Rotary Club of Sonargaon Dhaka, District 3281

02/08/2020

29 July 2020
Dhaka, Bangladesh

RCSD planted sapling, fruit plants, neem and wood bearing trees at Aram Bagh residential areas and Eastern housing society, Mirpur, during tree plantation week. The locals and shop owners were advised to take care of the plant to let it grow as national property. President Mahfuza together with other members and locals made it a successful program.

02/04/2020

Response to the pandemic of COVID-19 by Rotary Club of Sonargaon Dhaka (RCSD)

The COVID-19 pandemic marks an unprecedented time in modern history that will require the best of humanity to overcome. The new coronavirus has taken thousands of lives and spread to nearly every country in the world and has now reached Bangladesh.

During the lockdown beginning on 18 March 2020 in order to cease the deadly spread of Covid 19 in Bangladesh, RCSD decided to help the most effected daily wage earners in the unavoidable shut down in Bangladesh.

With a nationwide holiday announced for all private and public enterprises till the 4th of April, the country is unofficially in a lock-down state. The demographic who are most affected by this are the day laborers. People who live hand-to-mouth and have no source of income at this trying time.

RCSD is targeting to help a very small segment of this demographic: rickshaw pullers, underprivileged and vulnerable community living in Slums in Dhaka.

Some more than 200 families received assistance since 28 March, 2020 during the lockdown in slums of Mirpur, Dhaka Bangladesh.

The relief team is led by Rtn. Kazi Amdad with assistance/coordination of President Zakia and team with funding support from fellow members of RCSD.

The relief packet included rice, lentils, oil together with soap and detergent from different outlet close to their home.

RCSD ensure maintaining social distance as relief was distributed among deprived and sufferer working class. Recipients were lined up in one by one not in a crowd.

Relief was given on 28 March, 31 March and on 2 April 2020.

This assistance is expected to continue till funds available.

28/02/2020

31/10/2019

Regular weekly fellowship meeting on 28 October 2019 presided by President Rtn Zakia Sattar.

03/10/2019

Hasina Rahman awarded Rotary International-UN honors

Hasina Rahman Orna, a Rotarian from the Rotary Club of Dhaka Mavericks, was awarded the Rotary International 'People of Action - Connectors Beyond the Border'. The honor will be presented at the UN Headquarters in New York on November 7 in the presence of at least 500 delegates, including Rotary International President Mark Daniel Maloney, representatives from different countries, and Rotary and youth leaders.
District 125 Governor M Khairul Alam has also been formally invited by Rotary International to attend the New York Honor Ceremony with the recipient of the award.

A high-powered committee formed by the Rotary International President has nominated five people including Hasina Rahman to be honored this year after a six-month selection process from nominations from 25 countries conducting Rotary activities worldwide. The other honorees are German, Dr. Bernard Fischer (Rotary Club of Berlin, District 1), Vanderlai Lima Santana of Brazil (Rotary Club of Boa Vista Kakari, District 122), Ace Robin of Indonesia (Rotary Club of Mataram Lombok, Dist. Club of Canary Row, District 120) and Lebanese Lucienne Haworth (Rotary Peace Fellow Alumni, Dist. Crickets 3).

It is important to note that because of Rotary International's historic role in organizing the UN Charter, the organization has been working towards peace as one of the UN's allied organizations and this bond is celebrated through various programs in November each year. The 'Rotary-United Nations Day' will be celebrated at the UN headquarters in New York on November 7 this year to celebrate the historic merger of the two organizations on the 8th anniversary of the UN.

In announcing the honor of Hasina Rahman, Rotary International noted that "Hasina has been honored for her significant contribution in protecting maternal and child health in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh." Rotary Club of Dhaka As a member of Xavierix, he has organized five child and maternity centers in the Rohingya camp, combining his professional and voluntary initiatives.

These centers provide financial assistance to around 5 lakh mothers and babies and provide emergency health care with financial support from various organizations including Rotary. About 3,000 very handicapped children are healed by providing special services. Rotary International also mentioned the launch of a simple solution to prevent malnutrition of Rohingya families by providing training and agricultural assistance to the Rohingya mothers in a small number of Rohingya camps in Rohingya camps at Hasina's initiative.

The 2019-2020 Rotary People of Action: Connectors Beyond Borders recognition will honor six Rotarians, Rotaractors, Peace Fellows, or Rotary alumni who are working, as volunteers, with displaced people (refugees or internally displaced persons) in their own communities or around the world.

Rtn Hasina Rahman, the only Bangladeshi rotarian this year to achieve this prestigious award and our fellow rotarian of district 3281 who is a fellow member of Rotary club of Mavriks in Bangladesh.

She will be recognized at Rotary Day at the United Nations.

