Newsletter January to March – 2016
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Book-Post SAMVol. 08, Issue No:HIT 08, Jan - Mar A2016 INSIDE Rahul Dravid is Preface Brand Ambassador CEO Diary of 2nd T20 Awards & Recognition World Cup 2016 Organization Updates Volunteer Impact Sports Corporate Acknowledgement My Story Awareness on source segregation of waste - ITC WOW Parisara Programme The Newsletter Team Shivakumar P Sithara Medappa Geetha K Kumaraswamy K Lalitha Ashokkumar S Upcoming Disabled Friendly Residential School - Bengaluru PREFACE Dear Friends, It's been a great start to year 2016. In retrospect, one of our greatest achievements has been forging new partnerships and expanding our geographical ambit to posively impact more than 12000 persons with disability. Mahantesh G Kivadasannavar Our partnership with ITC has scaled new territory with Founder Managing Trustee the establishment of new Livelihood Resource Centres Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled (LRC) in Kolar and Mysore. Our collaboraon with them in the 'Well-being out of Waste' (WOW) programme has yielded rich dividends. Segregaon of waste at source and recycling of dry waste has been ingrained into the psyche of the cizenry with the waste disposal mechanism of Bengaluru now aligned with environmental sustainability. Successfully implemented in 14 wards of Bengaluru, this programme is advancing full throle in several new wards. Focusing on our pan India vision for LRC, skilling and placement programmes have now been iniated in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand supported by the Government of Jharkhand. In all, 8 Livelihood Resource Centres have now been established across Karnataka and Jharkhand with several more on the anvil in Andhra Pradesh and other areas. In collaboraon with United Way of Bangalore and Applied Materials, we have inaugurated an RO water plant on 8th March which will supply pure drinking water to 12,000 people in 4 villages of Bangarpet Taluk, Kolar district. Support from Microso will enable us to expand to two districts of Andhra Pradesh. To nurture inclusion and well-being of persons with disability, we have steadily worked to create opportunies for them in every sector. In sport, we organized the first-ever T20 Asia Cup Cricket Tournament for the Blind in Kochi, Kerala, in associaon with Cricket Associaon for the Blind, Kerala, during January this year. A state level open cricket tournament for visually impaired students was also organized by Samarthanam Belagavi from 8th - 10th January, 2016. The first-ever walkathon in Hubballi Dharwad was successfully organized this February in line with our vision to replicate the annual Bengaluru walkathon model in various cies. It effected mass sensizaon on inclusion of the disabled in the North Karnataka region where lile is known about disability. We gratefully acknowledge the overwhelming support that has come our way from the corporate sector during this concluding quarter of the financial year. On our 19th anniversary, my appreciaon, felicitaons and gratude go out to all our supporters for their extraordinary efforts which manifested in our exponenal reach and impact last year. Mahantesh G Kivadasannavar Email: [email protected] Mobile: +91 9448365929 www.samarthanam.org CEO DIARY Dear All, I would like to share with you the impact of volunteers in this edion of our newsleer. Volunteers are an indispensable resource to non-governmental organizaons. Without them most non-profit organizaons would be unable to reach many beneficiaries, funconing as they do with limited staff and budgets. They are well placed to augment many tasks performed by employees including generang awareness and Prateek Madhav enthusiasm, raising funds, providing new skills, increasing engagement CEO with various stakeholders among other things. As they do not receive Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled any monetary or other benefits their altruisc atude spills into their work lending passion and in many instances, beer impact than if it were handled by paid employees. Impact on Samarthanam Volunteers have been the mainstay of Samarthanam since incepon. In the inial years when resources were scarce and even now by bringing wide ranging skills, me and zeal they have aided value creaon to the assigned acvies. We will not be far off the mark in aribung nearly 15% to 20% of work done by Samarthanam, to them. Their impact has been profound and far reaching with regard to our iniaves as detailed below: rust Educaon: Corporate and student volunteers provide am T for th an e th Di praccal exposure and quality guidance to our school r sa a b m le children through tutoring, field trips and extracurricular a d S Event activities Fundraising Creating acvies. Our college educaon programme engages Awareness volunteers all through the day, over