31/12/2010

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abhaya FOUNDATION an assurance for no fear...an assurance for no fear...

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Community Service is in our demand… to cure this land, we must make a

stand…teaching people to understand how we can change the Country to be grand. Let

us serve showing our love for this land, we must engage in good work as this is the

solution for our good as well. Let us move hand in hand… heart in heart to serve and

transform ourselves in the process… Let us inspire our kith and kin to be a part of good

work...saying that good work is GOD's own work!

Abhaya News Update being shared with you with such thoughts.

Hope you would surely be happy to know how magical work is happening

with your kind support.

Thumb

pointing finger

tallest finger

ring finger

little finger

is the nearest to our body. Lets pray for those who are

close to us.

Next comes the . Pray for those who teach,

instruct and heal. They need support and wisdom in pointing

others in the right direction. Let us keep them in our prayers.

The next finger is the . It reminds us of our leaders.

Pray for those who lead us in our life and country.

The fourth finger is our and this is our weakest finger.

It should remind us to pray for those who are weak, suffering in

trouble or pain. They need our prayers day and night.

Lastly comes our , this is nothing but we. By the time

we pray for the other 4 groups, our own needs will be put into

proper perspective and automatically we will be able to pray for

ourselves more effectively.

The 5 finger Prayer on the eve of

New Year'2011

The 5 finger Prayer on the eve of

New Year'2011

Abhaya folds its hands with love and care for the

well being of all those who are connected with

abhaya since its inception

on the eve of New Year 2011.

“Abhaya would be indebted to you for the empathy

while you read through the latest abhaya news update”

“Abhaya would be indebted to you for the empathy

while you read through the latest abhaya news update”

e have participated in Hunt the winter project and distributed 24 blankets. given to another needy. After distributing almost 12 blankets, we found a group of It was a great experience to be part of this project. I invited my roommates people sleeping in a bus stand. no one in that group has a blanket. They all W

and colleagues to participate with me. They have agreed and joined with me in covered themselves in empty cement/rice bags. When we cover a old lady with distributing the blankets. blanket, she woke up all the fellow beings, as all are deserved the team gave them

a blanket each. Their grateful gestures made our hearts fill for the day.We started around 10:30PM to hunt the winter. We initially thought of distributing 15 blankets and started finding the most deserved people. Normal day for most of All the teams are very happy to be part of this event. We are the people is not yet completed then. We found some people in bus-stops and all very thankful to you for your support in this project. After started distributing, though they are not in sleep. As we are unable to distinguish all the distribution, we realized the importance of the vehicle, the genuine ones, we stopped for some time and restarted at around 12. without which, this event may not be this much successful.

Thanks to Abhaya for giving this opportunity to help the While distributing, many other people are so conscious about the identity of us. needy in this deadly winter.They keep on asking us, "who are you? why are you doing this?" and "are you from Telangana??". We explained them the details of the project and proceed - K Sivakrishna, Co-ordinator, Hunt the Winter, Hyderabadfurther. We came across a different experience in Borabanda, When we passing through the roads, we found a sleeping person without proper clothes and cover.

We approached him and covered him with blanket.

One person, when we offered a blanket, simply rejected as he don't have any place to keep that for next day. we felt bad about his condition and silently appreciated his honesty so that the same blanket can be

What Siva did before and after:

He simply shared the project details and spread the cause of Hunt the winter amongst his friends, colleagues, pals etc., As a result, he is able to pool Rs.25,000/- for this project and also involved more than 10 Volunteers for distribution. which is very extraordinary feet by Kuchi Siva Krishna with a passion to do good work.

Abhaya wish to thank him for his wonderful gesture of spreading the good work amongst the people. This is classic example of partnering with abhaya and its initiatives. Abhaya need more such Heros. - abhaya Team

Thank you abhayans being part of this Mission... with all your great support

we have mobilised 900 + blankets now... Abhaya would be happy to have your further support for

here is a brief update about how abhayans inspired many in the country with the good work

making MISSION 1000 blankets a reality

HUNT THE WINTER Project : An update from Andhra Pradesh

House Wife inspired business men to take part in “Hunt The Winter” at Tadpathri

Smt A.Revathi Mohan, House Wife from Tadpathri did a fantastic job for the Mission Hunt the Winter. She very silently worked with all the business men (A. Mohan Gupta, T. Kishore, T. Giri, T. Manjunath, S.Lakshminarasaiah, A. Subbarao, K. Murali, G. Ranganath & S. Sankaraiah) in her town though she is house wife! She could pool about Rs.10,000/- for 100 Blankets and also came forward to coordinate the distribution in the town during next couple of weeks involving well wishers and supports of abhaya over there. Abhaya is proud have such people in its circle. - abhaya Team

This is simply great. Please send me

complete details of this Hunt the winter

project. Please send the costing details

also. We will start with CII Staff. Can we

get the blankets donated with

company's logo imprinted on them, if

the number is more so that will work on this. Please suggest.

