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Special Issue 02Vol. : 33 07-11-2013Date : Pages : 08

Hearty welcome to Mrs.Shameem Kunil District Chairman's visit to Innerwheel Midtown

thMrs.Shameem Kunil was born on 7 January into a very broadminded cosmopolitan and academically oriented family. Mrs.Shameem did her schooling at Baldwin Girl's High School and her college at VHD Home Science College in Bangalore. She is married to P H F R o t a r y P a s t P r e s i d e n t Abdulrehman Kunil, who has his business in Bombay and Mangalore. They are blessed with 3 children – 2 daughters and a son who are all well settled.

Mrs.Shameem Kunil's love for social service made her join the Inner Wheel Club of Mangalore North in 1989. There was no looking back after that. Shameem became the club secretary in 1991-92, vice-president the following year, the club president in 1993-94 and did various club projects and filled the coffers of the club by holding two major fund raising programs. Influenced by a sports loving family, she was the games captain at both school and college. She bagged a lot of prizes at Rotary sports meets also. Her love for sports further came to the forefront when she, as president, took up a project and conducted sports and games for Inner Wheel club members in and around South Canara for three years. Naturally, recognizing the well-spring of talents within her, seniors in the club encouraged her to enter the district in 2007-08 when she was elected as district editor. She has taken up the posts of ESO twice, vice-chairman and now the chairman.

Her interests are multifarious and her activities are numerous. She is the Chartered Director of the first 'Dakshina Kannada Mahila Co-operative Bank”, Mangalore ; Past President of “AGE-Mangalore”, an NGO for Senior citizens; trustee of “Preethi Nidhi Trust”, an NGO for Lepers in Mangalore. She is the director, partner and proprietor of various family businesses in Mangalore, Kasaragod and Bangalore. She is also running a Play-School and Nursery named 'Step By Step' in Mangalore. She co-authored a cookery book titled 'Coastal Fiesta' in 1999. Her hobbies are varied. She loves to read, has a keen ear for music and enjoys watching sports. Her life is dancing and hence she takes part in all the musical skits and dances however tight her schedule may be. She loves to travel and is good at making friends and believes in the phrase, “FRIENDS ARE FOREVER”. Her genial nature is so appealing that the term 'ajaathashatru'- the one with no enemies, suits her completely.

The ship of Inner Wheel is having a smooth, yet eventful sail with Chairman Shameem Kunil as its captain. Inner Wheel Midtown extends a warm welcome to District Chairman Mrs.Shameem Kunil.

District Chairman's Message

President’s Message

Dear President,It is my proud privilege to greet all my warm and cheerful Inner Wheel members. I extend

my sincere congratulations to you the leader of the club for being elected to this position that I consider a special one, because it gives you the opportunity to guide all the members of your club and have a relationship with them which will last forever.

I am sure that you feel proud to belong to this great International Organisation whose members are spread all over the world and I hope that you will be able to pass on such an enthusiastic feeling to all the Inner Wheel sisters because the pride of Inner Wheel Club membership is our strength.

New members add new blood to the existing ideas of the club and therefore I request all members to identify and invite their friends and associates whom they think have a passion to serve society and enrich your club.

The International Inner Wheel Theme for 2013-14 is 'We, for women'You have certainly realised how sad and worrying the women's situation is all over the

world. We, the women of the district can do something concrete for the less fortunate if we really want to. Say yes! We want to!!!!!! Thank you.

Please remember...Success is not final, failure is not fatal.

It is the courage to continue that counts.May the sun shine, all day long!

Everything goes right and nothing wrong.Let us together envision, enrich, empower and enjoy Inner Wheel.

Yours in Inner WheelShameem Kunil

IW District-318 Chairman

Dear Friends,

After four months of being the president of the Inner wheel club of Mysore Midtown I have come to realize what an honour and a privilege for me to serve as your President. Much is asked and demanded of those who have been blessed with a lot. The hallmark of civilization is not the riches we accumulate but how we treat the fellow human beings. The need to serve the fellow human beings is never ending and very demanding. We at the Inner wheel club of Mysore Midtown have been

fortunate in our ability to contribute to help alleviate the suffering and the struggle of the misfortunate in the society. Every journey starts with a small step and I can proudly state that the Inner Wheel club of Mysore Midtown are the shining example of what collectively we can do to help our neighbourhood. While we cannot solve all the problems of the world what we can collectively give is to help one at a time with conviction, courage and commitment. I want to thank each one of you from the bottom of my heart in achieving this.

