Event Highlights for the Rotaract Year 2021-22 Letterhead Exchange with RCN This was the first letterhead exchange our members participated in accompanied by our international service director - Rtr. Ramakanth Pai with Rtr. Harman Singh, President of Rotaract Club of Nagpur RID 3030 on 3rd August 2021 at Communti, Residency Road, Bangalore It was wonderful to see various clubs across Bengaluru coming together to be a part of it. There was immense energy in the meet, ideas were exchanged, announcements were made, network was developed and most importantly friendships were made. Rtr. Ramakanth Pai along with other members of RBSP participated and made the exchange a huge success. Voluntary Blood Donation Drive The following project was a joint project with our parent club Rotary Club of Bangalore South Parade. The event was conducted on 14th August, 2021 at Indian Red Cross Society, Karnataka State Branch, Bangalore in order to raise awareness and urge people to donate blood to save lives. All the volunteers and the logistics of the project฀from registration, blood collection and certificate distribution was coordinated by our amazing club members under the leadership of Rtr. Ramya Dev and Rtr. Lakshmi Sarvani. Speaker Meet - Good Governance Our parent club member Rtn. Harshitha, who is also a Political Consultant with PGP conducted a speaker meet virtually on 30th January, 2022 to understand on what good governance is and why it is important to involve ourselves in local government. The event led to a lot of great discussion on current political environment and why both collective and individual accountability is necessary. Rtr. Meghana and Rtr. Rahul seamlessly conducted the session despite having a day of back to back event. Even asking and encouraging the important questions Do It For The Kids’- Recycle Paper Drive We collected recycle paper all across Bangalore to help raise funds for the kids of Balya Orphanage and to enable club funds. The same was held on 5th September 2021. We got in touch with various network of apartments, community living and business, to collect recycle paper and raise funds by selling the same to recycling centers. Our project chairs Rtr. Yogesh and Rtr. Suraj Gowda outdid themselves by actively taking initiative to coordinate the collection and recycling of the paper