Event at Indian racetrack nets $350,000 for service projects
Rotary members in India selected a popular racecourse in Mumbai to promote Rotary to the tens of thousands of racing aficionados who gather there daily, raising more than $350,000 for club service projects in the process.
And between races, spectators at the Mahalaxmi Race Course were also treated to the Rotary members’ attempt at a Guinness World Record as 650 members, 75 of them dressed in white and 575 in black, formed the shape of a horse — with the Rotary wheel as its eye — on the lawn of the members’ area.
District leaders in western India chose the Mahalaxmi Race Course for their…