– Aruna. M, EO,CII, Hyderabad.

The time which we spent on last Sunday at abhaya home was really memorable for me, it is really a wonderful work going in

abhaya very silently. It is good to see such commitment and dedication towards serving society. I will surely try my best to

spread this word "Abhaya" and will participate in the forthcoming events. I will always be in contact with Siva kuchi, as we both

work in the same cubical in our office. -Kranthi, Hyderabad

Ms. Aruna, there after pooled Rs. 15,000/- for

150 blankets from her friends working at CII,

TCS, INFOTECH, APTDC etc. for distributing

them at Hyderabad. Abhaya thank her for the

kind gesture of supporting Hunt the Winter

Project taking inspiration from ongoing projects

at Hyderabad.

We are glad to associate in this wonderful initiative being led by abhaya. Following are the wonderful colleagues who promised to

support Hunt the Winter initiative. Please note that we are doing this in our individual capacity. I am thankful to my dear friends who

have came forward to support this initiative. (MS. Reddy-20 Nos., S. Srikanth -20 Nos., Raj Reddy-10 Nos., Eswaragupta-10 Nos.,

Suresh K -10 Nos., W. Srikiran -10 Nos., Total-80 blankets) - Srikanth Surampudi, Regional Head HR- Hyd,TCS,Hyderabad

Hunt the Winter – Tamilnadu Update:

Ms. Keerthi, working for Infosys, Chennai motivated by abhaya “HUNT THE WINTER” Project and started sharing the mission with her fr iends and colleagues at Chennai and pooled resources for 35 blankets. abhaya wish to place its appreciation to Ms. Keerthi for her kind hearted support.

First of all, I would like to thank Abhaya for the opportunity given to me to serve. I am very proud to be a part of Abhaya Foundation. I wish to share how I initiated to propagate about abhaya in Chennai. I spoke to of my friends here in Chennai about the Abhayan and then sent an introductory mail regarding abhaya. Many of friends came forward to give their helping hand to the needy through abhaya. I suggested them to visit www.abhayafoundation.org and started forwarding the mails which I often receive from Abhaya to all my friends. By seeing the good work done… they have decided to contribute some of the amount from their savings every month.

As of now we all could pool about Rs.3,500/- for the Hunt the Winter Project initiated by abhaya. I would also like to mention that the entire credit goes to the volunteers of this foundation without whom these huge responses and applauds from people wouldn't have been possible. God bless all 'abhayans' who stood in-front stretching their hands to help the people. - A. Keerthi, Infosys, Chennai

We wish to share our good experience of carrying out the "Hunt the winter" project jointly done by Abhaya with IWC-Dist319 Bangalore on 6/12/10.

Lion's Eye Hospital conducts Cataract Eye operation to very poor and needy people free of cost.. On 6/12/10 we had an opportunity to participate in this mission and have been able to provide some relief for these people by distributing 66 pcs of Abhaya Blankets as part of our "Hunt the Winter" campaign. These patients are screened and selected from various villages around Bangalore and brought into the Eye Hospital for 3 days. Eye surgeries will be conducted by qual i f ied Doctors. They are provided with free food/accommodation/post operational care during these 3 days. We are very happy to see the glitters in the eyes of the recipients and are blessed to receive their good wishes as well - Savitha Hariprasad, Bangalore

We had 2 teams participated in distributing 24 blankets to the most needy people on the roads on Saturday mid-night at Bangalore.

Team 1:- CS Rajeswara Rao and CS Srinivas V could distribute around 10 blankets in and around Marathahally and KR Puram, Bangalore

Team 2:- Srihari, Ramakrishna and me could distribute around 14 blankets in and around of Southern Bangalore (covering Bannergatta Road, Jayanagar, Wilson Garden). - CS. Thirupal.

Hunt the Winter – Karnataka Update:

Abhaya handed over 200 blankets at Home of Hope. It was a great inspiration to meet Auto Raja, the Founder of New York Mission who rescued 3800 destitutes at Bangalore since 15 years. Almost 20 abhayans including President SV. Hariprasad and Secretary SN. Rangaiah were present at the occasion.

CS. Thirupal, Practicing Company Secretary, Bangalore added life to “HUNT THE WINTER” Project initiated by abhaya. He with the passion to help the needy who were affected due to cool breeze on the road side of the city motivated almost 25 young and dynamic working professionals to be part of this mission. He along with team distributed more than 100 blankets.

abhaya wish to place its gratitude to CS. Thirupal for his kind hearted supported.

We appreciate Abhaya Foundation philanthropy activities. Myself and Mr.

Satyaprasad and Mr. Rahim (Saleem's brother) visited Yeshwanthapur rly station

on 25.12.2010 and distributed blankets for needy people. It was nice experience

and really we felt so much of happiness, when we have provided the blankets to

the people, who were sleeping on the pavements and in front of the shops, few

without any cover and few were covered with old tear cloths. We could sense the

happiness of those people, when we have covered them with the blankets. Our

visit was successful and I thank the 'Abhaya Foundation' for giving this

opportunity to serve the utter needy people. If future too, I am open for like these

programs and can support you, if needed.

