Reading session for visually challenged students - 15th Nov, 2014 - Session 3

Third session of our reading centre went on well @ Triplicane

Total Students: 29 (26 from Presidency, 1 from Queen Mary's College & 2 from Madras University )

Total number of volunteers: 20 (14 CSS members, 4 from TCS and 2 from Thomson Reuters) Thanks to All.

Pavithra

Jai Sankar

RathiDevi

Balasubramaniam Sir

Renganathan

Ashwin

Bala

Sudha

Karthik

Meenakshi

MeenaKumari

Sripoongothai

Parthiban

Charumathy

Master Varun

Nalini

Manine Thiraviya

Meenakshi

Deepa

Venkat

40 cups of tea were sponsored by the TKKNN Vysya Charities.

5 biscuit packets were sponsored by Balasubramaniyam sir's friend and 1 packet by Bala from TCS.

1.Those who wish to be part of these events can enroll themselves in our site - www.chennaisocialservice.org

2. During the reading session, please put the mobile in silent or in low volume. If you need to make/attend any calls, kindly come away from the premises, so that it won't disturb other readers and students.

3. Please don't share your numbers with any of the students. If they ask for the number to be contacted during the time of requirement, kindly ask them to meet/contact me. 

Kindly share your suggestions/ideas/feedbacks. Will improve our capability.

For any queries, reach @ 98415 50476/ 87540 45125

More Snaps at https://plus.google.com/photos/100029059227283819807/albums/6084006396221652241

VScribe - Exam scribe - October Updates

We supported a whooping 76 scribing sessions.

Students of M.O.P. college scribed for 14 of such sessions and Students from Ethiraj college volunteered for 6 sessions.

On individual perspective, Kanchan and Jeyashree madam scribed for 5 sessions each.

Divya scribed for 4 sessions and helped in arranging scribes for 6 sessions.

Second Reading Session @ Triplicane and Need Volunteers for Scribing

Second session of our reading center went on well today @ Triplicane

Total Students: 18:

• 13 from Presidency,
• 1 from Pachiayappan college,
• 2 from Queen Marys College,
• 1 from Madras University,
• 1 Student from Vivekananda College

Total number of volunteers: 22

1. Mahesh
2. Pavithra
3. Jai Sankar
4. RathiDevi
5. Balasubramaniam Sir
6. Saravanan Mani
7. Renganathan
8. Ashwin
9. Harikrishnan
10. Abinaya
11. Sridhar
12. Ashella
13. Anitha Srinath
14. Edith
15. Priyamvadha
16. Bala
17. Sudha
18. Karthik
19. Madhushree Mukherjee
20. Meenakshi
21. Meena

Thanks to everyone for your time and appreciate your voluntarism.

Please find the schedule for exams for the next 1 week. Let me know if you are available on any particular days.

10th Nov, Monday - Queen Mary's College - English - 3 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

10th Nov, Monday - Queen Mary's College - Tamil - 2 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

10th Nov, Monday - MSSW - English - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

11th Nov, Tuesday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - English - 1 scribe required - 2PM to 5PM

11th Nov, Tuesday - Ambedkar Law University, R.A.Puram - English - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - Queen Mary's College - English - 3 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - Queen Mary's College - Tamil - 2 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - MSSW - English - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - Chellammaal College - Tamil - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - Tamil- 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

12th Nov, Wednesday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - English - 1 scribe required - 2PM to 5PM

13th Nov, Thursday - Chellammaal College - Tamil - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

13th Nov, Thursday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - Tamil- 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

13th Nov, Thursday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - English - 1 scribe required - 2PM to 5PM

13th Nov, Thursday - Ambedkar Law University, R.A.Puram - English - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

14th Nov, Friday - Chellammaal College - Tamil - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

14th Nov, Friday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - Tamil- 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

14th Nov, Friday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - English - 1 scribe required - 2PM to 5PM

15th Nov, Saturday - Queen Mary's College - English - 3 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

15th Nov, Saturday - Queen Mary's College - Tamil - 2 scribes required - 9AM to 12PM

15th Nov, Saturday - Ambedkar Law College, High Court - Tamil- 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

15th Nov, Saturday - Ambedkar Law University, R.A.Puram - English - 1 scribe required - 10AM to 1PM

PS:

1. Those who wish to be part of the events can enroll themselves in our site - www.chennaisocialservice.org

2. During the reading session, please put the mobile in silent or in low volume. If you need to make/attend any calls, kindly come away from the premises, so that it won't disturb other readers and students.

