Prasanthi & team: Here are my comments Venue: If you need help CBIT, I can give it a try.I have a friend who is a CBIT alumni and he has pretty good contacts in College. I can give a try though , I can't gaurantee.
Gifts: Whats the age group of kids you are targetting.If its little bit older kids like say 10+ years, I strongly recommend books like 'Auto Biography of Mahatma Gandhi' or something related to personality Development etc. Thanks, Chandra. --- In [email protected], "Prasanthi Uppalapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > Greetings. > > *Attendees:* Prasanthi, Murthy garu, Shiv Shankar with his cousin Suresh > Kumar, Murali, Kasyap, Trivikram garu, Vani and Phanindra. > > *Discussion Topics:* > > *March 4th Annual Celebration:* > > *Venue:* > > We had a discussion on whether we go for a closed space or open space. After > few minutes of discussion, we felt that open space is better. We have two > options: HCU or CBIT. If both of them do not materialize, we will go to Zoo > park. > > *Deadlines:* > > HCU - Phani will find out if we can get permission by this Thursday. > Trivikram garu will find out in CBIT. Deadline is Thursday. > > <Any suggestions/choices for the venue should be closed by this Friday, 9th > of February> > > *Performances:* > Dumb Charts, Pass the Pillow, Performances Round, Jokes, Children Round, > Antyakshari (optional) > > *T-Shirts:* > ** > Shiv Shankar, Suresh Kumar and Kasyap opined that Collar T-shirts would be > good. Kasyap volunteered to find out. He is free only on saturday. So he > will get back to us by Monday, 12th of February. > > *Money:* > > We haven't discussed anything about money that we can spent for this > celebration. Mostly we decided to go for a free venue so that we can cut the > cost. > > *Gifts:* > > We decided to give gifts to the children. What should be the gifts? We have > to decide. Any comic books and informative/fun CDs. > > *Hospital Visit:* > > Gandhi and Osmania are the hospitals we wish to consider. First we will find > out in Gandhi, and if not, we will approach Osmania. > > Vani will let us know by Tuesday about Gandhi hospital, whether we can get > permission or not, whom we can approach, should we need to take appointment > etc., etc., > > *What we do in hospitals?* > > First we take an appointment from the Director and tell to them our > willingness to work voluntarily on weekends and will request them to > suggest/provide few options on how we can help them. Based on the response, > we will decide the budget and activities. > > Our strategy will be first we do service and then any activity that involves > money. We will try to get rapport with Ward Boys, Nurses, Doctors etc., in > all levels, as much as possible, by doing service. > > *Long term goal:* > > If there is no information center, we can request to allot some space for > Information Center and will try to employ a qualified person who can counsel > and educate the people who come to know the information regarding various > diseases. We will keep all the information related to various diseases > there. > > If there is such a center already, we will try to keep Thalassemia and Organ > Donation brochures as well. > > *Campaigns to reach to common public:* > > We will prepare a content, which is very readable, inspiring and motivating > and print such papers in bulk. (like the ones which we receive along with > News Papers). It doesn't cost much. > > We will target one colony at a time. We will distribute those pamphlets > visiting each house. To attract people we will conduct free health checkup. > > *This is the plan:* > > We will fix a feasible date acceptable to everyone (mostly, preferably > sundays) and then will have doctors who can checkup people. Before checking > up, we will let them sit in order and then ask them to fill the > questionnaire (as we do in Medical camps). We will allot numbers to every > person so that they can go in line and in order. > > Once this is all done, we will have brief presentations on Thalassemia and > Organ Donation and on health awareness. (not big presentations, very brief > ones). > > Meanwhile we will collect leaflets of information about various diseases > from Red Cross. Thalassemia and Organ Donation pamphlets, we can get from > them. We will pin them all and distribute one to each house. > > *Project Library:* > > We thought of requesting story books, different magazines and any books > worth reading, from private schools and will donate them to orphanages and > govt. school libraries. > > To do this we should first talk to various govt. school authorities and > should take their consent. > > Then we should approach private schools. > > Initially Vani will talk to Brilliant School, Dilshukhnagar. This is the > school where she studied. She will request for books and then we will visit > them after their annual exams to collect. > > *Monthly Contributions:* > > Murthy garu (officially he is joined from this month), Kasyap and Vani, each > gave Rs.100 and Murali and Trivikram gave Rs. 200 (Jan and Feb). Total 700 > rs. > > Phanindra gave me Rs. 1000 earlier (for my personal requirement). He asked > me to give it to TMAD as his contribution. > > -- > Thank you. > > with regards, > PRASANTHI. > ---- > When you want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to > achieve it. >
