tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865373206740871292011-07-29T12:59:11.942+05:30DreamIndia @ www.dreamindia2020.orgNatarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-34338976967653457222010-06-16T09:11:00.001+05:302010-06-16T09:11:51.384+05:30

Hi All, Just now, Mrs. Anandi Patil Madam called me to convey the excellent results of AG Kids. Wherever I could remember, I have given their last year's marks also. All kudos to the kids and the hard work by Mrs. Anandi Patil Madam. Many a times, it was a frustrating experience with the kids; but Madam really persevered with them to get us to this stage. 1. Komal Chaudhari - Std. 6 - 1st

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Dear Friends, We visited KK old age home and provided dinner to residents the past weekend. Thanks to volunteers who joined in spite of rain in Chennai. Going forward all our visits would be on the first Sunday of the month and  we have booked the same for future visits. Snaps are at http://picasaweb.google.co.in/natadreams/KKOldAgeHomeJune# Anbudan,Natarajan

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Dear Friends, You can download the Dream India Educational and Charitable Trust's annual report for the year 2009-2010. from here. Parthy and I, we met our Auditor Mr.Sekar sir today and completed all the formalities required to file the IT returns for the financial year 2009-2010. I take this time to thank each and everyone of you for the wonderful support offered to follow the process. We have

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We are in the process of revamping our website and hence have a downtime on the website www.DreamIndia2020.org. We will get the site up and running within a month's time. Please bear with us. Regards Website Admins Dream India

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Dear Friends,Last year we had supported a student Pramila for her B.Com Education. She continues to work at Queens Land on weekends earning Rs.100 and supporting her family. This student was referred to us by Vasantham madam. We also have supported another student Sangeetha who works with Pramila and also doing the same course. We have given a check for Rs.8000 [ 4000rs each] through Vasantham

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dear friendsAs already announced in the group, Golden Jubilee issue of ezine is featuring India Sudar, Dream India and Helping Minds. We are also honouring these three organisations in a simple function to be held at Vinobha Hall, Thakkar Bapa Vidyalaya, Venkatanarayana Road, T Nagar, Chennai on Saturday the 1st May 2010. Many eminent people are joining this event. I have already circulated

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Dear Friends, I take great pleasure in sharing this news with you. One of our friends Mozhiarasi contacted me sometime back through Mani and expressed her desire to start classes at her village near Thirukovilur.  I happened to discuss with Mozhi today after long time and learned that Mozhi has started taking informal classes for the children near her house. These children are currently coming to

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Dear All,I would like to update a few things. The classes at V'vakkam are going at regular pace. We have got 3 new vols for our chapter, named Sriram, Haneefa, Subu. Nata referred Subu to me and he inturn got 2 of his friends. Thanks to Nata. We have started with Computer fundamentals. Sriram, Haneefa & Subu handles computers.Kids, are really showing a large interest towards this move. As a

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Dear Friends, Recently we got a medical request for Ms.Padmavathy's cancer treatment. She is the mother of one of a student's who has approached us for educational support [ We could not support as his marks were very low]. Our friends Divya and Vishnu visited the patient in person and verified the case. Based on the details, it was decided DI would give 10,000rs for this surgery. Through this

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Dear Friends, I take great pleasure in sharing a small story that shows the fighting spirit of our kids. Navaneethan is one of our bight students in Adyar class. Currently, he is in ninth standard. Six months ago, we decided to provide Navaneethan scholarship for his typing exam. The exam is due next month and I happened to meet the instructor. He was not very happy with the performance of our

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DI five year celebrations - ECR outing report    

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Hi All,We recently had the Founder's Day celebrations of Apale Ghar, one of our long standing partner organisations in Pune. DI was privileged to be the main organisers of this event. The video of the dance performance by the children can be seen hereThanks and Regards,VarunDream India

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Hi Friends, As an organisation, we have completed five glorious years this January. Started way back in the winter of 2005 in a crummy room in Mumbai, we have now grown into a strong team of dedicated people, sharing the vision of a developed India. We thank all those who have been supportive of us and have guided us during the tough times. We thank all our students who have made wonderful

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Dear Friends, I take great pride and joy in sharing this good news with you all. Our students, rather I should say our younger sisters, Fathima [ Seventh semester 74% ] and Bhuvaneswari [ 3rd semester 88.5% ] have scored excellent marks and have made us all proud. The marks they have scored is the proof for their wonderful commitment to the cause and zeal to be on the top always. I am sure they

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Hi All, Partnering with ArriveSafe, Dream India conducted a drawing competition for children in the Government school in Valasarawakkam, Chennai on the 1st of November. Though we did not get selected for the final round, the kids did extremely well and  managed to bring out the best of their knowledge by way of drawings. The volunteers used this opportunity to thrust the importance of good

