Monday, April 20, 2009

MoM - 3rd week Apr 09 (19th Apr)

Chair- Senthil
Date/ Time- 19th April 2009, Sunday, 2.30-4.00pm
Venue- Valluvar Koattam
No of Attendees- 22

Minutes:
A min Silence

Team Updates:

ECG:
Will be having an activity at Adyar on 26th on the eve of the Earth day. Probably we will be planting a sapling over there and stressing the importance of BYOB.
Contents, posters, pamphlets will be ready in 2 months.

Nalanda:
Students of Seva Sadan school were poor in basic english and require some simple story books.
Volunteers required on daily basis to take classes for the 10th std students. Tutoring in tamil is highly appreciated.

DMG:
We will be having the orientation program on the first aid for all our members on 3rd May.
Place will be intimated very soon.(before this wednesday)

Gramoudharan:
We will be making our first official visit to the Vayalur village which we adopted on the 1st of May and will be playing a friendly cricket match with those young guns.
Timings and assembling place will be communicated soon.

RSG:
We have shot an awareness video on road safety with the prominent personality and will be taking few more. Later this clipping will be telecasted in channels and movie auditoriums.

VSCRIBE:
volunteers required for the annual day celebration of CSGAB on 25th Apr at Karnadaga Sangam, Habibullah road, T.Nagar.
Timings will be disclosed soon.
Timings will be confirmed shortly

MoM - 2nd week Apr 09 (12th Apr)

Chair- Sathish
Date/ Time- 12th April 2009, Sunday, 3.00-4.00pm
Venue- Balavihar-special children home, Veppampattu
No of Attendees- 23

Minutes:
A min Silence
New Member's introduction

Team Updates:

ECG:
Plan for Earth day - probably on 26th Apr - venue and action details will be intimated later
Activities under discussion - cycle rally, tree planting, cleaning on the river banks at Sri Sathya Sai Nagar.

Reddrops:
Contents to be prepared in Tamil
June 14th - A blood donation camp at PMR college(venue subject to be changed)

Nalanda:
Classes have to be taken for the students promoting to 10th (Madras Seva Sadan, Chetpet)

CAP:
Posters have to finalized.
Will be organising the awareness programme on 24th May at Vandaloor Zoo

DMG:
First Aid Dril will be undertaken in the early part of May.

Friday, April 10, 2009

MoM - 1st week Apr 09 (5th Apr)

Chair- Senthil
Date/ Time- 5th April 2009, Sunday, 2.30-4.00pm
Venue- Child Home, Korattur

No of Attendees- 39

Minutes:
A min Silence

Team Updates:

Project Coordinator- Updates

1. Earth Day- April 22nd
· Vijay would coordinate with Sahul, Ajith, Mrinalini, Kavitha and Jayanthi at their respective colleges for putting up Red drops posters and SMS a sapling posters and enroll volunteers for the main event on Wednesday April 22nd 2009
2. Village adoption- GramUdharan-
· Lata will provide us the report and requirements for us to take it forward with Tamil translation of the draft proposal to be put forward to village head man
· The Sports kit for cricket and Volley is awaiting approval from the CSS committee ad on approval getting ready to help the students prepare the ground
3. Health Team-
· Plans to kick start safety and health training or workshop in coordination with external agency; primarily to address volunteers first.
· Dr. Ashwin will be issuing the health card for future health camps and suggestion to hold a screening camp as the first measure before remedial measures the camps have been decided for Vayalur villagers and Vijayanagar residents near Velachery
· Peter- Adventure sports specialist on safety procedures- referred by Sandeep Vijay Nair
4. Volunteers-
· Murali has forwarded a database of 1000 volunteers to be used for various CSS activities. They can be utilized for Gramudharan project, Cancer Institute blood donation project and also for CSS activities

Environment Care Group-
1. Pradeep had introduced his Chennai Bikers club members Sandeep Vijay Nair and Rahul Vijay Nair to CSS. These biers have offered their jacket as a space to put the socially relevant messages and if possible ride with them to various points around the country and spreading awareness on various issues like environment, child abuse, BYOB, etc.
2. Branding can be done on their helmet too
3. Till date have donated more than 200 saplings with targeted numbers for this year before 26th July is 365. Last week had given 10 saplings to Anand Institute of Higher technology for their green club. The lead was given by Ms. Aparna, CSS volunteer
4. We have also given saplings to Aarthi for their annual agricultural fair at Anna University; totaling 50 saplings
5. Plans to distribute Cloth bags to members with BYOB message, already we have fined one of our members for carrying plastic bag with them, Rs. 10.

Aravanaippu-

1. Veena had visited a home nearer to her residence Babuji Gopal Home and further information is awaited

Nalanda-

1. Requirement for 2 students hailing from Trichy, the students come from poor background with no financial wherewithal to support the students, requirement for schooling and hostelling

Road Safety Group-

1. Development on video shoots for advertisement to be produced for Moon TV
2. Next a poem to be penned by Dr. Ananth for the video shoots and then to seek a celebrity endorsement

Reddrops-

1. Chennai Cancer Institute requires 100 volunteers every month to help their blood supply for patients