To give a form to this vision, Rotary Clubs across the globe were contacted with an appeal to donate an ethnic doll representing some unique feature, culture or tradition of the place.
Rajkot Midtown Rotary Club ( RCRM )’s request was for an ethnic doll from all Rotary Clubs worldwide. Mr. Deepak Agrawal’s e-mail was sent to Rotary clubs worldwide. He had sent to 14,000 clubs some 23,000 e-mails in the first year. This has now risen to over 27,000 clubs and supported with over 100,000 e-mails and is still rising!
And the response has been overwhelmingly generous.
The Rotarians generously accepted the request and immediately started working towards the cause. From the first 12 emails, came the first one – we call it the “Lucky Doll” from where today we have this special Museum as a symbol of universal Love, Care & Sharing.
Nupur Agrawal – A young student donated her time & skills for the window dressing of this museum.
Thus the whole process caught momentum with added enthusiasm.
And a simple idea transformed into a marvellous shape.
With a whopping response of over 1600+ dolls, enough is not the word. The process is still on and appeal to “Donate a Doll” is still alive.
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| What can this project
Achieve ( Objectives ) |
| This project has made an effort
to create this Museum for : |
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Being aware of the
geographical layouts of various countries and its continents |
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Being aware of the culture,
traditions and ethnicity of each race, each region, and each civilization.
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Creating awareness as to how
geographical climates can make difference in appearances of people
in residing in different cities, countries and continents. |
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Creating awareness as to how
different the lands can be to promote a typical opportunity for
business & industry. |
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Creating respect for the differences in people around the world. |
The objective
in simple words is to create a tolerance, compassion and understanding
for human kind around us. The very essential love, care and sharing
has to be developed for a peaceful world we all love to live in. |
This project has been continuously discussed in the meetings of
the Rotary Club of Rajkot Midtown with valuable inputs & contribution
of ideas from Mr. John Wood from Rotary Club of Somerset Levels
and has been unanimously agreed upon to work in unison towards the
same in time, spirit and oneness.
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| Project Achievements |
| Below given figures
are as on February 23rd, 2009 (Rotary’s Birthday). |
Visitors
2,00,000 visitors comprising of slum children, school children & adults have visited the Rotary Dolls Museum. |
Dolls received
RCRM has received about 1600+ dolls from various part of world. |
Cost of Doll
Sent as per the Passport document and freight / courier / postage
RCRM has till date received dolls (which have been gifted) worth USD 120,000/-. |
Clubs participated
About 635 Rotary Clubs, from 340 R.I. Districts across 102 Countries have taken part in this project by sending dolls. |
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