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Issue
no: 21 |
22nd November, 2010 |
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There was an excellent book and media exhibition at the Rotary Midtown library on 21st November, Sunday. It was appreciated by all. |
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We have organised a Bone Densitometry Camp under the auspices of our club and Indian Menopause Society led by Dr. Niranjan Parikh at our P.B.Khera Medical center. Volunteers are requested to join in for their efforts. |
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Congratulations to Miss Heena, one of the physically challenged candidates working at Father Thomas’s home for the disabled on getting an award of appreciation from a Mumbai based NGO for her designs. She will be honoured by the Governor of Gujarat in a function at Ahmedabad. |
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| There is a Rotary Friendship Exchange Program (RFE) to USA District 7780 from 1st May to 16th May, 2011. DG Devangbhai Thakore and RFE Chairman Sushrut Mankad have invited applications from interested couples for this program. The last date for application is 31st December and District interviews will be held on 23rd January for selections. Couples interested may contact President Banuben Dhakan or DGE Deepak Agrawal for the same. |
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| Rotary International News |
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| Bringing smiles to children in India |
By Peter Schmidtke
Rotary International News - 17 November 2010 |
Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh has performed more than 12,000 surgeries to correct cleft lip and palate birth defects since 2004. One of his most celebrated patients, Pinki Sonkar, was the subject of the documentary Smile Pinki , which won an Academy Award for best documentary short in 2009. The 39-minute film was directed by Megan Mylan.
Singh, a member of the Rotary Club of Varanasi Midtown, Uttar Pradesh, India, and of a 1996-97 Group Study Exchange team to Brazil, repaired Pinki’s cleft lip when she was five years old. The US$250 surgery was available at no cost to her family through Smile Train, an international charity that provides cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need and cleft-related training to doctors.
Before she received the surgery, Pinki was unable to attend school due to mistreatment from other children.
“The life of a cleft child in India is really miserable,” says Singh. “They grow up uneducated, and they are secluded and don’t have any friends.” In addition to speech abnormalities, he says, children with unrepaired clefts have an average life expectancy 15 years shorter than other children, due to feeding difficulties in early childhood and other factors.
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