Accessories to remote village school kids

Place : Coimbatore
Referred by : Saravana
Amount : 1618
Executed by : Saravana

School Uniform for the kids

Place : Tiruavrur and Kumbakonam
Referred by : Venkatesan
Amount : 9000
Executed by : Venkatesan and Saravana
LakhsmanaRaja and Sarala helped in finding the right shops for uniforms.

Vekatesan sister helped us a lot in executing this school project also.

Meeting Minutes Nov 24

Dear Odam Members,
We had our NOV month meeting today @ Gandhi Mandapam by 10.30 AM.
Participants were :
LakshmanaRaja
Sarala
Prabhu
Karthik
Saravana
Gokul
Venkatesan
Anitha

Projects undertaken for this month:
1. School uniform to a rural school @ Kumbakonam : 37 students
2. School uniform to a rural school @ Tiruvarur : 38 students
3. School bags and cheppals to a rural school @ Coimbatore : 55 students

These schools are govt schools, where students doesn't have another pair of dress to wear. Kumbakonam and Tiruvarur schools are referred by Venkatesan. Coimbatore school by Saravana. After analysis and other information provided we have decided to help them.

Rough estimation :
Uniform : 9000 -10000 [ approximately 1 pair costs Rs. 120] Bags : 1100 [each bag Rs.20] Cheppals: 1100 [each pair Rs.20]

Date of Execution:
Kumabakonam and Tiruvarur school by Dec 1st/ 2nd. Coimbatore : Yet to finalize.

Activities:
1. All the group heads need to collect the address detail of each member and send the same to Karthik. @ Karthik, make sure you are provided with the address details of all the members. 2. @ Saravana Letter pad and bill book printing.
The above activities needs to be completed before next month meet.

As communicated before,we have planned to form 3 different groups.
1. Field Work [ who can visit the place and execute the project]
2. Supporting members [ Buying things, gathering informations]
3. Only money contributors.
Let us know under which group you would like to be.

Down the line we are planning to take many projects, we need active participation.
Hope you can understand the necessity of forming a trust and working towards it.
Please get back to us for any clarifications.

Thanks,
Sarala S
Saervoam Karai Serpoam...!

Trust Work

Notepad and bill book.
Amount spent : 1760

Accessories to remote village school kids

Place : Tiruvarur, Primary School in a remote village.
Referred by: Venkatesan.

Following materials have been given to each student :
One note book
pencil
rubber
a pair of rubber slippers
a cotton hand bag to carry the books.

Amount : 6670

Executed by : Lakshman and Venkatesan.
Venkatesan sister helped us a lot to make this a grand success.
Prabhu supported this activity by finding the shops to purchase the stuffs.

Meeting Minutes Oct 14

Place: Trust office , K.K,NAGAR
Members attended: 3
Lakshmanaraja
Manikanda Prabhu
Vengadesh
Minutes of Meeting
1. To attain our objective and make our group more effective , two group needs to be formed. 1. Feasiblity Analysis Group (FA)
2. Data Collection and Implementation Group (DI)
2. All the group members personal details need to be mainted in FILE as HardCopy by Secretary
1. NAME
2. OFFICE ADDRESS
3. ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION
4. PERMANENT ADDRESS
5. PHONE NUMBER
6. CELL NUMBER
7. Email ID
8. INTERESTED IN JOINING ANY SPECIALED GROUP (FA / DI)

NOTE: ALL Group heads please collect the information of your group and send it to secretary Karthik.K.Shanmu...@in.standardchartered.com
Karthik will take the printouts and keep track on it.
These informations will not be posted in Web.
1. Decided to provide AID for school students from 1st to 5th standard in the form of
1. Notebook 2. Bag 3. Pencil 4. Chappels 5. Hand kerchief 6. Comb

First School going to be benifited: Govt school near thiruvaarur
Number of students : 155

Activities Need to be done:
1. Collecting information about students notebook requirement count
2. chappels sizes and count
3. getting information about cost of each item in chennai
4. getting information about cost of each item at thiruvarur
5. buying the things
6. packing the same as small packs for each students. Cost involved
7. finalising the date of journey such that it should be working day for the school . Tentative Date: 27 th of October, Saturday
8. Going 3 / 4 members' group to provide the aid to the students

Suggesstions are welcome.
* 1,2,4 activities will be taken by Vengadesh.**Any volunteers who want to participate in this project / any of the activity are welcome. *

Lakshman
odam
சேர்வோம் கரைசேர்ப்போம்

Meeting Minutes Sep 16

Dear All,
September month meeting happened successfully @ Gandhi Mandapam 10:30 AM to 12.30 PM
Participants :
1. LakshmanaRaja
2. Sarala
3. Iyappan
4. Venkatesan
5. Vimal
6. Saravana
7. Prabhu
8. Suganthi P
9. Vasanth

