The Rotary Club of Madras South is Chennai’s second Rotary club, chartered nearly 60 years ago on 30th June 1960. The club celebrated its golden jubilee with eclat in 2009-10. The year 2019-20 is the diamond jubilee year; apart from events throughout the year, a grand celebration was organized on 29 February 2020. The club has 73 members, has given Rotary four Governors over the years, and is a cosmopolitan mix of youth and experience, of businessmen and professionals from a variety of disciplines.
Our club's flagship project, "Scholarship to Students" of private and aided schools, which started last year, brought joy on July 23, 2024, as we presented tuition fee scholarships to 56 students of Mary Clubwala Jadhav School, Egmore. The students, from economically weaker sections of society, studying in standards 8th to 12th, with at least 60% marks in the last annual school examinations and attested by the school for overall performance, were selected for scholarship ...
A medical eye check-up camp was organised on Sunday, 7 July at Vyasarpadi, in coordination with NGO, Vyasai Tholargal. The camp checked local resients of Vyasarpadi for eye ailments, and more than 100 people participated in the camp. Eye glasses were prescribed to those who needed it. Doctors from Udhi Eye Hospital conducted the camp, thanks to our member and the chief of the hospital, Dr. Sherren Raveendran.
Rtn. K Prakash on a visit to US in June had the rare opportunity to sit and adorn the chair of Rotary International President at Evanston office in Chicago. Its a rare previlege that Rotary International offers to Rotarians when the RIP is not in office. Prakash had also had a tour of the office.