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Dear Friends, On Nov 14th, we had a fun filled Children's day celebration at Adyar school. The event started with explaining some facts about Nehru ji & his family tree. Students were asked to speak few sentences in English about Children's day. Then, both 8th & 9th students were combined & grouped into 3 teams. The first event was 'Dumb Charades'. It was really entertaining when the students

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Dear Friends, I am extremely happy to share the wonderful news that with the help of Mr.Gunasekaran, we have started our very first "Dream India sports club" for Mayanoor school children.  It has been dream of a few of our friends in DI to create awareness about physical activities and provide a platform to bring the talent of children in various sport. It is then, we met Mr.Gunasekaran sir, HM

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Dream India conducted Science Exhibition at Adyar Government School on 21.11.09 for the students of Class 8 and 9. The Students split themselves into 12 teams consisting of 2 to 4 students. A whole gamut of  topics were selected which included Rain water harvesting, Electric train, Periscope, Optical Illustration Using Lenses, Glass Moulding,  Parts of human body, Importance of Wild life, A

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Dear Friends, On behalf of Action2020 team and India Vision2020 team, Poornima, Janakiraman, Nagappan, Ponmudi and myself, we had the privilege to attend the "For the sake of Honour Award" function held at Taj yesterday evening. Dr.Irai Anbu I.A.S graced the function and conferred the award to Payir Senthil. In his acceptance speech, Senthil once again reiterated his dream on bringing a

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Amidst all the fun times of the festival season, we also continued with our educational scholarships. Smt. Anitha Prabhu from mNellore had scored pretty good marks but was unable to fund her college admissions completely due to her poor financial conditions. Having heard about this from our partner trust India Sudar (Light of India), we pitched in with some percentage of the requirement. We hope

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Dear Friends, All our children thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Diwali and the smiles in their faces left us all satisfied. This year we bought crackers for Rs.5000 which was distributed to the following homes: 1) Anna Nagar class 2) Adyar class 3) V'Vakam class 4) Vasantham and 5) SV Home We also bought sweets for our children. KK visit happened exactly a week before diwali and we gave 30rs

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Dear All, I would like to share about the diwali celebration which we had it in our DI Valasaravakkam School on 11.10.09 (Sunday). We arrived in the school around 10.00 a.m. We waited for the kids to come and settle down. By 10.30 we started our celebration. First, we asked the students to come and speak a few words about what DIWALI meant to them ? Also, we asked them to share about their

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-79692146671025377662009-10-11T07:06:00.001+05:302009-10-11T07:08:00.390+05:30

Mr.Srinivasan Sir's email report:dear friendsYesterday, I wrote about the meeting with our former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. He met 70 representatives from 30 constituent organisations of Action 2020 Team or online India Vision Group at Chennai. Dr Kalam spent nearly two hours with the members sharing his views. At the end of his 30 minute speech, all the members were highly motivated with

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Dear Friends, Like last year, we celebrated Gandhi Jayanthi at SV home this year too. Quiz Prelims: We started the Quiz Preliminary round around 9 AM. 50 students from SV home and 3 kids from Adyar school appeared for this. Janu and Ravin conducted the prelims. Elocution competition: This was followed by Elocution competition. Around 20 students from SV Home and Adyar school spoke. For the

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Dear All, It gives me immense pleasure to share about our DI Valasaravakkam project - 2. As part of our second project we planned to visit 'Ramamoorthy educational & rehabiliation trust ', a home for parentless children on sep.20 (sunday). We DI vols reached the home by 9.15 a.m. and had a brief introduction with the kids & trustee. We also had a special guest Miss.Shobana, HR of L & T

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Dear Friends,Last Sunday, September 6th, our team visited Kaakum Karangal old age home and provided dinner to the residents as a part of our monthly visit.They were all very happy to see us after almost 3 to 4 weeks. One of the paati's (grandmas) sang a prayer song and this was followed by usual prayer. They have been asking for some cash to be given for the monthly expense like getting extra

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Dear Friends,Sometime back, we got hearing aid for a kid called Madhumitha from Pondicherry. This family was known to us through my brother. Father lost his job because of recession in export clothing units. He is now doing electrician work as and when he gets. Ms.Hemalatha, mother of Madhu had to undergo cornea replacement surgery. The total cost was around 8000rs and they approached us for

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Dear Friends,We got a medical request from our Bangalore team for Baby Sanmitha's operation. This kid was adopted by Mr.Mahesh and recently they discovered that the kid is suffering from hearing disability. The operation costs around 12 lacs. From DI side, if you remember, we had collected funds for Pune kid Babli's operation recently. We had some amount from that collection and contributed 25k

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Dear FriendsVisited Sishumandir on Sunday along with Udhay. We wanted to meet up with the new teacher who will be take over as previous teacher left us. Previous teacher Mrs.Yashoda served us really well. She left because of health reasons. We wish her a speedy recovery.Currently there are 22 students. the average varies between 40 to 20.Current year has seen some good adoption from public(More

