ABOUT US
The Rotary Club of Hyderabad Deccan
The Rotary Club of Hyderabad Deccan [RCHD], located at Hyderabad City, India was chartered in 1988. Today, it has 74 members and is one of the leading clubs in the country. Its Rotarians are industry leaders from various classifications and have a consistent track record of service to humanity. Since the inception of RCHD, its members have personally contributed over Rs.10 crore towards charitable causes and have raised several times that amount by their fund-raisers.
RCHD is extremely active with service projects in the community. RCHD has impacted lives of over 20,000 school going children by providing them with toilets, safe water, classrooms and desks, and over 200,000 villagers by provision of RO plants in fluorosis affected areas.
RCHD has completed several global grant projects in partnership with the Rotary
Foundation and the Rotary Club of Naperville Chicago. These include:
- A 15-bed Dialysis Centre at Secunderabad, housed in the Secunderabad Gurudwara and run by the Mahavir Charitable Trust, has provides over 10,000 dialysis every year at a cost of a mere Rs. 300 each
- Recently opened Guntur Dialysis Centre that can cater to many patients in Guntur area
- A state of art Blood Bank at Ameerpet at a total cost of over Rs. 2 Crores, which has collected over 10000 units of blood used by the needy.
- A 3-laser, 11 channel cytometer setup at and run by the Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital & Research Institute (BIACH&RI) for free specialized diagnostic services to children from families below the poverty line (BPL) suffering from Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL)
- A charitable Diagnostic Centre and PolyClinic at Gurudwara Medical Centre in Secunderabad which serves over 7000 patients every month free or at very nominal rates
- School infrastructure development to benefit more than 20,000 children, building sustainable toilets in schools, orphanages and old age homes
- Drinking water to several schools and 60 villages via RO plants that sustain themselves
- Vocational Training and assistance to women in sewing with training to over 600 women in Tailoring over the last 10 years
- Disaster relief during cyclones, floods and the Covid-19 pandemic
- Summer schools for underprivileged children
- Currently RCHD is working on setting up a charitable Diagnostic Centre and PolyClinic at CR Foundation, Kondapur