| Midtown has five major long term projects. Click on any of them to read more. |
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| Go Green |
| Digital Literacy |
| Cancer Project |
| Stop TB Campaign |
| Young Achiever's Recognition |
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| Midtown’s Go Green project |
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| “Go Green” is a long term project of the Rotary Club of Madras Midtown. With the mission to “Make dreams real for the world of children”, Midtown has launched the Go Green campaign, to prepare a cleaner and greener environment for today’s children. |
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| Midtown’s Go Green programme will take the message of Global Warming and saving our environment, to the local communities with the help of the Rotarians, Anns, Annets, Rotaractors, Interactors and general public. Easily implementable programmes that can be done at home and in the community will be shared with the public. |
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| Midtown will empower School and College students with knowledge on the Go Green campaign and spread the message through seminars and public awareness campaigns. Midtown has the assistance of Exnora and other agencies that have been doing excellent work in this area. |
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| Midtown distributes fruit bearing and income generating saplings at our adopted village of Billakuppam and other rural communities. Tree guards are also provided. |
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| Awareness messages are done on a large scale through SMS and eMail campaigns,through the club bulletin “Midtowner”, with articles being contributed by Annets. We prominently display Go Green banners at all club meetings and functions. |
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| RCMM recognizes people who make an impact with the “Go Green Campion Award”. We distribute a multimedia awareness CD on and Global warming and Go Green at academia, corporate, NGOs. |
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| Project Vision |
| To empower deserving and challenged women, youth and individuals, with digital literacy skills, using self paced interactive multimedia eLearning content. |
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| Project Benefits |
| The training will enable the beneficiaries to effectively participate in eGovernance, eCommerce, eHealth and eEducation and several other ICT Initiatives and also impact their professional and personal lives. |
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| eLearning content used for the project |
| The “KnowIT - Basic Digital Literacy” was developed by Indiss Infotech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. |
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| The interactive content has been developed with Tamil Script and Voice over to serve the rural communities of Tamil Nadu. The content developed in English will help take Digital Literacy to all English speaking countries. |
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| Unique features of the content |
| See: Performs step by step demos |
| Practice: Allows individual practice |
| Test: Tests learner and displays score |
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| Project Partners |
| Digital Literacy Project of RI Dist 3230 is supported by Rotary Club of Madras Midtown & Digital Literacy Exnora. |
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| Implementation goal |
| Make 10 million individuals “Digitally Literate” in 5 years |
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| Course content: 20 Hours duration |
| Introduction to Computers |
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- Microsoft Windows
- Emailing and Internet
- Basics of MS Word
- Basics of MS Excel
- Basics of MS PowerPoint
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| The learners can learn on their own, with limited support from teachers. |
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| Beneficiaries impacted by Digital Literacy |
| Women and adult girls from rural villages |
- Students and teachers from poor schools
- Women of Self Help Groups
- Tsunami & Leprosy affected communities
- Unemployed women and youth
- Physically and mentally challenged youth
- Senior citizens
- Young refugees from Sri Lanka
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| Role of Rotary Clubs / Partners |
| Identify deserving beneficiaries and support the Digital Literacy Centres that can be located at: |
- Schools, Colleges and Universities
- NGOs, Corporates / Government depts
- Rotaract, Interact Clubs and RCCs.
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| Support extended to partners |
- eLearning content for the centre
- Orientation programme for Volunteers
- Report formats for effective implementation
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| To Sign up as a DLE Centre |
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| Rotary Clubs and NGOs who want to sign up for the project, please contact: |
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Rtn. PP. K.B. Sridhar,
Email: sridhar@indiss.co.in, 9940009990 |
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Rtn. V. Karthik
Email:rotariankarthik@gmail.com, 9940122000 |
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| Midtown’s Cancer and Research Foundation |
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| Cancer is a dreadful disease, which destroys a person not merely physically, but also emotionally and financially. Timely and right action can help in mitigating the sufferings. Rotary Club of Madras Midtown took up the cause of fighting Cancer and formed Rotary Cancer & Research Foundation, a Charitable Trust enjoying exemption under Sec. 80-G of Income Tax Act. The Foundation has the following objectives: |
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- To create awareness in the minds of the public about Cancer by holding seminars and Cancer detection camps.
