What a wonderful meeting it was!! Friends, felt very very happy today with respect to our group after a long time. We have a good turn up though some are missing. I wondered what a good strength it would be if all of us join. Anyway I hope the monthly meeting of June is a good beginning and feel that the count would be increasing as well as the activities.
As Chaitanya would be posting the MoM, I refrain myself from writing the same. It was a meeting where we discussed all the topics without arguing much :) and we quickly got the volunteers too for the activities. Overall the mood was cheerful and the output was good. My colleague Mr. Anil Madugula is the new member who attended the meeting. Rajeswara Rao garu is a dormant member but he reads all mails. He came to India from abroad a month back and he attended this meeting. One more surprise is our Sarvantaryami. He came with his parents. Thanks Nachaki. ** Vani will work on the brochure and the plan is to complete the first page in a week. The entire brochure would be completed in two weeks. ** Anil Madugula would be taking the responsibility of updating the Web site (with respect to Hyderabad activities) once in a week. ** Kasyap would be the Media Co-ordinator and also the one responsible for ID Cards and T-Shirts. ** Prasanthi will follow up about the 'Virus Warning' message about our Web site in Google Search. ======== We will be taking Education as the key focus for the coming two months. Everyone of us would be working on Education. The goal is to find the complete details of 15 funding organizations (with two visits to each organization). Chaitanya listed 15 organizations about which we posted in our group. Each member will take the responsibility of meeting one organization. Chaitanya will assign an organization to each one of us in Hyderabad and June 15th is the deadline. Chaitanya will be following up this activity. If at all we come across any help request and when we find the request suits particular organization, the member who is in touch with this organization would take care of the co-ordination. The purpose is to maintain a good rapport with the organizations and also to ensure effective dealing of cases that come to our notice. ======= In the monthly meeting of May, our members expressed interest to take up an activity where we can see a marked difference and most of them opined that it would be a good idea to work in a slum. Due to the constraints we decided that this is not the right time to take up such a project. But..... we decided to do an analysis and Dr. Sundar would be taking this responsibility of finding these details. We wanted to start this project in a slum where we have good access. As Dr. Sundar is associated with this slum for the past two, two and half years, we decided to check if we can take up this slum. Dr. Sundar and his team already did two surveys and he can do a third survey too. There are around 500 families there. Occupation of women is domestic help and men is construction work. Majority of the children goes to school but they need a good teacher who can teach Maths in Telugu Medium. Arogya Bharathi team is conducting regular medical camps (Dr. Sundar is also a regular doctor) and for the people with serious health problems operations were carried out in Gandhi and Osmania hospitals. Overall this is a place where situation is not completely worse and comparatively near and easily accessible. What we can do here is to think of providing Livelihood opportunities to improve their standard of living and also see how best we can help for the overall development of the area and the people. In August month's meeting Dr. Sundar would be providing us the survey data, no. of families, occupation, age groups, requirements etc., Based on that we will decide whether we take up that activity or not. ================================= For July month's meeting we will discuss our experiences in fulfiling our responsibility, the challenges that we faced in getting the details etc., Instead of having a long goal and debating on them seriously, we decided to focus on short term goals first and every month we decide the focus for that particular month. Thank you. with regards, Prasanthi.
