IGIA Children's Day Celebration Video

On November 14th, me, Mathi, Sridhar, Shanmugam, Karthick and Gomathy started to IGIA after wasting a lot of time in transit. But we're surprised to see the children in the dining hall, rather than the classrooms. Yes, they celebrated children's day as well as their beloved Rajan mama's birthday. And by the time we went there, Anup was already there enjoying the kids performances. Here are some of the acts from the IGIA kids.

Click on the below Youtube link to enjoy the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdzyYg33Qyo

~Muthu Selvan.S

Tentative Exam Dates

Hi All,

We got to know the tentative exam dates for the students. Here it is:

XI -- Feb
X -- March
IX -- April

So, members please act accordingly.

Regards,
Anup

Ambitions of IGIA Students

Dear Udhayamites,

I am publishing this post to help you know how children are interested in their life. These ambitions are far different from the one's we get from city based schools. Their ambitions ranged from hotel server to mechanic shop owner to film directors to psychologists to doctors. If the same question was asked on a city based school, we would have got response as doctors or engineers.

These people have a goal and they are ready to work for it. We people need to show them the path to achieve their goal. Udhayam members should and will make a difference.

Please find the ambitions of each of the student below:

NINTH STANDARD STUDENTS

1. VANI – DOCTOR

2. MALATHY – DOCTOR

3. DHUSHANTHINI – BANK MANAGER

4. TAMIZHINI – DOCTOR

5. NIDHARSHI – NO AIM

6. NISHANGA – DOCTOR

7. THAVENDRAN – CATERING

8. JENUSIAS – MECHANICAL ENGINEER

9. VAKSALAN – COMPUTER ENGINEER – BUILDING CONTRACTOR

10. THYAGAN – HOTEL SERVER

11. KOUSIKAN – SCIENTIST

12. PRASHANTH – FOOTBALL CHAMPION

13. SEKAR - POLICE


TENTH STANDARD STUDENTS

1. YOKESHWARI – COLLEGE TEACHER

2. NIVEDHINI – DOCTOR

3. LOGESHWARI – COMPUTER ENGINEER

4. SUBASHINI – PSYCHOLOGIST

5. MOHANRAJ – CINE DIRECTOR

6. JASIDHARAN – DOCTOR

7. BHUVANA @ SUJI – DOCTOR

8. NAGARANI – MATHEMATICS TEACHER

9. VIVEK – COMPUTER GRAPHICS

10. BHUVANESHWARI – JILLA COLLECTOR

11. KALAIVANI – ENGLISH TEACHER

12. SAYARUBINI @ SHALINI – BRAIN DOCTOR

The team advised the students on how to proceed further to achieve their goals like giving points on what to study and what kind of course would suit them.

Please join your hands with us to make our initiative a successful one, thereby helping the students achieve their career goal. Thank You all for your wonderful support.

~AnupKumar K

10 and 11-OCT-2009 - IGIA Activities

Dear Udhayamites,

I am giving a brief overview of the activities at IGIA on 10th and 11th October, 2009.

ISSUES FROM THE STUDENTS’ SIDE

TENTH STANDARD:
1. Mathematics taught in English
2. Cant memorize the formula
3. Formulas are confusing
4. Cant understand the meaning of certain words, loose interest
5. All the computers are under repair

NINTH STANDARD
1. Science is tough
2. Biology is more tougher
3. If I score more or very well, who will sponsor for my studies in the future?

OBSERVATIONS

TENTH STANDARD
1. Everyone’s target score varies from 410 to 620
2. Everyone mug up science
3. Biology is interesting but physics and chemistry are boring
4. Most of them are very weak in Mathematics
5. Most of them read news paper everyday
6. They are very weak in basic mathematics
7. They grasp very well
8. Interest to learn more
9. Last year high score 435/625
10. Tamil : 91/125
11. English : 72/100
12. Kannada : 48/100
13. Mathematics : 65/100
14. Social Science : 78/100
15. Science : 41/65
16. Tough Subjects : Mathematics, Kannada

NINTH STANDARD
1. Everyone know English at least to some level
2. Everyone wants to learn English
3. They want to shine well in their life
4. They want more encouragement
5. They will shine
6. Interest to learn
7. Have doubt will they be able to do things?