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Dear Friends,Our friend Shyam is now doing his MBA at PSG and has started our Coimbatore chapter. As you all know, Shyam has been a pillar of support for DI Chennai at Adyar school and was mainly responsible for the Pollachi educational festival we conducted last year.It is no wonder that a guy of his energy level has taken the next step to start our new chapter. Along with our YHM friends and

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Dear Friends,We have got a very good development at our classes for 9th standard students. As you all are aware, Navaneethan is already enrolled for lower level typing exam for the past 3 months. A few others promised to join on their own, but I found that they did not. When I checked, I found most of them did not get enough support from their family. Last Saturday, I could luckily visit their

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-22601230839036037602009-09-03T06:34:00.002+05:302009-09-03T06:35:06.310+05:30

Hi friends....It has been a great journey with all possible and different kinds of emotions (many never enjoyed before) with Dream India. For more than a year and half, the attachment with DI has made a huge difference within me. I still remember the day when my brother Bharath Ram and I went the residence of the HM of Alapakkam govt. School. We went with all doubts abt what will be his response

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com1Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060416 80.24963412.893195500000001 80.0161745 13.2276365 80.4830935tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-23588661144338516342009-08-31T06:16:00.002+05:302009-08-31T06:17:56.679+05:30

Dear All,Thanks a lot for giving such a great support... Having taken such a professional course as career I have not thought about money requirement as CA is regarded as a cheapest course but having great value...but after getting through CA Inter for which most of the subjects I studied self , I really understood the difference of doing CA by self study and attending a class run by a qualified

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Dear team,I'm very glad to inform you all, that the celebration day which took place on aug.29 went in a very grand manner. We scheduled for various events.Morning we had quiz prelims and followed by that is some cultural events (Song & Dance). From 10.30 we had tamil elocution and english elocution. Lunch was given around 12.30 p.m. Then we had the round of quiz. Students actively participated

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Dear Friends, Through one of our friends we got to know about student Ms.Sreen Fathima a final year CSE Engineering student. She has scored  75% so far without arrears. They got separated from father for some personal reasons and he stopped supporting all of a sudden. Janu and myself spoke to Fathima, she sounds to be one of the most confident students I have ever come across [ Same as our Ponni]

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Dear Friends, Our student Krishna Thaara whom we supported by paying fee for CS Inter and CA final has cleared Company Secertaryship[ CS ] Inter successfully.  She called me couple of days ago to inform this great news. She said even before calling anyone, she was calling DI to let us know about the results. The CA final exams are to happen sometime in the future soon. I am pretty sure she would

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Dear Friends, Thanks to Mr.Ravi from India Sudar, we could deploy couple of teachers at his village school. The teachers are doing wonderful job is the feedback we have from people. One of the teacher's wanted to move on due to personal reasons and Ravi has found another replacement teacher Ms.Gnanasundari. Her salary would be 1000rs per month. Also, from this year we wanted to give Ms.Mary an

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Dear Friends, Our student Srinivasan [ B.Tech Printing Technology at Anna University] called and shared the good news that he has scored 70% in fifth semester. He stands third in the class. Considering the fact Srinivasan works the whole day and carries on his education part time makes this achievement much more significant. We wish Srini all the very best. Regards,Natarajan28th July, 2009

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Dear Friends, Today is one year completion after Registration of our Dream India. In addition to this, a great news to share from our side: By 11.15 am today, there was sudden information regarding an opportunity to meet Dr. APJ Kalam Sir in Chennai Airport - VIP lounge. He is traveling from Delhi – Coimbatore via Chennai. ( 2-3 hours - Waiting time in Chennai). Nata informed me & Janu to

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Hi all, Finally , we can now say that almost all the SSC students at our Mumbai centre have finally got their admission for STD XI.Despite all the struggle with low percentage and family pressure, Geeta has taken admission in Science at Bhavani Shankar Junior College at Dadar. This is a college which is best example of a joint public and private sector participation, ie a joint venture between

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.017656 72.85617818.693074499999998 72.389259 19.3422375 73.323097tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-25266347426125371822009-07-26T23:31:00.001+05:302009-07-26T23:33:27.156+05:30

Dear all,I'm very much pleased to inform you all that, we have successfully conducted the drawing competition at Govt. high school, Alapakkam.Last week we announced to the students that we gonna have a drawing competition. The students turned out in large number forthe competition. We gave them 'Indian freedom' as a theme and once they finished drawing in that topic, they can draw any picture

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-83953381564094481112009-07-26T00:08:00.002+05:302009-07-26T00:08:45.168+05:30

Hi All,Am writing this mail based on updates given by Padmaja. Thanks to her we all now have detailed info on the situation in the school. She had visited the school in Wada along with Vijay on Friday. There were two schools in that area - one, a regular school with even junior college attached (Population of about 500), and the other, a residential school for adivasi children (Strength of around

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-9907030257634494722009-07-15T07:25:00.005+05:302009-07-24T17:16:43.747+05:30

