A brief of what Rotary Club of Vasco da gama has been doing in International Service & TRF !

1. Rotary Club of Vasco da gama

2. Rotary Club of Vasco da gama
Chartered on 2nd December 1966
45 active members
Average age of Rotarians: 45 years
TRF Contributions till date: >
$100,000
Major Donors: 6
Paul Harris Fellows: 101

3. TRF Programmes
Our Club actively participates in
most TRF programs.
GSE Team – Our Club has given 2
leaders and 3 team members
Our Club has hosted 8 out of last 10
teams which have come to our
District

4. International Service
Our Club has been outstanding in getting
Interntioanl Service projects. The first one was
with Rotary Club of Lindum-Lincoln UK as a WCS
for ‘Ashadeep Special School’ way back in the
late 1990’s

5. Saving Lives
Our Club is the founder of ‘All Goa Rotary Clubs
Trust’ to support the Saving Lives project in
partnership with RC Birmingham, UK.
A total amount of $100,000 has been spent for
training the Goa Police, Fire Services &
Paramedics

6. Special children
Our Club in partnership with Rotary Club of
Cottleville/Weldon Spring, District 6060, District
6840 and RI District 7260 handed over a School
Bus worth $ 20720 to ‘Ashadeep Special School’
and also supported the School with
Physiotherapy and other equipment.

7. Polio NID
Our Club actively participates in the
Polio NIDs and also gets some
International Rotarians each year to
join us !

8. Basic education
Our club in association with RC
Westhampton , RC Easthampton, RC
Southold D-7260 donated 65
benches and 130 chairs to Bhuvan’s
Vikas Vidyalaya

9. Video Colposcope
Our club in association with RC Wigan,
donated a video colposcope to help in
the detection Cervical cancer.

10. Local Community
We also provide small things as bus-
shelters needed by the local community

11. Toilets
Our Club constructed over 20 toilets in
schools and villages in partnership with
RC Westhampton , RC Easthampton,
RC Southold D-7260

12. Safe Drinking water
Our club has set up 3 safe drinking
water treatment units with help
Rotary Club of Waynesboro, District
7350.
The project cost is $13500

13. Hearing Aids
Our Club has distributed around
2000 hearing aids to the needy all
over Goa and in our District 3170

14. Sewing Machines
Our Club has done 2 Matching Grants
projects to get 660 Sewing machines
for poor and needy women all over
the District.

15. Upgrading School Libraries
Our Club jointly with RC Dabolim is
provided books worth $23000 to 24
schools all over Goa (and some
outside Goa too)

16. LCD Projectors
Our Club is
providing 10 LCD
projectors to the
Schools in
Mormugao to give
the children a new
tool to understand
how things work.

17. Benches & Chairs
Our Club is providing benches and
chairs to Regina Mundi School and
Yalingeshwar High School to give
better and comfortable seating
arrangement for the students.

18. Women in India
40 million women in India are
considered to be poor.
Our Club aims at doing its best to
make as many as possible self-
reliant
We have started a vocational
training Centre at Sada apart from
donating Sewing machines to the
needy women

19. International projects (Italy)
Our club was the International
partner for a project for training 15
blind people in Napes, Italy and
distribution of 3 laptops to the best
students.

20. International projects (USA)
Our club is the International partner
for a project for educating residents
of West Monroe, Louisiana, USA on
Water Conservation.
Project cost: $10,000

21. International projects (China)
Our club is the International partner
for a project in China to provide safe
drinking water to 8 villages.
Project cost $42000

22. We care for the Environment
Our club is one of the 11 founding
members of ‘The Sustainability
Trust’
The Trust encourages all Rotarians to do four
things:
EDUCATE – themselves, their Rotary colleagues and their
community about the reasons why we all have to reduce
carbon emissions
DEMONSTRATE - how everyone can save money in the
process,
INNOVATE - with ideas promoted by their Rotary Club to
reduce carbon emissions through the development of
appropriate projects.
DONATE - via The Sustainability Trust to a Rotary project

23. The future
We are always on the lookout for
doing more in the community.
1.Basic Education
2.Water & Sanitation
3.Women Empowerment
4.Maternal & Child Health
5.Community Development

24. How it works
The International partner raises $3000
The International district allocates DDF of
$3000
RC Vasco da gama raises $1000
District 3170 allocates DDF of $1000
TRF matches the contributions with $6000
The project of $14000 can be done
Your own contribution is multiplied 4 to 5
times before it reaches the beneficiary

25. How we raise our share
All our members contribute on an
average $300 annually
We organise fundraisers to raise some
more money
Despite being a developing nation, India
currently ranks No. 2 in TRF collection
world-wide
Rotarians realise the strength they have
of being part of an International
organisation for doing good in the world…

26. Contact Us
You may visit our website
www.rcvasco.org
To know more on how YOUR CLUB
can partner with us to DO GOOD IN
THE WORLD… drop in a mail to Rtn.
Prakash Saraswat – TRF Chair
prakash3170@gmail.com
TOGETHER WE CAN !!!!