- CS. K. Chandra Sekhar, Company Secretary, Ace Designers Limited,

Bangalore

Need: Rs. 5,000/- per month

Mission PardhasaradhiWith your blessings and positive vibrations Pardu is recovering. Now he is able to lift his right hand slightly and moving left hand. He is fine and hopes to see you in few days from now on 31st December'10 for the New Year eve. We are very thankul to abhaya and especially to Balachandra annaiah for the kind support to me and my family. I have received an amount of Rs.40,000/- from abhaya since beginning of Mission Pardhu for his treatment. I'm very thankful to each and every abhayan for the kind support, love and affection towards our family. I pray God to give him health and happiness.

- Ms. Mrudula Pardhasaradhi, Asst. Professor, TKR Engg College, Hyderabad

Surgery is covered under Arogyasree Scheme of AP.

Mission Tulasi Reddy

Thanks to abhaya CS Students team for their wonderful empathy for Tulasi…and bringing them to abhaya seeking the support…this is how good work would happen in the society – abhaya team.

Tulasi Narayana Reddy (12 years) cleared screening test at Apollo, Hyderabad recently and hospital authorities informed his father that he will be operated very soon under Arogyasree Scheme of AP Government. His father is very happily shared this news with abhaya and thanked for all the support given to his son. Abhaya wish Tulasi Narayana Reddy all the best for Cochlear Implant Surgery. Very soon this boy would have ability to hear like a normal person after cochlear implant surgery.

“ H E A RT ” Health Care Update

Mission Raghavendra:

This is V. Venkateswarlu studying I.M.Sc., abhaya stood beside me in facing the crisis in my family since last 40 days and I am very hopeful of getting your kind support in saving my brother's life… with that belief I am appealing from abhaya.

My brother Mr. Raghavendra, a B.Com final year student s u f f e r i n g f r o m a r a r e d i s e a s e n a m e l y SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY. As of now we have spent about Rs.8.00 lakhs from all the sources and further we need approximately Rs.5.00 lakhs for his treatment and now we left with nothing. I would be grateful to each one of you if can be do something to bring my brother back to normalcy and thereby making my family to see the light of hope .We are suffering a lot with this kind of situation and I could not able to concentrate on anything since last couple of years. I wait Eagerly for your valuable response

- V Venkateswarlu, IMSc (Chemistry), University of Hyd.

respective media channels

tAbhaya pooled about Rs.20,000/- for Raghavendra.

tVenkateswarlu being given abhaya Mission Raghavendra leaflet to visit good people around.

tAbhaya facilitated the family to visit CM's camp office and Sri Sridhar Babu, Minister from Karimnagar.

tACE Engineering Academy Founder donated Rs.50,000/- to abhaya for Raghavendra.

tStudents also being motivated to donate for the cause, abhaya set up a donation box in their institute and pooled Rs. 3,000/-.

tThe family has about Rs.50,000/- with them.

What abhaya did in the last 30 days along with Venkateswarlu

tInfused positive energy to them.

tConvened a press meet at abhaya and briefed about his position seeking their support.

tBoth print and electronic media did their bit through their

Mysore Mallige “Priyanka” who got Cochlear implant surgery has given stage performance @

Mysore like a normal girl listening to audio sound!!

Thanks to all abhayans

The need of the hour is about Rs.3,50,000/-

2008

2010

Need: Rs. 1,00,000/- One time Need: Rs. 2,00,000/-

Mission Santosh

Just back from a visit to KEM Hospital, Pune, for a consultation with Dr. Atul Goel, renowned Neurosurgeon. We went there as a specific advise of Dr. TN Rao who operated first time on Santosh. Here is a brief update.

tLeft for Mumbai on 27th. Prasad, Sailaja and Santosh also came along.

tShowed Santosh to Dr. Goels's panel of doctors for an examination, Santosh is much better than before and responded very well. Throughout the journey he was alert and also able to take the journey strain.

tDr. Goel later examined MRI & CD's and had a simple conclusion for us – in his opinion, at this time doing any treatment on Santosh is very dangerous for him – be it radiation or embolization both are equally dangerous and it can potentiall kill the guy. So leave it alone for some time and let us revisit after 3 months or so.

tThis is a very deep seated AVM with key functionality of the body associated with it, including limbs, inner organs etc., so the only choice is to operate it and take it out, and it is going to be a high risk operation. As Santosh is in a relatively good condition , Dr. Goel's advise is not to do anything at this stage.

tI specifically asked what if he bleeds again ? His answer is a crisp – yes , he might and it could be serious, but we will think of operating at that time.

tDr. Goel has stressed the need to educate his parents accordingly and be financially prepared for any further emergencies.

tI will keep you posted further on this.

- Srikanth Natarajan, Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad.

