Prasanthi,
After going through the MoM, I could not resist myself from writing this
mail. When you called a meeting, you wrote the agenda like this:
Agenda is to sit and discuss on the group and the direction it takes. As we
need volunteers for most of our activities, as we see so many new members, we
want to discuss and finalize the teams and as Suresh mentioned in one of his
emails, we should know the teams and the team leaders and we will project them
on our website.
Then when Suresh asked why a meeting is needed especially when we already
have met and discussed few things on 15th, you explained this:
The reason why I called for a meeting before our monthly meeting of May is
that, there are many issues to discuss. Also new members never participated in
a meeting so far. It is essential that we gather all our members in Hyderabad
and talk to them in detail about their time, interest, expectations on our
group etc., etc.,
My wish is to form teams for each activity. Assign responsibilities to the
volunteers who are interested to take active part.
Also to take a final word from the members who are not willing to participate
in any means --- email communication, online work (one can research on
different NGOs, hospitals, educational institutions, govt. schemes,
CM/PM/Ambedkar/ Vice-President funds etc.) participation in activities,
attending meetings and so on.
It would be easy for our monthly meeting to discuss on things.
This meeting mainly concentrates on members, their interests and involving
them in our activities.
And now what you have discussed is:
We discussed on Old Dress Distribution and Medical Campaigns.
Old Dress Distribution:
We collect dresses from people who wish to give their old clothes. A
condition is that they should give the dresses in good condition, washed,
stitched and ironed.
Please collect from your relatives and you can give it in Sundar's hospital
or in my home.
Kasyap, Ratan and Sundar will concentrate on distributing babies dresses of
age below 3 years.
We can give them in slums where Dr. Sundar is conducting medical camps.
Medical Campaign:
Dr. Sundar told that Arogya Bharathi an organization that conducts medical
camps created a formula of nutritious food for slum children. There are proofs
of the change in the children before and after taking the nutritious diet.
They have been conducting camps in Syamalakunta. They wanted to adopt Karmik
Nagar as well.
We will do awareness campaigns in the guise of free health check-ups. We
attract people in the name of free health check-ups and we will explain them
about various diseases and how we can prevent them.
Doing it in slums and various colonies:
First - we will take the consent and schedule of doctors - who can spare
which weekend.
Second - we will take the consent of the colony associations to conduct a
free camp and take their help in publicizing the news - to inform every
household in the colony.
Third - we will allocate volunteers for the activity to assist doctors
Responsibility:
Kasyap will take the responsibility of collecting literature about various
diseases from Red Cross.
We can plan to prepare small pamphlets and distribute.
Arogya Bharathi has a list of service minded doctors who serve poor patients
free of cost. When these people identify serious cases, they refer them to
particular doctors by writing a letter of recommendation. Thats how serious
cases have been taken care of.
But for these activities to sustain, we need volunteers and also there is a
greater need to form as teams. Responsibility rests with particular team/team
lead and the communication should be through them. They should update the group
about the activities of the team
Now I wish to ask, what happened to the original agenda that was put up and
clarified? And why the previous MoM was not discussed, especially when there
was a related topic like OLD DRESS DISTRIBUTION? We already have informed that
Suresh and myself will go to Niloufer Hospital about old dresses distribution.
What happened about the WDP and related matter? I feel in the monthly
meetings we shall always discuss about the steps taken in the previous period.
Here there was a meeting but there was no link between the discussion that took
place the previous week. Now after the discussion took place, can you say the
objective of calling another intermittent meeting was successful??? Or was it
called because you thought nothing concrete was discussed in the previous
meeting???
I am not sure.
Ratan
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