Rotary Focus On Infant Mortality, Road Safety
Past Rotary International President Rajendra Saboo (third left) presenting the Meritorious Service Award to Past District Governor K.S. Pillai (second left) at Kalpavriksha, a multi district seminar organised by the Rotary Clubs of Coimbatore on Sunday. The Rotary Clubs here are focusing this year on projects related to reduction of infant mortality, water management and road safety, K.S. Pillai, former District Governor and convenor of “Kalpavriksha”, multi-district Rotary Foundation seminar, told presspersons here on Sunday. He said that on behalf of RI District 3201 the Rotary Clubs of Coimbatore hosted the Multi-District Rotary Foundation Seminar. The Rotary Foundation was a “Not for Profit” Trust of the Rotary International. The major Global Corporate Service Project taken up by the Rotary Foundation was on Polio eradication. About two billion children had been immunised world-wide through this project and the Foundation had spent about $ 700 million for this project.
The Foundation supported humanitarian and educational programmes. Since 1985, more than 24,000 matching grant projects in 167 countries were funded by it. Under the Group Study Exchange Programme, since 1965 about 60,000 individuals from 100 countries had visited another country to promote vocational and cultural interests. For “Ambassadorial scholarships” and “Grants for University Teachers”, it had provided opportunity for about 40,000 scholars and teachers for higher education abroad.