WHAT THEY NEED FROM US

NINTH AND TENTH STANDARD:
1. Advise
2. Take class in the free time
3. Encouragement
4. Ideas to study
5. Motivation

ACTION ITEMS FOR THE TEAM

TENTH STANDARD
1. Prepare well before any meeting whether internal or with the students
2. Plan for helping students for the next 4 months
3. Have to know about various government scholarships
4. Arrange teachers for Kannada and Mathematics
5. Measures to improve student’s English
6. Should emphasize students on GD
7. Should encourage English among people

NINTH STANDARD
1. English class
2. Teach grammar
3. Encourage people
4. Motivational classes
5. Personality development
6. Speak out, public speaking
7. Teach Science, Biology and Physics Chemistry

MY VIEW – PERSONAL
1. Need not be too harsh on children
2. Need not threaten them
3. Should teach them playfully
4. They are very childish and grasp things easily
5. It took 1.5 hours to teach the simplest problem. But they were able to do the most toughest problem in a few minutes

~AnupKumar K

Udhayam Activities - August Update

Hi all, Greetings from Udhayam Welfare Foundation. I'm pretty much happy to inform that our Second release of Udhayam Welfare Foundation's Monthly magazine "Vidiyal" was released today. I take this oppurtunity to thank Mathi and Sridhar for their wonderful job in editing the magazine and releasing it. Also I thank all the contributors for the magazine. I will post a link to the magazine soon.

Meanwhile this month we're planning to carry on the following activities as part of our Udhayam Activities.

1. Registering the Group - Mathi and Sridhar went to the registrar office on last saturday, and it looks like, the memorundum and Rules and Regulations form should all be typed in Kannada, and all the forms to be submitted for registration should be in Kannada. Because of this we're also thinking of registering the group in Tamil Nadu.
2. AET Activities - We've already paid the monthly fees for Manjula and Nandhini, and we're also planning to buy the kids dresses, toys, notebooks, and some food items. From now-onwards, we're planning to buy only healthy foods like dates, fruits etc, instead of sweets.
3. IGIA Activities - We're planning to repair/buy new water tanks to the school, as the old ones were in pretty bad shape. Also we've found sponsors for helping the school with infrastructure development, but we're waiting for the hand-written letter from the school management, with which we can start the activities, with the help of the sponsors. Also we're planning to buy Sweaters, Mats, Pillows, Blankets for the kids, as the climate in Bangalore is getting colder everyday, and the kids were really struggling without these basic amneties.

And about our regular visit to the school, last sunday, Mathi, Sri, Gomathy, Karthi, Shanmugam, and new members Kishore and SriHarsha visited AET orphanage. There they distributed the dates (sponsored by Supriya) to the kids. Apart from the dates they also distributed Mangoes, and Oranges to the kids. And the monthly school fee of Rs.540 for Manjula and Nandhini was also paid. Here are some of the snaps we took on last week's visit.

From Left to Right: Front Row: Sathish ; Arnold ; Hemanth ; Gurukiran
Second Row: Sankar ; Gunasekar ; Abhishek ; Vijay
Third Row: Ajay ; Vijay ; Abhi

Fourth Row: Naveen ; H.Harish ; Praveen ; Harishkumar S

From Left to Right: Front Row: Durga ; Ramya ; Geetha ; Jancy

Second Row: Manjula ; Supriya ; Navya ; Akila

Kids enjoying the dates sponsored by Supriya


Mathi distributing mangoes to the kids

Karthik helping the kids with peeling the Oranges

I'm really happy to announce that from mid of july, around 6 new members joined our group. Also we're getting good support from lot of people. But the sad part is there is not enough volunteers to carry forward the weekend activities.

