Estd: 26th SEPT 1996Regd No: 1980/2005 SRUJANAVANI be the change… ANNUAL NEWS LETTER April 2015- March 2016 SRUJANAVANI, PLOT No: C-216, SVLN COLONY, VEPAGUNTA (PO), VISAKHAPATNAM, PIN-530047, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA (Phone: 9346908717) [email protected] WWW.SRUJANAVANI.ORG 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 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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: 6 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 7 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). 8 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