Member Registration

Hi All,

Our "Udhayam Welfare Foundation" is successfully registered now. We are in the next step ahead of registering the members for Udhayam Welfare Foundation. To become a member,

01. Registration Fee of Rs.250/- should be paid
02. Members have to fill the Registration form and submit the same.
03. Separate UWF ID card will be given to the registered members.
04. Members have to pay the Annual subscription of Rs.2500/-

Only after becoming a member, one can proudly say that I am a member of Udhayam Welfare Foundation and can involve in the activities of Udhayam Welfare Foundation.

There is no registration fees or subscription to the donors.

For more details and the application form, please send a mail to udhayamwelfarefoundation@gmail.com

We will get in touch with you.

Intouch,
Mathi.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Dear Udhayamites,

As you all know, we are stepping into this new year with a positive ending to 2009 by successfully registering our group with the government of Tamilnadu. Thank you once again for all the good souls who helped us to complete this task successfully. Thank You and May God bless you and your family.

When the clock strikes twelve on December 31st, people all over the world cheer and wish each other a very Happy New Year. For some, this event is no more than a change of a calendar. For others, the New Year symbolizes the beginning of a better tomorrow.


We Udhayamites will hope for a better 2010, nevertheless 2009 was a great year for us. On behalf of Udhayam I wish you all and your family "Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year". Enjoy your vacation. :)

~Muthu Selvan.S

Udhayam is Registered Now!!

It is my pleasure to inform you all that our "Udhayam Welfare Foundation" is now registered.

At this time, I would like to thank all of you who were giving their support and guidance to achieve our goals to help the needy.

Intouch,
Mathi.

Medical Activity at IGIA on 5th DEC,2009

I had a blended experience at IGIA, Yelahanka last Saturday. Yes, it is yet another milestone for Udhayam Welfare Foundation. As already noted in the previous articles that we are in need of Doctors to regularly visit IGIA so that the students there will get a general health check up. With the efforts from Sridhar, we got permission from M.S.Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital for a free medical check up for the students. As the doctors over there were committed to other medical camps till Jan-2010, they are not able to visit the IGIA in person. So we decided to take the students directly to the hospital in batches. Myself, Sridhar, Hema, Aarthi, Shanmugam, Anup, Indra and the 2 wardens from IGIA accompanied the students to the Ramaiah Hospital. As we are taking these students out for the first time, we took utmost care for their safety during travel.

We reached the hospital around 10AM. Lakshmi Narayanan, who is the one helped us for getting approval for this free medical check up was waiting for us. Depending upon the disease they are suffering from we categorized the students. After that we made the registration for the patients at the respective counters and our members took them to the corresponding wards which varied from Ortho, Dental, Pediatric, Opthalmology etc., For some of the cases we need to take X-rays, Scan, Diagnostic reports. As there is shortage of members from our side, we managed within ourselves by roaming here and there to get these reports done. Basically these students are migrated from Srilanka in the recent war and they were staying in Refugee camps at various parts of our Country. Due to the climatic changes here in Bangalore, most of them were suffering from skin problems.

The worst case was with a kid named Keerthi of 5 years old. She got some kind of skin rashes with itching due to allergy spreaded across her body from neck, shoulder, arms, legs and to the foot. As she is not aware of the problem, it gets worsen. The doctors took utmost care to analyze the problem and gave her the treatment.

Another student named Reega got severe skin problem at her foot. She can’t even walk and she was crying like anything. The doctors advised her to get admitted for the treatment from Monday. As the students were having these kinds of problems for a long time, the doctors were wondering as why we didn’t take the necessary steps in time. The doctors were not aware of the present situation in IGIA and we explained them about the same. All the doctors were very kind with the patients and even some doctors interacted with the patients in Tamil. In some cases, our members translated the problem the patients were facing in English to the Doctors and Vice-versa.

5 patients got treatment for eye and the doctors advised them to wear spectacles. Yet we have to buy the spectacles for them.

A students named Prabhadharani got treatment for Ear as she was not able to hear properly through her left ear and few students got treatment for ortho. It took a long time to complete the various medical tests for a student named Dushanthini who is suffering from severe leg pain.

The hospital provided them lunch for free. After taking the lunch, the students took rest for some time and then we started towards IGIA at 4pm and reached IGIA by 6pm. As we have to buy the medicines for the treatment they had, myself and Shanmugam started to silkboard by 6.15pm. We got the medicines for all the students in a medical shop at HSR layout, well separated in covers for each of them and stapled. The next day Sridhar distributed the medicines to the respective students.

We need more volunteers to help these students in getting their medical check up properly. I have used few medical terms in some places as I can’t avoid.Please bear with the terms.

Special thanks to Aarthi and Hema as they travelled a lot in bus through out the day from 6AM to 10.30PM.

Special thanks to Sridhar to get the contact with the Ramaiah hospital authorities and Lakshmi Narayanan (Ramaiah Hospital) who arranged and helped us for this medical check up.

I thank every one of you who supported us throughout this medical camp and last but not the least, on behalf of Udhayam Welfare Foundation; I thank everyone who is giving us support and encouragement.

Intouch,
Mathi.

