ROTARACT CLUB OF LOYOLA COLLEGE

CLUB REPORT 2016-2017

Kai Kodu Thozha- 18th sep 2016 The community service project by Rotaract club of Dexterous with the aim to collect clothes for homeless people. Rotaract Club of Loyola College was very happy to take part in such a project. To their best of abilities, the initial members collected clothes and provided it to this community service project.

The official poster of project ‘KAI KUDU THOZHA’

Punnagai 8th oct 2016 One of the foremost task undertaken even before forming the Board. Punnagai, a cultural event organized for the Children with special needs by Rotaract club of Akash was supported by Rotaract club of Loyola college and moreover our club helped by selling tickets to this wonderful event thus lending additional support.

The official poster invite of project ‘PUNNAGAI’

Glitzz– 09/10/2016 'Conserve Water, Conserve Life' the theme of Glitzz 2016 a cultural event hosted by 6 Rotaract clubs in the district. As expected Loyola lent their support in this event. Green Rotaractors eagerly participated in Adzap and shipwrek. First prize was bagged in the event in Minute to Fame by one of our Green Rotaractors. This first cultural event attended by the Green Rotaractors gave them an insight that there is always happiness and fun in Rotaract.

The official poster invite of project ‘GLITZZ’

Orientation : 30/11/2016

A simple orientation program for the Green Rotaractors was held at the Commerce Block from 11:30a.m. All the board members and the faculty in-charge were present throughout for orientation, which lasted for about 1 hour. This opportunity was used by the board members to provide a brief yet thorough instructions and brief history of the Rotaract organization. After the welcome address the board members were introduced by the Club President. The board members delivered series of talks to the Green Rotaractors encouraging them to actively participate in the club events and to pitch in new ideas and project for the operating year.

Few of the enthusiastic Green Rotaractors gave ideas for projects on the spot and was immediately accepted by the board members. The Green Rotaractors were voluntarily coming up to join the cultural teams and few members were interested in enrolling for the annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award. The details of the club members were collected simultaneously while checking the candidates present. This effective orientation ended after an address from the Faculty coordinator .

Students interacting with the Board members

The Faculty Coordinator Prof. Justin Sophia addressing the Green Rotaractors

Club Office reorganised and Cleaned: 03/12/2016

The first club service project of the year was the cleaning and reorganisation of the club office. The board members assembled at the club office on 3rd December for this task. The existing cleaning equipment of the club was used. The first task was to sort out the things that were useful to the club and the non-useful items were dumped in a box later to be thrown out. The tables, chairs, cupboard and the almirah were repositioned. The board members split up into two groups where one group cleaned the dust, waste and discarded items and the other mopped the floor cleanly after that. This task of cleaning and properly reorganising took about 2 hours to complete to make the club prepared for the year.

[The Cleaning and re-organization of the Club Offic by the Board Members]

GRM - 04/12/2016

The GRM was held on 4th Dec ,2016 at Ethiraj College. It was a day filled with cultural events , the oral reports of each club in the allocated Rotaract Groups. As for the cultural events with the theme of a Marvel Superhero given to us the board members of RCLC put up an amazing and an entertaining play within a short prep time which was appreciated at the GRM. The President and the Secretary explained on behalf of RCLC representing the Rotaract group. This event gave exposure to other groups and various clubs as well.

Installation 20/12/2016 :

The formal installation of the President and his Board of office bearers of the Rotaract Club of Loyola College 2016-2017 was conducted in L.S. Hall in the campus. The installation ceremony started by 4:30 after the arrival of the Chief Guest, Dr Arulmozhi Varman President of Rotary Club of Madras and the Guest of Honour Mr. George Cherian. Rtr.Akshay Osthwal the outgoing President delivered his welcome address followed by the Secretary Report presented by outgoing Secretary Rtr.Naman. After the collaring of the new President Rtr.Rehan Ahmed by the outgoing President a speech was given by the current President himself addressing the gathering. The President and his team of Office Bearers were inducted to serve the club by taking an Oath. The club charter and the books of accounts were exchanged by the Secretary. The Chief Guest for the day enlightened the gathering with his wonderful speech to the Green Rotaractors followed by the delightful speech of the Guest of Honour, a past Loyolite himself, sharing his student and Rotaract experience.

DRS Malathi addressed the gathering after which the Chief Guest, Guest of honour, Faculty coordinator, DRS, Past President, Secretary, the GRR and other guests were facilitated for their esteemed presence. The ceremony was attended by around 180 Green Rotaractors and members from other clubs as well. The installation ended with the Secretary delivering the Vote of Thanks.

The newly inducted Board of RCLC

Guest of Honour addressing the gathering

New year resolution- 01/01/2017

Under the guidance of the Professional Service Director the Green Rotaractors of our RCLC joined together in taking small video with the resolution in the form of a slogan quoting “We promise that we will never throw any waste in public places”. This video clip is an initiative of Enaindha Kaigal project which is supported by RCLC. This clip was compiled with the video clip of several clubs, school members and even celebrities to form a small video which was released during the New Year of 2017.

