Annual Report for 2015

Estd: 26th SEPT 1996Regd No: 1980/2005 SRUJANAVANI

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ANNUAL NEWS LETTER April 2015- March 2016

SRUJANAVANI, PLOT No: C-216, SVLN COLONY, VEPAGUNTA (PO), VISAKHAPATNAM, PIN-530047, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA (Phone: 9346908717)

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INDEX

ABOUT US...... 3 MAN MAKING ...... 4 VIDYANIDHI ...... 5 YUVA KIRAN ...... 7 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ...... 17 Srujanavani Activity Center (SAC) and Teach For Vizag (TFV) ...... 17 Donation from CESVA ...... 20 CSR Initiatives ...... 21 Renovation of Govt. Schools ...... 23 Srujanavani Learning Center at Midhani Slums, Hyderabad ...... 26 Winter Cloth Distribution ...... 28 Blood Donation Camp ...... 29 Donation to Loyola Oldage Home ...... 30 Environmental Day celebrations ...... 31 Medical Assistance to Baby Harika ...... 32 Hearing AID donated to Ganga Bhavani ...... 33 69th Independence Day Celebrations ...... 34 Attending Capacity Building Workshops and Seminars ...... 35 67th Republic Day Celebrations ...... 36 VASUDHA ...... 37

ABOUT US

Srujanavani Voluntary Association, located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh is a congregation of committed individuals working for a common cause, with common conduct and values. The organization focuses on self-reformation, as it believes that it serves as the first step towards making the world a better place to live for everyone. The Association serves as a platform to extend a helping hand for the benefit and service of the communities.

Since inception, about 20 years ago, the Association has been involved in varied activities in the domain of Education and Infrastructure development helping build social infrastructure. Over a period of time it has worked in rural, as well as urban spheres with equal enthusiasm. In rural sphere it has worked to build a school, organize medical camps and awareness programs, motivate youth towards productive choices, and much more.

Geographically Srujanavani has focused in the urban and rural regions surrounding Visakhapatnam. Apart from that we have also adopted a slum in Hyderabad (near Midhani) and working on focused areas. The present newsletter will speak of our continuous programs like Srujanavani Activity Center (SAC), Teach For Vizag initiative, Yuva Kiran project, projects executed in partnership with various philanthropic groups and organizations as part of their CSR initiatives, etc, carried out during last one year from April 2015 to March 2016.

MAN MAKING

The whole journey undertaken by Srujanavani is guided and aimed at sensitizing and creating social conscious citizens for a better society for our future generations, where every citizen is aware and duly fulfills their responsibilities towards their community. Thus, try to handle the very root cause of all these ailments in the society. Regular sessions to discuss, share and mentoring is undertaken to help and guide the members to realize, learn, practice values and thus spread the message in their own circles of influence. The topics for discussion in these weekly gatherings cover and not limited to Ethics, Philosophy, Morals, Spirituality and social responsibility and these sessions are the starting points for most of our activities and initiatives to help and address the grave social problems in our near vicinity.

These ideas of self-reformation and spreading the man-making message permeates all our activities and drives them towards their intended goals making little strides towards our vision of achieving Utopian India.

VIDYANIDHI

Vidyanidhi is supported by many of our regular donors to help the bright students who are at the verge of dropping out of schools and colleges or discontinue their higher education owing to their financial weakness.

Under this program we invite applications for scholarships, identify bright students from the villages we work in and support them to continue their educational quest and to excel in the career paths they choose.

The selected students are financially supported, mentored, trained in communication skills, soft skills and so on regularly. The Vidyanidhi scholars are liaised with another flagship program Yuva Kiran, wherein they cater an hour a day to help the students from their own locality or village by teaching in the nearby Govt. Schools. Thus the Vidyanidhi scholars are instilled with a sense of confidence and satisfaction helping their own village. The activity has also been successful in equipping the scholars with all the necessary skills for their future career opportunity creating a win-win situation.

Over 35 Scholars getting benefitted by Vidyanidhi Scholarships (2015-16)

Several programs are conducted to uplift the skills of the scholars, which are as follows:

i. Monthly Training Programs

The scholars are regularly trained on the identified modules for teaching in their schools and are guided /monitored accordingly to improve the effectiveness of the program.

ii. Computer Training Program

Srujanavani has organized a 3 day training program (from 18th-20th Oct, 2015) for Vidyanidhi scholars on Computer fundamentals, internet usage and digital self-learning. During the workshop scholars were introduced to usage of MS office tools (Word, Power Point & Excel) and using internet search engines to facilitate digital self-learning. The workshop was designed to give enough hands on practice to the scholars to yield maximum befits.