Heartiest congratulations to Rtn Hasina Rahman from our fellow rotarians of Rotary Club of Sonargaon Dhaka

01/09/2019

September is Basic Education and Literacy Month !

17/08/2019

Congratulations to Shekhar Mehta, of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, West Bengal, India, on being selected by the nominating committee to serve as the president of Rotary International for 2021-2022.

Learn more about President-nominee Shekhar Mehta: http://on.rotary.org/shekhar

17/08/2019

Join the RI president on August 22 at 11:10 a.m. (Chicago time) for a Facebook Live chat on how we can grow Rotary together. Looking forward to chatting with everyone and updating you on the first couple months of his presidential year.

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10/07/2019

Sad Demise: Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir is no more

With heavy heart, we regret to be the bearers of dreadful news, but our fellow Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir breath his last today (10 July 2019) at 12.40 a.m Asgar Ali Hospital in Gandaria of Dhaka.

He gracefully faught with cancer for last couple of years.

Rotarian Jahangir was a fellow member of RC Sonargaon Dhaka and played significant role in development of Rotary activities in the Bangladesh. He was one of the most veteran journalist of Bangladesh. It's also noted that his elder brother Prof Muhammad Yunus is the only Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate till to date.

Former student of Dhaka University, Rtn Jahangir has wrote and edited 25 books, mostly on media and journalism, according to the official website of Nrityanchal Dance Company.

He was a teacher of media and communication at two universities in Dhaka. He contributes significantly as planner and programme presenter on politics and current national and international issues in Television media of Bangladesh.

He Joined The Daily Dainik Bangla as university correspondent in 1970 and was promoted to staff reporter two years later. He later joined the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB).

Rtn. Jahangir is the former Dhaka Correspondent of Daily 'Aazkal' of Kolkata.

Rtn Jahangir was also a member of the executive committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Bangladesh chapter and also a member of the Theater Drama group, Bangla Academy, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, National Press Club and was the coordinator of Nrityanchal Dance Company.

He hosted of the first live television talk show in Bangladesh Television (BTV) “Abhimat” in Bangladesh which went off the air in 1998. Jahangir is the editor of Monthly BINODAN, a magazine for the adolescent, being published since February 1998.

We deeply mourn the sad and untimely demise of our beloved fellow, Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir. We, the Rotary Club of Sonargaon are heartbroken at this irreplaceable loss but We promise his legacy will live on with all the good works of Rotary.

His Namaje Janaja will be held at 11am at Press club. And after Asar prayer at Chamelibagh Mosque, Shantinagar. His burial will take place at Mirpur Buddhijibi Graveyard

Our deepest condolences to the bereaved family and may his soul rest in eternal peace.

Please pray with us for his departed soul. Amen

10/07/2019

Sad Demise: Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir is no more

With heavy heart, we regret to be the bearers of sad news, but our fellow Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir breath his last today (10 July 2019) at 12.40 a.m Asgar Ali Hospital in Gandaria of Dhaka.

He gracefully faught with cancer for last couple of years.

Rotarian Jahangir was a fellow member of RC Sonargaon Dhaka and played significant role in development of Rotary activities in the Bangladesh. He was one of the most veteran journalist of Bangladesh. It's also noted that his elder brother Prof Muhammad Yunus is the only Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate till to date.

Former student of Dhaka University, Rtn Jahangir has wrote and edited 25 books, mostly on media and journalism, according to the official website of Nrityanchal Dance Company.

He was a teacher of media and communication at two universities in Dhaka. He contributes significantly as planner and programme presenter on politics and current national and international issues in Television media of Bangladesh.

He Joined The Daily Dainik Bangla as university correspondent in 1970 and was promoted to staff reporter two years later. He later joined the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB).

Rtn. Jahangir is the former Dhaka Correspondent of Daily 'Aazkal' of Kolkata.

Rtn Jahangir was also a member of the executive committee of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Bangladesh chapter and also a member of the Theater Drama group, Bangla Academy, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, National Press Club and was the coordinator of Nrityanchal Dance Company.

He hosted of the first live television talk show in Bangladesh Television (BTV) “Abhimat” in Bangladesh which went off the air in 1998. Jahangir is the editor of Monthly BINODAN, a magazine for the adolescent, being published since February 1998.

We deeply mourn the sad and untimely demise of our beloved fellow, Rtn. Muhammad Jahangir. We, the Rotary Club of Sonargaon are heartbroken at this irreplaceable loss but We promise his legacy will live on with all the good works of Rotary.

Our deepest condolences to the bereaved family and may his soul rest in eternal peace.

Please pray with us for his departed soul. Amen

26/06/2019

Thank you RCSD President Sayeed Chaudhury for giving a nice Rotary year n Congratulations Incoming President Zakia Sattar, wishing you all the best. Looking forward for a great year.