Minutes of the Meeting- 21st June 2009
Chair- Sathish Kumar
Time- 4.00pm, Valluvar kottam
Agenda-
1. Discussions on July 26th Event- Founding Day celebrations
2. Helen Keller Day celebrations
3. Week gone by for the teams
Highlights-
1. Nalanda-
Second week of tutoring for students at Madras Seva Sadan for IX, & X . Pramod coordinated with volunteers and 8 volunteers were present on the day. The session was from 10am to 1.00pm on Saturday 20th June
2. Aravanaippu-
Jeyabala and Praveena are coordinating the list orphange and old age lis in Chennai
Udhavi Trust, a group supporting slum children education have been pledged an amount of Rs. 7500 from Lavanya's father and CSS as part of Lavanya's wedding; Bala will be coordinating with Jeetu in purchase of school stationery for the children
Tution requirement for children at Child Trust- their subjects and other details to be gathered
Sai a english lecturer would like to volunteer for taking classes for students at Vayalur
3.Gramudharan-
Pradeep and Swaminathan have begun their cricket coaching at Vayalur village
Lata will be compiling the list of activities over the span of next few weeks culminating in health camp
Lata will be posting us te budget and various other proposals for Garmudharan
Course fee waiver for SC/ST students taking up any graduation but with good grades- offered by Ford foundation
Swami Vivekananda Trust is giving away course ware for Engineering students and the venue and other details are as follows-
The people are available at Shekespeare Matric school-
52A, South Sivan koil, Vadaplani, Ch- 26;
dates-28th July, 5th July and 12th July- 4-5.00pm; carry prev year mark sheets and ID Card; or contact@nanmai.org; or Madhan@ 98404 62461
Murali will enquire about Hyndai foundation adopting villages near Sriperumbudur
4. Child Abuse Prevention-
Bala will coordinate with Tulir team and confirm the training dates.
Lata referred a Bank manager who is a trained counsellor maybe we can pay a visit and then decide on further action
5. Environmental Care Group-
SMS-a-Sapling campaign to be officially launched on 27th July
A temple needs our help in planting trees and also putting a stall to create awareness on harmful effects of plastics
6. Nalanda-
Sathish has referred his friend who is willing to sponsor education for aspiring students providd they score good grades and also give a commitment that they would help another 2 students after they begin to earn their living
7. Health Department-
Thara is a volunteer at Singhvi Trust and would be able to help anyone organising a health camp
8. Reddrops-
Newly designed site was launched and hats off to our Balaji to make this happen in a short time. Design is a very cool one and we request everyone to give their feedbacks on the same.
8. Vscribe-
Helen Keller day celebrations is posted for 27th June and volunteers have given name for volunteering.
Venue- St Clarke's school, time 8.00 am assembling for volunteers;
Prizes for various categories finalised- to be purchased
Judges for the event- finalised
schools invited 8; expected participants-100
competition for special children and differently abled children
Our Member Sridhar had celebated his birthday on 21st June 2009 and we all wished him great career and life ahead.
