Chair: Sathish Bonthu
Date/Time: 25 Jan, 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
No of attendees: 31
Minutes:
1. One min silence observed
2. New members introduction
3. Team Updates
VSCRIBE - Scribers required for the IOB clerk exam which is going to be held on 1st Feb.
Exact details will be sent - (Person Responsible - Venkat)
Reddrops - Online blood donation site will be launched this week (Balaji)
Nalanda - Orphanages need to be identified for providing education to the under
privileged children based on three schemes (Person Responsible - Nandhini)
Gramoudharan - Will be taking our step at Vayalur village by the mid of Feb (Latha Babu)
Aravanaippu - Udhavum Ullangal located at St. Thomas Mt., contains 60 kids. Need
assistance on some medicines. Plans to link some organisation or an
individual to sponsor them (Preseon responsible - Praveena)
ECG - Tiru visited Pulipakkam and planted around 200 saplings over there. Very soon an
event will be organised to plant more saplings there by CSS (Tiru)
4. Open topics
1. Murali's colleague want to organize a social marriage.
Requirement - 25 old age people and 75 children
plans to organize a blood, eye and organ donation awareness camp over there.
Also to give saplings for all the visitors.
Marraige is on 8th March 09.
2. Underprivileged students were being offered a training at a computer institute at
Tambaram (By Nandhini)
3. Plan to shoot a mono play on CAP for 30-40 secs(Anandhkrishnana, Ashwin, Senthil)
4. CRY conducted a event at Kannagi Nagar and couple of our members attended it on
25th Jan morning.
5. There are more places available for sapling plantation near Nandhini's residence
(By Nandhini)
6. Forums need to be opened for individual teams (Nandhini)
7. Presentation at SDNB Vaishnava college (Responsible - Senthil)
8. Children who came for the Sathya Sai Nagar health camp (by Aparna) required some
health check ups (Ashwin)
9. Captain Nandakumar, who is running Gurukulam, invited CSS for the republic day
celebration.
10. For issues related to organising blood, eye and organ donation camps, please contact
Ganga Viswanathan
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
MoM - 3rd week Jan 09 (18th Jan)
Chair: Sabari Raj
Date/Time: 18:01:09 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 21
Minutes:
New members introduction ------------> 3 members attended their first meeting of CSS
Highlights of the week ending 17th Jan 09
Our New year event on 15th Jan at Juvinelle home was a great success.
3 of our members have attended the Unconference on 17th Jan,in which representatives from 31 other NGO's were also took part. Dr.Kalaam's vision on 2020 were taken into account. Very shortly yahoo group mail will be opened for the co-ordination among these various NGO's.
Open topics
Reddrops online blood donors website will be launched on 26th Jan.
Nandakumar from Gurukulam have already invited CSS as a guest for the republic day event. This will be finalized in another couple of days.
Fund raising event - plan to conduct cricket tournament among the corporates by the end of Feb 09. (Person Responsible - Venkat)
Plans to put up a CSS stall in the exhibition at Chennai Trade Centre - DATES: 23rd to 26th Jan (Person Responsible - Varshitha)
Tamilnadu handicaped welfare association have welcomed our activites and asked us give the details, which can be published in their monthly magazine, Udhavum Karam.
(Person Responsible - Venkat)
Editor of Deccan Chronicle, Ms. Pramila, will be attending our next meet.
(Person Responsible - Tiru)
Dr. Arjun Thomas, has stated that he will be supporting CSS during health camps.
Representatives from CSS will be meeting him in person soon.
(Person Responsible - Vasu)
Ramya(lecturer), member of CSS have given a lead to give a presentation by CSS in her
college. Board of members will follow-up this.
All the team leads were asked to give proposal of their respective team activities for the
next one year.
Tasks planned for next week
Presentation at the Anna University campus on 20th Jan at 11:30 am. Members who will be attending the event are:
1. Varshitha
2. Venkatraman Sir
3. Venkat
4. Vasupradha
5. Senthil
6. Ramya (lecturer)
7. Murali
Next meeting:
25th Jan 09, 2 pm at Valluvar Koattam (proposed) - Mails and messages will circulated prior to the meeting.
Date/Time: 18:01:09 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 21
Minutes:
New members introduction ------------> 3 members attended their first meeting of CSS
Highlights of the week ending 17th Jan 09
Our New year event on 15th Jan at Juvinelle home was a great success.
3 of our members have attended the Unconference on 17th Jan,in which representatives from 31 other NGO's were also took part. Dr.Kalaam's vision on 2020 were taken into account. Very shortly yahoo group mail will be opened for the co-ordination among these various NGO's.
Open topics
Reddrops online blood donors website will be launched on 26th Jan.
