We are writing a small note on things we would like to bring to your attention.

1) Minutes
2) Part-time Secretary
3) Calls from RBT Office
4) Member Participation
5) Attendance
6) Requirement for more volunteers
7) IMC-YEW Rain-water harvesting seminar
8) Letter from Kimaya Salaskar, from the Stray Dogs Team.


1) Minutes
As many of you might have noticed, the minutes of Revive Bombay's get-togethers haven't been sent for the last two meetings. We would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused and hope to send minutes of future meetings promptly. Secondly, the minutes have been somewhat long to read. Henceforth, the minutes will be shorter and easier to read, and bullet-pointed.

2) Part-time Secretary
We are currently looking for a volunteers interested in working part-time at the Revive Bombay office in Worli. As the organisation keeps growing, there is a greater need for a Revive Bombay secretary to coordinate and oversee a large amount of work that needs to be done. To achieve a greater flow of information, prompt minutes and following up with teams, and their needs, RBT would like to appoint a part-time secretary to assist the teams and team leaders with their projects, and to also field enquiries from interested volunteers. This is a stipended position.

3) Calls from the RBT Office
Over the next few days, you might receive a call from the Revive Bombay office to update your information. We are updating our database, so please cooperate with the person on the phone. This is primarily for members who joined early last year who's information is missing. If you are not interested in continuing as a member, kindly indicate so.

4) Need for member participation
As the organisation grows, and more teams start up, we are looking to you who is reading this to ask you if you have been involved in any project so far. If there is no current project that is of interest, we are asking our members to start their own project with others. If both of these are not of any interest, you might want to look at why you joined Revive Bombay.

5) Attendance
As most of you must be aware, the organisation now requires an attendance from its members, to show its commitment. While we do not ask for a membership fee, we ask members to have a minimum attendance of 30%(4 meetings) in the year. There is a roster at each meeting. If by March next year, a member has not kept up to this commitment, then they will be removed from the mailing list. The reason for this is to fine-tune Revive Bombay to being an organisation of active participation, and not an occasional email.

6) Requirement for more volunteers
There have been serious calls for members to participate in the teams. The teams in urgent need for members to join are
a) Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities (AID). Contact Manish Maker at manish.maker@makers.co.in
b) Adopt-a-child. Contact Sohan Shah at drsohan@indiatimes.com
c) Future of Roads (FOR). Contact Hem Tejuja at htejuja@hotmail.com
d ) Stray Dogs Team. Contact Kimaya Salaskar at kimayasalaskar@hotmail.com

7) IMC's Young Entrepreneurs Wing invites to a seminar on 'Monsoons and Hope'- Rainwater Harvesting Seminar on July 16th, at IMC, Churchgate from 6-8 pm.

8) Letter from Kimaya Salaskar of the Stray Dogs team.
The Stray Dogs team has been dormant for want of serious volunteers to help them. Welfare of Stray Dogs [WSD] vaccinates and sterilizes 300 dogs a month (Mumbai & Navi Mumbai). They believe that the population of strays and the number of dog attacks, can be controlled by sterilization rather than inhumane killing of dogs, and they have figures to prove this in South Bombay. WSD has what is known as FIRST AID, which is an on site first aid program that treats stray dogs. WSD has currently sterilized 24,700 dogs and vaccinated 32,000 dogs against rabies. 17,000 dogs have been treated till date by their First Aid teams and 300 dogs have found homes through their adoption program. There is so much to do and yet the means to do the same are scarce, hence any kind of help that can be provided would go a long way. We as members of Revive Bombay can help in the following ways:

a. Donation of rice grains [broken rice], milk powder, etc
b. Donation of used or unused items for WSD garage sales [including clothes, books, etc]. Proceeds of this help to build their kitty for the mammoth task they have undertaken.
c. If you own a store or restaurant, you could maybe help by displaying their donation boxes. The milk powder and food grains are used to feed the dogs while they are recovering from the operation as well as to feed the stray dogs that are part of their adoption program. The funds collected go towards operational expenses and medicines.

For any further information please feel free to contact Kimaya at
9820292916, or Tel: 22020284 Extn: 127/128. Or you could e-mail
kimaya@procamintl.com / kimayasalaskar@hotmail.com.

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