YUVA KIRAN

Yuva Kiran program aims at assisting and addressing students in Govt. schools. In this program, the scholar receiving scholarship interacts for an hour with students of 6th class to review their academics. This initiative has witnessed remarkable changes in the students as they are able to relate themselves to the teaching Vidyanidhi scholars who are from their own localities and conditions for guidance and help and building confidence towards achieving their dreams.

Centers in which Yuva Kiran has been operational

Under Yuva Kiran initiative several series of programs are designed to cater to different needs of the students from Govt. schools. i. Designing modules for continuous assessments of Govt. School Students.

For developing the reading and writing skills, our team has developed Telugu and English language modules for sixth class students on basis of which continuous assessment takes place. The focus is to identify and improve the standards of these basic languages as they become the medium for learning other subjects like mathematics, social and sciences. ii. Telugu Bhasha Dinotsavam

To teach and stress on the importance of the necessity to preserve and appreciate native language (Telugu) and to nurture these thoughts in the school children, Srujanavani has conducted Telugu Bhasha Dinotsavam(Telugu Language Day) on 1ST Sept 2016 commemorating the Birth anniversary of Sri. Gidugu Rama Murthy Panthulu (observed on 29th Aug).

The day was filled with typical Telugu atmosphere, dressings and everything else. The function has had Sri. Pantulu Sitapathi Rao, a famous author and winner of Best Teacher Award as the special guest,along with Sri. B Sathyanarayana Murthi (Madugula MEO), Smt. Jaya Lakshmi (Cheedikada MEO) and other Telugu pundits as dignitaries presided the event. All the speakers shared the greatness, highlights of Telugu language and its literature to the students.

Highlights of the program

With the help of Telugu teachers and pundits from 27 schools associated with YUVAKIRAN program we have conducted competitions for about 200 students of class VI to VIII in various segments like storytelling, essay writing, one act plays, poetry, etc. at our Vaddadi office premises.

Chief Guest Sri. B Sathyanarayana Murthy has disbursed the prizes to the winners and mementos to all the teachers who have participated in this event.

Winners of the essay writing competition:

1 ZPH School, GotivadaAgraharam, V Madugula Mandal 2 KasthurbaVidyalayam, Madugula Mandal 3 Jutthada High School, Chodavaram Mandal

Winners of stage performance competitions:

1 ZP Girl High School, Chodavaram Mandal 2 ZPH School, M. Koduru, Madugula Mandal 3 ZPH School, Vaddadi, Buchayyapeta Mandal

Winners of special consolation prizes:

1 ZPH School, Veeravalli, V Madugula Mandal 2 ZPH School, Varaha Puram, Cheedikada Mandal 3 ZPH School, Lakhsmi Puram, Chadavaram Mandal

The program concluded by felicitating our Special Guest Sri. Pantulu Sitapathi Rao garu in presence of dignitaries and he has gifted some of his writings to the organization.

In the memory of their parents, Sri. Rallapalli Ravi Kumar and Sri. Rallapalli Chandra Sekhar have gifted Rs. 10,000 to the winners.

The event was a great success and we thank all the donors, dignitaries, officials, teachers, students and our Yuva Kiran Scholars for the support rendered. iii. National Means cum Merit Scholarship (NMMSS) Scheme Examination Coaching

The Centrally Sponsored Scheme “National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS)” was launched in May, 2008. The objective of the scheme is to award scholarships to meritorious students of economically weaker sections to arrest their drop out at class VIII and encourage them to continue the study at secondary stage.

Srujanavani has assisted 35 students studying VIII class from the Veeravalli, Pentayyapalem, GotivadaAhraharam and Veeranarayanam Govt. Schools through the process of applying for the NMMSS scholarship, conducted orientation and coaching classes for the students on different subjects. Several mock tests were conducted during this program to prepare the students for the examination. Srujanavani has supported economically needy students by paying the examination fees.

7 of the students passed through NMMSS examination earning them an annual scholarship of Rs.6000 for the next 5 years to support their education. iv. Srujanavani Science Expo

To develop scientific temperament and instill enthusiasm towards learning Science in the students of Govt. schools, we have conducted a week long Science Expo. (22nd-27th Feb,2016) in rural Govt. schools, celebrating the National Science Day on 28th Feb.

