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Venue- Independence Day Park, Time- 4.00pm Highlights- Lata and Bala had attended Tulir's special workshop on Monday and Tuesday- 17th and 18th August 2009. more than 25 NGO's from different parts of amilnadu participated. Highlights were difficulty for abused victims to get timely judicial help due to lacking of certain legal provisions protecting children the inadequate representation of children in legal fora against crimes the penalty imposed is paltry procedures to help te victim- like registering an FIR and also identifying oneself as Against Child Abuse volunteer so that law enforcement agency is more receptive to our approach respect the victims feelings and not to urge to narrate the incident often and proper care; during interrogation the victim is accompanied by an adult and always videographed for documentation Child toll free helpline number is 1098 Joy of giving beginning from 27th to 3rd October wheren Tulir would be interested to conduct a silent rally on Child

Date- 16th August 2009, Independence Day Park, CSS weekly meet Chair- N Sathish Kumar, 4.00pm 1. Nalanda Updates- Identify areas like slums and slum clearance board housing places for school children who have dropped out or stopped education due to financial reasons and draw up plans to bet them back to schools preferrably by next academic year Sponsorship for poor deserving students- requirement for Santhiya P studying at Saidapet Government school in XI has been accepted by Pasupathi and Sangeetha, an amount of Rs. 500 towards her education Another requirement for a college hostel student towards her hostel fees per month Rs 1500/- A requirement for a school based in Pudhukottai has been decided to be referred any other NGO based there as it would be difficult to oversee the help at a far place. A visually challenged student from MCC has a funding requirement Sridhar suggests CSS members to visit his employer's CSR division with definite proposals, plan to be chalked out. SWARG-