01-APRIL-2007
BANGALORE, KA.
Hello All
It was great pleasure in interacting with various group members who have been engaged in betterment of the society. Our main aim was to get more familiarity with the Groups, missions, projects, good practices, plan for the future.
A very good beginning for a prosperous road ahead! Looking forward to working with all of our partners!
Our special thanks to Dr.Victor who encouraged us to use their premises for the meeting! In future meeting we eagerly expect more broad based group participation.
Highlights of the Meeting :
Venue: Kadeesh Children’ Home , Bangalore
Date : 1 April 2007
Members : Karthik P T, Arun, Usha Baliga, Sriram, Vignesh, Senthil Pasuvaraj A S, Chandran ,Victor, Ravikumar G, Shiva Narayanan, Udhay Kumar, Ravikumar K, Victor Pauland S.Tyagu
Group’s participation:
1. THOZAN GROUP
2. MUKTHA FOUNDATION
3. CHANGES GROUP
4. INDIA SUDAR
5. INDIA VISION 2020
6. INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATION ACADEMY , JAKKUR
7. KADESH CHILDREN HAPPY HOME, L B SHASTRI NAGAR
Discussed points :
1. THOZAN GROUP (Sr iram)
– Based in Chennai, Sriram is the representative here is Bangalore .
– They have worked closely with India Sudar in a few projects.
– Fund raising are done among friends & execute the projects.
– Taking one project at a time! and executing.
– Operating with limited Trustee team to achieve a level of experience.
– More corporates can be made to join the consortium for expansion
can be done through presentations to corporate.
2. MUKTHA FOUNDATION (Arun Kumar, Karthik, Usha )
– All of the members work with ARM technologies. Involved in field
works for sometime.
– They are also associated with Muktha Foundation.
– Muktha foundation is involved in integrating the requirements in field
and volunteers for the work.
– Work is being done through their website & volunteers can register for
the work of their choice.
– Currently involved with “Sahashra Deepika Children’s Home”,
Bangalore .
– They have provided educational aids for the school & try to raise funds
for various other needs of the Home.
– Raised a good point about each team to share their “lessons learnt” in
the respective projects. Though this involves little more work might
help the groups in longer run. May be we can follow for the future
projects.
– Suggested this group meeting alteast for once in a quarter.
3. CHANGES GROUP(Vignesh, senthil)
– Mainly started to carry activities in educational & general
empowerment of the underprivileged.
– Funding source is among the members.
– Carrying out activities at a home in Bangalore for Education.
– The “Village Model” they are adopting is to involve the nearby college
students in the work. Their experience is that the college has
continuous flow of students & new students take over the work.
– Based on other group called “Puthiyathoor” lead by a college
Professor.
– Are in the process of preparing taching material for Kids. Ready to
share material when complete.
– Vignesh will try to see if we can access material of Azim Premji
materials for free educational projects.
4. INDIA SUDAR
– A charitable educational trust.
– Has carried on Educational projects in state of Kerala, Pondichery, TamilNadu,
Karnataka & Andhra Prasdesh.
– Has been involved in “Open charity Platform” to partner with other
groups.
– Main requirement in project execution is to maintain account
transparency. So maintains all accounts on site itself.
Has individual project coordinators for each project. They are
responsible for project execution , tracking it & keeping
The group informed about the progress.
– Experience has shown projects coming voluntarily out of members are
more successful. Because the member volunteer takes full responsible
for the own idea. Ind! ia Sudar will suppor them.
– Looking forward to help of other groups.
5. INDIA VISION 2020
– A group formed to spread Dr.Kalam’s India Vision 2020 ideas.
– Has been involved with various above groups for the projects.
– More a coordinate functions for various projects.
– has helped for teacher deployment in homes at Chennai, Bangalore ,
pondicherry .
– Continuosly look for new venues to execute India vision ideas.
– Also involved in spreading awareness of India Vision agenda.
6. INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATION ACADEMY , JAKKUR
– Is a school for 130 children of Srilankan Refugees.
– Funding is thorugh well wishers & Donor agencies.
– Iskon’s Akshya patra gives them lunch.
– Our partner groups lead by India Sudar is helping to deploy teacher for !
Indira Gandhi School .
– Managers are Mr.Gracian and Mr Chandran.
– Planning to scale up the strength to 300 this year.
– Shared their experience in running the school.
– The school does not have electricity for 3 yrs now.
– Govt no longer supports this school other then giving them land 5 yrs ago.
7. KADESH CHILDREN HAPPY HOME, L B SHASTRI NAGAR
-Run by Dr.Victor for war torn children from North Eastern state of Manipur.
-Have nearly 75 children from 5yrs to 15 yr! s.
-Gives free boarding & education for all the children
-Runs a school called “Presidency school” , Bangalore .
Has two homes for boarding. The younger children & girls in Ramamurthy nagar, banglaore & Older boys
-The funds are through volunteers & Donor agencies.
-India Sudar provided educational aids to the children.
-Dr.Victor to work with Chandran of Indira Gandhi school to get help from “Iskon” from Akshya Patra.
Action Items :
-All the members to keep their groups informed on the integrated activities.
-Any project requirement to be shared among partner groups.
-To help each other in the possible ways.
-To create a google group to establish communication links.
-Vignesh would see if Azim Premji foundation material is accessible.
– Meeting once a Quarter or so.
-Encourage more participation from peer groups they know.
-Dr .Victor to work with Chandran to get Iskon help for MID DAY Meal programme.
Regards
Shiv Narayanan, Uday Kumar and K.Ravikumar
Bangalore
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