The exceptional participation and enthusiasm shown by students during the previous year’s Expo has made 2016 event much bigger. Compared to 6 ZPH schools in 2014 and 15 ZPH schools in 2015, 25 ZPH schools have participated this year. Hundreds of students from these schools have enthusiastically presented more than 850 science models demonstrating various scientific principles and concepts and several thousands of students have visited these science models.

About 115 science models were short listed for the final competition which was held on 27th Feb. Chief Guest and special jury Sri. M Srinivas (Scientist NSTL) and our members Smt.R. Ramalakshmi, Smt.D.Supriya Rao, Sri. Sk. Basheer and Sri. K Jagadish have shortlisted the winners from each class segment.

Class VI: Vaddadi ZPH School for “Security House” model Class VII: K.J Puram ZPH school for “Lighting experiment” model Kinthali ZPH School for “Water Alarm” model Class VIII: Ramachandra Puram ZPH School for “Conservation of Environment through Technology” model Class IX: Chodavaram ZPH School for “Cool Drink Experiment” model

This huge event was ably supported by our YUVAKIRAN volunteers, organization members and other well-wishers making it a grand success in achieving its goals of encouraging the students and creating a healthy competitive spirit among the Govt. schools v. Visiting Science Expos conducted by other institutions

The objective of this activity is to bridge the gap between rural and urban educations system and expose the rural student to the urban education set up for gaining confidence and better learning. 22 students from 5 rural Govt. schools were assisted by our volunteers to a science expo, “INSPIRE” organized by State Govt. at Kotak School, Visakhapatnam. The students were very excited to have seen various science models presented at the expo and had fun learning from the event.

vi. Inviting Guest Lectures by Inspiring Personalities

In order to inspire the rural students, Srujanavani is keen in arranging meetings/guest interactions with inspiring personalities in the society whenever possible.

Sri Kshitij Jain (IRS Officer) has visited our Vaddadi office premise to interact and inspire rural students during one such visit.

vii. Career Counseling for Class X students

Govt. High school students do not have access to know about various career options. Srujanavani has initiated Career Counseling program for 10th class students. It helps the student to realize true aptitude. Students experience lot of pressure – pressure to perform academically, make a good life. The major element linked to all these is the choice of one’s career. It is a decision that is often taken under parental or societal duress. However, one must seek proper career counseling and guidance to make the right decision. Career counseling is really beneficial for students, and there are many reasons it is imperative. We have brought a booklet on “Career Paths After Class X” benefitting thousands of students.

YUVAKIRAN team has conducted Career Counseling sessions for Govt. School students by presenting various presentations and videos to the students, to educate them with information on various career and educational options available to them to choose along with Vocational training courses which could equip them with employable skills. They were exposed to all the options and opportunities to plan and make use of them accordingly. The Team has covered 25 Govt. schools benefitting 5000+ students from 5 mandals of Visakhapatnam. viii. Free Polytechnic Coaching for Rural Students

Srujanavani has conducted a 40 day (from 19th Apr till 24th May 2015) free Polytechnic Common Entrance Test (PolyCET) coaching for aspiring rural students at our Vaddadi Skill Development Center (SDC) premises. About 24 students attended the coaching classes of which 18 have qualified the exam with 3 students scoring ranks below 5000 at state level.

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

A Training Center (Skill Development Center as we call) was established at Vaddadi by renovating the existing structure. This center was utilized for preparing students for NMMS exam and for coaching 10th passed out students to appear for Polytechnic entrance.

Srujanavani Activity Center (SAC) and Teach For Vizag (TFV)

Srujanavani Activity Center was envisaged with a motto to serve the under privileged children by establishing Audio-Visual class rooms and Laboratory which will help in kindling the scientific temper among Gopalapatnam Govt. ZPH School students.

The program in liaison with Teach For Vizag initiative is currently benefitting about 1200 students from the school caters to the needs of VI to IX standard students during the noon hours, through regular workshops and lectures on science, language, Communications, Soft skills, Story writing, Poems, Singing, Behavioral science along with career counseling sessions.

Teach For Vizag initiative was launched on 28th June 2015 engaging youth, working professionals, home makers, retired personnel and volunteers from different walks of life living in and around Vizag, who are interested in contributing to the society by taking classes in nearby Govt. Schools/ institutions and thereby creating interest on studies amongst students.

TFV volunteers need to select an institution within the reach of their residence, fix a particular time to teach and select a topic which they can teach for students. Srujanavaniprovides content for preparation, talk to institutions for initiating a center and will create platforms for experience sharing & learning.