- To hold camps in slums and areas where the poorer section of society live, thereby to identify the potential risk factors and advise the inhabitants of these areas.
- To provide pecuniary assistance to poor patients for treatment and medicines.
- To motivate & provide insurance for Cancer.
- To assist in the Research of Cancer related activities.
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| With a view to provide assistance to poor and deserving cancer patients, a scheme has been drawn under which a Rotary club can identify the poor and deserving cancer patients and help such patients for medical treatment. The Foundation will provide matching assistance to the patient to extend help being provided by the respective clubs. Rotary Foundation will provide matching assistance to a club upto a sum of Rs.10,000/- in a Rotary year. Till now 50 patients have been provided with Cancer medical aid. The Foundation has been successful in convincing United India Insurance Company to issue a Janata Cancer Group Policy. The salient features of this policy are as follows: |
- The policy will be issued for a period of three years.
- The insured is covered for Cancer risk and if diagnosed with cancer, the Insurance company will pay a sum of Rs. 20,000/- to the Insured.
- Any person between the age of 5 and 65 will be insured under the policy.
- This is a beneficiary Policy and not reimbursement policy.
- This policy is issued only if it is sponsored by non-Government organizations like Rotary Club.
- This policy also covers personal accident. In case of personal accident the insured will get an amount of Rs. 20,000/-independent of the Cancer Insurance amount. Therefore the policy has double benefit.
- This policy will be issued only to a group of a minimum of 100 persons.
- The premium of the policy is Rs. 100/- for a period of three years.
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| It is the endeavour of the foundation that maximum number of persons from lower strata are insured under this policy. The foundation has been providing 50% of the premium in case the Rotary club sponsors a group of 100 persons. Till now nearly 1000 policies have been taken under the scheme. |
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| Midtown’s Stop TB campaign |
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| “Midtown’s Stop TB” campaign is a long term project of the Rotary Club of Madras Midtown. RCMM had taken the initiative three years back to create the needed awareness that TB is curable. One person dies of TB every 20 seconds is alarming and RCMM is concerned. |
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| Thiruvannamalai was considered as high risk area for the TB disease. Hence, with the help and support of RC Thiruvannamalai, RC Porur, RC Chengam, we joined hands with ExNoRa, Biocare and Huma Specialities to work as a team on a Long Term Basis, to conduct awareness campaigns and also conduct screening for TB. Identified patients are supported with TB treatment and carefully monitored. |
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| RCMM will create large scale awareness through seminars, SMS and email campaigns. RCMM will also short duration medical camps regularly with the support of a dedicated team of doctors, Rotary Clubs and volunteers with the theme of the camp being “Serene Living to control TB & other Diseases” |
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| Midtown’s Young Achiever Recognition Programme |
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| Rotary Club of Madras Midtown conducts the “Midtown’s Young Achiever Recognition Programme” as a long term project. The club recognizes young students who have performed excellently and who are on the path to making their Dreams Real. |
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| Every month RC Madras Midtown has been identifying and recognizing talented youth. The YAR Programme is normally scheduled during the second Monday of every month, at Hotel Taj Connemara. It is being conducted along with the Annets Club of RC Madras Midtown. This programme gives Midtown’s Annets an opportunity to look out for talented youth and recognize them. This is an empowerment programme for the Annets as they conduct the meeting along with the Rotarians and it also helps them learn to from awardees. This we believe will inspire our Annets to pursue their own goals. The awardees too are inspired and encouraged when they receive the award from Rotary and also share their thoughts with an elite audience. |
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The Annets Club President for 2011 – 12 is Vijayalakshmi, Annette of President Rtn. SP. Chintamani. |
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