Rotary Club of Chennai Towers, which is part of Rotary International District 3232, has been dedicated to serving the cause of the economically weaker sections of the society by supporting them to improve their quality of life in various avenues for the last 25 years. They also inaugurated a free 10-bed Dialysis Centre for the underprivileged at Retteri. Amongst various charitable and service projects are, setting up Smart Classrooms for some Government schools, distributing laptops to deserving students from economically weaker and Covid affected families and provided them with Dell laptops, providing medical equipments to the Institute of Child Health Egmore, etc. Over the years, RCCT has been providing support to Anbagam, a home for destitute. Support has included building toilets, setting up a biogas plant, arranging entertainment programmes for the inmates, and conducting medical camps. These are some of our prominent projects, alongside which we conduct multitude projects that we cover in the avenues of community service, health care, education and welfare related projects.
Rotary Club of Chennai Towers Voice of District (VOD) Season 15 was held on Nov. 5 at Madras Management Centre. The Grand Finale with 37 Participants in total, of which 6 were chosen as Winners, one in each category Junior, Young Adult, Duet, Senior Male, Senior Female and Western. This is the 15th year of Voice of District, a Singing competition to find talents from amateur people.
The fund raised from Voice of District is spent on RCCT’s flagship social initiative Smart Vision Project, providing AI powered eye-glasses to visually challenged school & college students. The eye-glasses with AI cameras can read texts in 72 languages, capture images and identify objects and people with names, understand visuals and memorize it for the user. These are connected via Bluetooth to an App installed in the user’s mobile phone which provides audio output & voice commands to the students. It can read currency notes just by looking at it and read text books with a high level of accuracy. The Club President Rtn. Binoy, Chairman VOD Rtn. S.R.Mani and Secretary Rtn.K.P.Jayashree says this effort will help not just creating talent-pool of Singers but larger impact is to support visually challenged students in our community to get the best possible device to improve their studies and make their life better. The Chief Guest Baiju Gopalan (MD of Gokulam Group of Companies) and Guest of Honour Rtn.Mahaveer Bothra (Rotary District Governor Elect) presided over the event.