RYLA -6th to 8th Dec 2016

The Rotary Youth Leadership Award camp will be held each year to train the youth on being effective, efficient leaders with the sense of brotherhood and a drive to do service to the society. This year's RYLA was held at Hindustan University for 3 days where food and excellent accommodation were provided to the participants. 5 Green Rotaractors participated in this event and benefitted from it. New friends , a sense of brotherhood, bonding and three days filled with exciting games, pep talks by famous guest speakers, cultural events and much more were experienced by the participants.

The participants of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award 2016

2.Participants from Rotaract Club of Lolyola College

Pudhu Varsha Vazhthu -08/01/2017

The first Community service project for the year was Pudhu Varsha Vazhthu meaning New Year Greetings. This project was conducted in Bala Vihar Ashram for the Intellectually disabled Children and people. The club members visited this ashram to provide the required items which were collected by the club members. An hour spent with the special children by playing, dancing and singing created a deep impact on the hearts of our club members who went there. It made us realise how gifted we are. Instead of living selfishly the joy of living should be shared and services should be done for the society which will ultimately benefit us too. After a small interaction with the Staffs of the Ashram, the members came out with a feeling of happiness and satisfaction.

A happy picture of the Board members with the Children of the Ashram

Poster of the Pudhu Varsha Vazhthu event

Eco Friendly Pongal -orientation 7-1-2017

Green Rotaractors lead by the Faculty Coordinator and a few board members attented an awareness program which was carried out by our college for the various clubs. The main theme of awareness was Fire Free Bhogi to protect and safeguard our environment. This move was welcomed by the various clubs and which made this programme a great success by organising various events at the common places by various clubs..

Deans ,staff-incharge and the rotract students participated in the eco friendly bogi orientation

Fire Free Bhogi -11/01/2017

An awareness programme was carried out by our club at Saidapet by the Green Rotaractors lead by the Faculty Coordinator and a few board members. The main theme of awareness was Fire Free Bhogi to protect and safeguard our environment. This was held by coordinating with the local Traffic Police. Students held charts and display boards while shouting slogans to create awareness on the issue. This programme was welcomed by the area people which made this programme a great success.

Awareness campaign conducted by our Green Rotaractors in Saidapet

Interaction with the area Police by our Green Rotaractors

Road safety-13/01/2017

The community service project on Road safety and regulations was held in our college. Creative charts and posters were made by the club members with a good sense of humour and with a tad of sarcasm to create awareness on road safety. The charts and posters were displayed in the college premises near the parking and the main entry and exit gates so that the students would take a note of them for their own well-being and the society's well being too.

Posters and creative charts displayed in the college premises for awareness

Treasure hunt -05/02/2017

The Club service project carried out the 'Treasure Hunt' which is a legacy of the RCLC. This event is organised for the Green Rotaractors for many years It is a fun filled event of finding clues whilst building trust and friendship with new people. Around 180 Green Rotaractors participated in this event managed by the board members. The whole of our college premises was used for this event and totally ten clues were given to the shuffled teams to find. The event lasted for around 2.5 hours starting from 9-11.30 a.m. Prizes were given to the members of the winning team.

Dividing the Green Rotaractors into teams for the Treasure hunt event

Winners of the Treasure hunt event celebrating

Selfie Pre-Conference -12/02/2017

Selfie Pre-Conference was held on 12th feb 2017 in KRMCC college Adyar, it is the pre-conference for this year ADRC. Variety of cultural programmes were held for the attending rotaract clubs. This fun filled event was attended by our Green Rotaractors with enthusiasm. The same amount of enthusiasm and charisma prevailed even when our members performed in the cultural events. This event was made success by our members by bagging the second prize in Face Painting, Adzap and the title winner in the event Mr.Selfie. This event filled with fun and frolic turned out to be great experience for both the Green Rotaractors and the board members.

Participants from Rotaract Club of Loyola College

Invitation and the Poster of Selfie Pre-Conference

Workshop on 3D printers -16/02/2017

A workshop was organized by the CSI, Computer Science department for our Green Rotaractors in the campus. This workshop on 3D printing was attended by the Green Rotaractors irrespective of the departments which they belonged to. The audience were introduced with the evolution, history and latest developments of 3-dimensional printing. The workshop gained more attention after the benefits of using 3D printers were revealed. Also, the speaker had taken an extra effort to prepare a sample of 3D model by using the hi-tech printer. The workshop was thus highly useful for everyone, since new technology was introduced and its effectiveness was justified.

