At the April 13, 2022 Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North Lunch Meeting at our new meeting location University Living of Ann Arbor we had Manish Mehta talk about his Humanitarian Award from The Ann Arbor Rotary Club.
Manish Mehta received the Robert S Northrup Humanitarian Award from the Ann Arbor Club earlier in the month for his work in international projects.
He started the meeting with a brief biography of his early life and then went on to the project he has been involved with:
- Before joining Rotary he worked on a Polio vaccine giving event in India.
- Project Dignity (Manish's biggest project)
- Micro Credit Program
- Pandemic Relief For Detroit Global Grant
- Nepal Sanitation and Irrigation Revitalization Project (To make available sanitary toilets in 4 Public Schools, in and around Bungamati)
- and more
Manish's last remark was to thank the Club of Ann Arbor North for all our participation and tell us how much he appreciated what we have done.
Also at the meeting Bob Specht talked more about the Tote Bag Project starting up in June.
- Dexter and Chelsea will participate in this project
- Chelsea Rotary has a project involving selling handmade, free trade African baskets, and Motown Soup at the Chelsea Farmers’ Market.
- RCAAN is now considering the alternative of completely combining the efforts of our club, with those of the Chelsea Club, and possibly even with the Dexter Club.
- Bob is now looking into the possibility of reserving and/or renting a table at the Ypsilanti Farmers’ Market where we would be able to sell the baskets and the soup, either give away or seek a small donation (e.g. $1.00) for each tote bag, and provide shopper’s with the opportunity to sign up for our club’s e-newsletter and/or to make a donation to Rotary’s international efforts to eradicate polio in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- All plans for this project are tentative. Planning is still in progress.