Dear friends,A very good new to start the day with.....Our student Ponni has scored 80% in her sixth semester, 2nd topper in the class. Dream India wishes her all the best. We are proud to be associated with her. Update: Hi All, Our friend Viraj from Mumbai had obtained a used laptop for Ponni, from his office. Manikandan handed over the laptop to her recently, and the joy on her face is

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-83057700544684210142009-07-15T07:23:00.001+05:302009-07-15T07:24:26.431+05:30

Refer to this for more details...Hallo people,A piece of good news. Pooja’s admission for the XIth is done – SNDT College – MCVC in Electronics Technology. It’s a minimum competency vocational course, similar to regular XIth FYJC, but that’ll give her vocational training along with a chance to jump into the mainstream once she’s done. Earlier, the management was to put Pooja into XI Commerce at

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-68230651495814536162009-07-15T07:20:00.001+05:302009-07-15T07:20:40.292+05:30

Now how about this news friends!!!. Our student Bhuvana has scored 91.7% in her second semester. She scored 90+ in her 1st semester too. Bhuvana is a very sincere and hard working student. If you all remember, couple of months ago, Parthy and I, we met Bhuvana and her mom and handed over a check for Rs.20,000 for her college fee. Dream India is proud to be associated with Bhuvana. On behalf of

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-61700701763449998012009-07-15T07:19:00.001+05:302009-07-15T07:19:51.209+05:30

Adyar class:It has been two weeks since we started the weekend classes for our Adyar school children. Currently, we are taking classes for 8th [ new batch] and our old students who are in 9th standard now. The strength of the 8th kids [ 30 ] has been very encouraging. Our friend Mani, [ Web Admin along with Marshniel ] joined Adyar team and has been really energetic to get things done. By god's

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-43780762378121943512009-07-10T06:39:00.000+05:302009-07-10T06:40:35.214+05:30

I was half way thru my vacation sitting in a hotel room, and talking to Padmaja on phone. The recent developments in the Mumbai team seemed very interesting, what with many of our students completing their tenth standard examinations and applying for various colleges. Padmaja has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes and it was good to have her talk about them. Here are some excerpts...

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-52512461330187712942009-06-29T02:50:00.003+05:302009-06-29T02:55:51.175+05:30

Dear Friends,Last week our team visited KK old age home and provided dinner to all the residents. After more than a year and half, we had Janakiraman join us back for DI's on field activities. We also had couple of new friends join us.The residents were very happy to see us and in fact they has already asked the in charge to find the date we would visit them. They all feel and see us as a part of

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-58540029780094605882009-06-27T03:25:00.001+05:302009-06-27T03:26:42.743+05:30

Adding DI oune group and trustees to thread J This month seems to be a gr8 gr8 month for DI …After Bablis roller coaster here comes the most awaited news of the year…. POOJA PASS HO GAYIII…cant believe it man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has cleared all her board exam papers given below is result SSC EXAMINATION RESULTS 2009 Division PuneSeat Number C009215Name CHAVAN PUJA PRADIP Subject Name

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-14095570414681618462009-06-24T08:52:00.000+05:302009-06-24T08:53:31.379+05:30

Hi All,Lalita, our own student from Aarey colony Gaun Devi pada has passed her standard twelfth examinations with flying colors. Considering she hails from a place where women are not encouraged to study, this is a great achievement for her and she can rightly be now called the ambassador of women in that community. In order to appreciate her efforts, our Mumbai team will be felicitating her this

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-57253393886776786682009-06-22T06:28:00.007+05:302009-06-22T06:32:08.747+05:30

Hi team, I'm Aravindhan. I was teaching for the students of anna nagar so far. Since, one of the volunteer from Valasaravakkam had been to Mumbai for his training, I would like to continue my teaching in Valasaravakkam. So, the team members of Valasaravakkam includes Sriram, Arunan and Aravindhan. The DI classes for this academic year is scheduled to commence from today onwards (13.06.2009).

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-83114789057151375902009-06-08T06:38:00.002+05:302009-06-08T06:43:57.100+05:30

Dear Friends,KK VisitCouple of weeks ago, we visited KK Children and old age home and provided dinner for the residents. We had a lot of new volunteers join us for the visit. The children enjoyed a lot by singing songs and playing with volunteers.Trip to 'Rain Forest'May 17th was the last day for the Adyar computer classes. We gave the children [ 12 children ] a surprise moment by taking them for

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-82245104253509107892009-06-02T18:00:00.004+05:302009-06-02T18:07:40.919+05:30

Hi AllThis was planned to be an event by the kids to highlight the evils of Tobacco to the public. We were quite sceptical before this event as neither kids nor we faced public,while rehearsals too kids used to laugh and were never appearing serious.But I made up mind in case everything fails I myself will explain the posters we collected from an other NGO. But while actually performing in front

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-85147199484182118762009-05-25T04:56:00.001+05:302009-05-25T04:57:40.394+05:30

