WELCOME TO
ROTARY CLUB OF COIMBATORE TEXCITY

It's an honour bestowed upon me by you, my dear Texcitians, having chosen me to be the one to be “first among equals”, of this prestigious club. As always along with the honour comes a great deal of responsibility.

I am secure in the knowledge that each one of you is with me every step of the way.

IPP Rtn. C R Vijay and past Secretary Rtn. Prof. Nanjan Balu, along with their team have raised the bar high and laid the foundation for the club to achieve even greater heights. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that the incoming team will not let you down.

Our Rotary international president Rtn.Gordon R. McInally's theme for the year is, Create Hope in the world. He urges members to promote peace in troubled nations, help those affected by conflict, and maintain the momentum of initiatives begun by past leaders. I would love to know from all of you how we can achieve this objective.

Our Dist. Governor Rtn. T.R. Vijaykumar, has given us directions with the help of an acronym - Smiles, under which all the district programs come. (The details of the same are being shared in the subsequent pages of this bulletin.)

Your incoming board has had a brain-storming session and we have short listed a few projects to kick start the year and with ideas from all of you, we shall do much more as the year goes along.

To start with we are going to support The Swarga foundation to help them set up a stateof- the-art physiotherapy centre to help the underprivileged to rehabilitate. In the past we have seen the stellar work done by the Shanti Ashram, we propose to partner them in helping the marginalized .

Kanum KOVAI is a project of tree planting in Govt reserve sites. A lot of preliminary work has been done by our Rtn. Maruti and we in principle will adopt a few of the reserved sites and transform them for the general good of the public.

Two matching grant projects are in the pipeline- The Eyeserve project and Project Tiny feet, which is to strengthen and equip the public health centres to be more effective for the community in large.

We also propose to build 4 more classrooms continuing from where PP Kamal Kumar let off. All ongoing projects will also continue.

Our USP is that we are a family club, and keeping in line with this many trips are being planned during the year with one international trip to Turkey in the month of September.

I challenge you to bring new members to our club, cause if we don't grow, we stagnate. Would like to leave you with a thought to ponder over: “Excellence is not a goal, it is a habit “

Yours in Rotary

RTN MD VIJAYAKUMAR SIVANESAN