Round Table India Overview

1. Service through Fellowship!
-An Overview!
Round Table International

2. About Round Table
An organization of non-political and non-sectarian young
men between the age group of 18 and 40.
The aim of the young men is to promote service,
fellowship and goodwill in National and International
affairs.
Round Table has grown to 43,000 members across 52
countries representing every corner of the world.

3. Round Table India
Round Tabling came to India in 1957
2600 member strong association
190 Tables across 72 cities and towns, comprising of
businessmen, entrepreneurs, technocrats and professionals.
Motto - “Service Through Fellowship”

4. RTI Community Service Projects

5. Community Service Projects
Blood Typing - 1992 -
Enlisted over 30000 Blood Donors across the country.
Operation Thirst - 1993 -
To provide drinking water source to village people by sinking
over 500 bore wells at a cost of over Rs.10 Million.
AIDS Awareness - 1994.

6. Community Service Projects…
Project SMILE,
Dental hygiene for rural children by conducting several dental camps benefiting
about 300,000 children in the year 1995.
"Right to Learn" – 1996
Provide school infrastructure
Over 140 school buildings
Rs.70 Million,
Benefiting 200,000 rural children
"Project Touch" – 1997
Adopted 2000 orphan children in association with SOS Children's village at a cost of
Rs.1.5 Million.
Braille dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi
RTI released Braille Dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi languages and distributed the
same to several blind institutions.

7. To educate 1 Million Children by 2008
To build 1500 more schools
Budget : Rs. 200 Crores (US$ 40 Million)
Freedom Through Education

8. FTE Current Status - 2006
Children touched : 550,000
Schools built Over 1000
Funds raised and invested: Rs. 80 Crores
Projects in Progress: Rs 5 Crores approximately.

9. Partner States for FTE
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Uttaranchal

10. International Partnerships
Association of Round Table Netherlands adopted FTE as
their National Project
Round Table of Great Britain and Ireland (RTBI) – current
Sponsor for FTE from 2006-09

11. Kargil Fund
Round Table India performed its National duty when it
collected and handed over a sum of Rs.5.1 Million to the
Prime Minister towards the Kargil Fund.

12. Disaster Relief Operations

13. Latur Earthquake - 1993
During the earthquake in Latur in 1993, RTI moved relief
material within 24 hours to the earthquake hit villages.
Constructed a Community Welfare Centre in Latur

14. Orissa Cyclone – 1999-2000
RTI launched "Operation Sadhbhavana“
Construction of 4 schools at a cost of Rs. 2 Million by
the Tables in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
RTI tied up with NOVIB of Netherlands and Centre for
Youth Social Development to construct 15 schools at a
cost of Rs.13 Million all over Orissa.

15. Gujarat Earthquake -2001
Moved Relief Material from all over India
Constructed 14 school buildings at a cost of over Rs. 28
Million in Kutch and Surendarnagar districts of Gujarat.
Azim Premji Foundation has contributed a sum of Rs. 8
Million towards this initiative.

16. Tsunami Relief
RTI is recognised by Govt. of Tamil Nadu as one of the 8
NGOs taking up rehabilitation work in Tsunami affected
areas.
A total of 120 primary schools were taken up by RTI for
complete reconstruction at a cost of 60 Million Rupees –
completed in June 2006
RTI also provided boats, fishing nets and other accessories to
the affected fishermen.

17. RTI Funding Features
Per-capita expenditure on projects of Round Table India
is Rs. 50,000/-, possibly the highest amongst all service
organizations in India.
Round Table India is a Zero Overhead organization
– in effect, 100% of funds go towards the
charities
Donations in India receive IT benefit under Section 80G

18. FTE Goodwill Ambassadors
Kajol & Ajay Devgan
Sabeer Bhatia
Narain Karthikeyan
Madhavan
RK Misra
Kiran Bedi

19. Corporates
Citibank
Coca-cola
ICICI Bank
Bajaj Allianz
ITC
DTDC
Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co.
Standard Chartered Bank
Metlife
Mysore Minerals
Auditors
Mckinsey, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells

20. Government
Education Dept. – Govt. of Karnataka
Education Dept. – Govt. of AP
Primary Education Dept. – Govt. of Gujarat
Govt. of Tamil Nadu – Tsunami Relief
Govt. of Uttaranchal
Govt. of Rajasthan

21. NGOs
Aziz Premji Foundation
Pratham Infotech Foundation
Give India
Credibility Alliance
Round Table Netherlands
Round Table Great Britain & Ireland
Round Table Switzerland
Rotary Club – District 3230
Hutch Delhi Half Marathon ‘06
Standard Chartered Half Marathon ’07

22. RTI National Secretariat
Bob Chandran Center
Round Table House
II Floor, 69, Nungambakkam High Road
Chennai 600034
INDIA
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Round Table India