Dear All, This is a news report, from DI Thane center ..... Its a combined report (from Kartik and Apeksha - from the Thane Team) about the Annual Exam results for our kids, which commenced in the government school, in March this year !!  It gives me great joy in composing this email, I had to wait to collect all the details of the Exam Results, as it took some time for the team to put together

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-71475676220946382262009-05-24T07:35:00.000+05:302009-05-24T07:36:29.693+05:30

Dear All,Classes The classes are going on well. Now that the annual holidays are drawing to a close, kids are expected to be back in town and join the clan. We've been a bit irregular as well. With a few out-of-station trips happening over a couple-o-weekends, we are now back on track. Volunteers A couple of months back a volunteer Aravindh had joined our team. He had to go to Mangalore for his

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-35014239134199119802009-05-23T00:10:00.004+05:302009-05-23T07:43:35.880+05:30

We visited Conservation Education Centre,of Bombay Natural History Society situated near Film city,Dindoshi on 19th May.this was their regular designed program for children of weaker section.we started close to 7 am and reached by BEST bus after changing one at Dindoshi.22 children and about 4 volunteers attended the same. Children fron Durga Temple at 11th hour backed off.(morning at 7 am,

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-31985909775881451632009-05-22T03:02:00.000+05:302009-05-22T03:04:11.248+05:30

Dear all,     We have enrolled three of the very interested students of last year's classes at Valasarawakkam for Type-writing classes.. These students are going for the classes for past 10 days.We have also planned to give scholarships of Rs.1000 each to two of the best students as a token of their interest in learning and sincerity. This scholarship would be utilised towards payment of school

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-80659174992109056682009-05-18T07:19:00.002+05:302009-05-18T07:21:54.280+05:30

Hi all,We had a ‘Colour Knowing’ class this week. Everyone was to sketch different colours along with its name. After that, we had a short session on Map so that children can know places and locations.Overall, it was good. We’ll need to get a pack of crayons as the existing one do not has all the colours.Along with this, we were also told by Nandini madam to get the Map of the world and that of

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-2223244582594379072009-05-12T17:50:00.002+05:302009-05-22T03:16:00.423+05:30

Venkat from the Mumbai team conducted a session about basics of Finance to the kids at Borivali. The report, in his own words:"As I suspected, the story telling helped in holding the children’s attention. They were a bit confused in the powerpoint slides where I talked numbers. Hence, I have made some changes to the flow of those slides. I had also carried cheque leaves and atm card to show to

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-9709268452897134282009-05-09T08:41:00.002+05:302009-05-09T08:48:15.756+05:30

Dear Friends,Please find the MoM of the DI Chennai Valasaravakam Chapter meeting. MINUTES OF MEETING Meeting Code DI/CHN/VVKAM/1/2009-10 Meeting Type Dream India Educational and Charitable Valasaravakam members Meeting Date & Time 18/04/2009 7.30 – 9.00 PM Place Valasaravakam Park Participants Aparna, Arunan, Barath, Natarajan, Sriram and

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-49888235424730715282009-04-19T15:40:00.000+05:302009-04-19T15:41:16.773+05:30

Hi All,The following is a detailed report on the meeting that we had in Bombay on the 16th of April, at Mr Gawarikar's home between 8 am and 11 am. The meeting was attended by the following members:PadmajaJamunaSharvariMr GawarikarRupeshMyselfWe started by talking about retaining volunteers and the various way of doing this. This has been a topic for discussion for many many years now in various

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-3043846967663142072009-04-18T12:58:00.002+05:302009-04-18T13:00:47.843+05:30

The last couple of weeks have been very hectic for the volunteers of the Borivali center. We selected four students to take enroll in a MS-CIT computer course (Project documents attached) and finally paid the money for them today. The course is for three months and will begin on 20th of April. The project documents have more details on the same. On the 14th, we ushered in the new set of vols from

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-70425231235337704372009-04-18T07:39:00.003+05:302009-04-18T07:45:21.265+05:30

Dear Friends,Last Sunday, Dream India friends from Adyar Chapter visited KK Children home, provided dinner to kids and had wonderful time with them. Shyam, Parthy, Veena and Karthik reached much earlier and started playing games with the children. JP, Hari, Venkatesh, Abitha and myself reached KK around 7.30 after collecting the dinner from hotel. The Children had asked for Paratha, sweets and

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-31370556531884804572009-04-14T11:20:00.000+05:302009-04-14T11:22:17.718+05:30

Dear Friends,I am happy to let you all know that for the second consecutive year we are supporting Ms.Bhuvaneswari, B.E Computer science student at Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai. We got to know the student through Ms.Lalitha madam of New life Charity Trust. Last year DI decided to provide 20k as partial support towards her college fee.Parthy and I met the student and her mom today

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-33339674767992819072009-04-13T09:27:00.002+05:302009-04-14T11:23:41.438+05:30

