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Rotaract Club of TIP conducted a free medical camp at Manghophir Karachi along with the collaboration of Child Health Foundation (CHF). Rotaract has always provided us with plenty of opportunities to serve humanity and meet new people belonging to different professions. Serving humanity as a community service is something which always gives us that energy to do more and more. Same passion and energy took us to a free medical camp at a Madersah in Mangophir area of Karachi. Three Rotaractors from Rotaract Club of Textile Institute of Pakistan (Ahmed A Rehman, Rameez Ahmed Khan and Ibad-ul-Islam) were present to coordinate the medical camp along with CHF doctors.

We were told to gather at the Eesa Nagari clinic of CHF at 9:00 am sharp on 18th October 09. As it was my first experience of this kind, I was excited and I reached a good 20 minutes earlier and found no one to welcome me except a guy named Arshad who was a social worker and owns his own school. Later, medical students from Agha Khan and other volunteers start Read the rest of this entry »

Hi everyone;

Rotaract Club invites you all again to “Polio Drive 2009″ starting from Monday (27th July 09). Compaign will last till Friday (31st July 09) and whole zone will be participating in the project. We will be going to Neelum Colony/City Railway Station Colony and the gathering point for all the participants is KFC Boat Basin. You are advised to reach by 7:30am on Monday and 8:00am on rest of the other days.

For more details;
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118696814896#/event.php?eid=118696814896

Hope to see you there!

Smoking is death and death is smoking. Smoking is merely another reason for taking your life from you. It is injurious to health and can cause various diseases that include “lungs cancer”. Pakistan, like the other countries, is also a victim of smoking. Pakistan has got thousand acres of tobacco fields in which not only it is harvested but is also packed and used locally as well as internationally. This custom of smoking is now very common in teenagers and youngsters. A majority of youngsters begins smoking as a fashion but later gets inclined and become habitual to it where in a lot of cases; smoking leads to severe form of drugs like heroin and charas. Moreover, smoking is also a waste of money in which we spend thousands of rupees each month on “smoke”. It is now a prime concern for countries like Pakistan which already have a high number list of chain smokers and drug addicts. Read the rest of this entry »

According to E.M. Forster:

“Works of art, in my opinion are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order and that is why though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in art for art’s sake.”

What I personally believe is that in order to recognize our own origin, we must appreciate the beauty within and around us. The Rotaract club of TIP held an interactive session on ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ARTS IN SOCIETY on 8th May 2009 at Mughal-e-Azam at around 5 in the evening.

The speaker for the evening was Mr. Saqlain Zaidi, who is an enormous contributor in the field of art history, world cinema history, 2D/3D animation and Digital sculpturing.

He is a lecturer at TIP, KU and Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture.

The session started off with a simple question: “Do you think art is controlled by a certain class in society?”

Through much thought, indeed it is controlled by the elite class and has long since the time of Renaissance.

We discussed on different issues as to why there are taboos and contradictions when it comes to view a simple painting on self-expression but at the same time we all are okay with a movie on an extremely obscene issue such as the Indian movie Dostana.

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Music is regarded as food for the soul. Music is as old as this world. People, initially, started with simple beats on drums and then they created various melodies on trumpet. With the advancement in technology, new instruments came into being and people continue creating melodies in their respective cultures and heritage. Different cultures of the world brought variety and beauty to the music and then poets started writing lyrics on the music and musicians started singing famous verses and poems. Music then permanently became a prime source for soul comfort. People listen to it when they are sad and also listen to it when they feel happy and want to share their happiness with other people around them.

Rotaract Club of Textile Institute of Pakistan honor music not only as a source of entertainment but also as a strong means of mind relaxation and growth. Considering this; TIP Idol was held on 29th April 2009 at TIP Bin Qasim campus. Read the rest of this entry »

Innalillahe wainna elaihe rajeoun

The entire team of Quack! as well as the student body of TIP mourns the passing away of Ahmed A. Rehman’s father, who expired in the late hours of Wednesday, April 09 following a heart attack.

Ahmed, may God give you and your family to bear this loss, and bless your father on his eternal abode.

“The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but….how to get the old ones out”

-Edward De Bono

I am amazed. I am stunned. I was filled with energy and a strong desire to do something new. I registered myself for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards and got the best output and response. I got motivated and I eventually learned how to become and work as a team leader. People! RYLA is over now and we are back but we are back with a change, a change which was promised by Nayel and his team, a change which will probably provide the best I have wanted, a change which is the need of the society and a change which will always remind of the excellent speakers, entrepreneurs and youngsters I met.

While I was packing for the conference; a lot of questions popped up in my mind as how would be the conference? What would we be doing for the next 3 days? Would we be getting time to rest and sleep? What kind of projects will we be designing and most importantly how we gonna do all this in just 3 days? Who will be the speakers? And blah blah….Finally the RYLA day was there when we reached Country Side Chalet with heavy bags hanging on our shoulders. We were shown our Chalet where we Read the rest of this entry »