TFV volunteer gets involved with a range of teaching and life skills activities. Volunteers help in taking normal classes like language skill development, extracurricular activities, clay modeling, painting, story reading & writing, drawing, singing, art & drama, group work, games or other similar activities.

Highlights of the SAC/TFV programs: i. Children Summer Camp was organized during the month of May 2015 at our Gopalapatnam SAC with the help of TFV volunteers and our members. Various fun filled activities like crafts, science workshops, clay work, story reading and video film screenings were organized during this summer camp.

ii. Children’s Day was celebrated at SAC with lot of vigor. On this eve essay writing contest in Telugu and English on Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s life, singing competition and quiz contest were conducted.

Donation from CESVA

Customs and Central Excise Volunteers Association (CESVA) raised funds toward procurement of Projector for Srujanavani Activity center located in ZPHS, Gopalapatnam School. An amount of Rs 27,460 was donated to procure the projector towards SAC project to assist in improvisation of Digital Class room to help the students to get better understanding in basics of science.

CSR Initiatives

A new "Science Activity Center" was established in ZPH-Girls High School, Gopalapatnam under Corporate Social Responsibility with support from M/S SALPG Company Pvt. Ltd. A sum of Rs 1.57 Lac was donated to establish the center along with donation of LED TV, Laptop and desktop for the center.

Infrastructure Developed at ZPH-Girls High School SAC

1. Science Hands on activity center with all accessories was established with the necessary lab kits for experimenting. 2. 40” LED TV was installed for enabling digital class room study. 3. Communication accessories were arranged to help students to nurture their presentation skills through live demonstrations and presentations to school gatherings. 4. A Desktop and Laptop were provided to help students to aquire digital class room knowledge and relevant IT skills.

5. An Invertor was fixed to provide uninterrupted power supply during digital classwork. 6. Cupboards to store science books and experiements.

Renovation of Govt. Schools

Srujanavani has been actively working in the areas of education and rural development since few years and in this endeavor we have found that we could initiate projects in Govt. schools to extend facilities related to renovation works.

Access to safe drinking water and sanitation at schools is still not available at many Govt. Schools.

Srujanavani has performed RO water installations at various Govt. schools giving access to safe drinking water to thousands of students.

i. M/S Acclaris Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. as part of their CSR initiative has donated Rs.5,97,400 supporting the Water and Sanitation Projects in Govt. Schools. They have install 1KL over- head tanks, fixed RO units, constructed hand wash sinks and security gates in 5 Govt. ZPH Schools at M Koduru, Kinthali,

Varahapuram, and Appalarajupuram of Cheedikada mandal, G Agraharam of Madugula mandal of Visakhapatnam District.

ii. AkhilaBhartiya Marwari Mahila Mandal has supported to install RO plant and hand wash sink at Gopalapatnam ZPH School.

iii. Laxmipuram ZPH school students were denied of safe drinking water due to existing bore well problems & high fluoride content in the bore water. Sri. B.Madhusudhana Rao and Sri.B.Annaji

Rao have come forward to address this problem with a kind donation of Rs.65,000.

The devastating HUDUD cyclone of Oct 2014 has blown away roofs of two class rooms of VijayaRamraju (V.R) Peta ZPH School in Butchayya Peta mandal. Students were forced to attend their classes under open sky on mercy of weather god.

Telugu Association of Birmingham Alabama (TABALA) has responded generously to renovate the school by reconstructing the blown away roof.

The school was renovated by rural team with active cooperation from SMC (School Management Committee) chairman &School HM. The renovated facility

was inaugurated by T.Sanyasi Rao of TABALA on 12thNov 2015, in presence of school staff & local representatives, students and our AC member AV Chandra Sekhar, Umasankar & our rural team.

Srujanavani Learning Center at Midhani Slums, Hyderabad

Education: New chapter of activities have started at our Hyderabad chapter 3 years ago with the start of a Learning Center at Midhani slums. This center is aimed to cater to the neglected children who dropped out of school. Our continuous efforts at the center have ripened fruits during this year with more than 20 children joining regular schools. The center currently running with the financial support of Indian Development Foundation (IDF) caters to a Vidyanidhi scholar pursuing graduation and around 30 students from the slums to get access to basic education protecting them from falling prey to non-social elements in the society.

The center has played a pivotal role in bringing close the community together and was instrumental in identifying more important issues like women empowerment and health & sanitation issues.