3. Please don't share your numbers with any of the students. If they ask for the number to be contacted during the time of requirement, kindly ask them to meet/contact me.

More Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/photos/100029059227283819807/albums/6079765432264083441

Kindly share your suggestions/ideas/feedbacks. Will improve our capability.

For any queries, reach @ 98415 50476/ 87540 45125

Team Nalanda's "நற்குண ஆசிரியர் விருது"

As discussed in previous monthly meet, the Nalanda team identified the schools where we underwent our good habits session for 3 years.
We have shortlisted 2 such schools and done a survey with the students for whom we taught this practice, regarding their beloved teachers. With the overwhelming response, we have identified 3 teachers. This is based upon the opinions from the students directly.

he list of teachers are as below:

திருமதி. சுருளிமணி
மணலி புதுநகர் அரசு மேல்நிலைப்பள்ளி, சென்னை – 600 103

திருமதி. செல்வி
மணலி புதுநகர் அரசு மேல்நிலைப்பள்ளி, சென்னை – 600 103

திருமதி. வசந்தி
தியாகி சத்தியமூர்த்தி நகர் நகராட்சி நடுநிலைப்பள்ளி, சென்னை – 600 019

On Oct 13th, we visited the schools and handed over the momento, KADHAR towel, pen set and chocolate to the concerned award winners during the assembly.

Thanks to Palanidurai Sir, Venkat, Prithvi, Satish Bonthu, Tiru and Jagadish for felicitating the awardees.

Since we decided to award the teachers with REAL MERITS, our selection process included surveying among students. The whole process goes like this:

1. Students are given a Feedback form with 10 questions including the favorite Teacher Name, Reason on why the Teacher is favorite, etc.,
2. The filled forms are collected, aggregated, writing down all the reasons in a separate sheet, giving weightage to genuine reasons.
3. The teacher who was favorited by more than 30% of students were given the award.
4. In the memento given, the top 5 Touching reasons wrote by their students was printed.

Please find the snaps attached taken in Manali New Town Hr. Sec. School @ https://plus.google.com/photos/100029059227283819807/albums/6076840985291974145

Reading session for Visually challenged students

We successfully launched `Reading session for Visually challenged` friends.

Thanks to the trustees of `TKKNN Vysya Charities` who provided their community hall located at Sunkuwar street, Triplicane. Thanks to Balasubramaniyam sir for co-ordinating in getting the venue for reading session.

All 5 trustees of the charity inaugurated the session, by lighting the "Kuththu Vilakku" and the session started at 11AM and went on until 12:30 PM.

Trustees of the TKKNN Vysya Charities assured to sponsor for Tea/Coffee and snacks in all further reading sessions. Thanks to you all.

Totally 16 students (11 from Presidency, 3 from QMC and 1 from Nandhanam Govt. college) attended the session today. Thanks to Palanichamy for co-ordinating and bringing the students from various colleges.

21 volunteers turned out for today. Thanks to everyone for your time.

1. Pavithra
2. Satish Bonthu
3. Jai Sankar
4. Nagappan
5. Rathi Devi
6. Balasubramaniyam Sir
7. Kanchan
8. Anitha Srinath
9. Komal
10. Gopi Krishna
11. Ranganathan
12. SriPonkothai
13. Sowmeya
14. Bala
15. Sasikumar
16. Sudha
17. Praveen
18. Saranya
19. Priyamvadha
20. Swaminathan
21. Venkat

All were served with Tea.

Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110670418832208697263/albums/6076952344467445009

This reading session will happen on every Saturday from 10AM - 12PM. If there is any change on a particular week, that will be informed in prior.

Going forward Balasubramaniyam sir and Rathi Devi will co-ordinate the reading session with the guidance from the board members of Chennai Social Service.

Those who wish to be part of CSS can enroll themselves in our site - www.chennaisocialservice.org

Kind Requests:

1. During the reading session, please put the mobile in silent or in low volume. If you need to make/attend any calls, kindly come away from the premises, so that it won't disturb other readers and students.

2. Please don't share your numbers with any of the students. If they ask for the number to be contacted during the time of requirement, kindly ask them to meet/contact me. 

Kindly share your suggestions/ideas/feedbacks. Will improve our capability.