Uma Vivek

Inner Wheel Mysore Midtown Secretary's Half Yearly Report (2013-2014)

Projects carried out in different avenues of service:

Sl No Projects Cost Beneficiaries

1. Chartered Accountant's month was observed by felicitating 2,500 1Mr. Loknath C.A for his free services.

2. Monthly remuneration of Rs 1000/- to Miss Bindu for 5,000 25coaching children of Makkala Mane

3. 450 1

4. Water purifier given at AshaBhavan was sponsored 1,900 30

5. 1,250 40

6. 2 sewing machines given to the poor and needy women 5,500 2

7. 450 1

8. 1,050 6

9. 9,000 3

10.1,250 44

11. 1,000 6

12. 450 1

Educational Help1. Gave Rs 10,000/- for the school admission of a needy student 10,000 1

2. Helped a girl child for paying the school fees 4,000 1

3. Computer course for needy student2,90014.

300

Adult Literacy

1. 23

Child/Family welfare/Rights of child

1. Money donated to the purchase of a kit to be given to a family affected by the floods at Uttarakand 16,500

2. Conducted competitions at RMA on account of Independence Day.

Prizes were given to the winners. Sweets were distributed to all the children on the occasion. 2,410 600

3. Wet-Grinder given to Ajitanele 2,900 20

4. A 20 ltr pressure cooker was given to Echo Spandana. Sweets distributed. 4,350 25

5. 1,050 3

6. Wafers distributed to tribal children at Veterans Hosalli, Nagarahole 150 45

7. Stationaries-Pencil, rubber and sketch pens distributed to Government nd

school, Gokulam 2 stage 350 70

Environmental Services

1. 3,000

Saree given by Uma on the occasion of Varalakshmi

Vessels given to the needy tribal people living in and around Nagarahole.

Uma Vivek gave saree on occasion of Gowri festival to a needy woman

Blankets given to the needy people of GIRIJANA KENDRA.

Three genuine, deserving persons were identified with the help of Mr.Sheshadri ACP; These three had to pay money for their release from thejail. Since they had no means to pay the money, club helped them by paying the required money and arranged for their release from the jail.

Cooking vessels were given to the Anganvadi centers at Nagapura tribal place.

Blankets were distributed to the women of tribal settlement - Nagarahole

On Deepavali day saree was given to a tribal woman at Girijanahaadi .

Anupama our member and also a resource person conducted an interactive session with 10th std students of Govt schools on "Mental preparedness for the exams"

Anupama conducts remedial class teacher training at RMA on every Friday

Donated three blankets to the mother of quadruplets.

12 plants were adopted by our club and planted in hinkal area.


Hospital/ Medical and surgical help

1. Gave Rs. 2000/- for the treatment of cancer patient 2,000 1

2. Rs 15,000 was given to a needy rural woman who had to undergo surgery of the spine 15,000 1

3.

8,600 83

4.300 1

Disabled and spastic

1. Hyperactivity chair given to the children of Nireekshe 3,500 60

2. Money given to Navajeevana Niketana, Mother Theresa Institute-Little Brothers of the Poor for building maintenance 25,000 80

3. Food served to the inmates of Navajeevana Niketana Mother Theresa

Institute-Little Brothers of the Poor 5,000 80

4. Gym ball was given to a special girl child 1,500 1

5.1,560 60

6. Physiotherapy bed given to spastic children of Chinnara Chiguru Charitable Trust 3,100 8

7. Donated physiotherapy chair to the spastic children of SnehaKirana. Distributed sweets to the inmates 4,570 70

Old Age

1. Donated 25kgs of sugar to the Little sisters of the poor 750 60

2. Prabha and Anupama gave groceries to BelakuVatsalyadhama old age home 5,000 15

3. 600 4

4.1,500 7

5.

1,000 25

Continuous projects

1.10,000 1

2.8,000 1000

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5.1,000 1

6.15,000 50

7. 15,000 2508. 8,000 229. Lavanya sponsors a Gold Medal and cash prize to the school topper of

thRMA in the 10 Std board exams every year. 2,500 1

Water bed and sanitary pads ware donated to the little sisters of the poor, an old age home. Medicines like insulin, B complex and multi vitamin were given to the needy inmates. This project was sponsored by MrsPremilla Jain.

Donated Rs 300 to the Asthma patient who was released from the prison, for purchase of his medicines.

President Uma donated one gym ball to Nireekshe. Distributed sweets to the children there.

Juicer Mixer was given to Puttaveerama

Food was served to the inmates of an Old age home. Project was sponsored by Mrs. Anuradha.

An entertainment programme by mimicry artist Mysore Anand was

arranged for the inmates of JSS old age home

Artificial limb is sponsored to one needy person at Mahaveer limb centre every year.