I would be happy to hear from volunteers who can help us in weekend activities. Also I'm eagerly waiting for the comments from all of the members.

I once again thank you all for your wonderful support.

~Muthu Selvan.S

UWF's First Magazine Release - Feedbacks and Comments

Hi all,

Here are some of the comments which I got for the last month's release of our magazine "Sarvam". I've consolidated the comments, and here are the comments...

1) Please include a section for listing out last month’s activities and accomplishments of “Udhayam”

2) Include a section for helping needed people, u may name the section as “Siru thuzhi” or “Siru thuzhi peru vellam”. Where you can list down any kind of help (money, food, books, donation, fees, blood camp, etc) required for any poor people.

3) Add some real historical stories along with the pictures which you have included

4) Try to avoid the unnecessary comic pictures like ZooZoo. This magazine should be useful magazine like thannambikkai..

5) You can give some write up from the books also. You can add how to improve computer knowledge like Computer Malar at Dinamalar.

And regarding the name for our magazine, here is a suggestion from a Udhayam member Selvaraj Venkatesan:

Instead of ‘Sarvam’, I feel we need to come with some powerful and attractive name like ‘Udhayam’. I also think ‘Sarvam’ is not pure Tamil word, it is a borrowed one from Sanskrit.

I have an idea for the name, i.e “Vidiyal” which has some relationship with “Udhayam”. I.e “Vidiyal” which is a consequence to “Udhayam”.



Think about this... And I'm awaiting more comments from you all. Thank You for your support.

~ Muthu Selvan.S

AET Orphanage, Ejipura Update

Yesterday, Udhayam Welfare Foundation members Mathi and Bala spoke with the Holy Christ School's principal and got more details regarding the admission of AET children.

We learn from the principal that Rs.5100 should be donated as Admission Fee, and should be paid as a whole before June 10, so that the school authorities can update their auditing records. However, the monthly fee of Rs.2700 can be paid in installments. The admission fees should be paid only by cheque favoring Holy Christ School.

With our current balance, we've decided to pay admission fee of at least two children, which comes to around Rs.10200. The monthly fee comes around Rs.450 for both the children. Paying monthly fee won't be a burden for us.

Our duty doesn't stop here. We need to have a regular visit to the orphanage and take care of their basic need now and then. I'm planning for a team of minimum two members to visit the place on a weekly basis. The members will be shuffled every week.

I would be happy to hear from volunteers who can help in tutoring/ coaching the children. If you or any of your friends are interested, please do contact us immediately. We have to plan this step at the earliest.

I thank all of you for your support extended in all means. Any suggestions/ feedback are welcome!

~Muthu Selvan.S

AET Orphanage, Ejipura, Koramangala

Ambedkar Educational Trust and Orphanage is located in Ejipura, near Koramangala in Bangalore. On behalf of Udhayam Welfare Foundation, Sridhar, Mathi, Murugan, Bala, Gomathy and myself visited the orphanage on 30th May, 2009. Here is a short update on the current situation in AET orphanage.

There are around 22 inmates. When we went, there were only 7 children. As the founder/warden Kalpana was not there, we got a chance to spend some time with the kids. After a self introduction, the kids served us water.

Mathi, Murugan and Sridhar went to the school (Holy Christ School, Ejipura) where these kids are supposed to join. The school teacher gave them the fee details, and the same can be viewed below.


Later, our team's Public Co-ordinator Mathi, distributed mangoes to the kids.



After the much awaited snacks, the kids presented us with their performances, starting with Harish, who sang a song from 'Villu'. I initially thought Harish might be a fan of Vijay, but alas, the final words of the songs were "Unga Kitta Anbai Ketten (I’m asking affection from you)"!!! Smart kid.


There was a dance performed by Durga and Navya followed by Manjula singing some religious songs. After the performance, we took a group photo with the kids and headed towards our place with happiness on one side and bit sad on the other side.
I'm eagerly waiting for more funds from the members and others, so that atleast we can provide education for some of these charming kids. Please do donate generously.

~Muthu Selvan.S