Dear Friends,After the wonderful Pollachi program last weekend, this weekend was spent at Chennai by conducting weekend classes at Adyar school and visiting kaakum Karangal old age home.We have started teaching Grammar for the children, especially for the 10 students who are really ready to move on the next level. Our friends like Sreeja, Kavitha and Poornima continue to provide special attention

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-31049224378598592082009-03-31T18:39:00.011+05:302009-04-18T07:46:39.002+05:30

Hi Everyone,Its my privilege to share our sweet memories about our trip .This weekend created a new landmark for Dream India. The Chennai DI team volunteers(Natarajan,Parthy,Varun,Ravin and Shyam) visited the village of Kothavadi a small village near Pollachi (Coimbatore District) and conducted a variety of competitions for the children studying in three different Government Mid schools in the

Shyamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12629668654742928979noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-6249709517525164142009-03-23T23:39:00.007+05:302009-03-24T00:21:14.348+05:30

Dear Friends,I met HM of the different schools some weeks before for seeking permissions for conducting programs like elocution ,quiz,and essay writing for the students from 6-10 standards and Drawing for schools from 1-5 standards .They readily accepted our request and granted us the permission .We will be conducting programs seperately for different schools and the prize distribution will be

Shyamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12629668654742928979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-70724808028355905522009-03-23T19:02:00.008+05:302009-03-23T19:40:13.027+05:30

Its my turn to share our sweet memorable experience with vasantham kids at queensland water theme park.I sware you guys that you have a missed a lot if you are not a part of this trip .Myself and Nata started by 8.30 in the morning from thiruvanmiyur and reached by 10.As madam said they will be ten minutes late myself and nata moved to a petty shop to have a cup of tea and vadai .After that we

Shyamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12629668654742928979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-48526908062710404412009-03-22T23:43:00.005+05:302009-03-22T23:47:53.351+05:30

Sorry for intruding into Natarajan's space but this time it will be me writing about Kakkum Karangal. And I am not talking about the old age home, it is the Children's Home run by the same institution. The usual suspects Shyam, JP, Nata reached the place by about 7 pm and I joined them thirty minutes later. The small but homely place is run by an elderly woman and has about 50 orphaned children,

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-40061146124555797482009-03-22T16:00:00.002+05:302009-03-22T16:06:01.060+05:30

After a year long, I visited a DI center, our Valasarawakkam class in Chennai. Our volunteer Sriram, his brother and a couple of more volunteers have been conducting classes in this school regularly for the past one year. It has been wonderful how the lack of other volunteers and the dwindling student population has failed to deter these young ones.The class strength has come down to about 5-6

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-81195455197938034802009-03-16T11:28:00.002+05:302009-03-16T11:36:29.314+05:30

Dear Friends,It is my pleasure to share a quick update on Dream India Chennai's recent activities. First Aid Course:On Sunday, 10 of our friends attended the "First Aid Awareness course" organized by Vasantham and conducted by St.John's Ambulance. The session was very useful and all of us learned a lot about first aid. A detailed document,which would be the official first aid document by DI and

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-25681182152284911802009-02-28T08:48:00.001+05:302009-02-28T08:50:25.105+05:30

Dear Friends,As you all know, along with 2 other like minded friends, we have been supporting Ponni's education. Our team is also taking care of her sister Ramya's education. We have been sending bus charge of Rs.1300 every month. Starting February, we would do this officially through dream India. We also sent Rs.1565 for her semester books. Please find the project reports attached for both the

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-86045868367785078302009-02-17T18:36:00.004+05:302009-02-17T21:04:26.887+05:30

Dear Friends,As planned, our friends visited KK on Sunday and served dinner to the residents of the old age home. These days only the paati's live there. The male residents have been shifted to different home nearby. We served them chappati's, coffee and banana's. We spent some time talking to them. All of them liked the food very much, especially the superb coffee. We have booked 15th, March

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-44280881360285900792009-02-13T12:32:00.002+05:302009-02-13T12:34:45.779+05:30

Dear Friends,It is time for our monthly visit to Kaakum Karangal, the old age home at Thiruvanmiyur. We would be providing dinner and spending time with the 43 residents of the home.Please do join us. Details:Date: 15th, Feb 2009, Sunday.Time: 7 - 8.30 PMPlace: Near Marundeeswar temple, Thiruvanmiyur depot.Contact: JP@92823 49753 and Natarajan@99406 75570Anbudan,NatarajanDream

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-41329450158625999392009-02-13T12:26:00.001+05:302009-02-13T12:28:35.998+05:30

Dear Friends,We got to know about a student Ms.Sumathi doing her B.Ed course at Chennai through our partner organization India Sudar. Upon verifying the details of the student, we decided to support the student by paying Rs.10,000 towards college fee.I had spoken to her on phone day before to know the details. I also checked with the college to verify the details mentioned. I met Sumathi last

