careWi p r o C a r e s Q u a r t e r l y M a g a z i n e I s s u e 7 | q 3 - 2013 - 14

Wipro Cares

The Learning Initiative is the flagship program of the Wipro Cares Chennai chapter, which focuses on kids from the underprivileged sections of the society. It provides fun learning in groups of 5 for kids of 6th standard. Wipro Cares volunteers spend 3 hours on alternate Saturdays with the students engaging them in a play-way method of learning. The aim is to provide a mentor for each child in the group, a person other than parents to whom they can look up to.

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Volunteering

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The team visited The Family NGO, an organization that works for people with hearing impairment and builds their capacities to be able to integrate themselves into the workforce of mainstream society.

Christmas cheer was spread along with the children of SOS Children’s Village at Bannerghatta Road.

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puneAs a part of Friends of Children initiative to make deserving children gainfully employed volunteers conducted mock interviews and group discussions to prepare them for the job assessment process.

Basic English classes were also conducted at one of the Door Step School’s site.

As a part of the Joy of Giving week volunteers from the Mumbai chapter spend some quality time with the children from Sneha Sadan, games were organized along with gifts to encourage the winners.

The festival of lights, Diwali was spent with the elderly residents of the J J Old Age Home. The old age home was lit with diyas, sparkles and joy. To sweeten their day sweets and gifts were distributed.

Volunteers also participated in the ‘Digital Literacy Week’ organized by NASSCOM Foundation where each individual volunteer was assigned to a class of disadvantaged children to teach them basic computer literacy.

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The team at Kolkata distributed new clothes to the children of Towards Future, these children come from disadvantaged backgrounds. A visit to the zoo was also organized for these children; this was immensely enjoyed by them.

December saw the team organizing a winter wear clothes collection drive which was handed over to Goonj to be donated to people who need them.

Christmas was celebrated with the children from Turning Point, an organization working with children with disabilities. A cultural festival was organized where these children enthusiastically participated.

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The volunteers at Kochi view their interactions with the children from Amara Foundation as a learning opportunity; they wanted to share their learning’s with the rest of the employees at Kochi. They staged a skit called ‘Empowering Children’at the Infopark campus. The skit attempted to share the challenges faced in accessing education by children form a disadvantaged background.

As a part of the Kochi Development Centre family day employees had put up stalls to raise funds for Wipro Cares.

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The amount collected was used to meet the necessary demands of orphanages and old age homes.

The team continued with their weekly classes on basic English with the children from Mar Athenatius School, Kakkanad & Thripunithura Girls Higher secondary school.

The employees of UAE organized a collection drive in kind and donated the proceeds to MAX Charity Drive organized locally.

Volunteers participated in a carnival organized by Manzil, an NGO. The volunteers pitched in by photographing the entire carnival and also manning a couple of stalls which displayed material for sale.

The landmark group organized a walk to spread awareness around diabetes, employees participated in this walk to support the cause.

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The team supported GRACE, an organization to clean the beach and forest in the surrounding areas.

Volunteers assisted APPACDM in generating funds for Christmas by installing a machine that creates snow to create an ambience of Christmas. APPACDM is an organization that focuses on the needs of children with disabilities.

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The children of Special Needs Foundation celebrated Christmas with the volunteers with a cake. The children explored their creative side through a drawing competition that was organized for them.

The Mashreq team collected funds which was used to buy warm clothes that was distributed amongst people from labor camps and gardens.

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To the team at Kochi, education is important, but knowledge of how to apply education to become successful is a skill. This is the skill which they aim to inculcate through Project Learning Inspired. The team teaches children from unprivileged backgrounds lessons on life skills and spoken English.

The specialized curriculum is developed by team AMAARA who have extensive experience in the field of education. The Kochi team has been associated with AMAARA for the last three years.

The association with the children are not academic alone, the volunteers act as mentors for these children, assisting them through challenges that they face in life. In addition, the academic progress of these children are also

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kochiregularly monitored. The team attempts to use different mediums to ensure that the children are exposed to different thought and ideas to assist in their holistic development. Currently the team is volunteering at the following government schools:

1. Mar Athenatius School, Kakkanad - Kochi.

2. Girls Higher Secondary School , Thripunithura - Kochi.

3. Govt High School, Padamugal - Kochi.

4. Govt High School, Panampilly Nagar - Kochi

5. Palace School, Thirupunitra - Kochi.

The team doesn’t only teach at these weekly interactions with the children, rather learns from them as well. It is viewed as an enriching experience for both the children and the volunteers, they cherish each moment spent with the children.

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We acknowledge all the volunteers

who have directly or indirectly

supported all the events and drives in

various manners. It could have been

by means of participating, initiating,

coordinating and organizing a

drive, sorting out the collected stuff,

conducting interactive, entertaining

and meaningful sessions for various

age groups of people/children,

creating a support structure for all the

events or by contributing monetarily

to the Wipro Cares Trust. We

appreciate your passion and gesture!

want to

join us?

It is never too late to join Wipro Cares’ initiatives.

To know more about any of our endeavors visit http://www.wipro.org/community/wipro-cares.html’To join any one of them, please do write at

wipro.cares@wipro.comSee you after a quarter!

Until then, Warm Regards,

Wipro Cares

a vote of thanks

to volunteers

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