Rotary Club of Mumbai Lakers was formed in 2009 after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The club has grown to 28 members who actively participate in community service projects. Some of their projects include a voter registration drive, distributing bicycles to school children, birthday parties for underprivileged children, health checkups, and donating incubators and medical equipment to Sarvoday Hospital to aid premature and undernourished infants. The club aims to continue assisting the community through additional projects in the future such as upgrading Sarvoday Hospital facilities and providing vocational training to youth.
10. Our Needs & Our Dreams Rotary Club of Mumbai Lakers was conceptualized in the aftermath of 26/11. Successful businessmen / professions got together and wanted to give back to Society. Aim and objectives is to give back to the Community at large, and see to their need based requirements. Our Club History
19. Blood donation, eye, organ pledging and thalassemia check up drive jointly with Hiranandani Hospital & Think Foundation, 5th Apr, 09.
20. >Nutrition program for 120 kids of Phule Nagar & Gautam Nagar for NGO Vidya, for 12 months wef April 09.Our Club History
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22. Sports for the under privileged, Football & Handball coaching kicks off, organised by RC Bombay Pier, sponsored by DK Pharma, 19 Apr 09 and co hosted by us. This coaching is done weekly for a football and handball team.
23. Birthday party for under privileged, a monthly event, for the 60 kids of NGO Vidya at Phule Nagar.
24. Voter Awareness Drive, a door-to-door campaign, jointly with NGOs Janagraha & JIM’ 26th to 29th Apr 09.
31. Diwali party for the 85 specially-abled chldren at Bal Anand, Chembur, 15th Oct 09
32. Donated 2 incubators and baby warmers and one phototherapy unit at Sarvodhya Hospital. for neonatal care for premature and undernourished infants. This donation was done with the assistance of DSG funds from Rotary District.Our Club History
36. Powai - 13 December 09 : Lakers donate incubators to Sarvoday Hospital By: Staff Correspondent Powai - 13 December 09 : 'Lakers' as they like to call themselves, are a lot of enthusiastic Powaiites who have starts a new chapter of Rotary Club based in Powai. RC Mumbai Lakers (Lakers) within its first few months of charter, completed their DSG project for 2009-10. The Lakers have donated 2 incubators (baby warmers) and a phototherapy unit to the maternity department of the Sarvoday Hospital being run by a private charitable trust, in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. The unit was in inaugurated at 10am on the 28th November, '09, at the hands of DG TN Subramanian, in the august presence of first lady Vidhya, trustees and doctors from the Sarvodaya Hospital with a group of enthusiastic Lakers and their friends. WRITE UP OF RCML IN PLANET POWAI Sarvoday is strategically located on LBS Marg, within minutes of Ghatkopar Station and has a large catchment of very deserving patients, particularly from the nearby Parksite. Parksite, extending from Ghatkopar to Vikhroli, houses a large migrant, daily-wage, under-privileged and hence deserving population in Mumbai. Sarvoday's maternity ward had only one unfunctional incubator while it handles about 150 deliveries a month. iThese baby-warmers are very essential in neonatal paediatric care, particularly in the case of pre-term, low weight babies. The photo-therapy unit was found to be much needed in cases of neonatal jaundice. One more such unit is being provided. The incubators help in maintaining neonatal body temperature and hence in the prevention of other complications, in cases of premature and complicated deliveries, thereby mproving