Rotary Club gifts ‘rain shelter’ to Syari

GANGTOK, 24 Jan: Rotary Club of Gangtok, South, donated a rain shelter to the community of Syari on 23 January in a short inaugural function.
During the function, Club member Jasoda Chettri gave a brief overview of the aims and objectives of the Rotary Club while president, Sunila Verma presented a detailed report of the projects taken up by the club, informs a press release.
She informed that the aesthetically constructed shelter was funded by Rotary International and is a gift to the Syari community from Rotary. The shelter can be used as a waiting shed and also as a Polio Booth to administer polio drops to children as part of the National Immunisation Day, said Ms Verma.
It was informed that the club had organised a free medical check-up camp in collaboration with Durgapur Mission Hospital and identified 4 children for surgery through the Rotary India Humanity and Rotary Heart to Heart at the Mission Hospital  Durgapur.
The release informs that this year the club has adopted 13 children from Sikkim Viklang Samiti and got them enrolled with Five Ways Institute to help them acquire basic qualification of class X and XII so that they can become employable and self reliant and not dependent on charity and compassion. These children are given free tuitions by Rotarians and volunteer teachers.
The club felicitated the volunteer teachers Purnima Gurung, Mr. Paras Lecturer, Roshan Bhutia and Ms Tensang. The president expressed her gratitude to Director Five Ways Institute, Dr HP Chettri for enrolling the children free of cost, the release mentions.
General secretary of Syari Employees Welfare Association (SEWA), BB Subba and representatives from the Syari Taxi Association, Accountant General Quarters, Cheli Morcha thanked the Rotary Club for constructing the shelter. Onex Lepcha, a social worker who played a key role in supervising the construction of the shelter was also felicitated by the Rotary Club.
The programme was also attended by a team of fifteen Rotarians from Kochin who have been travelling to 23 states to promote Polio Eradication along with State Polio Immunisation Officer, Dr Shashi Chettri and Raj Bangar educated the audience about polio, the release adds.
The chief guest, Minister HRDD, NK Pradhan thanked the Rotary club for the shelter and requested the community of Syari to maintain it. The programme was also attended by Dy Mayor, Shakti Singh.