Women Empowerment: Women and adolescent girls from the community who are at bottom most part of pyramid are most vulnerable. They are daily wage earners, going for slum dwelling and construction works etc. Our plan is to help them in securing a safe and decent livelihood through Tailoring. It also pinched us when we heard some anti-social indulgence by these women just for livelihood. In order to empower them we have conducted a 4 month tailoring classes with help of external trainer.

Health and Sanitation: Living in unorganized slums with bare minimum access to facilities like toilets, sewer system and water facilities severe sanitation and health issues are seen in this community. In order to create awareness on health & sanitation and to address the immediate medical needs a free medical camp

was conducted in the slums with the support of Indian Development Foundation (IDF)-who provided free medicines, Seva Bharathi-who provided ambulance and 3 doctors from Owaisi Hospital. The medical camp catered to about 200 patients. An awareness session on menstrual health was also conducted with the help of a Gynecologist in the slums.

Winter Cloth Distribution

Dew drops on grass blades & the sound of dry leaves remind us that it is winter. It may be a very enjoyable weather for some people but the scenario is not the same for everyone. A large number of people who live below the poverty line, to them the touch of misery due to extreme cold is more than the touch of this beauty of nature. The shelter-less people suffer in silence from extreme cold. They cannot afford to buy winter clothes to keep themselves warm. So, to give them some warm care!

Srujanavani volunteered for distribution of winter cloths: spreading warmth and love on 10th December 2015 night.

Special thanks to Dr. M. S. N. Murty (Professor and HOD) Dept of Chemical Engineering, GVP College of Engineering, who has donated Rs.5000 towards the cause and also collected 15 bags of cloths from his neighbors for the event. Smt.Sridevigaru and Shahid lend their helping hands for purchasing of new blankets worth Rs.3000 which were distributed to the needy.

An overall 300 homeless people were served by this activity. Thanks to all volunteers who have worked hard to collect cloths, mend to make them fit for re- usage, make purchases of blankets, survey the areas to identify the needy and distribute them in over the night time from 9.00 PM till 1.00 AM.

Blood Donation Camp

Every year our nation requires about 5 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 2.5 Crore units of blood is available. The gift of blood is the gift of life. There is no substitute for human blood.

On 14 June, 2015 commemorating the World Blood Donors Day, Srujanavani organized a blood donation camp in association with A.S Raja blood bank at Srujanavani Activity Center, Z.P High School, Gopalapatnam. A total of 30 units of blood were donated by the donors on this day. After the blood donation donors were given refreshments and key chains as thank you tokens.

Special thanks to the officials from A.S Raja Blood Bank who have supported this activity by providing a 2 bed blood collection vehicle at the donation spot and all the volunteers in facilitating the camp by mobilizing blood donors and organizing the camp successfully.

Donation to Loyola Oldage Home

Loyola Oldage Home near Pendurthy, Vizag run by Sri.Mani Prakash is a home to about 60 homeless destitute elderly people. Srujanavani supports the home by supplying monthly groceries worth Rs.3000 and a lending caring ear to

the elderly sharing their life stories. The home was hit by devastating HUDHUD cyclone during the last year forcing the elderly to move out of it and live in temporary shelter. In an effort to rebuild the home again Srujanavani supported Loyola Oldage Home by donating Steel worth of Rs.50,000.

In the past Srujanavani was instrumental in constructing toilets, building sick rooms and providing Steels cots and wheel chairs for the inmates of Loyola Oldage Home.

Environmental Day celebrations

World Environment Day (WED) run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is observed every year on 5thJune to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.

On this day our members have pledged to protect the mother earth by taking environmental friendly initiatives and organized a plantation drive planting eucalyptus plants in Viman Nagar, Vizag.

Medical Assistance to Baby Harika

An active girl (7 years old) sharp in studies and active in games, who enjoys playing with her young brother in the evenings, suddenly experienced stomach ache. Doctors found the hemoglobin levels dropping to 3.2 suspecting leukemia they tested the bone marrow and found leukemia (blood cancer). Father working in a restaurant cannot believe the doctors words!

Doctors said it would costs around Rs.5,00,000 for the treatment. Father in a press meet requested for financial support. This was brought to our notice through Vizag NGOs forum. Our team visited the family to know the status. Baby Harika was undergoing treatment at Basavatharka Cancer Hospital at Hyderabad. Although they don’t have ration card, hospital was giving chemo therapy treatment under Arogya Sri (from CM relief fund).

Srujanavani handed over Rs. 20,000 to the father to meet the expenses which are not covered under Aarogya Sri for her treatment. Thanks to the donor Smt. Shesadri, for her kind donation towards this noble cause.

