MoM - 3rd week Feb 09 (15th Feb)

Chair: Sathish Bonthu
Date/Time: 15th Feb 09, 02:00 - 03:30 pm
Venue: Valluvar Koattam
No. of attendees: 25

Minutes:
A min silence
New members intro
Highlights of this week:
1. Successfully organized the special show of the movie Naan Kadavul on 7th Feb. Total fund collected is Rs. 8860/-
2. Sathish Bonthu and Mahesh visited a home called SAMARPANA where children require some clothes immediately. Sathish Bonthu will draft a mail to get permission for cloth collecting drive in apartments.
3. Project of NALANDA kick started this week. 10 of our volunteers visited Madras Seva Sadan school on sat to teach their acamedic subjects. English Grammer is taught for std 10th and Science is taught from std 6 to 9. Session lasts for 2.5 hrs.

Open topics:
1. Shereen, who is heading "Velicham" organisation attended our meeting this week. She is helping the students for their education who were the first generation of people pursuing education from their locality. Due to the lack of academic fees 32 of the students are in the verge of drop out by this month. Total amount required is 7.5 lakhs (All of those were pursuing Engineering degree in various colleges).
We asked Shereen in present her requirements and stats in document format. Will discuss about this issue in the forthcoming meeting.

Activity:
After the meeting we visited Gnanavoli charitable trust children home at Velachery, where in 25 children are there at present also some of the old people. There are some requirements need to fulfilled for this home. Will discuss in the next meeting.

Planned for next week:
21st Feb - To teach academic subjects for the 9th std students of Madras Seva Sadan.