Mission Ravi

We all know that many around us are not that fortunate enough to have a healthy life. Here is a story of Ravi who is in need of help and support from the Government of AP. Your good self is aware of difficulties of poor people I the state when the suffer from costly deceases.

Mr. Y. Ravi was diagnosed with blood cancer (Chronic Myeloid) in the year 2004 and since then he is being treated at Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore. Now his days are numbered and according to the medical reports only way out is to do BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION by the end of this December 2010 otherwise he would die soon. He has wife and two kids who are depending on him.

His decease is not being covered under Arogya Sree, the life line of lakhs of common people in the state of AP. Abhaya FOUNDATION is trying to be with him in facing this challenge with your kind hearted support.

Mr. Ravi is able to pool about Rs. 8.50 lakhs till date and he is taking a loan of Rs. 2,00,000/- by pledging his house. He is now in need of further Rs. 4, 00, 000/- to get admitted at Vellore Hospital. Abhaya would be greatful if you can kindly look in to the matter at the earliest opportunity so as to save this poor fellow.

You may also consider personally helping him for the treatment. Mr. Y. Ravi ( S/o Y. Munaswamy, (Mobile: 9440082333) Bazar Street, Vadamalapet Village, Chittoor District, AP – 517551

Little Glory who is suffering from profound mental disorder since birth is able to get some order in her life as father got a job at SWEEKAR Rehabilitation Center at Kompally, Hyderabad. Abhaya spent about Rs.40,000/- till now to settle this family. Smt Sarasawathy, a house wife along with her friends at Anandanagar assured them with monthly provisions for next couple of months with a cost of Rs.750/- (10kg Rice, 1kg dal, 1kg oil, 1kg sugar and other items). Abhaya is trying hard to give about Rs.3, 000/- PM towards purchase of medicines for the little Glory. Her mother also now being employed by SWEEKAR Center. Abhaya would gratefully acknowledge the support of kind hearted people in the said regard to meet the expenses relating to medicines.

Mission Glory - an update

Need: Rs. 3,000/- per month Need: Rs. 5,000/- per month

About 20 years back…when Jayaram was working in Konkan Railways construction sites in the mountains… when someone blasted the rocks, accidentally he was crushed under loads of stones and mud. 4 trucks of mud covered him and it took almost 2 days to bring him out. His back was severely damaged, it was beyond rapire. Since then he was laid on bed, he did not see the sun in the sky.

This story appeared in TIMES of India, Bangalore couple of years back…lot of help came to him, but it was never enough for him to have lifelong treatment. Subash Chhabria, an young Industrialist thought that he must do something to him and very innovatively he purchased a Colour TV & DVD for him so as to make to him to connect to the world around.

Later, he approached abhaya to assist Mission Jayaram in getting an electric chair to him to roam around in the village on his own. The cost was Rs.70,000/-. Abhaya readily provided Rs.35,000/- for the same during last year. He is now seeing the people. Very positive in nature.

Since then he is continuous touch with abhaya by SMS…every day he sents SMS saying “abhaya is GOD & his future. We understand that he is need of monthly expenses to the tune of Rs.15,000/- abhaya promised to provide Rs.7,500/- listening to this Subhash came forward to provide Rs.2,500/- PM. Now the need is Rs.5,000/- PM for meeting the medical expenses and checkups.

Mission Jayaram

Sofiya Glory is discharged and she is in hospital annexe. She is doing well. The discharges bill was Rs. 120,000/-. After adjusting all the advance amount paid by the patient, abhaya's final contribution and our d e p a r t m e n t ' s contribution we have still Rs. 19000/- in Sofia's account. we will keep it her account for future use (medicine or any other medical purpose). Based on the medical condition, the doctors will decide when she can go home. We convey our sincere thanks to all the abhayans who stood besides her during last 6 months. – Bijo, Medico Social Worker, St. John's Hospital, Bangalore

Need your love

Mission Satyavathi

Mission Sofiya accomplished

Satyavathi is in need of helping hands at Dharmavaram. Entire story appeared in News Papers is real. Abhaya Team visited her house and family.

After meeting her, I felt very sad and wondered how they are living in this bone biting winter as we are unable to live with all warm clothing. It was very miserable to imagine how she is managing to live her normal life without three limbs. After talking to her, I came to know that she lost her limbs only, but not her hope. She has all her hopes on their kid and very much passionate to lead a normal life. With the response from the people after Eenadu advertisement, it may be very easy to save her with Jaipur foot and artificial limbs. There are so many other people, with need and waiting for a helping hand. But I wonder, how many can we help? The visit is an eye-opener to me. I realized that the need in this world is very high. Whatever we are doing is very less when compared with the need. - Sivakrishna

They need to have white ration card / Arogyasree card and the same is being arranged. She now need artificial limbs and opportunity to survive on her own. Paper news brought some financial help. Abhaya now considering to get artificial limbs by various means.

“ H E A RT ” Edu Care Update

We are going to CS-Coaching classes daily from 7AM to 1 PM. Then we are to room and preparing food and having our lunch. There after we are discussing the lessons and solving the homework problems.

