Imparting education in Hindi and English Medium and vocational education, are the ongoing projects of IWC of Bombay. Classes in both are conducted for the mothers of Ambedkar Municipality School, BDD Chawl, Worli. Physical Classes commenced on 15th July 2022, after a two years gap due to pandemic.
An ongoing project, whereby interest free loans are disbursed to ladies to help them start self sustaining entrepreneurship.
An annual award in memory of our member PDC Mira Mehta. This year 11th Mira Mehta award was given to Maya Kulkarni, a special educator for the hearing impaired children at Kamalini Karnabadhir Vidyalaya.
Wheelchairs and calipers were donated to the students of SEC school ( Society for the Education of the challenged ) at Agripada on 21st July 2022.
Sobti Parents Association Visit at Wada Date 7 th March
Mrs Usha Bal
NGO Forty reasons to smile was given a donation for toys for cancer children. on 31st January
Ratnanidhi Charitable Trust Donation for book shelves for children. on 31st January
Appeal from Unnati Foundation.There was a generous amount of donation from club members of Rs 21000 and blankets which was need of the hour. on 14th August
Saving our mother Earth from the electronic waste such as old phones, computers which can be recycled in a better way.It was collected from Club members and neighbourhood by President Shilpa Mehta.. on 19th August
IWC Bombay celebrated Raksha Bandhan by tieing Rakhis to the ward boys of Covid Ward of Wadia Hospital who had worked relentlessly during the second wave of the pandemic. on 21st August
The main idea of the Microcredit Scheme is to empower women by making them financially self-reliant. In line with the theme ‘Charity with Responsibility’, small-scale women entrepreneurs are encouraged and helped to become economically independent by being extended repayable interest-free loans. Women, who are not eligible for bank loans or who would have to pay such usurious rates of interest that their business cannot succeed, can avail this.
NGOs, Vocational Training Groups and Ladies Clubs identify women who can benefit from this. Initially, the women applying for the loan are interviewed, their credibility assessed and the viability of their enterprise determined. Thereafter, there is periodic interaction with the women to motivate them and to encourage them to repay their loans regularly.
The Inner Wheel Club of Bombay has been running this scheme for the last 12 years under the benevolent and able leadership of PDC Lata Palekar. She has helped innumerable women start tiffin services and other home-based businesses and her observation is that women feel responsible about repaying the loan especially when they are made to realise that their repayments will finance the next batch of needy women. Lata has several success stories to narrate. One she relates with great enthusiasm and even pride is of a lady whose loan enabled her to start supplying just one tiffin box a day and who is now employing several others to run a take-away outlet.
The success of the Microcredit scheme has spurred the District Chairman 2014-15 to make it one of her key focus areas for the District.
PDC Lata Palekar is heading the team and guiding other Clubs to replicate the model.
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