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-: Member’s Section :-
Dear Friends its great privilege for all of us to have among us our senior most Rotarian Mr. Harish bhai Aggarwal for the yeoman service he is carrying

out for the betterment of the society as Rotarian and also as an experienced & a wise human being.He has joined club as a Charter Member in the year 1989 having
I.D.No:1670521 and Paul Harris Fellow +1 recognition level.
Over a period of so many years he has been a true Rotarian, he was awarded the best Rotarian trophy twice, & always willing to give his best for the club.
On many occasions he has willingly offered his Farmhouse at Manpada Thane to the club for holding any major events & meetings Always a team man & A great
believer in fellowship he has sponsored many club monsoon one day picnics at his farm house at Shahpur and Khopoli.

A strong believer of the philosophy of “Real Living Is Living for Others” He has single headedly sponsored and executed major Health & Hygiene projects for the underprivileged children in
rural schools under the WINS Happy School Projects.
It’s not only about Rotary but he is a man who works beyond. A selfless motivated person who believes that you need to give back to the society because “You Live Only Once”.
A very Successful Business man who Over the period of years have shifted form the 3P’s - POWER , PROFIT, & PLEASURE to the 3 S’s - SERVICE, SACRIFICE & SELF DISCIPLINE,
And a very strong belief that. “An Ounce of Action is Better than a Ton of Intensions”. Following are the Projects Executed Single Headedly By Rtn. Harishbhai:-
PROJECT DETAILS UNDER THE AEGIS OF RCTMT:-
Contribution towards improving health and hygiene of school children under the Swachhata Abhiyaan, Wins Happy school projects. By improving the health and hygiene facility for school
children in rural co-ed schools in remote villages around Thane.
A) In RY 2017-18 Volunteered to construct and sponsor toilet blocks for the students of D K Surya Rao Vidhyalay, a co-ed high school in a remote village in Talavali, Taluka. Bhiwandi,
Benefiting around 800 students out of which around 400 students are girls from over 15 surrounding villages.
B) In RY 2018-19 Volunteered to construct and sponsor 2 toilet blocks for girls and 2 for boys along with wash Basins and flushing facilities for the students of Shree Ram Vidhyala (co-ed
school), Veer Savarkar Marg. Vartak Nagar benefiting around 200 students both boys & Girls.
C) In RY 18-19 RCTMT Had undertaken Tree Plantation drive and planted around 500 trees in Dehne Village , Shahpur. Being an ongoing project Rtn. Harishbhai took up as his personal
responsibility to regularly water the plants, as a result all the 500 saplings have survived and are healthy today which is a record in itself.
DETAILS OF PROJECTS EXECUTED ON PERSONAL LEVEL:-
D) Sponsored and constructed 3 toilet blocks for the girls along with flush tanks and water facilities along with an underground septic tank at the Zilla Parishad Co-ed school in Village Padwlal
Vada, Post Kharade, Shahpur. The school caters to 65 students from the adjoining villages.
E) 3 toilet blocks for the girls along with flush tanks and water facilities is presently under construction. An underground septic tank
had also to be constructed for the same. Lastly, R.C.T.M. President Rtn. Rajendra Zende along with Rtn. Raj Thakur also visited the school
with me and while appreciating my initiative for providing toilet facility for girl students, offered to sponsor hand wash facility with 5 taps
on behalf of the R.C.T.M. The school authorities highly appreciated the gesture and thanked R.C.T.M. President for the same.
F) In the present scenario of the CORONA Pandemic crisis in the country. Harish bhai has volunteered to sponsor distribution of Groceries
including sugar & adivasi Tea leaves to an entire adivasi hamlet at Khokaricha Pada at Shahapur consisting of 55 families till the situation
comes to normal.

F) Harishbhai’s Son Devesh along with his friend of Sevak Caterers prepares 250 to 300 food packets daily for free distribution to daily wage workers & the poor. The lions club collects &
distributes the food packets daily. Today Rtn. Harish Bhai is highly indebted to Rotary for inculcating in him the urge for social service to give back to the society in whatever little way he can.

We wish him great Health and strength to continue his noble cause and are always with him in this journey of providing “Service Above Self”.

Dear fellow SMART Rotarians and members of the family of Rotary.

Dear Namastey Dear friends/ relatives. As u know entire "Prithvi vasi" are fighting against Corona virus for their survival. The world is suggesting

only one effective solution i.e. quarantine/Isolation / lock down. We Indians also following the same path. Of course - we should be saved but it will result in a

disaster economy and we should be prepared for this mentally also. I am assuming that companies will force their employees for less pay or quit the job,

unemployment, prices will be four or five times , 100% shortages of everything ( on the name of free economy, we destroyed our PDS infrastructure,so govt.
will be helpless for effective help ) - people will become frustrated / mentally sick like 1929 year.
We h ave seen few days back on TV the large migration like 1947 partitions. Channel shows only capital cities of states but in fact it is happening throughout the country. In my opinion approx 2
to 2.5 cr people are on roads. It may be safe Cities but our villager's may become 'shikar' but if u can see our past history - when ever a world wide crisis happened our Indian sub continent was
safe. That is GOD gifted. Let's see this time what happens?

So my request is prepare yourself for this coming crises, which will be very serious & take few months to come back normal life but 100% not as today we are 'ji rahe hai '.You can
imagine if our GDP is expected 1 to 1.5% (my guess). I pray to GOD /lord Krishna will bless our friends/ relatives with "Prithi vasi".

So as a Smart President it is my duty to inform you that their are few Recommend points from First Lady Chhaya as

1. Isolate yourself from news about the virus. (Everything we need to know, we already know).

2. Don't look out for death toll. It's not a cricket match to know the latest score. Avoid that.

3. Don't look for additional information on the Internet, it would weaken your mental state.

4. Avoid sending fatalistic messages. Some people don't have the same mental strength as you (Instead of helping, you could activate pathologies such as depression).

5. If possible, listen to music at home at a pleasant volume. Look for board games to entertain children, tell stories and future plans.

6. Maintain discipline in the home by washing your hands, putting up a sign or alarm for everyone in the house.

7. Your positive mood will help protect your immune system, while negative thoughts have been shown to depress your immune system and make it weak against viruses.

8. Most importantly, firmly believe that this shall also pass and we will be safe.... ! Stay positive...Stay safe. As a Smart Rotarian I like the ideas of Sikh community by which they always
organize langar for people. In America also the community working for arranging packed food to 28000 people in New York. Happy to inform you few of them are Rotarians. Amazing work

amazing people.

First lady Chhaya and I visited Australia we saw in every part of the region Rotary projects are improving lives and helping communities adapt in a time of rapid change when the
few part of forest was set on fire.So here also we are suppose to help on large basis though the CORONA varus is spreading.As just we celebrated Chartered Day of our club,let us rededicate

ourselves to strengthening the connections which is a necessity of current situation.

My best wishes to each one of you for healthy, peaceful and happy 2020.Rotary member's will make lives better as Rotary connects the world. I always like the statement of our

beloved DG Mohan always says that's actually being SMART because we believe that we can make that difference - Unnees Beeska Farak....

SMART President 19-20

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