From 5 PM to 7PM we attend the Spoken English classes, then after we go to the room. We prepare food and we read the lessons. We attended the Basic Accountancy Classes in November 2nd week. We learned the Journals, Ledger, Trial Balance, Trading and Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet. We covered Tax Laws, Costing, GCL 1st, 2nd&3rd chapters, we attended the Wealth Tax exam last week, we try to apply the admission of Spoken English in Ramakrishna Math.

- T. Krishna Reddy,

C. Chandra Kumar, M. Dastagiri Reddy, Chandra Sekhar, P. Srinivasulu Reddy, P. Ravindra & S. Subramanyamu. CS Students at Digvijay Coaching Institute

Hello abhaya, I am Chitra Rachana… studying well and also tensed a lot about exams. It was since long time I did not message or mail you. I am sorry for that. I am busy with my projects, placements and studies.

Please don't think I am irresponsible, I am busy attending to many tasks and not using mobile. I may not be able to see you and I am sorry for that, but I am on my way to success as I am born to succeed. I will send a report surely by mail… hope you will not be angry about my inability of not meeting you in person. I am taking leave for now. – Chitra Rachana, CS Student.

I am fine here and I hope you

are fine. I have my final

exams of 3rd sem from this

month 11th and I am preparing

for that. 3rd sem exams are

difficult to face as we entered

the branch the question setup

will be very difficult and they

haven't taught the syllabus for

us. We have to study on our

own and I am feeling a bit hard

to prepare for this, but I should

do well in my exams and get

good %. Our seniors say that in

these exams it's not a easy task

– B. Sai Pranathi, II BE,

Bellary

too

I am working in both the hospitals in different shifts. Due to my good work both of them want me to work full time whereas there was no work full day, I informed them that I will join them from Jan 1st 2011 and they accepted. And accordingly I submitted resignation letter in Medwin Hospital but the Director rejected the same stating that it is not accepted. He requested me to reconsider the decision and stay here only. He told me that he will provide accommodation and Increment in Jan 2011.

- K. Dasthagiri, M.Sc.

The 1st of this is month is very important for us and obviously I had the most memorable garbage system, followed by educating people on healthy habits and diseases.day, i.e. the thanks giving ceremony of abhaya foundation. It was a great learning for all of

Again on the last Sunday, I came to abhaya and happy to see the core team over there to us to know what all is happening in abhaya and who all are connected to it. And also abhaya discuss the open points of abhaya. I felt very happy seeing Siva's contribution to abhaya. made me as one of the trustees on the board which is truly beyond my imagination. Thank He is doing all the works which I used to do earlier with more efficiency. I am no more you for that. It is like giving more responsibility and values for me. Felicitating my mother worried about the website issues and online works seeing Siva because it will be difficult for with my hands is also one of the most hearty and memorable moments of my life on that me to do here after. I got my passport this month.day.

You booked my ticket to Mysore on 18th November which is Rs.1100/- and also transferred I worked on abhaya related few open points and website issues. Siva and I visited Gray logic Rs.5000/- to my account for expenses at Infosys, Mysore. I have to give Rs.1000/- to you office. I said them from here after Siva will handle the website issues as I may not be which I did not give at the time of giving my scholarship amount. So I received Rs.6000 available at Hyderabad from next month. On the second Sunday, we had the Volunteer from abhaya this month.meeting and it was very inspiring and fresh for me. It was related to the post AAROHAN

registrations. Finally I would conclude saying a big thanks to abhaya which gave me so many values, lessons, learning, responsibilities, opportunities, exposure, relations and memories. Abhaya made me to put all my thoughts in to words about my dream project and a great – Er. B. Sushma, Infosys, Mysore.series of incidents followed thereafter, which were all unbelievable for me!

On the 3rd Sunday, we all (Siva, Bhargav, Srikanth, Sindhu, Llaxminarayana, Ramprasad & Nishanth) visited kids care centers across Hyderabad, which is one more great learning and inspiration for me.

Next one week I went to my grandmother's village to attend one function and spend few days with my grandparents. The trip made me realize few more points on how to see a better country. This tour actually made me to feel that the development of India lies in development of villages. I observed that the first thing to be improved in the villages is Abhaya had given send off to Ms. Sushma when she left for Mysore to join Infosys.

I am fine and I am doing well. Last one month I have been held up with my academics. Following is the brief report of the November month:

u1st week I had my internal exams then followed my lab externals.

uMy external exams started on 15th and till then i had holidays for preparation.

u15th to month ending I had my externals. I did well in the exams.

uEvery day exam used to be at 2 pm noon. I start to college as usual and finish exam by 5 and used to reach hostel back by 7 30 in the evening.

uDuring the time of exams I stopped going for home tuitions due to the time schedules.

uI did't miss the Bal vikas sessions. Attended them regularly even during exams

uSoon after finishing exams I had been to my native place.

uI visited Prashanthi Nilayam and stayed there for days.

uMother is not feeling well and I took care of her during my stay there at home.

