>From Amma Srinivas Hi Team, It has been long since we are back from CBR Academy visit.Did not get time to express the takeaways from our visit.CBR Academy Visit was very memorable and useful.During the trip, below places were visited :
Visit to Y’s Men Club of Vijayawada C.B.R.Academy, Kethana Konda Hanuman Temple, Paritala Kanaka Durgamma Temple, Vijayawada We have reached Vijayawada at 5.30AM. C.B.R. Academy allotted a vehicle for our total trip in and around Vijayawada. Our Special thanks to Sri.Challa.Bala Ram Prasad Garu (Founder), Sirisha Garu (PRO), Anil Kumar (Asst. PRO) Garu and others who helped us in the every corner of the trip. Mr.T.Adithya, P.Pavan Kumar, Vani and Sridevi has joined us in Vijawada. After refreshing we moved to Y’s Mens Club of Vijayawada * Y’s Men’s Club of Vijayawada : * This is running in a rental free space donated by Gayathri Brahmana Seva Samithi. Mr.K.V.B.Sastry garu has been involved in service from past 20 years. Even though he is above 60, he is very energetic. His talks motivated all of us. K.Virabhadra Sastri garu is director of Vijayawada Club. They have been giving training to Underprivileged Women and Girl Students in Tailoring and Basic Computer courses. They have also helped few students trained in computers to get jobs. Also few families in getting bank loans to purchase tailoring machines. As promised earlier, we have contributed Rs.6500/- for this cause from AMMA. >From there around 10.30 we started to CBR Academy. * CBR Academy * This academy is situated near Kethana konda (around 20-25 Kms from Vijayawada towards ibraheempatnam). Challa Bala Ram Prasad garu, Chairman allocated 60 acers of his own land and funds in order to fulfill his dream of training more men/women from India into sports field to win Olympic medals. He is a national champ in Weight lifting and due to his poor economic conditions and other factors he could not go further in those days. But his ambitions towards sports increased day by day as he was unable to achieve the goal. Then he decided to help the talented sport persons through out India to reach their goals. He used to send the Cheques directly to them for 2 or 3 years and attended their shows. But he understood that this is not sufficient to fulfill/achieve his dream. There the thought of CBR Academy initiated/generated. Then he trained few of them who are already in the field .But they didn’t comeback to help this academy or the students in any manner. Then he decided to inculcate values first and other skills later. So he planned to start an overall school for children like "GURUKULAM". He started to develop his dream project in his 60 acres of place at Kethana Konda. He invited higher class children (8th, 9th) from any background who are interested in sports OR who are willing to work for 2 hours in the garden of academy. Many turned up.But day by day he saw a decreasing trend in the numbers. They are unable to adopt the disciplined conditions . The academy has many vaccant seats open for interested students. He recently started CBR Academy- English medium School (purely Commercial purpose not like Service oriented Telugu medium school in the same compound) and given the same for lease. This academy is mainly concentrating on Weight lifting and Athletics. They have Air conditioned GYM for weight lifting* *(which is currently under renovation process). They are also cultivating paddy and other food grains which can be used in academy itself for their daily needs. We can join/refer any students (Only Telugu medium) here, who are willing to work and adapt to this disciplined atmosphere/life style.The Academy students are shining well and got few medals in common wealth games etc. For more details you can reach Sirisha Garu (PRO) *@ 9010131088* This above information was provided by Challa Bala Ram Prasad garu in his own voice during the meet which lasted for more than 3 hours. *Hanuman Temple, Paritala & Kanaka Durgamma Temple, Vijayawada* Around 4Pm we moved to Vijawada on the way we visited a big and beautiful hanuman temple at Paritala. After 15 min of devotional entertainment we returned to Vijaywada to visit Kanaka Durga temple… Here also Goddess blessed with her excellent darshana. After all, we went to station with lots of memories and we were tired as it is one day trip.It might have been more fruitful if the trip is more than 1 day. *Mee autograph…naa sweet memories :* http://picasaweb.google.com/sivaji.tmad/BOSFTripToVijayawadaOn22032010# http://picasaweb.google.com/Ammasocialwelfareassociation/CBRAcademyVi...<http://picasaweb.google.com/Ammasocialwelfareassociation/CBRAcademyVi...> http://picasaweb.google.com/p.pavan.bharadwaj/VIsitToCBRAcademyVijaya... *Members who participated in the Trip :* S.Sreenivasa Prasad Rao - AMMA T.Uma Shankar - AMMA T.Adithya - AMMA R.Srivalli - AMMA D.Prabha - AMMA T.Bathi Reddy - AMMA Ch. Shivaji - TMAD L.K.Manthri - Helping Hands Lakshman - Helping Hands P.Pavan bharadwaj - Volunteer Vani, Vijayawada - Volunteer Sridevi, Narasaraopet - Volunteer On that day we also facilitated One family (Mother who is a single parent) to visit the school. She wanted to check if she can admit her son in the school.Hence, joined us to visit the school *Love all-Serve all* *BOSF Coordinating Committee* *9177999263 --- On Mon, 22/3/10, CHALLA SIVAJI <[email protected]> wrote: From: CHALLA SIVAJI <[email protected]> Subject: [tomakeadifference] BOSF trip to Vijayawada on 21/03/10 To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 22 March, 2010, 4:18 PM 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!. Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