For any queries, reach @ 98415 50476/ 87540 45125

Annual General Body meeting and Elections for CSGAB

On 19th Oct, General body meeting of CSGAB (College Students and Graduates Association for Blind) and the elections to select the new representatives went on well amidst heavy rain.

Thanks to all the volunteers for making themselves available.

Event started at 09:30 with the registration. Thanks to Monisha, Sangeetha, Sandhya, Vaishnavi, Hiranmayi, Sahana and Deepa from M.O.P. College who managed more than 400 people to get register and assisted them to cast their vote. Also thanks to Rathi, her son Varun, Ashwin, Ponmurugan, Akshyaa, Aishwarya and Priya.

The meeting got over by 2 and after lunch, the elections took place and went on until 05:30pm. Later the counting of votes started at 06:30pm and went on until midnight 12:30.

Thanks to Ashwin, Ponmurugan, Yasodha mam, Praveen and volunteers from CTS for staying until late night.

Special thanks to Akshyaa for pulling volunteers from her college :-)

More Snaps @ https://plus.google.com/photos/100029059227283819807/albums/6077034422422828001

Nalanda - Annual Report 2014

The Nalanda team aims to instill a sense of responsibility in the student-community towards their society and country. This can be achieved through encouraging the practice of ‘Good habits’ as devised by ‘Munaivar Poonthuraiyaan’. We conduct ‘Good habits’ classes for students of government and government aided schools. Apart from this we also provide financial support to some tuition centers.

Nalla Pazhakka Vazhakkam

An excellent initiative with a very apt name. This activity spans for one full academic year with few phases.

Phase 1

We conduct a moral session to the kids teaching the causes and consequences of being good and bad and the importance of developing good behaviors. Then we introduce them our work sheet / book materials, teach them on how to work out those and distribute to interested students.The material has a tabular chart for each month, where good behaviors and charted in row against days in a month in the columns. The list of good behaviors include,

1. Waking up at 5 AM,
2. Brushing the teeth first
3. Taking bath
4. Helping mom
5. Watering plant
6. Finishing homework, etc.,

The kids will self evaluate for all the listed activities at the end of the day, before they go to sleep.The list of good activities to be followed by the kids is divided into 3 different levels based on the grade they study.

Phase 2

We visit the kids every month, get their work sheets, sign on them and give them feedback on their past 1 month performance, then discuss with them how they felt, did they had any problem in following the activities and try to resolve any issues they had. This review happens every month for maximum 6 months.

Phase 3

At the end of the academic year, we collect the worksheets back from the kids to evaluate their performance under various criteria to identify who has filled them honestly and also continuously. We then either visit those student’s parents or call them to know about positive change in their child’s behavior in the last one year.

Phase 4

Nomination form will be issued to the students, who does this practice regularly and they will nominate themselves for performing truly well.

Then highly performed kids were given some gifts as a token of appreciation and to encourage them, to further continue the activity in their next academic year. They are also issued a certificate of accomplishment. Once they complete their 10th/12th grade these certificate holders will get priorities in availing the sponsorship for their higher studies.

List of schools which are covered in the academic year 2013 – 2014

No	School Type	School Count	Total Strength	No. of Prizes
1	Chennai Corporation (Royapuram Zone) schools	25	573	209
2	Govt. and Govt. Aided High and Higher Secondary schools in Tiruvallur	68	4058	1101
3	Other Schools	12	657	127
	Total	105	5288	1437

• We introduced this practice in 105 schools in Chennai (and outskirts), Tiruvallur District and also in our Tuition centers. The prize includes Pencil, Sharpener, Eraser, Sketch Pen, Wax Crayons, colouring cake, Pen set, Ball point pen, etc.
• We conducted special classes for 12th Standard students on Career Guidance and “The Secret of Success.

Children’s camp

We conducted a two day camp at Tonakilla, Avadi on January 25th and 26th for 41 children from the tuition centers which we support. The idea of the camp is to give children the experience of staying a day out from their normal routine. During these two days, children underwent yoga, military activities like crawling on the rope, tug of war, Karate session, camp fire, scout related activities, session on various knots, awareness on first-aid, Street play, magic show, etc.

Plan for Next Academic year

Plan for next year is to continue the same set of students for minimum of 3 years to understand the changes happened in them. And we find several other ways to motivate the students to do this practice effectively.