CSS MOM- 21st June 2009

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. 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.

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