Murugan's Wedding Invitation

Hi Udhayamites,

It is my pleasure to inform and invite you all to our proud UDHAYAM member Murugan's marriage which falls on 30th August,2009.

Expecting You all on this wonderful occasion in Murugan's Life..

Vazthukkal Murugan..

Intouch,
Mathi.

Udhayam Activity at IGIA,Jakkur on 18th July,2009

On a fine cloudy morning, we 5 Udhayam Members, me, Sridhar, Hemavathi, Aarthy and Sindhu went to the Ejipura Orphange at around 11am.As it was drizzling in most of the places in Bangalore, we could not start earlier and fortunately as we started late, this time we met all the children in the Orphanage. As it was one stretch to the school where they were studying, everyone came back to the orphanage by 12 noon. We distributed the sweets, biscuits and bananas which we bought for them.Hema and Aarthy bought some earrings to the girl kids in the orphanage. There were no words to explain their smile and happiness which we saw on their faces after wearing the earrings. Then we played with them for a while and after that we (Me and Sridhar) started to IGIA, Yelahanka.

As already noted on June 20th activity, this time we planned to fulfill their need for drying the clothes. We bought G.I Wires for about 350 meters, 40 poles (சௌக்கு மரம்) and about 42 dozens of cloth clips. As directed by the warden Kokila, we selected the places separately for both the boys and girls. With the help of the students over there we erected the poles and connected them with the G.I wires.

Now we have provided the alternate way to wet their clothes instead of using the terrace and parapet wall. (Photos will be updated next week as we didn’t have Camera mobile last week).

Intouch,
Mathi.

GIRL Baby to Suresh's Family

Hi UDHAYAMites,

GOD Blessed Our Proud Member Suresh's Family with a girl baby today morning. Our Heartiest Congratulations for You and Your Wife,for becoming proud parents. On behalf of Udhayam I wish Your New Born Baby to have Happiness,Peace,Joy,Health and love all through her Life.

Intouch,

Mathi.

Murugan's Marriage

அன்பார்ந்த உதயம் நண்பர்களே,

நமது மன்றத்தின் உருப்பினரான முருகன் அவர்களுக்கு திருமணம் நிச்சயிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது என்பதனை மிக மகிழ்ச்சியுடன் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன். கூடிய விரைவில் அவரே தனது திருமண நாளை எல்லோருக்கும் தெரியப்படுத்துவார். வாழ்த்துக்கள் குவியட்டும்!

இப்படிக்கு உங்கள்,
அனுப்.

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

UWF Activity at IGIA, Jakkur - Jun 20th 2009

As part of our weekend activity, six UWF members (Sridhar, Muthuselvan, Mathiniraiselvan, Balamurugan, Shanmugapriyan and Karthick Ganesan) visited IGIA Jakkur on June 20th, 2009. It was also the day, Udhayam Welfare Foundation successfully stepping into its second month of activities and the birthday of one of our Udhayam member Karthick Ganesan. In this post, Karthick and Mathi were sharing their experiences at IGIA Jakkur.

(From left to right: Karthick, Bala, Muthu, IGIA Computer Teacher Dharman, Mathi and Sridhar)

It was a fine tuned experience for me(Karthick Ganesan) at IGIA, Yelahanka. I have never seen such a large group of needy children. I feel very proud to be a part of Udayam Welfare Foundation. I spoke to a large number of children there, especially with the Srilankan tamil children. We had deep heart conversation. Just see the conversation between Suraj and myself below:

Me: Suraj, Where do you like to live? In India or in SriLanka?
Suraj: (Before me ending), SriLanka.
Me: SriLanka is a violent place, LTTE occupied place (because Suraj stayed in Trincomalee (திருகோணமலை)). Do u like a terrorist group called LTTE?
Suraj: (In a polite way) I like LTTE, they fight for us (SriLankan Tamils)

I had no words to say hearing his reply!!!

(Clothes of all the students are piled up. The girl's were selecting their uniform for the current year, which may be used by some other student last year)

Like this, we spent time with most of the children. Non-Vegetarian food had become a very rare dish for them in the near past. So we decided to contribute a Non-Vegetarian dinner. We immediately went and bought around 55 Kgs of chicken which cost around Rs.5775 and vegetables worth Rs.550.

(Assembling of the boys in the evening)

We also came to know that the School Management is not able to provide basic amenities like proper drinking water, toilet facilities etc. As the underground Sewage tank was not cleaned properly, the waste got stagnated inside the toilet itself and the children were not able to use most of the toilets. Immediately, we called up the near-by sewage tank cleaner and cleaned the same. Now, they can use the toilet whenever they wish.

Also, the SINTEX tank in which they store water is in a pathetic condition without a lid and a tap. Water couldn’t be stored in the tank for more than two hours as it gets leaked. We need to pay attention to provide clean drinking water.

(The water storage which students use for taking bath and washing clothes)

We went to the terrace of the building. We saw the children using the floor and the parapet wall to dry their clothes. Because of this, most of their clothes were dirty and torn. We need to pay attention on this too.

(This is how the students dry their washed clothes)

Meeting a large number of needy children , I myself had many unanswerable questions. I have to thank God that I am in a position to serve such children. I would like to continue this service in my future days. I thank Udhayam for serving as a channel to fulfill my desire. Keep up your good work, Udhayam.

Action Item for UWF:

1. Provide clean drinking water
2. Provide alternate means for drying clothes

~ Mathiniraiselvan & Karthick Ganesan

Sarvam Monthly Magazine - June Release

Hi all, Greetings from Udhayam Welfare Foundation. I'm pretty much happy to inform that our first release of Udhayam Welfare Foundation's Monthly magazine "Sarvam" is here. Click on the below image to download the magazine in PDF format.


P.S: The download site is blocked in some companies.

~ Muthu Selvan.S