None of my expenditure was spent lavishly except for the travel charges to home and usual expenses. Now I am doing my stay at home and taking tuitions for some X class students.

- C. Baby, IV BE, Hyderabad.

I am fine here ...I know you are angry on me for not reporting for the last month. I don't want to give any reasons for not sending you but I can only say you sorry and in past two months lot and lot of things took place before saying those let me say you about my studies in 2 months I wrote two internals and I scored 90% in majority of the subjects. From 12th Jan I have the 1st sem and am trying my level best to score in my 1st sem. Now from 16th my 3rd internals start.

And coming to my college its going on well initially it was boring but now its fine as I told you I started conducting the seminars, debates, group discussions etc., two of my friends supported me. Even my c lass students were very interested in this and involved in this and I named this as "FUTURE VISION" and there are lots of activities going on but now I am planning for the preparation as there is hardly 1 month for preparation and I bought one desktop to the home. It costed Rs. 27000/-

- B . S h i r d i s h a Chakravarthi, I BE, Bellary

This is Srilatha from Amarapuram. On November 1st

I attended the Abhaya yearly summit, and in my

school I am teaching Mathematics also because of

non availability of math teachers. Periods

are increased and also study hours for

students thereby I am not getting much

time for preparing for my exams.

- B.Srilatha, I MCA

Here I am doing fine, I am at my home as I have

holydays. My mother is suffering from high BP.

As there is no one in my home except my

mother, so I went to home to be with her. After

finishing my exams I thought this is the best

way of being support to Mother. I wrote my

exams very well and I am sure that I will get

more than 70%. I want to shift from my

hostel to my brother's room because I

am not able to pay the fee.

– K.Deepika, IV BE, Hyderabad

Mahesh , j o i ned abhaya home and

simultaneously has written entrance exam for

joining AP Study Circle, Hyderabad. Abhaya well

wishers and long time supporters Sarva Sri

Sr idhar IRS, Thirumala Kumar IRS,

Gopalakrishna Murthy (Brain Tree)

have kindly guided him to move

forward in his journey. Abhaya has

provided him shelter, food and all other

requisite support for preparing for IAS.

Tell me and I will forget.Show me and I may not remember.

Involve me I will understand.Inspire me I will work further.

Abhaya's plan is to run the school with no profit/ no loss basis and have plans to provide free education in that village with the help of Corporate partnership.

Though the initial thought was to make use of the resources generated from the school/training for development of school, it became impossible for the reason, that no one is paying even nominal fee.

As of now, there are about 180 students studying in the school from class 1 to 5 with fee ranging Rs.60/- to Rs.120/- and a team of ten teachers working there. Foundation is taking care of all the salaries and equipment related expenses. Following table describes the fund requirement for every month. Abhaya look forward to have corporate partnership to run the school free attracting hundreds of kids in the village.

S.No

Particulars

Amount

in Rs.

Remarks

1

Salaries for Teaching staff(8) 20,000 Ranging from Rs. 5000 -

2000

2

Salaries for non teaching staff 4,000 Aya, Cleaner, gardener

3

Stationary/ admin expenses 1,500

4 Power/water/up keeping/UPS 2,000

5 Telephone/Internet/Computers 2,500 There are 5 computers

Total Monthly Expenses 30,000

LESS Average Monthly fee collections 10,000 This is normal average inflow

for a month due to poor

conditions of villagers.

Option1 Gap to be bridged by Corporates 20,000 Companies can help for this

Option2 To give free education to 200+ kids

the monthly help from corporate

needed

30,000 Companies can help for this

Abhaya's vision is to have as many as permanent projects as possible giving life to as many people as possible so that the world becomes a wonderful place to live. As one of the Mission Initiatives of “abhaya's HEART” is Rural Infrastructure Development, abhaya identified a school in a remote village named Yerragunta, Kanekal Mandal (100 KMs from Ananthapur city) in Ananthapur district of AP to create a world with a difference. Following are the brief facts of the situation there:

uIn total 6000 population.

uVery back ward in thinking and doing the things.

u1200 school going children are there in village.

uOnly 600 go to the schools nearby.

uVittobha started a small school about 5 years back.

uThere were about 80 kids coming to their Vignan School.

uFee was just very little Rs. 50-100 PM.

uBut even this fee was not been paid by majority.

uSchool is being run by teachers with their own resources.

uThis became a burden as the teachers are also very poor.

uStill their effort continued to educate children in that village.

uFinancial constraints made their journey stalled.

uAdd life skills to the unemployed youth.

uIt recognized the dedication and capability of the teaching team.

uDecided to help them for their own sustenance.

uReestablish the school and run by foundation.

uAbhaya signed a MOU with the Trust/ land owners of existing facility over there.

Abhaya, find it as a great chance to improve the quality of the education

“Abhaya Vignan School” is now running since 1 year.As of now Abhaya has done the following value addition to the School, with an initial investment of Rs. 5, 00,000/- (both cash and kind).