Nandakumar from Gurukulam have already invited CSS as a guest for the republic day event. This will be finalized in another couple of days.
Fund raising event - plan to conduct cricket tournament among the corporates by the end of Feb 09. (Person Responsible - Venkat)
Plans to put up a CSS stall in the exhibition at Chennai Trade Centre - DATES: 23rd to 26th Jan (Person Responsible - Varshitha)
Tamilnadu handicaped welfare association have welcomed our activites and asked us give the details, which can be published in their monthly magazine, Udhavum Karam.
(Person Responsible - Venkat)
Editor of Deccan Chronicle, Ms. Pramila, will be attending our next meet.
(Person Responsible - Tiru)
Dr. Arjun Thomas, has stated that he will be supporting CSS during health camps.
Representatives from CSS will be meeting him in person soon.
(Person Responsible - Vasu)
Ramya(lecturer), member of CSS have given a lead to give a presentation by CSS in her
college. Board of members will follow-up this.
All the team leads were asked to give proposal of their respective team activities for the
next one year.
Tasks planned for next week
Presentation at the Anna University campus on 20th Jan at 11:30 am. Members who will be attending the event are:
1. Varshitha
2. Venkatraman Sir
3. Venkat
4. Vasupradha
5. Senthil
6. Ramya (lecturer)
7. Murali
Next meeting:
25th Jan 09, 2 pm at Valluvar Koattam (proposed) - Mails and messages will circulated prior to the meeting.
Monday, January 12, 2009
MoM 2nd week Jan 09 (11th Jan)
Chair: Sathish Bonthu
Date/Time: 11th Jan 09 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 32
1. Juvinelle Home Event:
Discussion:
As discussed earlier we are conducting a new year event(both tamil and english new year) at Juvinelle home, Purasawakkam on 15th Jan 09 between 2 to 6 pm. Its a combination event from our volunteers along with the students of the home. Certificates and snacks will be sponsored by CSS.
Action:
Murali, member of CSS, have organised a programme from Raju Sundaram's group. All the volunteers are requested to assemble at the venue before 01:30 pm.
Person Responsible:
Tiru and Venkat (For circulating mails and messages)
2. UnConference:
Discussion:
Based upon Our former president Dr. Kalam's vision of India 2020, certain NGO's were participating on the conference and CSS have been one among them. Totally around 35 organisations are taking part in it.
DATE: 17th Jan 09 at Ramakrishna Mission, T.Nagar
Action:
On behalf of CSS, Sathish Bonthu, Senthil and Tiru will be representing
Person Responsible:
Sathish Bonthu will be preparing the presentation.
3. Reddrops:
Discussion:
As you all know that CSS is encouraging blood donationa and also highlight the required donors at the needed time, it has been decided to initiate the online website for blood donation.
Action:
Thus, a website called "Red drops" have been bought and it has been planned to launch the site on 26th Jan 09. This will be headed by Balaji.
All members are requested to bring the volunteers to feed them into our database. A unique registration form will be prepared for this purpose.
Person Responsible:
Balaji - For site launch
Sathish - For preparing the registration forms
4. Increasing the volunteer strength:
Discussion:
We are having 1200+ volunteers in orkut and also 180+ officially registered persons. But at the most only 50 are participating in events, meetings, etc.
Action:
Thus, inorder to pull those inactive volunteers, one of our member Nandhini, individually scrapped to those members who joined CSS though orkut in 2008. There is a good response for her initiative. She has approached 15 members and among those 5 were ready to support economically and 3 members were turned up for the meeting and few were promised to attend the future meetings.
Person Responsible:
Nandhini will be activating more of such volunteers.
5. Open Topics:
Sathaya Sir, referred CSS to take part in Jackpot programme in Jaya TV. 3 girls and one guy is needed. Registering for this is under progress. We will be representing there in another 3 or 4 months period. Shailaja is taking care of this.
Nandhini, has asked financial support for a student who has done ITI for 3 months.
The plan of putting stall in the Book fair has been denied since it is too late. Few of our volunteers have visited the book fair and there were only 2 or 3 stalls used non-poly bags.
Prof. from SRM university has accepted to teach for visually challenged students.
An old women who is abandoned due to death of her children has been admitted to Annai Illam old age home by CSS.
Madras Seva Sadan's incharger has requested CSS to teach their students on saturdays for 2 to 3 hours.
Anna University civil dept., H.O.D. invited CSS to give presentation in one of their event which is going to take part on 20th Jan 09.
After the meeting was over, everyone marched on to the PUSH trust home in Redhills, which consists of 42 children. We went there... played with them...distributed the sweets... enjoyed and returned back with the lots of memories...
Catch You all on 15th Jan at Juvinelle Home for new year celebrations.
