[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-08-24 Thread ulprasanthi
Wonderful Divya. This would be a real boost to us, volunteers, and for this project as well. I am feeling very happy to read about the Divya Deepa Trust this evening. Also Dr. Giri is ready to give us a presentation in this regard. I want to keep a comma on all my outstation trips after

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2008-08-03 Thread SIVANAND PARUPALLI
Hi! This is great. Please let me know the time and date. I shall plan to come to Hyderabad. Regards, Sivanand On 8/3/08, ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, Greetings. This is very very important mail. Please pay attention to this mail and respond with your views. We

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2008-08-03 Thread K S Rao
I am ready anytime u specify the date and time and venue. KSRao On 8/3/08, ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, Greetings. This is very very important mail. Please pay attention to this mail and respond with your views. We discussed enough about the home and majority

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-08-02 Thread ulprasanthi
Hello Friends, Greetings. This is very very important mail. Please pay attention to this mail and respond with your views. We discussed enough about the home and majority of the response is positive while some facets are open for discussion. Place: Coming to the place where we set up the

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-28 Thread ulprasanthi
Hi Chaitanya, You provided a very good perspective, view points from a different angle. Let me answer to the questions. 1. By setting up an orphanage how many are we going to help and reach? Until and unless we are complete with our study/ground work, may be we cannot come to a conclusion on

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2008-06-21 Thread Chaitanya Ganesh
My views on this are a bit different from the ones already expressed. Its great to hear that its a dream project for many out here. I am not sure in which HAT my views fit in I guess its mostly the Red Hat. The following are my questions for all of us. I gave my explainations and my observations

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2008-06-21 Thread bala sreenivas
same intension... same vision... same dreamin minds of lot people here... feeling nice to be one of among u... i too wanna to be part of this project... wondering why i was not going through this thread these days... i too will give my perpective early... the ultimate

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2008-06-21 Thread Neela Megha Shyam C
Hi K S Rao, Parikrama school gets lot of corporate funding.. they have tie ups with many corporate offices.. DonBosco is also same. My cousin wanted to teach so she visited DonBosco. She said they have all aminities and tie ups with many corporate office. As you suggested we will form a team and

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2008-06-21 Thread Neela Megha Shyam C
Hi All, Setting a Children home is a very good initiative.. But I don't know how far it is feasible.. I don't know about others but I am at mid of my career. As far as social service is concerned its good to do but if the dosage is more we will forget our responsibilities in our life.. I am doing

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2008-06-20 Thread Ravi Shankar
Hi, definitely this is a good idea. Few words of caution. (1) what should be the average age of the kids? If they have to be groomed until they sustain on their own, do we have long term plan ahead. minimum of 10-15 years. (I agree that research will bring clearer picture on this but this a

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2008-06-19 Thread K S Rao
Hi, If anybody is in Bangalore, plz study the Parikrma schools. One is very near to ashoka Pillar in Jayanagar, Sector - 1. If you want NGOs - meet Maya in Jayanagar, and APSA in Vimanpura area. For children's home, look at Donbosco. Regards, KSRao. On 6/19/08, ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2008-06-19 Thread ArunK
Dear All, Very Nice Thread and the one I like the mostDaily following it and have lt of thoughts to put in here. Thats why took my own time to post my views here. Different types of schools/organisations exist and their methods of bringing up the children or bringing out the soul hidden

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-19 Thread ulprasanthi
Hi Arun, Well said. I agree with you 100%. Each child is like a University and we can learn so many things from them :) They teach us all through their growing years. Yes. It is not easy to put ideals into practise and that is why they are ideals. There is nothing wrong in trying and we lose

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-18 Thread ulprasanthi
Hello Friends, Greetings. I am pasting a chat conversation between me and Narayana Swamy garu (the one who is supporting me actively in the battibandh initiative: battibandh.wordpress.com. He is the one who introduced Muralidhar garu of Akshara to me). He suggested a Web site:

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-18 Thread ulprasanthi
http://www.auroville.org/education/village_schools/saiier_schools_vill ages.htm Arulvazi School Arulvazhi means Way of Grace in Tamil. This educational centre, situated in the Promesse community of Auroville, has been catering since 1985 to the educational and cultural needs of children aged

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2008-06-15 Thread Smiling Lavender
for this noble cause. Let me know your views as well. Thank you, Lalitha. --- On *Fri, 13/6/08, ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: From: ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home To: tomakeadifference@yahoogroups.com

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-15 Thread ulprasanthi
No hats were worn in the last two replies :) In order to sustain the suggestion of Vani, I copy, paste the Characteristics of Hats so that we do not forget them. HATS and their characteristics White hat thinking focuses on the information available and needed. Black hat thinking examines the