the course of one or more years to provide scribe and reader services to Tutoring Skilling beneficiaries availing the distance educaon courses. VOLUNTEER Merck, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, Christ University, Credit Suisse etc. are some among many companies that have Extracurricularactivities Field Wish trips fulfillment lent a helping hand. Livelihood Resource Centre: Volunteers have imparted so skill training and computer educaon, provided voice recordings & Impact of volunteers scribe facility in the skilling programs undertaken by us. Wells Fargo, Merck, ANZ, Scope Internaonal, Deloie & HP are a few of the companies that have rendered these services. Vidyaprasad – Our midday meal programme for government schools has witnessed a unique cooking acvity by VMware volunteers in the kitchens of Samarthanam wherein a full-course meal was prepared and served to our primary, middle and high school students. Events: The annual Bengaluru walkathon has recorded massive parcipaon from volunteers of ANZ, Scope Internaonal, Christ University, HP, Cisco, who were involved in propagaon of our cause and fundraising acvies. Roles and responsibilies envisaged for volunteers in future At Samarthanam, we are constantly endeavouring to structure our systems and processes which include the volunteer management programme. In order to use this precious resource wisely, a proper orientaon and training programme as well as a calendar of variegated acvies for the year are the order of the day. We also envision their assistance with job placement support for the disabled, driving inclusivity and accessibility in their own as well as other workplaces, being the torchbearers for equal opportunity employers and driving policy change in public and government forums. www.samarthanam.org 1 As a former volunteer with Samarthanam, I can vouch for the posive impact that volunteering has had on my perspecves and atude leading me to drascally alter course midway through life. Driving social impact through Samarthanam has given me intense joy unlike any other. I do hope all volunteers can take away similar experiences aer a snt at Samarthanam. Prateek Madhav [email protected] APPEAL TO VOLUNTEERS We earnestly request your assistance with the upcoming 2nd T20 World Cup Cricket Tournament for the Blind to be held in mulple cies across India from 26th November to 11th December 2016. To volunteer, please contact: K Lalitha - +91 9449864786 [email protected] Sadaf Shah - [email protected] AWARDS & RECOGNITION Nasscom Social Innovaon Award 2016 Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled clinched the NASSCOM 'Social Innovaon Award' for 2016 in the 'Skills and Employability' category. The award was presented by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis along with other dignitaries in a gliering ceremony in Mumbai on 10th February, 2016. Applicaons were evaluated on mulple parameters including technology innovaon, social impact, scalability, replicability, cost and sustainability. Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (extreme right) presents the NASSCOM award We thank our staff, donors, volunteers & benefactors for to Mahantesh GK & Prateek Madhav their unsnng support and encouragement which make it possible for us to win awards such as this. HUMAN RESOURCES Several welfare measures were implemented by the HR team for the benefit of employees in accord with best pracces in the industry. The HR policy was revised to introduce medical and maternity leave. The travel policy has now been systemased and a monthly inducon programme for all new joinees instuted. With a view to inslling corporate governance, a training session on balanced score card is being conducted for staff by a corporate trainer, Mr. Subrahmanyam Ivatury. Key staff from the fundraising team aended a 2 day 'NGO Leadership Summit' in Chennai organized by Sevalaya. A team oung was arranged to 'Discovery village,' a resort on Kanakapura road, in acknowledgement of the diligent efforts of team Samarthanam in staging the ANZ Bengaluru walkathon 2015 which evoked massive support from all our stakeholders. www.samarthanam.org 2 EDUCATION Our educaon programme fosters inclusion with disabled children studying alongside non-disabled underprivileged children. Inclusive educaon helps mainstream children with disabilies more effecvely as they learn beer social skills and adapt to real life situaons easily due to their exposure to children without disabilies. Over 4000 children who have passed out of our schools have graduated from reputed instuons. We thank all the organizers and sponsors who enabled so many interesng extracurricular acvies for the children this quarter, rounding off their educaon in brilliant fashion. Primary School: Ms. R. Devamma, a visually impaired teacher was honoured by Samarthanam for her excellent service