good job Chennai team.. Thanks and regards, Shyam.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM, ArunK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > Last sunday, we had a good event at udavum ullangal illam, the home for > kids(KG to 9th standard). > > As you know we have conducted a test for kids from 5th to 8th and last > month they are all busy with exams so didnt disturb them. This month when we > went there with the usual cake for this month's bday kids, we also took so > many books for them. > > As we corrected their papers, we found out where they were lagging and if > its patience or the interest or the proper guidance etc and we gave comments > accordingly on their answer sheets. Some even didnt care where they were > ticking...I mean if they had to tick on option 1) or 2) they were doing it > some where in between. > > We also found that they are interested in reading books and so took soooo > many books. stories for kids below 6th and astronomy is fun kind of books > ,puzzles in math, riddles, tamil crossword, tamil->english->tamil > dictionary,wings of fire, ignted minds both in tamil and tirukkural(like our > vemana satakam, but every tamilian is fond of and proud of this book) > > We gave them as gifts. But all this is sponsored by RK gaari divali > foundation(Rs 825). > But paper setting, printing, correction, book selection buying and even > diwali foundation name is written on the books by TMAD chennai :)))))) > > I also bought some 8 wall hanging charts for Rs.120 with vegetables > fruits, animals, vitamins, tamilnadu map, etc with details both in tamil and > english printed so that every one can read them in both languages. On these > I have written ToMakeADifference and gifted to the Home. > > From our group I suscribed to "The Hindu" for the Home and swaminathan > from Diwali Fn subscribed to one tamil news paper. We paid one month > adavance Rs.100 each.If any of our grop memebers wanted to give anythg to > this Home, we can give it in the form of books. Now I know so many good > tamil book stores in chennai. For three days I was on this task of searching > good book stores. :)))) > > We have taken snaps and I will give the link of the pics along with the > drawings of the kids which were very nice in my next mail in this thread. ( > I need a scanner to upload those drawings) > > Next time we planned to goto another govt run Home too along with this > one. > > Already wrote a small plan kind of thing reagrding the area we wanted to > develop in chennaI in this link > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tomakeadifference/message/8396 > > ArunK > > > > > -- C Neela Megha Shyam Anantapur.