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-17818423100992741432009-02-11T13:16:00.000+05:302009-02-11T13:18:57.617+05:30

Dear Friends,We got to know about the Vallam village school requirements through our partner organization India Sudar. We have already deployed one teacher at this school. Ravi from India Sudar visited the school recently and gave a very positive feedback about the progress made by the teacher.Upon further discussion, we felt having one more additional teacher at this school would really help. So

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-20193041149901794962009-01-31T01:13:00.003+05:302009-01-31T01:41:42.436+05:30

Dear Friends, I take great pleasure in sharing the report and snaps of Republic day celebration at Dream India, Chennai. We wanted to conduct elocution competition and quiz program for the children of Adyar school on Children's day (14th of November 2008). However, due to various reasons we were not able to make it possible then. Last month, we had a discussion with the head master of school

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-71842582846227434972009-01-30T01:15:00.000+05:302009-01-30T01:17:13.038+05:30

Dear Friends,I am sure most of you would remember the recent trip with Adyar children by Chennai team. The details of the same if you want to recollect http://di2020.blogspot.com/2009/01/report-and-snaps-of-di-chennai-events.htmlLast week, I happened to speak to one of the volunteers Poornima who conducts classes and organized this trip as well. Looks like as we were travelling back from circus

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-14396707245273616682009-01-27T09:25:00.004+05:302009-09-03T06:57:36.167+05:30

Dear Friends, I take great pleasure in sharing the wonderful news that our student Ponni has scored 84% in her fifth semester examinations to top the department. For a girl who comes from a Tamil medium background, the performance of Ponni is just amazing. Without any doubt, Ponni is a jewel in our DI crown. I take this opportunity to thank Ravi, Udhay and Siva for letting us know about Ponni

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-1177092724495782802009-01-26T05:31:00.007+05:302009-01-26T06:00:01.037+05:30

Hi All,A group of NGOs with a vision to transform India on the lines of Dr Kalam's dreams for the nation, participated in an informal conference titled 'UnConference'. Dream India, India Vision2020, India Sudar and many more NGOs and individuals like Dr Kalam himself, Dr YS Rajan, Dr Santosh Babu (IAS) who set brilliant examples to the peoples of the nation participated in the conference that was

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-82094368416123690872009-01-24T06:22:00.002+05:302009-01-24T06:25:57.366+05:30

Dear Friends,We at Dream India and Young Helping Minds [ YHM ] take great pleasure in welcoming you all for the republic day celebration at Adyar corporation school. Please extend this invite to all your near and dear ones. For any questions, please do contact me at 99406 75570. Thanks.Details:Saturday, 24th, 2009:Time: 8.30 AM - 4.30 PMMorning: Elocution competition followed by lunch provided by

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-11517891444661589212009-01-01T01:41:00.006+05:302009-01-02T11:50:56.914+05:30

Dear Friends, I take great pleasure in writing to you about the trip with children from Adyar school and our monthly visit to Kaakum Karangal on the 28th of December 2008 (Sunday) Before I continue with the report, I would like to express our sincere thanks to the members of Young Helping Minds –YHM (one of our partner organizations) who are part of our regular weekend classes at Adyar and

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-41502390873986034402008-12-20T19:24:00.002+05:302008-12-20T19:43:50.171+05:30

Hey hello everybody...  We all (Deepak S, Deepak P, Ashish and his Parents, Nupur, Ashwini, Gagan, Amit, Sameer D Sir,Preetam, Priyanka, Surendra, Swati, Jeevan, Jyoti..... (Junta pls add the names if I had missed out anyone..) ) Starting on with the Shramadan.... All of us... were there on the lanes of Donge Apla Ghar Ashram.... picking up the mud and clear off the big stones and mending the

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-67391733752024019272008-12-10T02:21:00.002+05:302008-12-10T02:24:18.829+05:30

Dear all, Classes at Valsai is going on fine. Some 2 months back we had only 4 students coming to class regularly. The strenght drastically reduced from about 20 to just 4. Even we had some 8 girls coming to classes for some 4 weeks. But after their quarterly examinations girls stopped coming and some boys also. Think it may be due to their examination results. As of now about ten boys are coming

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-50905999250073555332008-12-10T02:20:00.000+05:302008-12-10T02:21:08.048+05:30

Dear All,Things have been moving at a slow pace in Anna Nagar classes. But thankfully - steadily.Rains did hit our classes badly and water had entered a lotta homes in the street crippling the day to day activity of our kids and their families. Few houses don't actually have floors - which meant - water actually seeped into their homes from the ground also; bad state.We did not have classes

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-37828576289641295522008-12-09T00:51:00.002+05:302008-12-09T00:54:43.892+05:30

Dear Friends,I met Mr.Jayaram, the HM of the Adyar School today morning. Thought of giving you all a quick updates on the meeting.Date for elocution competition, quiz and others: We have decided to conduct the program on Saturday, Jan 24th, 2009. The prize distribution would be done on 26th to mark the republic day.Sunday, 28th, 2008 would be the day for Birla planetarium visit. Will speak to SV

