First Contributions Donated at Asha Jeevan

Yesterday (Aug 11th, Sat), Gazal, Sridhar, Nidhi and I went to Asha Jeevan with the contributions of old bedhsheets, old cotton sarees etc made by the volunteers of the group.

It is our first contribution and lets keep this activity on!!

APD Activities List - Volunteer opportunities

Hi All

Kindly check mail below from Mr Abhijit of APD (Association for Physical Disability)

Please confirm if you are interested in volunteering. Volunteers need to be dedicated and need to vist APD regularly. We can work on a rotation plan so that a volunteer can do activities at the APD once a month.

Also please spread the message to friends/colleagues as we can get more volunteers to support these activities.

Lets plan to visit APD to start volunteer activities on Aug 24th(this is based on the confirmations I receive)

Regards
Satya




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From: ext C&F [mailto:ablehand@vsnl.com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 1:04 PM
To: venkata1.satyanarayana@ge.com; Sharma Satyadarshini (Nokia-ES-IdentitySystems/Bangalore)
Cc: surya_narayan48@yahoo.co.in; ushakbala@gmail.com; apdblr@dataone.in
Subject: Fw: VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES



Dear Satya/Venkat,


I have given below the requirements for our Shrdhanjali Integrated School (SIS) and Community School (Gowripalya,BLR)

1) Objective,Theme and Target Group
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We have students here upto Class VII following SSLC curriculum

We need support in coaching both our teachers and students in flgs :

a) Written & Spoken English communication skills
b) Soft Skills & Personality Development
c) Pictorial,Experimental and Experiential method of teaching (for teachers)
d) Any other inputs that will enhance their comprehensive ability,conceptual clarity and ability to think

2) No.of Volunteers Required = Five

3) Date & Time : Five Days a week ----- Two to three hours (time can be as per mutual convenience)

4) Activities involved
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a) Simple science experiments
b) Chart making
c) Teaching through playing cards
d) Reading out inspiritational stories & expounding on that
e) Teaching through CDs and audio-visual methods.

5) To be held in APD campus and Community School

6) To get in touch with Ms.Usha or Mr.Kantharaj

7) Last date of enrolment ----- ASAP

8) Date of completion of task ------ Ongoing in nature but connected to monthly or quarterly cycle of school

9) About NGO Partner
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SIS or our children education programme consists of around 80% disabled and balance normal.They come from very poor background.Some of them also dont get prope nutrition at home.Hence we serve them mid-day meal which costs Rs.1000/- per day for 125 children.And the comprehensive education cost per child is Rs.5000/- per year.Anybody can choose to sponsor a child or sponsor the mid-day meal for a day in the year.

The other thing which may be an enriching and revealing exposure for any volunteer is to visit our Urban Outreach Programme areas in BLR with our field staff for a half a day or full day.Our field staff visits regularly the slums in certain areas of BLR identifies families having a disabled member,does the need analysis and begins with comprehensive intervention.Its someting one has to see and feel directly how the process goes ----- the complexity,issues involved and the multidimension facets.We want volunteers to somewhat soak in this aspect of Reality which exists abundantly around us.And that impression and imprint may give u lot of ideas on which u may work if u choose to.


Kindly circulate this to anybody interested in volunteering or render any other support and encouragement to us.

Regards

Abhijit

Asha Jeevan - program cancelled

Hi All

We have to cancel the music/dance program to be held at Asha jeevan tomorrow (Aug 11th) as one of the performers isnt available. We will plan the program again in a few weeks time.

Volunteers who had planned to come, can join in visiting the old age home to make the contributions (old besheets etc..)

Regards
Satya

Requirement with IBM for People with Disability

Mail from Sujeet:

H i Guys n Gals,
I am sure this mail is more than a forward. Someone must be really waiting for this mail somewhere.

IBM is looking for People with Disability and details on the same can be found in the below appended mail.

Please help those physically disabled souls in and around your locality by just a mail forward.

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Dear Candidate,


This is with regard to a requirement with IBM for People with Disability. IBM is looking at people who are disabled and physically challenged for specific requirements.

So, kindly let us know if you have any refrences for the same, so that we can help them take up an good career oppurtunity with IBM.

Please mail janardhank@jkconsultants.com with details.


Thanks & Regards

Janardhan K
J.K. Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd.,
499, Amarjyoti Layout, Domlur I Stage
Bangalore - 560 071.
Board lines: 080 - 41262500 - 2505
Ext : 3030
Email : janardhank@jkconsultants.com
URL : www.jkconsultants.co

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APD - website

You all may want to check out the site:

Look out for improvements in the website and you've already made a contribution ! :-)

regards,

Sridhar

Aug 11th - Music/Dance program at Asha Jeevan

Hi All

As informed earlier, Suresh and Saigeetha will be performing on Aug 11th, 4-5 pm at Asha Jeevan.
I have just spoken to Kalpana of Asha Jeevan and confirmed all plans.

