MoM - Mar '10

Venue- Independence Day Park, Time- 3.00pm, Chair- N Sathish Kumar

Discussion Brief-

ARAVANAIPPU-

• Thanikai's request for supporting a mentally challenged single mother through sewing machine as been supported by all- lead to be processed by Tiru and Swami Sir
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  Sadana has requested for tailoring tutor and Parthiban is coordinating with few sources; interested people can suggest someone- to be based at Kelambakkam
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  Month end birthday celebrations to be held at Hope trust; further discussion with members show unanimity for spending quality time with children rather than providing material benefits. Hence food will be sponsored and there will be some entertainment with children. No other commitments

The cancer patient at Dr. Kamatchi Memorial hospital will be given a cheque of Rs 5000 towards treatment costs. The patient was referred by Venkatraman Sir, and Prithvi shall hand over the cheque tomorrow

Prithvi had visited Goonj and has gathered information on their operations and our support to their efforts in identifying needy people to whom the collected clothes, utensils and any thing and everything can be given distributed.- Anybody willing to donate any usable things from clothes to safety pins to toys can contact CSS volunteers to donate, in turn given to Goonj center in Adyar. Visiting Goonj on 21st March- Prithvi to coordinate

2. Animal rights & Welfare- Prithvi has suggested undertaking an activity by way of supporting the Blue cross in preparing a first aid kit for admitted animals at the clinic so that the doctors can easily administer the aid to animals- Visit planned on 21st March- Prithvi to coordinate the visit timings

3. NALANDA- sponsorship for Quaid-e-Millet students doing MCA will not be taken up as the marks are way below the eligibility criteria and the students requirements has been supplemented from outside donors as per volunteers information

4. Paripoorna Bala Surkasha scheme has seen 18 donors coming forward to donate towards a poor students health care for a year- Thanks to all the volunteers

5. Olive Ridley Turtle campaign- till date the volunteers supporting this effort are many hence we can give our support when they are in need rather than crowding the place and wasting our resources

6. ECG- Cycle rally on March 27th Saturday from Marina beach- 20 cycles to be provided; volunteers having cycles can join the rally directly beginning at 8am. The cyclists will be provided with drink and bands and caps on paying Rs 200- Coordinator- Ashok of HCL

No plastic usage campaign at Velachery area to be taken up with modalities of implementation to be taken up by Priya in consultation with Prassanna

7. DMG- children's Hospital cleaning project to be coordinated by Murali by visiting the hospital and deciding on the modalities on ow to take up the project; Murali has suggested that Exnora will be involved in the project

ALERT training module on first aid has been postponed due to exams for college students and other commitments to members- tentatively after May 15th

8. Sandhya of Sundaram Finance has asked for dental doctors to assist in health camp near a Kancheepuram village- Murali and Anitha to coordinate

9. Media group suggestions- The road safety program to be planned in April or on a special day at Besant Nagar beach- Sathya- to coordinate

Plans of charity cricket match in summer
Kids carnival- Tiru to present plan and identify the team
Childrens cultural event- Tiru to present a plan

MoM - Feb '10

7th February Monthly Meet- 2010- Independence Day Park- 4.00pm
Highlights-
1. Nalanda

• Sangeetha has started off her classes for 20 students in Mathematics at Saidapet Government School- Mon/Wed/ Fri- 3.00-4.00pm
• REQ- volunteers willing to take classes for XI and XII Std students in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics contact or mail to sangeetha.
• Possibility of supporting tutors through reimbursement of expenses
  contact BC college Hostel students for volunteering

2. ECG- SMS-a-SAPLNG

• Done for Rainbow Warriors of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan school- a novel initiative of the school students of primary standard with help from their parents and teachers
• Last 2 weeks saplings have been distributed to school students on Sundays/Saturdays

3. FEB 14th

• CSS Road Show- proposal to run a road show at Besant Nagar beach on lines of Raja issuing a letter seeking people's support in making road travel less dangerous and obeying the rules.
  The permission letters will be handed over to Traffic department- Jagdish and Hari
  Primarily Raja will issue letter n form of palm script to public and urging them to drive safely
  the Raja will be Murali, his sepoys will be Abdul, Lakshmi, Gunalan and Jagdish
  Raja will be proided with the costume; sepoys will wear dhoti and Thalappa
  Horse Chariot to be arranged by Murali
  Drums to be looked into
  The letter editing to be done by Vani and Aarthi and printed by Swami Sir
  Sridhar to coordinate with Swami Sir for costumes
  The event will be from 4.00 to 6.30pm at Besant nagar beach

4. May Day celebrations to be taken up by Loyola students as a fund raiser for Arunodaya Home. CSS can submit proposal for the any funding

5. Aravanaippu- The celebrations for this month will be taken up on 28th February coinciding with Holi celebrations at Sadana Home

6. Aakruthi's Chitra paintng competition to be held on 27th Feb with CSS being the volunteer team.

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  CSS to be given a stall with teams like ECG/ Aravainappu and CAP putting their ideas to people
  Possibility of street theater to be explored by Murali at the venue
  Possibility of roping in Fine Arts college students for stall decorations

7. Funds collected for Gnanadeepam Special School for Mentally challenged

8. Funds for a cancer stricken patient to be taken forward; patient suffering from cervical cancer

9. Disha's Paripoorna Bala Suraksha Scheme has 5 volunteers adopting children; scheme extended further for accommodating donors for 10000 identified disadvantaged children. Annual per child fund plan Rs 221.