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2008-06-14 Thread phanilalitha jyothi
: ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home To: tomakeadifference@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 13 June, 2008, 11:54 PM Friends, A saying goes: The fastest way to make a dream come true is to wake up. Now that most of us have

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-13 Thread ulprasanthi
Friends, Greetings. This is one more mail from Sowmya. - Feb 2009 is too near now. Ony some 8 months left. 8 months is a long time otherwise, but, to do ground work, its not... (IMHO). I don't know if I am practical enough...but, perhaps, an year

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-13 Thread ulprasanthi
Friends, A saying goes: The fastest way to make a dream come true is to wake up. Now that most of us have nurtured this dream and slept enough, now is the time to wake up and start doing things. I suggest a meeting specially to discuss this idea on how best we can implement it. Let us plan

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2008-06-13 Thread Vani M
Hi All, I am yet to reply to the topic and do not want to do it now.. reasons explained in the forthcoming mails.. I request you to pick one hat... and only one.. and tell your point. Let each one be sure that we cover the whole 6 hats. Each one has to say.. I am wearing color hat and the

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2008-06-11 Thread Smiling Lavender
This thread stirred my brain so bad...that I cudnt' wait to read more replies. One thing I noticed common in a lot of replies here - many of us have wished/luvd/thought of this idea for a long time within ourselves. I have been thinking over this idea all day today pretty much, and as of now I

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-11 Thread cmanubot
Take a look at this link and its history. http://www.risingstaroutreach.org/history When she returned to the United States, she was so haunted by those images that she knew she had to act. She called four close friends, and around her kitchen table they quietly formed Rising Star Outreach. It

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2008-06-10 Thread santhosh lavanya
Hi All, It is too ideal to have this kind of school but I believe it is possible to make this into reailty by being together and commit ourselves to it. A short term vision and long term vision are always better for our group. Hope to hear more from others. Regards, Santhosh On 6/10/08, Vani

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2008-06-10 Thread Smiling Lavender
The level of commitment in terms of time, money, planning implementation, field work and all the structural/day to day things this project will demand is my thought as of now. Can we depends on all of us meeting these together - all thru?? Well, thr is this other end aswell - we keep pushing it

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread Sai Sateesh Kumar
Hello Friends, It is good idea. Let us pool up some 20 volunteers who can continuously support this for first two years. These volunteers need to be available in the area where the home is proposed, and provide physical support for maintenance and management of the school on part time basis.

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
Chandra's Response: Prasanthi: This is one of the long term goals/dreams even for me - to set up a Children/Old age home and I agree with you,Sowmya,Prasad that we have to do a lot of home work before really starting one.I agree with you on rather than focusing on problems , focus on

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
Chandra's Response: Prasanthi: This is one of the long term goals/dreams even for me - to set up a Children/Old age home and I agree with you,Sowmya,Prasad that we have to do a lot of home work before really starting one.I agree with you on rather than focusing on problems , focus on

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
My reply to Sowmya's mail: Regarding what you didn't understand, to start with :) I didn't read the article completely but I think it is posted in Yesterday's Sakshi daily. Yes. That is why we kept Feb 28, 2009 as a target, if at all majority of our friends agree. So far Maruthi, Dr. Giri

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
From Dr. Giri: Prashanthi, This is my dream project. There is a lot to learn before taking up this kind of a project; it is also very important to establish the seed support network before jumping into it. It will be exciting to have further disucssion (a very serious one) on this with

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
Friends, Thanks to everyone of you who expressed your views. Let me quickly make clear some points: 1. This is not a Charity project but a non-profit industry. (Only difference is that we want to create a new trend in present day Orphanage and Old age home set up. No Orphanage should depend

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-10 Thread ulprasanthi
I forgot to add one important point: We will employee people (with reasonable pay package in tune with the market) to take care of the day to day activities and everything related to Home. We, TMAD members, monitor the activities regularly. The other finer details will be discussed later as

[tomakeadifference] Re: Thinking Aloud TMAD Setting Up a Children Home

2008-06-09 Thread ulprasanthi
We might think that how the children get Degrees? As SSC is necessary, we will train them to attend SSC. We will encourage them to join courses through Distance Mode. When it comes to their employment, let us not think that they should get into the regular bandwagon. We should encourage them

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2008-06-09 Thread Vani M
Read the mail... will reply tonight.. Vani. On 6/10/08, ulprasanthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We might think that how the children get Degrees? As SSC is necessary, we will train them to attend SSC. We will encourage them to join courses through Distance Mode. When it comes to their