Members building their knowledge and skills through workshop on 3D printers

Phoenix 2k17-18/02/2017

The annual Rotaract culturals held by the Women's Christian College named Phoenix was held in the WCC campus on 18th february 2017. As expected from our Green Rotaractors, almost every event was taken part in with utmost spirit. The decorum and the standards held by our club members was very much appreciated by the organizing club. With 166 entries from our club and the highest, the Rotaract Club of WCC expressed their gratitude to our club as the most supporting club in that event.

A few participants from Rotaract Club of Loyola Colleg]

Tentkottai 20/02/2017

Tentkottai an interesting initiative by our club on the Social Justice day on 20th feb 2016. To create awareness on various important issues going on in our society two movies were projected to the Green Rotaractors in smart classrooms. The two award winning movies were Pink and Visaranai. These two movies were on the genre of social justice. After the movie, the Green Rotaractors were asked to write what they had learnt from the two movies. Thus, this event clubbed the fun and the awareness on social justice together proving this initiative to be a success.

Board member welcoming and addressing the Green Rotaractors

Green Rotaractors watching the movie on social justice and writing their learning from the movie

Eye Check-up Camp-21/02/2017

An eye check-up camp was organized for the benefit of the students, teaching and non-teaching staffs in MRF hall. This eye check-up camp was organized in unison with the help of Uma eye clinic, one of the best tertiary eye care specialist. This eye camp commenced after a small inaugural function. Dr Dinesh MBBS DOMS who was a very experienced, young and a vibrant doctor with his team of 10 members carried out the check-ups in the eye camps. This eye camp was held between 9:30 a.m to 2:00 p.m. This eye camp was attended by around 288 members out of which 274 were students and the rest were both teaching staffs including The Vice Principal and the Dean of Students and other non-teaching staffs attended the eye camp. The eye camp ended with a valedictory function which was attended by the Deputy Principal, Faculty Coordinators, students and volunteers.

Valedictory of eye camp with deputy principle, faculty in charges and rotractors

Waiting for eyecheckup by transgenders

Eye check started by dean of students Prof.Alex pariamalam.

Make a difference-25/02/2017 This project is the first step of a huge Community service project to be carried out in a large scale. The aim of this project is to distribute clothing to children, women and men. This project is to be carried out along with the Rotaract Club of Loyola Community and the Department of Service Learning, Loyola College. A large number of boxes have been procured, out of this 100 boxes have been brought and stored in the Club office at 25th Feb with the help the Green Rotaractors and the Board members.

Our green rotaractors loading the boxes of dresses for our club office

Board members segregating the boxes for loading into truck

Oceanus-26/02/2017 This is a Cultural event organized for the Rotary District 3230 by the Rotaract Club of Vishwahita along with other clubs in which Rotaract Club of Loyola College played a very integral part. The main aim of this event was that the money collected in this event is to be donated to the Gifted Children of a village development society. Our club members and Green Rotaractors were very much happy and pleased to be a part of such a fulfilling event. Rotaract club of Loyola college helped to conduct this event in a successful manner by taking care of the Registration desk helping the Transport committee and sponsoring ₹10,000 for the event. Around 50 Green Rotaractors attended this event.

Picture of Presidents and co-chairmen from host clubs of oceanus

President Rehan Ahmed getting award for special recognition for his work in oceanus Flash Conference- 4th &5th March 2017

The Annual District Rotaract Conference 16-17 titled 'Flash' was held for two days at Dr.Ambedkar Arangam ICF, Villivakkam. The conference was attended by 165 members of Rotaract Club of Loyola College. This two day conference was marked with utmost utilization of the availabe time by speeches of renowned personalities and cultural programs. Attended by almost all clubs in the Rotary District 3230 Rotaract Club of Loyola College sure was at a spotlight for the entire event. Right from the collaring of the Presidents on the day 1 to the valedictory on the day 2 the Green Rotaractors maintained their enthusiasm while upholding the standards of Loyola College which was appreciated very much by almost all the clubs attending the ADRC, Flash. The conference was filled with inspiring and motivating speeches while maintaining the zeal and enthusiasm of the crowd. On the second day of the ADRC the Faculty Co-ordinator Prof. Justin Sophia was honored with a memento for her outstanding support lent to the students, RCLC thereby lending her support to the Rotary District. The President and the Secretary were also honoured for their hard work and helping the Rotary District. Not an ADRC ends without Rotaract Club of Loyola College receiving laurels and prizes. Awards for bagging the second place in Adzap and Face painting held at Selfie pre-conference was given. RCLC maintaining its streak of the highest registration for the ADRC was honored with a trophy third time in a row. This two days of various cultural and motivation was an utmost benefit to the Green Rotaractors who were overjoyed for attending this conference.

Students and staff co-ordinator participation in conference

President of rotoract club loyola college receiving award in the conference

Coverup the needy:8-3-17

Boxes of dresses were distributed to the needy people through the department of service learning of loyola college.