Hi All, Today 15th April 2007 the Hyderabad chapter had the monthly meeting at Ratan's house. Suresh Adina, Kasyap, Ravi Shankar, Ratan and I attended the meeting.
The following are the minutes of meeting: 1. *FDP* - the current way of cooking and distributing is a lot of effort and having it every week is a hectic task, also providing food for one part of the day per week doesnt actually serve the cause of hunger. So it is felt that having it as a group cause is not ideal. An option that could be worked on could be - Identify the areas where we would distribute the food like L.V. Prasad Eye Hospital, NIMS, Gandhi Hospital, Niloufer, etc., and contact swagruha foods nearby that area give them the order for cooking and packing and from them we will be collecting the packets and distribute. Even for the above option members felt that lets keep it as an individual interest and whoever feels like distributing can go ahead and do it, like on some festivals, or occassions like birthdays instead of having it on a regular basis. 2. *Water Distribution Program (WDP) *- Since its summer, Suresh suggested that we can arrange for some water pots at certain locations which are rush and can have someone near to that location maintaining as a daily wage for the summer. In this we felt we require some initial effort to be made and this seems very feasible. Kasyap would be contacting MCH for the water supply and talk to them on the logistics and based on it we will be deciding the locations and the other things that need to be taken care of. 3. *Clothes Distribution:* Suresh has lots of clothes of his child, so said we can collect some more clothes and then go about distributing them. Right now we thought we would first stat with clothes for children less than or around 2 years age and will be distributing them at Niloufer. The reason why we dont want to collect all ages at a time is we need to identify the places where we will be distributing that groups clothes, then also we need to segregate the clothes to each group which might take a huge effort and also we need a place to keep the collected clothes, since we have a certain age groups clothes already and also identified Niloufer right now so we will make the start with this and then move ahead. Ratan also said he can get his child's clothes which are not being used. 4. *Medical Cases*: This is one which is right now taking the highest priority as we feel mobilised with every case and are going ahead with them but the other areas like education is not taking up any shape. The idea of fund allocation to each area by Divya was felt appropriate to maintain our concerns in all the areas that we planned to take up. There is actually no visibility of the efforts on the other areas, so it is felt that we need to concentrate on the other things as well and dont get overwhelmed with just the medical cases. And also the role that we have played till now was, we getting involved in raising the funds, but now we need to focus on helping them in approaching the CM Relief Fund, PM Relief Fund and similar funds rather than we raising the funds. 5. *Monthly Meeting:* We decided that we will be having the monthly meetings at the members places itself rather than parks and take turns for the venue. And the date and venue of the next month meeting will be decide in the current month meeting and will be mailed in the MOM, irrespective of the number of people attending the meetings will continue without any postponement. *So we have decided the next meeting will be at Suresh Adina's place - near Khairatabad Junction on May 6th 2007, from 10:00AM to 12:00PM. * *Action Items:* ** 1. WDP - Kasyap will be finding out the information from MCH and based on it we will put in our efforts in getting it set up at the locations identified. 2. Clothes Distribution: Ratan and Suresh will be going to Niloufer once and see if we can distribute the clothes over there for kids. If I had missed out anything please do add and if I have made any mistakes please do correct them. Regards Chaitanya