Meeting Minutes:
1. Fund amount for medical aid chennai kid[10000] and coimbatore kid [7500] were dropped out. The amount has been credited back to the trust fund.
2.LakshmanaRaja has to close the bank account issue at the earliest either by re-registering the trust or as per the suggestion of the auditor.
3.Prabhu has to contact the DGS Orchestra , who does program and help the needy with the amount they are earning in their program.
4.Planned to visit the Thenampakkam village near Marakanam on Oct 2nd to find out and collect data about their needs and how to help them.
5.Need to collect info about under developed schools near Thirvarur,Tanjore and sort out what can be done through ODAM [Venkatesan,Vimal,Saravana]
6.Need to gather info, how to participate in Project Green Hands of ISHA foundation. [Sarala]

Following finalised versions needs to be shared across the group:
1. Letter Pad [Saravana]
2. Requistion Letter [Prabhu]
3. Completion Form from beneficiary [Prabhu]
4. Receipts for donors outside from ODAM [Karthik]

New Member :
1. Venakatesan

Thanks,
Sarala S

Meeting Minutes Jul 15

Dear odam friends,
As planned, we had a meet at gandhi mandapam. Meet was good and we need to make it as a habit. As usual we trustees had the meet. It would be better if more trust members invovled in this activity so that we can get some more valuable inputs from you all and make the odam more fruitfull.

Minutes:
1.Letter pad with 50 sheets will be ready before the next meet .Prabhu will take care of this as informed.
2.Billbook should be ready atleast before next meet.we request Karthik should accelarate the activity.
3.Information regarding braille books should be collected by panju and sarala.
4.A Requistion letter is needed to be formated and taken as hardcopy to store the details of the beneficiaries.I (lakshman) will take care of this.
5.Thanks to sarala for providing stationaries for our trust
1.A File
2. 2 folders
3. a punching machine
4. stabler
5. 3 highlighters (named by sarala :-))
6.New members addition
1.Saravana is adding 1.anitha and 2.krishnaraj
2.Gokul is adding 1.tamil selvan 2.karthikeyan
3.sarala is adding 1.iyyappan 2. remya
4.prabhu is adding 1.vimal 2.tamilselvan(jb)
All the group heads needs to get back with email ids to add them in the google group.
7.Next meet will be on August 15 th 2007. I hope atleast this time some more trust member can participate in the discussion.
8.Account opening needs to be accelarated by me.
9.Auditor needed to be consulted on IT return submissions by me.

Thanks & Regards,
LakshmanaRaja

Fund for Education

Aid : Education
Referred by : LakshmanaRaja
Background : The student's parents are very poor working for daily wages. Need money to pursue Diplomo in computer science and engineering(Polytechnic).
Fund : 5000
Discussion: Helping this student will sure benefit their next generation.

Meeting Minutes Jun 24

Friends,
Today we had trust meeting at Gandhi Mandapam.
Participated Members:
1. Lakshmana Raja
2. Manikanda Prabhu
3. Gokul
4. Karthik
5. Sarala

Following are the meeting minutes :
1. Including more members to the trust.
2. Fund to India Sudar for their new coming projects.
3. Taking care of Pennadam school kids monthly tution fee. [Already we have given fund for admission fee]
4. Eye Donation : Forms has to be submitted .
5. Getting referral to help school kids for buying note books,school uniforms etc
6. Panju has to collect the information to buy Brailey books.
7. Compulsory meet on every month second saturday/sunday. All members are requested to participate.

Needed accessories for Office:
1. Voucher book - Karthik
2. Letter Pad - Lakshmana Raja
3. File,Pen,etcs - Sarala

Next meet is planned on Jul'15th. Please mark it on your calendar and make your presence.

Thanks & Regards,
Sarala S

Fund for Education

Aid : Fund for education
Referred by : Prabhu
Fund for education to an engg student at Anna University to pay her term fee.
Background : The student dad is working as a security guard @ Prabhus office. He couldn't make the payment, Prabhu recommended to help him and this security guard has promised to pay back this money sometime later.
Amount : Rs.3000

Fund for Education

Aid : Fund for tution fee
Referred by : Remya
Background : Two gal kids are from a poor family. Their Dad is working as archagar in a temple at pennadam and earning Rs.1500 only per month. One gal child is going for class 3 and the other one to LKG. The intial amount need to be spend to join the schools costs Rs.3000 for both of them.

Fund from Odam : 1000

Trust Registration

Dear all odam group members,
This is the great day to cheer about! We have done it!. We have registered our odam trust in Sub-registerar office in ashoknagar.
Name of the Trust: ODAM Trust
Date of formation of the Trust: 07th March 2007
Address of the Trust Office:
ODAM Trust
New No.38 ,Old No.AP1173,
75th Street,12th Sector,
K.K.Nagar (West)
Chennai -600 078

"We are here not just to give money or net for fishing But we will train them how to make the net and how to fish"

Karunai Villa Visit

Place : Karunai Villa, Chennai
Aid : Provided lunch
Fund: 1000
Referred by : Panju
Its an orphanage. Mentally challenged people are there in this home.

Found : Providing food alone is not sufficient. They are in need of so many basic things.
Action : To be discussed and plan for something from our end to fulfill their basic needs.

Medical Aid for Priyadharshini

Fund for Medical Aid :

This is the first activity we have started with ODAM.
Fund has been given to Priyadharshini 3 years old kid for her medical aid.
Medical Aid : Open Heart Surgery
Referred by : Panju
Through : DISHA Foundation.
Fund : Rs. 2000