1. Constructed 3 additional classrooms(a make shift shed).

2. Refurbished all the existing class rooms.

3. Leveled the play ground.

4. Put up all the play equipment.

5. Also set up a toys room for the small kids & a small library.

6. Computer center has been established with 5 computers.

7. Toilets being provided for boys/girls.

8. Extra shelter for dining is been provided.

9. Government recognition is place now up to 7th standard.

10. Training for the teaching staff being provided from time to time.

Abhaya Vignan School Project- Dr. Janardhana Reddy IAS, Collector of

Ananthapur to visit the School on 6th Jan’11

abhaya team visit to District Collector and Joint Collector of Ananthapur lead by CS. Ramakrishna Guptha, Chairman, abhaya Vignan school.

GET abhaya to GIVE - Brain Storm Session“What is MUST for Volunteers to move forward?"

"What according to you is the thing that we need to have to do some good work for the society...?"

As this point came to an end, another important thing that came up in the meeting was

I want to highlight the main things that happened today. Hope I would cover all the points discussed by each and everyone present there. Abhaya Trustee Sushma has given few more points for all the team members to ponder on.

There was a healthy discussion regarding these issues too among the team members and a The meeting started at 10.30 AM. as was decided before. It was conducted at abhaya consensus has been reached by the team on the following issues going forward. foundation's new office--Vipanchi residency at masabtank. There were 15 members present

at the meeting including me, sushma, bhargav, siva, ram and laxmi narayana. All the other participants were there for the first or second time. Most of them know abhaya foundation in just a single perspective. The main goal of today's meeting was to identify our active resources and motivate them to carry on the good work as they progress.

The meeting started with a small prayer session by the team. Then, everyone present there introduced themselves. The main agenda with which we intended to have the meeting was put before the group point-wise by sushma as the meeting progressed.

The first point we discussed was Then came the task of handing out the tasks that needed to be performed by

Each each one of the team for better handling of the situations at hand. person present there added one value to the list which I present below. There was discussion among all the team members about what they all think about each point present here -

nGood CharacternAttitudenWill to do good worknEmpathynEnthusiasm

nDedicationn+ve EnergynSelf SatisfactionnConfidence

The session gave us an opportunity to brain storm on various issues. it made nInterest us to have clarity on so many topics and make a discussion on sharp edges. nSelf Motivation Giving responsibility to all the volunteers showed us quality of leadership. By

taking the responsibility we feel more responsible to do good work....nPassionnTime to spare - Ch. Ramprasad, Sr. Engineer, Hyderabad Industries Limited, Hyd.

nCommitmentnRecipients deservedness

nActive Participation. nEmails etiquette.nImmediate action.nSavings for good work.nSpreading the good work.nAttending meetings (every month 2nd Sunday @ abbhaya)nBeing in touch.nTransforming our self.

– V. Nishanth Shouri, abhaya Trustee, Hyderabad.

“ H E A RT ” Awareness Update

policy interventions and other mechanisms for strengthening such connectivity.

Alongside the conference CII proposes to bring out a Dossier of NGOs with the profiles of trustworthy NGOs so that our industry members can connect with the Civil Society The Confederation of Indian Industry Organizations in a better manner. This platform also brings together bureaucrats, leading (CII) in association with Council for CEOs, major Philanthropists, and Foundation heads, Directors of the most effective NGO's Advancement of People's Action and and prominent members of the media to deliberate on ways and means of creating an Rural Technologies (CAPART) is effective bridge. organizing CSR - CSO Bridge, Moving

the Growth Story Forward through I am writing to request you to take advantage of this unique opportunity by Inclusive Partnerships on 16 attending and also nominating your senior colleagues for the Conference as I December, 2010, at Centre for visited your site immediately after our meeting couple of months back and I feel Organization Development, that you are doing remarkably great service. We are keen to profile Abhaya Madhapur, Hyderabad. Foundation in the NGO dossier. CII has appointed Ms. Switha as the project

consultant for preparing this Dossier. Look forward to your support and co-The objective of this initiative is to operation. establish a bridge to strengthen the existing links between industry and voluntary

organizations for sustained inclusive growth. The CSR-CSO Bridge would bring together – Aruna, Executive Officer, CIIleaders from the government, industry and voluntary sector for identifying strategies,

Our journey to Ananthapur - Bangalore was very inspiring and value adding to thousands of student along with the team.

The sessions with the thousands of students at KSR Govt. Girls College, Anantapur and Govt. Jr. College, Penugonda are value adding for me and as well as for the team. I remembered my college days and eagerly waiting for the real time meeting with students after long time. It is very common that the students normally do not show interest in career related and value adding speeches.

Abhaya team did some magic and entire student gathering there were listening to the words till the end. That is really memorable for me and that gave me a chance to speak to large gathering. The facts of their daily food are really pitiable. With the inspiration given by Abhaya, some of the lecturers came forward to help their own students, which is an encouraging move for the Ragi Muddha project in their college. With a team of 5, we were able to speak with 3000+ students and 50+ lecturers at a stretch. I hope the career graph pamphlets and the words of Abhaya will create a great impact on their future plans. I feel that even if 5% of the gathering transforms, that will be a big success for us.