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-59605105528840816132008-12-09T00:48:00.001+05:302008-12-09T00:51:04.881+05:30

Dear Friends,Chennai is still recovering from the recent heavy lashing of rains and this has resulted in postponing a lot of events planned by us. However, I am writing this to you to all to give you an overall idea of what we plan to do in the near future. Adyar Class:The Adyar class is going on fine. We have 15 students who attends the classes regularly. These children are really eager to learn

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Dear Friends,DI Chennai team had wonderful time this weekend, thanks to the special children of Vasantham and residents of Kaakum Karangal. Children's day:As per the plan I met our friends Poornima [from Young Helping Minds], Jayasree [from India Sudar ], Partheeban, Vimala  at T.Nagar to leave for Vasantham Special School for  the Mentally Challenged. We reached at around 9.30 a.m. Meanwhile,

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-18050689542235196742008-11-17T04:19:00.003+05:302008-11-17T06:18:24.668+05:30

Hi Everybody!, Sunday we visited Vridhashram in Gorai with 39plus8 volunteers of Borivali centre.From National Park to Bhainder Stn east then crossing over to west side catching ST bus then to Kishangopal Rajpuria Vridhhashram at Uttan Gorai Rd,tel.022 28450158.(contact shri Paresh Deshpande). We were received wel by their staff,and offered freshly made Alu pohe and hot tea at 10.am.Then Dada

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DI took the children from our Borivali center to meet the kids of Gaudevi Pada in the Aarey Milk colony area, Goregaon. The following is a small report from Mr. Gawarikar on the event:**********************************************************************************Hi everybody!As we planned we went to Devipada centre with 39 children and 6 volunteer,including 3 from teachers collage,who will be

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Our team at Chennai got the opportunty to visit the National Agro Foundation which is located at Taramani, Chennai. This prestigious institution is involved in introducing innovative farming methods to  farmers across the nation and also instigates rural development by assisting Self Help Groups and the like... A more detailed report on the visit will soon follow...As for now, here are the snaps

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ello frnds…Diwali is celebrated every year by us. But this time the Airoli slum-communities & volunteers got the opportunity to celebrate Diwali with a difference. Our Airoli team came together & had the real blast with the kids of the 4 slums & their parents. Children thronged to the celebration like flies & hence changed this event into a real festival. Arun & Ameeta took the responsibility for

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Glad to announce that Mumbai team has successfully completed Project Diya at Pada, Aarey colony. Congratulations to each and every team member involved in this marathon project. The Pada women and children have shown great enthusiasm and spirit for this project which is an extremely positive sign for us. There were approximately 20 families involved in this project from both Gamdevipada and

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-73025116945422666322008-10-31T01:23:00.001+05:302008-10-31T01:26:31.219+05:30

Dear Friends, Wish you all a wonderful Diwali. I take great pleasure in drafting this mail regarding DI Chennai's Diwali celebration at Anna Nagar [on Oct 25th ] and SV Home [ Oct 26th]. Anna Nagar: [25th of October 2008, Saturday] Last week, Divya informed me about the plans of having Diwali celebration with our kids from Annanagar class. Following this discussion, we decided to get sweets,

Natarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148671781179067279noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-12088034506445402672008-10-24T09:10:00.002+05:302008-10-24T09:17:20.361+05:30

Dear Friends,It is with pleasure I write to you about the diwali celebration of DI Hyd with 41 children of an orphanage in Kukatpally. We have been associated with home since 2005. In 2005, we had got uniforms for all the children of the home.Plans for event: * Geethanjali and myself, we had planned for our DI Hyd team celebrating diwali with the children. * Geethanjali made a personal

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Dear Friends,I take great pleasure in updating you all with recent activities of DI Chennai team. KK Visit:As planned, on Sunday, Oct 12th, 2008, we visited Kaakum Karangal and served dinner for all the inmates of the home. Many of our friends like Hari, Chris could not join us because of the heavy rain and a few others for their trip back home as it was a long weekend. Elavarasi reached the home

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UPDATE TO THE BELOW (13th Oct, 2008)Problem sorted out. Website will be up in a day or two...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDear friends,The Dream India website is currently down because of some technical issues... We are working on it and will resolve the issue soon...Sorry for the inconvenience caused...Regards,DI team

Varunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09257898265953472874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486537320674087129.post-12443017964579485132008-10-07T20:00:00.002+05:302008-10-07T20:12:51.096+05:30

Dear Friends,I take great pleasure in writing to you about the DI Chennai's Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations at SV Home on Oct 5th,2008. As told already, we had plans for conducting elocution competition, quiz programs and cultural programs for and by the children.Day before the event:· Our quiz team [ includes volunteers from the USA, UK and India ] was working hard for more than 3 weeks to get the

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