Date/Time: 11th Jan 09 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 32
1. Juvinelle Home Event:
Discussion:
As discussed earlier we are conducting a new year event(both tamil and english new year) at Juvinelle home, Purasawakkam on 15th Jan 09 between 2 to 6 pm. Its a combination event from our volunteers along with the students of the home. Certificates and snacks will be sponsored by CSS.
Action:
Murali, member of CSS, have organised a programme from Raju Sundaram's group. All the volunteers are requested to assemble at the venue before 01:30 pm.
Person Responsible:
Tiru and Venkat (For circulating mails and messages)
2. UnConference:
Discussion:
Based upon Our former president Dr. Kalam's vision of India 2020, certain NGO's were participating on the conference and CSS have been one among them. Totally around 35 organisations are taking part in it.
DATE: 17th Jan 09 at Ramakrishna Mission, T.Nagar
Action:
On behalf of CSS, Sathish Bonthu, Senthil and Tiru will be representing
Person Responsible:
Sathish Bonthu will be preparing the presentation.
3. Reddrops:
Discussion:
As you all know that CSS is encouraging blood donationa and also highlight the required donors at the needed time, it has been decided to initiate the online website for blood donation.
Action:
Thus, a website called "Red drops" have been bought and it has been planned to launch the site on 26th Jan 09. This will be headed by Balaji.
All members are requested to bring the volunteers to feed them into our database. A unique registration form will be prepared for this purpose.
Person Responsible:
Balaji - For site launch
Sathish - For preparing the registration forms
4. Increasing the volunteer strength:
Discussion:
We are having 1200+ volunteers in orkut and also 180+ officially registered persons. But at the most only 50 are participating in events, meetings, etc.
Action:
Thus, inorder to pull those inactive volunteers, one of our member Nandhini, individually scrapped to those members who joined CSS though orkut in 2008. There is a good response for her initiative. She has approached 15 members and among those 5 were ready to support economically and 3 members were turned up for the meeting and few were promised to attend the future meetings.
Person Responsible:
Nandhini will be activating more of such volunteers.
5. Open Topics:
Sathaya Sir, referred CSS to take part in Jackpot programme in Jaya TV. 3 girls and one guy is needed. Registering for this is under progress. We will be representing there in another 3 or 4 months period. Shailaja is taking care of this.
Nandhini, has asked financial support for a student who has done ITI for 3 months.
The plan of putting stall in the Book fair has been denied since it is too late. Few of our volunteers have visited the book fair and there were only 2 or 3 stalls used non-poly bags.
Prof. from SRM university has accepted to teach for visually challenged students.
An old women who is abandoned due to death of her children has been admitted to Annai Illam old age home by CSS.
Madras Seva Sadan's incharger has requested CSS to teach their students on saturdays for 2 to 3 hours.
Anna University civil dept., H.O.D. invited CSS to give presentation in one of their event which is going to take part on 20th Jan 09.
After the meeting was over, everyone marched on to the PUSH trust home in Redhills, which consists of 42 children. We went there... played with them...distributed the sweets... enjoyed and returned back with the lots of memories...
Catch You all on 15th Jan at Juvinelle Home for new year celebrations.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
MoM - 1st week Jan 09 (4th Jan)
Chair: Sathish Kumar
Date/Time: 4th Jan 2009, 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 26
1. Celebration at Juvinelle home
Discussion:
EVENT PLAN
50% by our volunteers and remaining by the students of the home. Approximately 60 students are there.
Action:
Waiting for the availability from IAS officer for hosting the function. Most probably it will be in 2nd week of January.
Person Responsible: Sathish Bonthu
Date/Time: 4th Jan 2009, 2 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
Number of attendees: 26
1. Celebration at Juvinelle home
Discussion:
EVENT PLAN
50% by our volunteers and remaining by the students of the home. Approximately 60 students are there.
Action:
Waiting for the availability from IAS officer for hosting the function. Most probably it will be in 2nd week of January.
Person Responsible: Sathish Bonthu
2. Stall at book fair
Discussion: BAPASI is conducting 32nd book fair at St.George school from 8th to 18th Jan 09.
Action: Probable Dates: 14th to 18th Jan. We are planning to put up a fund raising stall.
Person Responsible: Board of members
3. NALANDA Team update
Discussion: For the last 3 weeks we are collecting funds from our members and also from outside sources for the semester fees of an Ethiraj college student.
Action: Total amount of Rs. 11000 have been collected and cheque will be forwarded to the college management. Thanks to everyone.
Person Responsible: Sathish Bonthu
4. Next meeting
Discussion: 11th Jan 09
Action: Exact time and venue will be intimated prior to the meeting.
Person Responsible: Tiru & Venkat
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