Hearing AID donated to Ganga Bhavani

A student living without the vital sense of hearing is unimaginable plight. It was brought to our notice by one a teacher during our Yuva Kiran activities that Kum. Ganga Bhavani, a bright student, is suffering with hearing problem and is unable to hear the classes properly. On consulting with an ENT specialist, hearing AID was suggested for her problem.

With the kind donation of Rs.10,000 by Smt. Thota Suvarna a hearing AID was installed to Kum. Ganga Bhavani gifting her valuable sense of hearing changing her life forever.

69th Independence Day Celebrations

Independence Day, observed annually on 15, August, is a National Festival in India commemorating the nation's independence from the British Empire on 15thAugust1947.

The occasion was celebrated at Srujanavani Office and at the Learning Center, Midhani, Hyderabad.

Sri. Devi Prasad, Founder of “ForThe People” service organization graced the event at Srjanavani Office, Vizag as the Chief Guest. The day progressed with flag hoisting, followed by patriotic songs and performances by our members and Vidaynidhi scholars. Scholarships were disbursed to 35 Vidyanidhi scholars on this occasion.

At Hyderabad chapter, members have celebrated 69th Independence Day at Midhani Learning Center. In presence of the learning center children and their parents our chief guest Sri. G Karthik (Asst. Manager at Midhani) has hoisted the tricolor, which was followed by our National Anthem. Winners of various competitions conducted on this occasion were awarded prizes by our chief guest and sweets were given to all the children.

Attending Capacity Building Workshops and Seminars i. National Seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility - Role of NGOs conducted by BalaVikasa The companies Act 2013 has made certain category of companies to mandatory spend part of their annual profits for corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to a tune of over Rs.25,000 crores. This makes thousands of companies in India to either implement community development activities by themselves or support the initiatives of NGOs and government. Many corporate are not equipped to initiate the development activities by themselves. Therefore, they are exploring for professional and credible NGOs to partner. At the same time many NGOs are not able to explore the opportunities or meet the requirements of the corporate sector to establish partnerships. Bala Vikasa intends to fill this gap by organizing a national seminar and provide updates in CSR sector and opportunities for NGOs. Sri Y.V Tarak (CFO, Srujanavani) has attended this program to discuss on the current CSR practices, permitted activities, understanding case studies and to know about the expectation of corporate companies to partner with NGOs. ii. Video Blogging (Vlogging) Workshop, Organized by US Consulate General Videos, are an extremely powerful way to communicate messages and mobilize communities. Videos are an increasingly popular way for people to receive news online, but video duration is a big factor in people’s decision to click on a video, and/or to watch it to completion, so brevity is the key! The two-day workshop, led by Christoph Alexander Geiseler from the One Minute Academy in the U.S. focused on the one-minute video concept— the perfect approach for messaging in a world of increased focus on mobile platforms was organized by US Consulate General by their Public Affairs

Department. Participants will be taught among other things how to shoot, edit, and present a one minute video clip, from start to finish in 24 hours. Everything from how to use video editing software, to quick editing tips, to deciding how to cover a topic in one minute, will be covered, and the participants will have a video ready for public use at the end of the workshop. The participants will also be ready to use their new skills to make future videos quickly.

Our members, Sri.Kola Gyani, Sri Satya Ravi Kiran and Sri David Kumar have participated in this workshop gaining valuable experience in the art of making one-minute videos as a powerful tool for communicating our activities in the online and social networking domain.

67th Republic Day Celebrations

Republic Day honors the date on which the Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950 replacing the Government of India Act as the governing document of India.

The event was celebrated at our Sruajavani office and at the Learning Center, Midhani, Hyderabadby conducting various sports for our members. Over 700 students from 12 schools in 4 mandals have participated in painting competition conducted on this day. Prizes were given to the winners by the respective school head masters.

VASUDHA

On 30th August'2015 we have closed one of our projects Vasudha - Children Home. The children were reunited with their family members (Guardians) upon their acceptance and willingness to take care of them and few were placed in hostels. We were unable to run children home due to financial problems and lack of quality time we wish to give them to bring overall improvement in their personality. B. Eswar Rao & B. Sanyasamma were placed in Social Welfare Hostels at Pendurthi and are studying in Government Schools. A closure letter has been submitted to Department of Women And Child Welfare for official record purpose.

Our sincere Thanks to all our sympathizers, volunteers, CSR-Partners – M/S SALPG Company Pvt Ltd and M/S Acclaris Business solutions and our members without whose support and love all of these could not have been achieved.