Serving afternoon meal at Bharat cancer hospital every year on charter day 30th Nov

Rs 25,000 FD by Renu Agarwal. Interest is used to educate girl child

Members Anuradha and Renu working at Help line

Roopa our member recognises senior most teacher at RMA by giving cash incentive

Member Premilla stitches 50 sets of uniforms every year to the needy children of JSS..Food is served to Balamandira an orphanage on 18th Feb every yearFood is served at Vishranti , old age home, on 16th. June every year


Indian art and culture

1. Conducted fancy dress competition along with Happy Kids Academy on the occasion of Janmashtami 2,000 5

2. Celebrated Friendship day and Rakhi Festival along with Midtown Rotarians. Fund raising project 3,450 35

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1,690 15

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Fun and Fellowship

1. Celebrated friendship day with all the IW clubs of Mysore. Conducted salad competition, games and distributed prizes to the winners 1,400 35

2.

1,400 28

Personalised services

1. Chandrika Chandrika donated Aquaguard to Ashabhavana 2,000 30

2. Uma Donated amount towards school admission 10,000 1th3. Anupama Donation towards 6 Std school books 1,060 1

rd4. Chandrika Donation towards uniform for 3 Std child 1,275 1

5. Savitha Donation for 2 students college fees 4,000 2

6. Kusuma Donated towards sewing machine 500 1

7. Prabha Donation given towards treatment of cancer patient 2,000 1

8. Chaitra Donation for admission of an engineering student 5,000 1

9. Roopa Amount donated for the treatment of an accident patient 1,000 1

10. Anupama Counseling was carried out by Past President Anupama for the children of RMA 5

11. Jabeen 8,000 10

12. Jabeen 2,000 1

13. Anupama 2,000 1

14. Vyjayanthi Distributed clothes to the needy college going girls

15. Anitha 4,000 1

16. Meera Served food to the inmates of Chamundi orphanage 3,500 48

Celebrated Janmashtami with Rotarians. The programme was filled with songs and dance, all in praise of lord Krishna. Annets who were dressed as BalaKrishnas added colour to the whole programme . Gifts were given to all the Annets who had participated. Nine Rotarians were felicitated

Club celebrated “Baby Shower” of our member Shama at Chandrika's house. House was decorated traditionally with mango leaves torana. All members wore green sarees. Shama, star of the day was made to sit on the 'Hasemane' which was decorated with Rangoli and lighted lamps in front. All types of laddoos and snacks were neatly arranged with fruits, flowers and bangles. All the members put haldi, kumkum and flowers on Shama. After putting bangles aarti was performed. She was given green saree on the occasion. Members sang songs befitting the occasion. Traditional lunch was served on banana leaf. This was a surprise for all the other members except the three hosts Chandrika ,Anupama and Prabha . Thanks to Chandrika who planned the special event and it was a touching experience to many

Teachers' day was celebrated at RMA. Fashion show was held for teachers with 3 best performers getting the prizes.Manasa special teacher was honoured .Sweets were distributed to all the children

Gave dress materials to 10 needy girls

Amount given to a needy person

Amount given to a needy person

Donated money to a girl child for her education


17. Anupama Gave food to the inmates of Spandana on account of Ganesh Chaturthi 2,500 23

18. Uma Distributed clothes to the needy college going girls

19. Renu 800 26

20. Renu 750 5

21. Renu1000 1

22. Hanifa Gave clothes to the needy children of Puttaveeramma school for deaf and dumb

23. Anuradha

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24. Geetha Distributed clothes to the needy college going girls

25. Prathibha Distributed clothes to the needy inmates of old age home

Joint meeting and projects

1. Chandrika and Lavanya attended programme on E-Hacking conducted by Rotary Mysore Midtown. Chandrika also spoke on ETHICS and had an interactive session with the participants

2. Breast feeding awareness programme at VV Mohalla maternity hospital.Joint project with IW Central. Protein supplements given to pregnant and lactating mothers 1,800 60

3. Celebrated Independence day at RMA along with Midtown Rotarians.

4. Joint Project with Rotarians: Career Guidance programme “DIKSOOCHI” was conducted and prizes were given to best participants 1,200 12

5. A yoga camp was conducted by all IW Clubs of Mysore for the benefit of its members. 3,500 60

6. “Life is calling” marathon in aid of providing job opportunity to the special children was jointly conducted by Rotary and IW and our member Chaitra took part in it

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60,000 55

Renu distributed fruits and sweets to Bapuji orphanage.

