Rotary Club of Thane Suburban was formed on 3 rd April 2002, having members from different trades and professions such as Industrialists, Doctors, Charted Accountants, Engineers, Insurance Professionals and Valuers.
Major focus is on community service projects that directly benefit the marginalised.
Ours is a strong club with over 50 members and 10% membership growth each year. 100% of funds are deployed for beneficiary use and no administrative costs are appropriated – only Rotary can do this.
Our projects are for social benefit. We do not accept donations from tobacco and liquor industry.
Rotary Club of Thane Suburban (RCTS) was the brainchild of Rotary Club of Thane North, was chartered on April 03, 2002. This club has never looked back since then. A plethora of “innovative” projects was the key to success of our club.
The club culture of assimilating the extended family of R/Anns & Annets in every project & programme has gone down well with the members so much so that everyone shares a strong feeling of bonding and bonhomie in & out of the club.
Some of the most successful projects undertaken by the club down the years are:
- Computer & internet awareness programme for senior citizens to keep in touch with their children abroad
- Micro credit to rural women entrepreneurs in the backward areas of Thane district,
- Charter night and Diwali celebrations with the inmates of Aasra—shelter for the street children,
- Donation of cycles to students of Meda village who walked 12kms to school and back daily,
- Child insurance & restoration of drinking water supply & sanitation facility for students of the adopted municipal school along with a Library & computers
- ‘Sursamvaad’ – a program to promote Indian classical music which is being organized for the past ten years. This program has evolved to be a successful fund raising program for the club & for getting new members too.
- Leading all the clubs in Thane, the club distributed food grains worth Rs 1.3 million to the flood victims in and around Thane.
- Awareness programme on HIV Aids and drug abuse conducted for college students
- Thalassemia detection camp for students of girls college
- Solar electrification in 5 villages in Thane district
- Dissemination of information to teenage girls of adopted municipal schools by leading gynecologist with Q/A session
- Martial arts workshop for schoolgirls for self-defense
- Matching grant in first year of club inception for 26000$ partnered with RC of Hannover-Ballhof, Germany. The club donated an ambulance & a waste water recycling plant to the inmates of Adhar, a lifetime shelter for the mentally challenged. This project was put up on RI website as one of the best projects of Centennial year.
- The second MG was completed in 2009 for 30,000$ at Saivan near Dahanu in Thane District, where our club in association with RC Hannover Balhoff & RC Kropecke, Germany donated a full-fledged operation theatre & an ambulance for the tribal people of this hamlet who otherwise were being treated by quacks. This project has saved many a lives in this area.
- Mega medical camp for villagers of Khardi
- Tree plantation at Yeoor Hills, Thane.
- PP. Smriti Gulwady was the first member to be selected as GSE team leader in 08-09 to Sri Lanka.
- Club was the first in India to register in Rotary Global Swimarathon held in Feb. this year along with 100 other clubs throughout the world to raise funds to END POLIO. The event has earned a place in Guinness Book of world records for maximum number of people swimming at the same time. 70 people participated & the event was widely publicized in print & electronic media. Club raised Rs. 15,000 for this thru entry fees which was then donated for Polio fund.
- Club has hosted RYE inbound from Mexico for the first time in 09-10 & is actively involved in TRF programs too.
- The Club hosted a fund raiser program along with the releasing of its Annual Souvenir, through Sur Samwad, by arranging noted violinist Pt. Prabhakar Jog’s program at Kashinath Ghanekar Sabhagruha, which alone created a surplus fund of Rs. 2.5 lakhs, purely from ticket sale and public donations.
- Pediatric heart surgeries
- Happy school project, providing toiilets, for students, painting of schools, E-Learning kit, providing computers, reading rooms and laboratories.