They have the following available with them:
-Hall
-With mike
-Chairs will be arranged by staff

We have to be there by 3:30pm latest. Looking forward to alteast 4-5 volunteers to assist for this event.
Kindly confirm ASAP on this so that we can go ahead with the plans.

Further, any suggestions from all volunteers (even if one cannot make it), will help in conducting a better program.

Regards
Satya

Update on our visit to Association for Physical Disability - APD

Madan, Satyanarayana, Sridhar and I visited the Association for Physical Disability at Lingarajapuram. They have a huge center inclusive of school, computer training, industry based trainings etc. They are looking for committed, regular and dedicated volunteers. Mr. Abhijit at APD will be sending across a list of activities in a few days time.

Just to set the tone - this is a place where the possibilities are immense in terms of contribution. Unlike our earlier efforts where we repeatedly encountered management that was not very receptive of our presence, this place has opportunities for people to contribute in many different ways:
- teaching/training the faculty on advanced topics on different subjects (technical subjects, or non-technical skills like soft skills),
- assisting in upgrading courseware (through your knowledge of the industry - e.g. in IT, in manufacturing etc. ),
- going on field-visits with the staff to reach out to disabled people who may not have the means to come over themselves to the APD home
- teaching music, dance, painting and other arts to children with disability
- upgrading their websites
- helping in arranging sales of craftwork that is made by the residents
etc. etc.

The possibilities are immense - the only constant is a committment on the part of the volunteers to be regular - it could be even be just 1-hour-a- week but it has to be every week. Occasionally, you can have someone else fill in for you but the idea is that once you take up a particular activity you take it to completion.

Anyway, we can wait for the details but I am sure many of you would be enthused by the sheer range of activities where your help will be valued.

More Volunteer opportunities!!!

Folks, this is a tremendous recognition of the work that we have started in a small way!
The people at "Association of people with disability" and "Newlife chldren's home" have contacted us knowing that we have an extremely good set of volunteers who are willing to donate their precious personal time to noble causes. I call upon each one of you to come forth and participate in this activity.

As we have now got a critical mass of people we can engage more such organizations and give back to society in a much larger way than by visiting one place.
Volunteers please send in your names by today(Friday) evening without fail - based on our response the people at this particular NGO will decide the scale of activities that we can take.

Tomorrow, we don’t intend to goto Asha Jeevan as Aug 11th we are visiting them for the music/dance program and we will give the contributions(funds, bedhseets etc) on that day itself. Instead the plan is to visit "Association of people with disability" and "Newlife chldren's home.

If you are interested to join in, kindly reach the address below:

Association of people with disability
6th cross, Hutchins Road
off Hennur Road
Lingarajpuram
St Thomas town post
Blore - 84
phone: 25475861, 25475165

We can plan and meet at a common point before we reach there.

[Another contribution: Thanks to Sravan for the Rs. 500/- contribution made towards the funds!]

Regards
Satya

Association of people with disability - volunteer opportunities

Hi All

There are volunteer opportunities available at the "Association of people with disability"

The address:

6th cross, Hutchins Roadoff Hennur RoadLingarajpuramSt Thomas town postBlore - 84phone: 25475861, 25475165
(Landmark: near Bangalore east railway station)

They are mostly closed on Sundays so prefer Saturdays for us to visit them.

Kindly confirm who would be interested in these activities. Once we meet them they will assign us some activities to take-up

Regards
Satya

Contribution from Satyanarayan towards funds!

Hi All

Satyanarayan is contributing last three digits Rs 632 from his first salary to donate to the old age home!

This is the first contribution from our group and a very noble gesture indeed.

Satyanarayan, its so inspiring. Thanks for taking the first step towards this!

[If we can get more contributions, we can work on buying water beds for Asha Jeevan]

Regards
Satya

The group is growing!!

This week we had 3 new volunteers in our group. Now we have a strength of around 23 volunteers out of which 6 havent been able to participate so far.

Good job done Shruthi!!

Hi All [From mail dated 30-Aug-2007]

We have received the first set of old bed sheets from Shruthi yesterday evening. She has made a huge collection from friends/colleagues...

This is the first contribution in our group, this is very inspiring...!!

Congratulations Shruthi on your thoughtfulness and hard work!!

Regards
Satya