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CSS Meeting- 23rd August 2009

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...

CSS- Meet- Independence Day Park- 16th August 2009

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- ...

CSS MOM- 19th July 2009

CSS Weekly Meet- Pre-Anniversary celebrations discussions- Park area, Nungambakkam 19th July 2009- 4.00pm Week's Updates VScribe scribing on track at PSBB school require more volunteers- 2nd week of the scribing session Aravanaippu arranged for a birthday celebration at TNagar with kids from a nearby orphanage in the city Pradeep and Swami sir visited the village for sports training today Lata has posted a requirement for more milk tins for the child whose mother is suffering from Breast cancer Lata will follow up with Village panchayat team to help the lady suffering withcancer to be given work on compassionate grounds; and also speak to Tiru to get details on CHES supporting children afflicted by AIDS Video shoot for anniversary celebrations is completed with ECG and RSG content The queen Marys college students requirement freezed Anniversary Celebrations updates- The chief guests have been confirmed- Naresh Gupta, Capt. Nandkumar, Singer Malathi, Mr. Poros, Mr Rajagopal, Venkat...

ECG & CSS Anniversary Celebrations Meet-12th July

ECG Meet headed by Tiru and Priya- 3.30pm Points Discussed- Segregation of zone wise volunteers interested for SMS-a-Sapling enrollement of volunteers Rules and regualtions while planting saplings at home- essential guidelines identified the saplings to be handed over- 40 varieties listed down various organisations providing saplings Time span in which saplings will be delivered educating the people on growing a healthy sapling SMS-a-Sapling launch preparedness-include media briefing- max 5 slides. a follow up form with the recepient and giver of the sapling Guest Speaker- Madhu- Good samaritan Planting initiatives over Kathipara till Porur junctions- requirements volunteers Painting walls of the public places like bus terminus and railway stations of our freedom fighters Helping creating awareness on pregnancy through a informative questionnnaire Giving employment to unemployed youth n taking out stuck 2-wheelers from the parking lot CSS Anniversary Celebrations Deliberations Venue fi...

CSS Anniversary Celebrations Preparations

05 July 2009 Meeting Venue- Balaji Residence- 3.30pm Chair- N Sathish Kumar 1. Action 2020 update- attended by Tiru and Priya organised at IIT, Chennai education was given primary importance need to document any activity or event for better reporting and presentation to general audience all activities must be mapped to objective achieved or success rate analysis 2. Gramudharan Visit The gramudharan team had visited Vayalur today and two teams took up the responsibilities one was sports team by Pradeep and Swaminathan Sir for game of cricket, the ground is being readied for more proper games the other team visited the hous eof lady ffected by breast cancer to deliver 5 tins of milk powder- 4 teams were sponsored by VIDIYAL Lata had also visited the Irula households and distributed 7 sets of notebooks and goemetry set for the children Dr. Ashwin will be coordinating with Saveetha Medical college for a health camp at Vayalur some time in 2nd week of August 3. Anniversary Action Plan...

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.G...

I Dream........

Jawaharlal Nehru's India still dreams, I dream, of Nehru's progressive and vibrant India, I dream, of Mahatma's casteless and bigotless society, I dream, to stand behind my ideals and beliefs, I dream, to see people seeing tommorrow bring hope, I dream, to see my man or woman serve his/her people, I dream, rise with Hindu, sit with Muslim, smile with Sikh, play with christian, work with buddhist and share with all, the fruits of success and pain of labour, I promise to dream to make my world a better place to live, would like to be part of my dream???