Built a tree-house and a railway station for the toy train service at the Guindy Children's Park with the help of the Rotary Club of Omiya, Japan.

Adopted the Cowl Bazaar village near Meenambakkam, built an unique-shaped building there, and helped poor families of the area. (Click here for a note on the project)

Mobilized Australian funds for Seva Samajam,  Pallipattu and the Beatitudes Leprosy Colony at Madhavaram. This was a continuing WCS project for over 20 years, with an average donation of Rs.50,000 per year.

Adopted Tiruvidanthai village in the outskirts of the city, and provided amenities for its residents - a community hall, bore wells and windmills for drinking water supply,  and vocational training in income-generating activities like rabbit farming. (Click here for a note on the project)

Holding medical camps regularly in association with Sankara Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust for school children, orphanages, auto rickshaw drivers and others. Provided diagnostic equipment worth over Rs.3 lakhs to the  Trust. Held a focused asthma treatment camp for staff of Metropolitan Transport Corporation in association with International Asthma Services, Colorado, USA.

In 1971, the Club donated equipment for the physiotherapy unit of Voluntary Health Service Hospital. In 2001, the Club donated an interferential therapy unit complete with bed and trolley.

Gnanadeepam, an institution providing education and training and thereby opening up a new life and hope to mentally challenged children,  has received moral, financial and technical support from us;  provided a computer, introduced rainwater harvesting, and improved drinking water supply.

In 1994, created a corpus fund of Rs.5 lakhs at Sankara Nethralaya, through which 25 free eye surgeries for the poor are carried out every year.

We have been conducting, since 1992-93, job-oriented vocational training courses for under-privileged young boys, in repairing and maintaining air-conditioners and refrigerators, carpentry, auto-repair, electrical services etc. in association with Anna University, Chennai. These youngsters are now qualified technicians.  All of them have obtained lucrative jobs or work on their own. The Rotary Club of Melville, Perth, Australia, has supported this activity during the past few years.

In 2004-2005, we trained 20 youngsters in Computer Hardware maintenance and 80 persons in Executive Secretarial Practice. These programs were conducted with the co-operation of RC of Melville and The Stenographers Guild, Chennai. These have now become continuous programmes and every year, courses are conducted for more and more young persons.

International Meet - 2000

The Club began the new millennium with a unique and memorable initiative - Vintage 60, a get-together for Rotary Clubs worldwide born in 1960. 

Twenty one Rotarians and Anns from 7 countries - Argentina, Australia, France, Malaysia, Sweden, Switzerland and UK - accepted the Club's invitation and hospitality and spent a week as our guests. They visited Club's service projects, savoured Tamil Nadu's cultural and tourist attractions, and enjoyed many fellowship evenings. 

The meet strengthened the Rotary spirit of international brotherhood. It also led to international support for some of the Club's service projects, like vocational education for young women.

One of the off-shoots of Vintage 60 was a Rs.. 6 lakh project to assist Ceyrac Trust, near Maraimalainagar, three hours away by car from Chennai.  

The trust runs a primary school and an orphanage and facilitates self-help, income-generation and training for rural women. 

Classroom furniture, play equipment, toilet accessories, an autorickshaw-ambulance, an electric generator set and library books were provided to the trust in co-operation with Rotary Clubs from France, Poland and UK, and Rotary International.

Provided vocational education for many young women in textiles, engineering, computers and nursing at leading poly-technics of Chennai. This US $ 12,000 programme was executed over two years (1999-2001) in co-operation with the Rotary Club of Black Forest, Germany. 

A second US $12,000 vocational education programme  was implemented for the period 2002-04 in co-operation with the Rotary Club of Zurzach-Brugg, Switzerland.

Muscular Dystrophy Association of India came about almost by accident. Rtn. Guenter Schuerbrandt of Black Forest, Germany came to Madras in 1999 in connection with the Matching Grants programme jointly undertaken by our Club and the Rotary Club of Black Forest. He being the head of a laboratory, conducting screening and DNA analysis to detect neuro-muscular disorders, we organized a lecture by him at the Childs Trust Hospital, which was attended by many paediatric neurologists and surgeons. At the end of the lecture, a proposal was made to set up a support group for patients afflicted with Muscular Dystrophy. 

We helped form the group and MDA India was inaugurated on Feb 5, 2000. Since then, we have been supporting MDA in many ways- organizing fund raising programmes, arranging outings for the children, entertainment programmes etc. 

The Club has set up a support group for victims of muscular dystrophy, in co-operation with the Kanchi Kamakoti Child's Trust Hospital. The group consists mainly of parents and relatives of victims in Tamil Nadu, and serves as a forum for physical, financial, technical and moral support to victims. Coordinated by the Club, the group has provided wheelchairs and orthopedic belts to victims, funded drug trials aimed at cure and relief, interacted with government and other agencies, raised public awareness of this ailment, and organized seminars and workshops.

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These exhibitions, have raised public awareness, promoted technical know-how and provided both education and entertainment.

They have also mobilized funds for the Club's service projects.