தீபாவளி celebration in "Annai Anbalaya"

Our diwali celebration in "Annai Anbalaya" last saturday (October 17) turned out to be a memorable one for both the kids in the home as well as for our members(17) who joined us for the event.
We reached the home by 10 A.M and issued sweets,chocolates,mixtures and crackers for the kids.
The kids had their sweets,mixtures,chocolates and then they had good fun by bursting crackers.
Few kids also peformed Yoga at the end and attached files are for your reference.
Our future support for the home shall be updated in the next mail.
Looking forward for your continuous support.

விசிட் டு Annai Anbalaya

October 11,2009
As Planned, we visited an unique children's home called "Annai Anbalaya" in the outskirts of Chennai near athipattu (Ennore) on last Sunday and had good time with the kids.
It is managed by Mr. Shivkumar and the home comprises of 26 kids which includes his daughter and two sons ,out of which 3 kids(L.K.G) are studying in private English medium school and the remaining kids in public Tamil medium School.
These Kids are taken care by his father, mother, Wife and himself.
SWARG has supported those 3 kids to join their private school by sponsoring their entire educational expenses which amounts to 7500 which includes their tuition fees and uniforms. The scholarship was given in the month of July.
The only source of income for this home is contributions from their neighborhood’s and his father's pension which sums up to 15000 per month which they are utilizing for all their expenses.
They also dont have a permanent place to stay, the home where they are residing as of now is a rented place and they have to vacate it by April 2010.
Their major requirement was to support them by giving good food.
As per their requirement, from November onwards we can provide them provisions and vegetables.
we can save some amount every month and use it next year for kids to join in private schools and for other purposes.

We have planned to Celebrate this Diwali with these kids by giving them sweets and crackers, I shall attach the photos of these kids in my next mail.
Kindly post your Comments.

Looking forward for your continuous support.

Regards,
Kaushik.

Project UNNATHI

SWARG focusing at two new project which is yet to be started. We look forward for your continuous support for this project to make it an grand success.
Here goes the project details

Project 1:
 
Background:
 
As many of you are aware that there are places where still the quality of education needs to be improved, we have acknowledged 5 corporation schools in chennai where the quality of education has to be improved(Currently their result is around 30-40%). we are aiming at increasing the result percentage to 80-90%.
 
Initiative:
 
The Students over here are mostly children's of daily wagers, so they prefer to go for work instead of school on the week ends(where we are planning to conduct the classes). To lessen their burden we are providing lunch & conducting the classes at weekends.
statistics:
 
No of Schools to be focused    : 5
NO of Students in 10th std     : 220
No of Students Till 8th        : 85
 
Volunteers: 55 Active and interested volunteers from "GOLD HEART FOUNDATION" and SWARG in Chennai are to be used for this project.

Swarg's Contribution:
 
Food. - Swarg and GOLD HEART FOUNDATION will together support on this.
Active members Involvement as volunteers.
 
 
Project UNNATHI:
 
Background:
 
We realised most of our books were sleeping in our book shelves(remaining Unused). why can't be those books stay in a public place(still useful to some one).
 
 Initiative:
 
A free lending library will be set up, with the books collected from our valuable social-thinkers, which will be given to those people who know the value of books & are really in need. In return we expect from them 3 hrs of time in a week taking classes to the schools which need quality education
 
Count Planned:
 
As we are focusing on Engineering students, aiming to support 100 students in the initial phase. Need to put in a lot of effort to collect books for those 100 and to implement this thought.

Initial Investment will be needed to an extent
Recurring expense will be needed(to maintain the books & renovate).
 
Help Needed from you:
 
Voluntary commitment to teach classes.
Support in sharing your Un used books.
Donations to set Up the BookBank
 
Details of Bank Account : SWARG, 055801000228, ICICI BANK, Mysore, Infosys Branch

Friends, Let us all join our hands to support this initiative and help our college going friends to succeed in their life. This will provide them the opportunity to be a part of Change in society through Swarg. Let us all use our dust-bitten Engineering books/ other imp books lying in our shelves for the needy students.  We look forth for your valuable support towards these two projects. Interested Please contact us to get to know in depth details on the above two projects. “WE” Can make a big difference
 
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"

Swarg Rendezvous - Aug 15th 2009

This time, Aug 15th 2009 was one of its kind for those who witnessed the “Lightening Spirits “ event at Pudur community.. Usually we celebrate either at home or with friends or quietly enjoy the holiday. But this time, Swarg community, friends, wellwishers and people belonging to the community experienced what is called the true spirit of Independence day. Though we didn’t go there to preach anything but through our activities and arrangements, we hope to have created a fresh air of Liberation . Our acts, deeds, competitions were such that people came out to know the world around and participate in the specially organized activities like Rangoli, pot breaking, skit and dance.

Swarg members assembled at 9:30 am sharp before which the nature had its beautiful setting of weather and it let the rangoli participants kickstart their campaign. Special judges were invited who evaluated based on certain criteria. It ended at 10 o clock. After which the most anticipated event of the day” pot (path) breaking” started… Though initially, people in the community were very reluctant, later on our Swarg member K.S. Saravana kumar showed the way for everyone by hitting the pot with water splashing all around. Quite a magnificient scene it was!!!!… The arrangements made by our co – ordinator Mr. Karthick was spot on as there was no lag during the event.

Special "vande mataram" rendition by Swargian Ms.Chitra(CTS) gathered a lot of attention. The arena came to a stand still to witness such a beautiful voice. Afterwhich, special skit and dance performances were performed by children of our tuition center. A week of practice, dedication to perform before swarg members, to prove a point to the world, they graced the event with a top notch performance. Only drawback was the lack of space but next time, we hope to rectify it by alternate arrangements.
We intended to create awareness about our community center in that area, and from the feedback we got, I should say that we succeeded in that attempt. Almost 30 women had enrolled their names for Tailoring sessions and it kickstarted from yesterday(Wednesday 19/8/09). The total attendance for aug 15th celebration alone touched 50 apart from onlookers.
Thanks everyone especially Mr kartick(Project co-ordinator) for entire management, Mr varadan, teacher of our community center, Swarg Members ( as always, your presence ,despite very few days that you all get to spend your time at home) ,friends and wellwishers for making this event a grand success.
Keep your heads high and march towards glory.

Swarg-AUG 15th Grand Event at swarg community center!!!!!

LiGHTENiNG SPiRiTS (Aug 15th 09)

Lightening Spirits is a cultural event conducted by SWARG. Coming August 15th 2009, it will even more special for it is on the eve of our Independence day. Swarg ‘s community center will be unveiled on that day to Swarg family and public.
VENUE : No.13 , 13th street, pudur. Ashok Nagar, ch – 83




EVENT AGENDA:

*** Rangoli competition for 14 streets. – 20 participants finalized.
Timing - 8:00 am.

*** POT breaking -
(Pot would be tied to a rope, participant should hit it with a stick with his or her eyes closed).
Timing –10:00am

*** Guest Lecture –
Swarg Members should deliver special messages to children.
Theme: Education, Independence day.
Timing – 11:30am

*** Cultural Event – by children
* SKIT
* Dance
Timing – 12:00pm

*** Sweets Distribution


General:

· Sweets, Flag distribution to all the people visiting our community center.



We welcome you all to share the joy and happiness with these children. We assure that you will have a great time with the kids too. They would be inspired by our presence and put up a great show. See you on Aug 15th.