REPUBLIC DAY

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS..........
A great thing learnt from SAHAYA is to make all the auspicious days such as the''Independance day'',''Children's day'',"Teachers day'',and "Republic days"" a memorable one.....
Good thing is that thats the way we can remember all these national festivals in a memorable way...
In the days of schooling it was a practice that on these festivals, we enter into the school with a shining white dress with a flag pinned on the pocket and staying in the school for games and returning back to home with delicious sweets and gifts..

                                        But from last 6 months or so.,it was a great feeling of attending these festival celebrations with minor or major responsibilities on us as a member of our ""SAHAYA"" family...
And by fulfilling those responsibilities I achieved a lot more satisfaction and enjoyment than that of my schooling days..
After being a part of SAHAYA, as everytime, this time also was a good day to remember after NOVEMBER
14 'childrens day'

We (phani and srinath) were handled the responsibilities of setting up the book intos the Z.P.H.S NARSAPUR as a part of "MY LIBRARY" establishment.. Our day (24 JAN) started at 8:00A.M in the morning at Z.P.H.s KP and after segregating the books and collecting all the requred essentials for travelling, we've (phani kumar and srinath) started from the school to narsapur with an auto following us with books and table.We were supported by Dharani bhai all the day..

After a long journey of 1 hour we have reached the school and we kept the books there and interacted with the school principal who spoke to us very well...I was amazed to see the active participation of the students in the games conducted by the school management towards 26 jan..Though it was a holiday to them maximum no.of students were participating in the games and they are playing them in a professional way...My impression on the first look was their involvement and their commitment to win the respective game..I was very much interested to find their enthusiasm towards studies,but i coulfdn't manage to do that..

After that we returned to kukatpally which took just 30 minutes to reach there(Srinath was unleashed with a pulsar in his hands and his acelerator never went down untill we reach our destination).yupee that was thrilling too..And we continued our day with the remaining works of correcting the papers of competitions conducted in moosapet by our friends...


                                          ON JANUARY26 -REPUBLIC DAY

The day of excitement arrived where we handled al the events in different schools effectively..Personally me and satya prakash was given a task to han over the certificates to the winners of the participants in our competitions and we started to Z.P.H.S SHAMSHIGUDA.


At my first step i was spell bounded by the rangoli the students presented there.. it was a great feeling to see all the science diagrams such as parts of human body everything in those diagrams...
Later on we have distributed the certificates to the winners with the help of management and returned back to kp...

I met sreeeram bhai's cousin where i got a first impression regarding his interest towards sahaya as i used to observe some of his comments in our posts and i heard from someone in sahaya that his excellent support to Sreeram anna..Later on i 've missed the interactin session due to my acedamic issue and i was a bit dissapointed to miss his interaction.But i came to know his discussion through my friends..


Over all those two days were of full satisfaction....
Personally i would convey my regards to all the core team members who have supported me and my friends by handling those reponsibilities.............................KUDOS to everyone for the successfull conduction of all the events all round the schools adopted by sahaya


                                                                                     ---------PHANIKUMAR

SAHAYA EVENT PRACTICES

WHAT IS AN EVENT???
Etymologically the word ‘event’ is of Latin origin and means ‘a thing that happens or takes place’, especially as “outcome”. From the past learning experiences of Team SAHAYA, we are organizing grand events on every patriotic occasion to make every student as an active participant apart from his/her regular activities. Our emphasis is also laid on the leadership qualities of a student which is to be exhibited in a given situation and the negotiations skills he/she requires for successfully winning over the situations by skilfully overcoming risk, crisis, and uncertainties.

Leisure events such as sports celebrations and other recreation events which do not expect immediate result because they are treated as fun based. We believe every student has their own needs in terms of gaining, sharing and developing one’s own knowledge. As a consequence of these need, the opportunities are expanded to larger number of students in the form of events and educate at all levels of competence by involving them into group activities.

WHY THESE EVENTS???
Events are to be differently designed to cater to the needs of different students because of the following challenges.
1. There are different streams of students coming in from non-English medium to be taught in English medium; rural/urban students with a different background; students from different socially discriminated strata.
2.Careful examination of apportionment of student time, practicals, assignments, extracurricular activities and creativity opportunities.
3.Events should be meant for giving counsel, research and guidance opportunity to the students on one hand, and their own research, reading, writing, self-improvement, participation on the other hand.

ANY EVENTS SO FAR???
Field Trip
By clicking below link, you can see the detailed update on our recent successful event “Field Trip” to HITAM college
http://www.sahaya4needy.blogspot.com/2011/09/few-days-back-sree-ram-had-told-me.html
 
Library
With the help of library, Team SAHAYA wants to conduct events to the children by utilizing each collection that is available in Library. One of our Volunteer quoted “Books are, quite simply, windows on the world!  A library is a place to read and to enjoy and celebrate books.” As a children’s day gift we have established a library in ZPHS, Kukatpally School with more than 1000 books. To read more about this article, please check
http://www.sahaya4needy.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-kids-joy-of-reading.html
 
Event Planning/Preparation
Freedom from despair is the base for progress, although our event organizers face wide range of risks and uncertainties at the initial levels, but planning with their honesty and integrity leads to accomplish the given task. To know more about our preparations, please find the below link
http://www.sahaya4needy.blogspot.com/2011/08/aug-15th-preparations.html
 
2012
Accordingly, this year is going to be very special to all of us, where we imbibed our past experiences with New Year innovations to make every event as a successful one. Under this dawn of New Year, we have a perfect plan to establish more number of libraries and many more events to be conducted in bringing the awareness and enthusiasm to the children from their daily routines. On the eve of Republic day celebrations Jan 26th 2012 , we are going to launch one more library at ZPGHS Naraspur and also planned for quiz, essay and drawing competitions.



