Both the DG from 3191 and 3192 along with PDG Nagendra Prasad had organised a felicitation function for the 8 Awareness Riders who had undertaken a 4k trip on motor bikes to Zone 7 of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka to spread the awareness on Mental Health in the 28 cities by visiting many Rotary Clubs from 19th September to 30th September. The venue was the Terrace Lounge of Century Club, at 6 pm.
Over 35 members had joined the program, we had 5 members from Hassan Sub Chapter led by Rtn D Mohan. The meeting was conducted by IPP Rtn Arun Belur. After a brief speech by President Rajesh on the ride details, he thanked each and every person who had sponsored the ride, both DG’s Uday Bhaskar and Srinivas Murthy spoke, thanking IFMR for all the rides undertaken in past by IFMR for various causes and thanked the current team for having agreed to their plan of this ride on Mental Health. Soon it was time for felicitation of 8 riders, each rider was called individually to a centre chair and was presented a certificate along with a beautiful memento which was Gear part of a motorcycle enclosed in a glass along with a digital watch. Very apt for a motorcycle fellowship group. Many pictures were taken with each rider.
The Awareness rider team also gave a special plaque gift along with the special T shirt which was made for the ride to all 3 DG/PDG. The team also gave plaque to 3 past presidents of IFMR, Rtn Ajit, Rtn Arun Belur and Rtn. Prashanth Babu who had worked behind the scene to make the ride a grand success. The team also recognised two important sponsors present in the meeting, Rtn Ritesh from IT Corridor and Rtn Srinivas Kalya for their monetary contribution towards the ride, they were also presented a plaque gift.
Secretary Vinod didn’t want to lose the golden opportunity of getting two new members inducted by DG’s, Rtn Anand and Annette Akash were pinned by DG’s and were inducted into IFMR India Chapter formally. After the vote of thanks all were asked to join for a cake cutting for the November born members. The meeting was adjourned and it was time for group pictures. After which all joined for dinner and fellowship. It was a great get together party.