10. Thanikai- an enthusiastic Disha volunteer working with children from poor background for training in football and has successfully transformed many students life.

11. Prassanna of CIOSA has put forward proposals for:

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  Cleaning Children's Hospital at Egmore- procedures and formalities to be identified
  Seva Mela with bigger no. of participants
  Taking up dropped out school students to come back to classes and also Nalanda supporting such activity when CIOSA identifies the school
  Organising tours to general public on social activism and volunteering.

MoM - Jan '10

CSS January Meet- 3rd January 2010

The meeting was organized at Independence Day Park near Valluvar Kottam and started at 3.30pm
Main Agenda-

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  Mylapore Festival organized by Sundaram Finance- from 21st to 24th January 2009- 5.30- 9.00pm
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  Main cultural event-
  Folk dance
  Skit- street theater/ musical drama
  Mime/ variety programme
  Possibility of the visually challenged students skit on the day- Government Higher Secondary School For Blind
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  Selection committee- Headed by Murali and supported by Prithvi, Venkat, Jeyanthi, Bala, Lakshmi and Gunalan
  The venue for final selection will be confirmed by Saravanan at Fine Arts College
  The initial process will begin with our volunteers approaching colleges and then seeking permission to nominate their students for any of the three category of the events; college can nominate max of 1 team in each category
  The final selection will take place at common venue with no. of teams and time duration shall be discussed later
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  The volunteers to approach colleges are Kandaswami, Anna Adarsh, Valliammal, St Thomas Arts and Science, DG Vaishnav and Mar Gregorious- Bala, Gunalan, Sangeetha
  Loyola, Stella Maris, WCC- Jeyanthi; Vel’s College- Sangeetha
  Fine Arts Egmore- Saravanan
  MGR Janaki- Prithvi
  MCC- Abdul
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  Tentative participants
  Jeyanthi- Loyola college Karagam dance
  Akruthi environment team- Karthik team
  En Paerm Maram- a performance by Bala and Ashwath
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  The idea of ‘Make a Tree’- the college students can take part in this competition wherein the students will do a collage representing tree with various recyclable items and they get to display their art work at the event and best three will be rewarded- Tiru and Anitha
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  The volunteers approaching colleges can take this idea also with them as ask for nominations
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  Event preparations- stall in-charge and decorations
  Stall decorations to be done by Karthik and Saravanan( Fine Arts College student)- danglers and posters
  CSS stall can also be used
  Stall LCD display- Saravanan- referred by Sathyamoorthy
  The video content to be put on LCD will be gathered by Sudha Mohan, Dr. Ashwin and Lakshmi
  Flash content - to be designed by Tamilarasi
  Posters on the day of the event- to be designed by Charu and supported by Divya
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  An idea for putting up a cloth in the background and pasting/ sticking/ pin ups of environment related themes- requirement huge cloth material and required stationery
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  Games at the stall- ring games, mehendi hand painting (Nethra), face tattooing or hand tattooing (Saravanan)
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  Coupons for lucky draw- answer simple questions and take home prizes with their interest and preferences marked behind the card- Vasu idea development
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  At the stall- Dora costume arrangement- Swaminathan
  Display items at the stall- reused plastics by Prema- referred by Tiru
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  SHG team presence
  Murali has referred Jute bag unit at the venue
  the idea of paper bag preparation at the unit
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  The cloth bag distribution team- will involve in distributing cloth bags to shops in and around Mylapore- volunteers to be identified
  Stall Management Team- This team will man the stall and take queries and interaction with public
  Proposal to put up a huge board for people to pen down their views on environment-to be consulted with Event organizers
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  The media will be handled by Sathyamoorthy and Nethra shall use her community radio platform

New members who have attended the meeting are Nandhini; Tamilarasi, Sudha Mohan and Saravanan

CSS Updates-

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  A vote of appreciation for all those who made 2009 memorable for society through CSS- Star of the Month
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  Various team heads, their deputies and their good work
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  Intro. About Gopinath, 3rd year Anna University student and his Sangharsh team’s efforts in helping deserving orphanages/ old age homes or destitute homes development- the musical event scheduled for March 27th 2010.
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  The CSS sponsorship for children’s toupe at Government School for Blind, Poonamallee - the request was forwarded by Murali
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  We had few members coming from Del TV and have expressed desire to telecast our video content in En Paer Maram and Road Safety.
  
  Members who attended the meeting are-Venkat, Lakshmi, Jagdish, Dr. Ashwin, Gunalan, Tiru, Abdul, Hari, Charumathi, Krishnan, Murali, Karthik, Swaminathan, Nethra, Sathya, Anjali, Bala, Prithvi, Sudha, Tamilarasi, Nandhini, Vasu, Divya, Sridhar, Saravanan, Gopinath, Parthiban, Palanidurai, Ashwath, Sangeetha, Satish