Regards
Team SAHAYA

Giving kids the joy of reading

Sir Isaac Newton was apparently sitting under an apple tree when his theory of gravitation came to him.

Team Sahaya was sitting under a tree in school, reading once a week to local children who had no storybooks, when the need for library struck us.Children need to read. They need to have access to books.
They need to have a library, Sahaya realized.

Sahaya is well into the planning and execution stages for expanding library in schools we adopted.


The Joy of Reading 

Every time we open a book, we discover something new – a beautiful story or a fairy-tale, the strange and wonderful habits of animals, the mysterious world of science, and the customs of people who live in a far-distant country.  And every time we open a book, we learn something new – we learn numbers and letters, colors and shapes, poetry and songs.  Books are, quite simply, windows on the world!  A library is a place to read and to enjoy and celebrate books.

What is a 'My Library'? 
A 'My Library' is a place where there are books, children and committed and enthusiastic volunteers of sahaya to assist the children to develop their reading skills. 'My Library' is a place where each and every child feel its his/her own library.

Other libraries and My Library, what is the difference?              

When it come to a other library, they usually for those who know how to read and they are seeking information on a specific topic, or a certain kind of fiction book to read.

Young children may not be able to read so they need to be attracted to the library and, whenever possible, assisted with their reading skills.  Children need to feel comfortable in a library setting and should be gently encouraged to  participate in the activities offered.  Our volunteers will play an interactive role with the children.   It is a very demanding job, but also a very rewarding one.

Few days left for giving kids the joy of reading..

Come donate one to the Sahaya Societies Book donation this year, and you could make this children's day a very special one for Kids..

Help Us to be the next spark

Mahindra Foundation has started a program called Rise - An Initiative to help Entrepreneurs in various categories... they help these entrepreneurs grow...

After a conversation from the President (not Prathiba Patil)...we too registered ourselves in the initiative...they gave us some time...some 4 odd days before voting started...Once the voting started we saw a flurry of votes coming for us and also unprecedented coordination among ourselves to make this a success....

Everyone can vote and you can help us too....

1)Open the link http://www.sparktherise.com/signup.php

2)Register or connect with facebook and login

3)Search for "Sahaya"

4)Click on the image with kids and vote us :)

A single vote may help us to bring a smile on a child's face.

Field trip to HITAM college!!!

Few days back Sree ram had told me about the field trip of gowdevalli ZHPS children to HITAM college... i accompanied Sree ram and Karun to HITAM college with a vague idea of what was going to be done that day. We reached the college after a roller coaster ride :p at around 11 am.
I was amazed by the striking Green building of the college and the ambiance of the vicinity.
After we reached the school we met Eshwar whose commendable work to organize the event in the college awed me.. his work plan for the day which he was eliciting to the volunteers was well fabricated and the volunteers were all assigned a particular role to play.Later we had a semi formal induction program for the new volunteers where Karun and me shared our experiences with Sahaya followed by Sree ram's speech.
Soon the buses arrived at around 1:30 from gowdevalli school with the children oozing with enthusiasm and excitement.The students were divided into four batches and were accompanied by the volunteers to various labs and the library. The volunteers did an impressive job in presenting the complex engineering labs to the school children by fitting in their shoes and relating them to day to day situations in their life.The children were keen in learning about the labs and the volunteers patiently answered their queries. It was encouraging to see some of the lab faculty also interacting with children.

Later all the students and the volunteers assembled in a class room where the children were asked write their feed back. A student from class 10th sang a song that he composed himself about Bharat matha.. Every phrase so inspiring.. every note so mellifluous... Hats off to his talent!!!!! :)

Anji

Next, student from HITAM college tickled the funny bones the crowd with his wit and mimicry . Another student from the school came forward to share his experience about the day and we were elated to know that after the trip, even he wanted to become an engineer. Perhaps the purpose of the trip was accomplished!!! we could inspire some of the students to become engineers and study hard to see themselves in college like HITAM. HITAM college lecturer Mr.Srinivas addressed the students and gave them a valuable message.He told the students the importance of 'creativity' and 'hard work' in life. He demonstrated with a live example about creativity and urged them not to ape others but always be creative and that their perseverance and hard work would help the scale heights in life. Later a teacher from the school thanked the Sahaya team and the HITAM college management for organizing the event followed by a tea n snacks break for the children and volunteers from the college. Later we had a group photo with the children and the volunteers and then the children left to their schools with a sense of accomplishment.. dreams of becoming engineers and yes all the sweet memories with 'akkalu' and 'annayalu' :)

We were very happy to see the success of the 'Field trip', the first of its kind organised by Sahaya. Kudos to the newbies who organised the event so well and making it a success in their very first session. Very happy to see the responsibility and the participation of the HITAM volunteers. Thanks to the management of HITAM college for giving Sahaya this opportunity and for all their support and encouragement.
I believe that this field trip is an attempt from Sahaya that kindled a passion for engineering and other higher studies among the students and this spark if fanned in the right direction could spread its flames and engulf more students to aspire to MAKE IT BIG!!!!