtesy IWCBB.
4. We continue to provide warm meals to 11 Seniors at Nalasopara (roti, subzi, dal and rice, and on special sponsorship aamras with dhokla or patra).
   Shri Aadi Jin Charitable Trust who organise the logistics have conveyed their gratitude to our Club for supporting them when they started this initiative of delivering tiffins to Seniors in this pandemic. We started supplying tiffens from September 2020 till the end of our year.
   The Seniors also have conveyed their gratitude to our club. By continuing this over the months, they have felt that it is not just a sponsored meal but a lunch tiffin sent by their own family members with so much affection.
5. Special lunches to 80 senior citizens living alone in Borivali on members' special occasions.
6. Special lunch as Annapoorna Day at Sangopita once a month.
7. Monthly ration and lunch at Nandadeep orphanage.
8. Restocking of community fridges in various locations.
9. We gave ration for some very poor families from Geetanagar due to Covid. Two persons who are suffering from multi drug resistant Tuberculosis and required milk and eggs too along with ration were also provided for. Since April to June we helped 13 families in Geetanagar every month with medicines and ration.
10. Jeevdaya initiative, where we do Food Sewa for animals also continued in these months.
11. In our "Give Shelter Project" we helped families devastated by the recent Cyclone Tauktae in Palghar region. Home homes of the extremely poor tribal families living there were affected, with some houses totally demolished to the ground.
    Our team made a detailed survey in Dahanu areas. Those families who could afford it had purchased the roof sheets. Rest all were in great trouble.
    Widows with children and no earning members had no one to help. Monsoons also are expected anyday and these families live open to the sky at present. We gave them cement sheets for their roofs.
    A total of 46 families were beneficiaries of this project, from 10 villages.
    This project was done in collaboration with Angel Link Foundation and Roshni Foundation.
    The beneficiary villages are Shishane, Vankas, Nagzari, Amboli, Dhundalwadi, Ambesari, Dhamangaon, Jamshet, Sogave, Bahare.
12. We got the kitchen repaired which was largely damaged by Cyclone Tuaktae at a Senior Citizen Home at Vajreshwari. The Senior residents and the owners of the ashram are truly grateful to us for helping them promptly.
13. Krish Kapadia: Our member Dipa's son, received an award towards a sustainable competition he participated in and the award was a Samsung High End tab. Instead he requested the awarder (Dipa's company) to use the money towards this to buy cheaper tabs to help poor students with online education. He gave 2 tabs to children of Dipa's office staff and 2 tabs he gave to girl students. The cost of the tab was from Enel X and it was given to the deserving v poor girl students.




June 2021: Jalgaon Krishi Kalyan

We did a joint project of donating 1 bag of cotton seeds and 5 litre of fertilizer (humic acid) each to 100 poor and needy farmers of Jalgaon along with Rotary club of Jalgaon Star and NGO Flight Divyang Training Center. The farmers were identified personally by local volunteers.

The distribution was done in the collector's office by District Collector and Superintendent of police in the presence of print and digital media.

June 2021: Vikramgarh Food Sewa

We along with Suhrid Foundation did essential food kit distribution in Vikramgad in Palghar district. Since last year, tribals have not been able to go out for their earning and are having very difficult times. Whatever savings they have, they need to spend that on next year's farming supplies. Our distribution covered 1500 monthly ration kits to these tribal farmers in 12 villages. This much needed support was well received by all tribes.

30th June 2021: Matoshree Old Age Home Food Sewa

We organised the meal for the whole day for the 100 senior citizens of Matoshree old age home to celebrate the last day of team 2020-2021's year!




---

ONGOING PROJECTS - from previous years

FOOD SEWA @ TATA Memorial Cancer Hospital

This worthy project, which has continued uninterrupted since the inception of our Club, has been paused due the unavoidable circumstances of these pandemic times. We hope to resume as soon as the authorities give us the green light.

In the meantime, we have changed the nature of our Food Sewa and are now helping as many senior citizens, special needs people and children who are either stuck at home, left without means or struggling for food in these hard times.

EDUCATION for GIRLS

Again, due to the Covid restrictions, we could not enroll any new students for the computer education program this year. Though this initiative has been paused for now, we will continue as soon as circumstances allow us. In the meantime, we provide mobiles, laptops, dongles and other communication devices wherever we can to sustain their online education. We also provide fees for those whose parents lost their income in the pandemic and could not afford the fees. In this way we are still keeping up the goal of this initiative - to educate girls.

MONTHLY ANNAPOORNA

Annapoorna Diwas continues every month, and is especially welcome in these times.

JEEVADAYA

Providing food to gaushalas and other animals continues as and where we see a need.