Hi All, I can take the responsibilty of getting the gifts(comic books).I would just need the number of kids attending the anniversary.
For the book drive(comics,story books), i actually mailed to my set of close friends and colleagues.Many of them didnt have the books and one of them suggested that he would be able to donate money and we can get the books from Koti with the same.So, me planning to go to Koti this weekend for getting them(books for the book drive and Anniversary).This would just be my personal contribution towards the book drive and be assured that i am open to visiting private schools for the collection. For anyone willing to join me for the above activity ,a BIG welcome :) --- 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. >
