Charitable Activities

The regular sale of the Woollen garments every year by the Tibetian Refugees and the others bringing handsome income since last several years had enabled us to carry on the repairs and maintenance of our property. It also enables us to carry on the charity work on an average of Rs. 50,000/- per year. The charity is done on case to case basis in the field of - Apart from charities we also have to meet with the administrative expenses as well as the repairs and maintenance of the Heritage Building. The Building had to be stretchered after the Earth Quake in 2001 and the very heaves monsoons in the following years since 1984 we had planned and carried out the major repairs keeping in mind the centenary celebrations of the Lodge and the Temple We might be able to spend more a moment on the charities as the Building and the temple are now in good shape.

PROJECT: DHANYA – DAN – DATED: 26TH JANUARY

We adopted the national program of DHANYA DAN, by donating, 1000.000kg [One Ton] of Food Grains [600kg of Rice & 400 kg of Wheat] to MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY – MOTHER TERESSA ASHRAM- RAJKOT DAIRY ROAD – RAJKOT.
A.R.G.M – W.Bro. TUSHARBHAI ZAVERI honoured the occasion, by accompanying Worshipful Master and other Brethren along with, Fist lady and other ladies members of LADIES MASONIC CLUB to the MOTHER TERESSA ASHRAM to donate the collected food grains and have a close view of the activities carried out at the ASHRAM.
Sister Eellien, profusely thanked Lodge KATHIAWAR No: 59 for the support extended to them.

ACTIVE SUPPORT OF FOLLOWING BRETHREN, will SUPPORT THE MOTHER TERESSA ASHRAM FOR NEXT THREE MONTHS FOOD

W.Bro. Ajit Zaveri	W.Bro.Rikhav Sanghvi
Bro. Dr. Janak Thakkar	R.W.Bro. Pradipbhai Pandya
W.Bro. Tusharbhai Zaveri	V.W.Bro. Sureshbhai Sanghvi
Bro. Milan Shah Harubhai	Bro. Vimal Damani
Bro. Sandip Damani	Bro. Mihir Joshi
W.Bro. J. Jadeja	Bro. Gautam Raval
Bro. Anantbhai Kakkad	Bro. Navinbhai Shah
Bro. Satish Trivedi	W.Bro. Rajiv Damani
Mr. Bimal Desai	Mr. Raju Dhami
Mr. Manoj Patel	Mr. Rajesh Tanti
Mr. Ashok Patel	Mr. Rohitbhai Shah

Lodge KATHIAWAR No: 59 sincerely thanks all the brethren for the active participation and their well wishes.

Thank you,
SECRETARY

PROJECT : SELF RELIANCE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

A matter of dignity, a test of strong morals and dedication, a confirm trust to walk through the rough weather offered by Almighty God, as a passage of testing times. The Lodge Kathiawar is only more proud to share with all of you that, lodge has extended its support to such truly honorable people from the different walks of life, by assisting them to earn their livelihood, in the form of donating SEWING MACHINE, HAND CART and a CYCLE REPAIRS CABIN to physically challenged individual.

3 sewing machines were donated to most suitable people who had the inner fore to live their life without dependency and earn their own.

The total cost spends for the said project was Rs. 49,500/- including one tri-cycle.

PROJECT : EDUCATION CHARITY

W. Bro. Rikhav Sanghavi has paved the road for the education charity which was continued by W. Bro. Rajiv Damani followed by W. Bro. M. J. Joshi. Under the guidance and help of Bro. Pravinbhai Joshi and Bro. Sanjaybhai Joshi the lodge has been able to denote sum of Rs. 1,05,000/-, where the students from class 8 to post graduate students were given merit scholarships. They meticulously carried out the scrutiny of applications received and put their efforts in selecting the suitable students and assigning the suitable amounts as per their institutional needs.

PROJECT : FREE MEDICAL CHECK UP CAMP

The Lodge extended the support worth of Rs. 64,289/- for different medical causes, including medicine support to major operative expenses.

Two medical camps were arranged at our lodge during this year. One medical camp was arranged in collaboration with Dhakkan Hospital in September. More than one hundred patients had taken benefit of six different specialist doctors, including ECG and other related tests were conducted. Our Bro. Hitesh Dhakan took initiative to arrange this medical camp and his bother Dr. Jagdish Dhakan and his team of consultant doctors whole heartedly extended the support.

One more diagnostic camp for cerebral palsy was organized under the efficient leadership of our own W. Bro. Dr. RAJENDRABHAI TRIVEDI and his team. The patients were majority children with physical development challenges. This camp was arranged association with SAURASHTRA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

PROJECT : TEEN AGE - PARENTING - SYMPOSIUM

On 13th March 10, the LADIES MASONIC CLUB – RAJKOT, organized a symposium event on TEENAGE PARENTING at the FREEMASON’S HALL – RAJKOT. The event was chaired by Mrs. DR. MANISHA R PATEL who is a leading paediatrician and has professional accreditation for parenting consultations.

Education has always been considered as a multi faceted ability, as it has always been regarded as such an wealth, which goes on increasing as you share. But a blend on competition in education system has deteriorated its original ethics and values. Today educations have succumbed to nothing but values of numbers and percentiles. Leave alone the child, the parent themselves have felt the heat of pressure building upon their child on the anvil of leading the merit list. These and many such criteria of topping the merit list or scoring higher than the other competition, has ended the true values of education, with building unwanted pressure and stress, most particularly in the age group of teens.

Dr. MANISHA PATEL who is a successful paediatrician in the city of RAJKOT and also a TEENAGE consultant, gave broad spectrum on how efficiently and easily one can deal with such age related stress and problems. She also highlighted the hormonal changes that a child undergoes during this age group and the landmarks to notify such changes. The issues were discussed with suitable behavioural remedies and tips for parents to deal with child transferring from child hood to puberty to adolescences to adult.

The event was attended by large number of members of Masonic Ladies Club and their guests and it turned out to be very useful event in their day to day life.

A memento of appreciation was presented to Dr. MANISHA R PATEL and the event was concluded with huge applause and more demands of such useful events on the forthcoming meetings.