Visiting all these places and speaking to so many people made me to think internally, what can I do from my side?

I don't know the exact and complete answer for my question, but I am always ready to join my hands and come with abhaya in any good work. I thank Abhaya for this wonderful opportunity.

- K. Sivakrishna, MCA, RAMP Info Technologies, Hyderabad (17-19th Oct’2010)

CII added abhaya in their NGO’s list

Abhaya visit to Govt. Jr. Collages at Anantapur & Penugonda... inspired 3,000 students & 50 lecturers

GET Volunteer K. Sivakrishna addressing the students

Trip to Anantapur, Dharmavaram & Penukonda, Bangalore (17-19 Dec

2010) is very memorable and worth in spending time for many causes. I

failed to find the words to express my satisfaction and self-realization post

the events.

It was a great opportunity for me taking part in such a wonderful Educare

initiative of abhaya and Healthcare projects. I felt enlightened realizing

various aspects of life during the trip. It transformed me a lot. It was a true

learning, unlearning and relearning experience to me in seeing the other

side of the coin in life.

My sincere thanks & gratitude to CS Balachandra, CS Ramakrishna, Siva,

Ramprasad and Laxminarayan and all other counterparts for their kind

hearted support and valuable time spent with me. I wish to be part of all

such programs in the future too.

-CS. G. Thirupal, Practicing Company Secretary, Bangalore.

The trip was Amazing and educative, in the journey I gained information

along with CS. Thirupal, Lakshminarayana, and Siva. Every moment is

new for me during the 72 hours long journey.

Visit to the colleges: We were all briefed about various issues like where

are we going, information on what we have to focus, strange news on

health (anemia) of students etc., before we visited the Colleges… we

covered all facts and it was a blessing from god that they got a chance of

motivation and career counseling from abhaya's founder. For me it is a

long time opportunity to participate and speak in such public gathering

and I realized that I should be very careful and attentive with such tasks.

It is the 1st time, I saw the Collector's camp office and entered District

Collector's cabin and meeting Dr. Janardhan Reddy IAS and Ms. Anita

Ramachandran IAS, Joint Collector, happy to invite them for inaugurating abhaya Vignan School,

Yerragunta on 6th Januray'2010.

I thank abhaya and CS Thirupal for sharing so much of good stuff during our journey with me and

Siva. It is really a good opportunity for me. -Ch. Ramprasad, Sr. Engineer, HIL, Hyderabad.

I didn`t expect that you will have such an experience there… I

really missed a lot... what we could have done there? I thought

you may have addressed many students and inspired them

through your electrifying speeches of motivation and

inspiration… is it not?

– Rahul.K, II BE, Hyderabad.

You know ?how Rahul who missed the trip

reacted

CS G Thirupal, Bangalore addressing the students

Students with in their hands “abhaya career graphs”

to cover about

We are very proud of abhaya for the activities that has

been done, really a great work. Many times I am

tempted to contribute but as already I am committed to

contribute for educating 2 poor children since three

years, I am unable to do from my end. But, whenever I

receive any news updates from abhaya, I am forwarding

to my colleagues and others for information seeking

their kind help – G.Bhargavi Reddy, Company

Secretary, SPML Energy Ltd, Bangalore.

I am tired of appreciating abhaya every time as its work

reached beyond the appreciations and I don't think any

words are left for me to say anything about abhaya now.

Someone should find a new word of appreciation for the

people like you. You may not be expecting such things from

anyone but I just thought at least one should have sense of

appreciation when someone is doing good work. That is

what exactly I am doing right now. - CS V. Ahalada Rao,

Practicing Company Secretary, Hyderabad.

I personally feel abhaya team is

doing a great job even when it is

beyond the limitations. I am really

wondering how the team is able to

manage both professional job and

so many projects of Abhaya. I wish

all the best for all the abhayans

across the country – M Aruna,

Executive Officer, CII, Hyderabad.

Caring words leading to loving works

A BIG thanks to MAA TV team lead by Mr. Victor and executives Kiran &

others for their wonderful empathy for spreading the good work of abhaya

to lakhs of viewers through their program “Velugu – Veliginchu”… it was

very inspiring to realize how passionately they tried to capture the best

impressions for almost 8 hours on 29.12.2010. Abhaya salute them for

their patience while doing their BEST to support abhaya.

Abhaya is indebted to Dr. AG Ravindranatha Reddy for his net working with

MAA TV & CS. PS Rao, Trustee for sparing their entire home for a day to

support the shooting requirements. Abhaya also thank CA. Sathish Kumar,

Treasurer who caring came all the way from Bangalore specially for this

coverage.

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Blessed you are that privilege was given to you when others had it not.Just do it as a worship... you would surely find purpose for your existence.

- Swamy Vivekananda

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