Week-End Activity- 28th and 29th December,2009

As a part of our week-end educational activity, last week-end, Muthu, Sridhar, Karthic, Anup, SivaRajan and three new volunteers namely Karthick, Indra and Ramakrishnan joined them to IGIA.Here is a short and brief of the updates.

SivaRajan Handled Rockets and Artificial Satellites in Physics to the X std students. He conducted a test on Gravitational Force.

Karthic handled Mensuration Phase II in Mathematics for the X Students

Sridhar handled Library and Computer Lab management to the IX and XI students

Ramakrishnan handled basics of accounts and cash book in Accounts for the XI students

Indra handled Mother and MotherLand in English for the IX students

Muthu handled Elasticity in physics for the PUI Students and Basic sentence formation and spoken English to the IX students. He Conducted test on Elasticity and gave an assignment in English.

Karthick handled Trignometry and Basic Algebra in Mathematics to the PUI students and gave an assignment on the same.

Anup handled Revision of Journal and Basic accountancy in Accounts to the PUI students and conducted test for the chapters 1-5 in Accounts.

Intouch,
Mathi.

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

Weekend Activities: 22 Nov 2009

This was a special day for UWF as two new people were joining us for the noble cause. It was none other than Siva and Dinesh. Siva is from Arupukottai and we got to know from a UWF member Kishore. Dinesh, who lives near Chikka Ballapur, is a relative of our volunteer Sridhar and is from Cuddalore. Both were much interested to teach students. Siva had well prepared Physics for X standard as he was informed in advance. But we were yet to allocate subjects and classes for Dinesh.

The plan was decided the before night that Siva and I will come together in Siva’s two wheeler. Sridhar would meet us at IGIA around 10 am. And, Dinesh will come directly to IGIA. Sunday morning, Siva and I reached IGIA by 09:30 and Dinesh joined us by 10:00. We met Kokilavani and called in IX, X and XI students to their respective classes. But we were told that she will ask all the students to assemble after their breakfast. Finally all students came by 11:00 am. I introduced Siva to X students and Dinesh to IX students. I left to handle XI commerce girls.

Siva handled Physics while Dinesh Mathematics and Social Science. Siva covered Gravitation lesson fully and an introduction to Rockets and Artificial Intelligence. All the students were very attentive and very interested to study about physics. Kamal had come and handled Kannada for X standard.

I went to XI students only to see them very dull. Then I decided to take them to the computer lab after they assured me to write the test in the evening. In the computer lab, I opened up a spare CPU and was telling about the motherboard, processor, RAM, SMPS, HDD, CD ROM, FDD etc. They were very much interested to learn and many people jotted down what ever I told them. Their understanding was revealed in the test which they wrote in the evening.

Sooner, Sridhar joined me to help out the basics of computers. He posed a few questions to check their level of understanding. I found it to be too good, expect the same from him! Later I told them about keyboard, keys, mouse etc and asked them to work individually. After the classes were finished for X and IX students, Kamal, Sridhar, Siva and Dinesh joined me in the computer lab. We decided to teach each student individually on the MS Office package. We started the work with making them understand the folder structure, how to create a file, how to adjust the font size etc.

After this, we went for lunch . During post lunch, we had one hour of computer practice and again we went back to our class rooms. Siva was busy with physics, Dinesh with Social Science & Biology and I with Accounts test.

Around 5:30 pm, after the tea break, a few XI boys approached us that even they want to go to the computer lab and learn about computers!!! It was a shock for us. We can even state that its a success story for our association. Congrats people!!! Each one of you are part of this success! One of the Diploma students approached us to teach some physics experiment. He told that he sees us almost all the weekends and so he decided that we would help him out. Though we were not helpful, he was happy with us and our work. This is the second success story. When XI students were writing the test, Kokilavani had come inside. I was not in the class. And asked her if there were any problem as she was in the class. She told “neenga irukra varaikkum engalukku endha problemum illa, pasanga rumba nalla padikraanga”. This is the third one!!! XI student Sutharshana who was once saying that she is not interested to learn/study has started to say that she is afraid of the exams because she just started to learn things with interest. This is the fourth one!!! The fifth one, Warden accepting what ever we say. Its because of the trust!!! 5 success stories in about 4-5 months.

We were close to 07:00 pm and were about to end up the day’s tasks. As Sridhar was busy handling XI boys, I went for collecting feedback for Siva and Dinesh.
Please find the comments from the students:
X Students:
“Naan idhu varaikkum classa kavanichadhae illa… aana siva anna edutha classa rumba nalla kavanichaen… endha timela endha question kaetalum answer pannuvaen”
“Siva anna edutha concepts apadiyae en manasula nikkudhu. Epo venum naalum test vainga”
“Physicsku Siva annava thavirthu vera yarum venam”

IX Students:
“Biologyku Dinesh anna dhan venum, avaru illana Shanmuga anna… vera yarum venam!!!”
“Supera edutharu. Endha subjecta eduka sonnalum, azhaga enga ellarukkum purira madhiri edutharu”

After the feed back session, we started from IGIA.
Members, let us bring in many success stories in the future. It’s a happy information that almost everyone at IGIA has started to listen to us. They have started to show interest in studies. We can achieve more if the same pace is going on.

~Anup