Renu Agarwal donated sarees to needy women

Seemantham set was given to a pregnant woman by Renu Agarwal

Anuradha gave 100 kgs of newspaper to AWMD. Children of AWMD need them to make different art items in which they are good at

Conducted 'Bhagawan Memorial' English debate competition (ongoing joint project) for college students with Rotarian's. Gave away prize for the best speaker

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IWClub of Mysore West, Dist 318

IW Club of Mysore North, Dist 318

IWClub of Koramangala Bangalore, Dist 319

IWClub BangaloreSouth Parade, Dist 319

IWClub Vijayapura, Dist 319

IWClub Tumkur East, Dist 319

IWClub Tumkur, Dist 319

IWClub BangaloreWest, Dist 319

IWClub Orchards, Dist 319

IWClub Hapur Greater - Dist 301

Flag exchangeSl No:Names of Clubs· Helping the release of a lady from the

jail, the lady who has served her term but could not mobilize cash towards penalty , with Rs.11000/-

· Donating water purif ier worth Rs.12,000/- to Vishwadhama old age home. Our membersSudha Vishwanath and Lavanya Srinivasan are donating a Wet grinder and TV to the same place.

· Helping a rural woman who is mother of quadruplets with cash and clothes. Cost of the project- Rs.12000/-

· Pledging of eyes by Inner Wheel Midtown members

Projects during Chairman's Visit

Fund raisingSl No Name of Donor Amount

1. Dr. Gnaneshwar 25,0002. Mrs. Mythili 15,0003. Mr. Vivek 20,0004. Mrs. Uma Vivek 10,0005. Mr. & Mrs. Reddy 10,0006. Mrs. NeeluferKhuraishi 10,0007. Mrs. RenuAgarwa l5,0008. RMA Foundation 20,0009. Mrs. Vijaya Alagappan 10,000

10. Rtn. Krishna 5,00011. Rtn. Raghavendra 5,00012. Rtn. Sundar Raja Rao 10,00013. Rtn. Alagappan 5,00014. Rtn. Dr. Prahlad 5,00015. Rtn. Dr. Ravindranath 5,00016. Rtn. Ramakrishna 2,000

Sl No Name of Donor Amount17. Rtn. Farooq 1,00018. Rtn. Vishwanath 5,00019. Rtn. Srinivasan 5,00020. Rtn. Raghu M.S 2,00021. Rtn. RajuBaliga 50022. Rtn. Umesh 1,00023. Rtn. Mahesh Murthy 1,00024. Rtn. Narendra 1,00025. Rtn. Bhanuchandran 1,00026. Rtn. Harish 50027. Rtn. Narendrababu 50028. Rtn. Mohan 1,00029. Rtn. Nagaraj 50030. Rtn. Venkatesh 5,00031. Mr. Vivek 10,000

TOTAL 1,97,000

Innerwheel Welcomes new membersSavitha Srinath year and a half. They stayed there for 7 1/2 yrs

Mrs.Savitha Srinath has and decided to come back to India and settle done her Bachelor of down in Mysore. Currently she is working as a Science from Siddaganga consultant ENT Surgeon at Kamakshi Hospital Inst i tute of Sc ience , and is also attached to few more hospitals. Tumkur and PGDBA from She loves cooking, gardening, watching TV, KSOU. She is married to outdoor activities and travelling.Dr.Srinath, GI Surgeon at Nandini MurthyApollo BGS Hospitals, Mrs.Nandhini Murthy Mysore. The couple are has done her Masters in blessed with daughter Food and Nutrition and

Rakshitha. Her family moved to UK in 2003 and executive in MBA. She has were there for a period of 6 years. Now settled also learnt yoga in nature in Mysore, Savitha is a homemaker who is cure. She is married to interested in travelling, gardening, cooking and Mr.Murthy and is blessed reading. with 2 sons. She has 15 years of work experience

Dr.Gayathri Gubbi as consultant nutritionist Dr. Gayathri Gubbi, was at Bangalore. She has 5 years of teaching

born in ''Sakkare Nagara'' experience at Maharani's college, Mysore. She Mandya. She did her is actively involved in nutrition related articles. s c h o o l i n g a t C a r m e l She is currently working as Senior Centre Head Convent School and was a at VLCC Mysore since 2003.national level Kho-Kho She has excel lent communicat ion, player during her high presentation and interpersonal skills. She is school days. She studied innovative and can quickly adapt to any M e d i c i n e a t M y s o re situation. She has won umpteen number of Medica l Co l lege and awards related to food and nutrition. She is

completed her post graduation in E.N.T good at flower decoration, ikebana,etc. She Specialty from Bangalore Medical College. She loves travelling. She has also been a judge at got married to Rtn.Dr.Pramod Gubbi in many competitions. Nandhini is a multi-faceted December 2003 and they moved to U.K after a personality.

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