Thanks a lot for sharing the valuable info Shivaji . Its really so glad to know abt good ppl like Balaramayya garu really we need to take inspiration and guidence from such ppl.
________________________________ From: CHALLA SIVAJI <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 22 March, 2010 4:18:42 PM Subject: [tomakeadifference] BOSF trip to Vijayawada on 21/03/10 On last sunday(21/03/ 10) I went to went to Vijayawada along with BOSF members. Below i am sharing our trip details. It was a single day trip. We enjoyed the trip a lot. It was very educative. People attended for this event are from "Amma", "Helping hands" and "TMAD". It was very nice trip, educative and fun filled too. Amma group Srinivas was the coordinator for this trip and he did a great job. At first we visited Y's men club run by Virabhadra Sastri garu. He is an old man but very young at work. He writes poetry and he has a lot of experience in social service.They are providing training in computers(MS Office, DTP) and tailoring for women with white card. Many women who got training here got employment. Sasthri garu even requests some banks to give loans to the poor people to buy tailoring machines. "Amma" group gave some money and i observe even a few people gave money individually. Sastri garu is very much inspiration for us and for future generations as well. Next we went to C.B.R academy of sports and education. It was started by Chalasani Bala Ramaiah garu ex-army officer who came from very poor family. We met him. He spent with us from afternoon to evening by sharing his knowledge about sports, history(of India and world), religion, health. His childhood dream was to win one gold medal in Olympics for India. He failed to achieve it due to poverty. He was a weight lifter. He did poultry business and it was very successful and it was international. As he was curious in sports he left the business and started helping the sports persons by giving money to them. But he didn't observe any result out of it. He observed that those people who got help from him are not much interested in sports and they play only to get jobs in railways and other govt. fields. Even he provided sponsorship for some people who won medals in Asian games. But the persons who got help didn't do anything for their juniors or to the people from whom they got help. So he felt that not just sponsorship first people should be given value based education right from childhood. So he started school from 8th class to 10th class. He was not satisfied with the results so decided to start from 5th class. Here the education and boarding is free of cost. If the children pass the physical test and they have interest in sports they will be trained in sports. Mainly they provide training in Weight lifting and Athletics. Some people who got training in that academy got medals in Asian, Commonwealth international events. Now they are aiming for Olympics. 60% of the food items are available within their campus only. The students them selves do farming and a lot fruit trees are also available within their campus. In the next coming 2 years their aim is to produce 100% food items within the campus including rice.So this campus is like a "Gurukulam" about which we study in history. Balaramaiah garu showed us all the campus and he explained us the importance and history of each and every quotation that is written on the walls. He told us a lot about history of India and world as well with map. He warned us that, keeping the development aside India is in very dangerous position since the politicians here are so corrupted the foreigners are in a position to rule our government. He says that very soon India will be broken into different pieces( or countries) like USSR. He said, "It was not my opinion, more ever its an open secret". Balaramaiah garu is very dynamic person though he was old. He believes that only the reason India became a poor country was because its education system was spoiled. His aim is to establish "Gurukulams" in all districts of our state. He said, "Many of my friends are ready to give 10 acres land 10lack rupees money". But very unfortunately not even a single person is ready to take that responsibility. Balaramaiah garu shared us about one success story of RTI act. There were some mountains in front the academy. There were a lot of quarries work over there. They used to blast the mountains, then some stones were falling in to the campus causing injuries to the students. They complain to the police but they didn't take any action as they are taking bribe. So they approached RTI act. and keep on filing cases through RTI. When ever they filed a case by RTI the quarry owner has to pay some bribe to the govt. Finally the quarry owner came and said, " I can't pay any more bribe" and shifted his business to other side of the mountain. Finally Balaramaiah garu said, "We take any poor students from 5th class to 10th class and provide free education, and sports training and we are planning to start a teacher training and nurse training schools as well in the near future." Thanks Sivaji. ________________________________ Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW!. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
