MY LIBRARY - The transition from being unable to being able to read

It's no secret that children who grow up with a love of books will be more successful in school. The goal is to make the library a familiar environment so that students grow up knowing how to use the library and feeling like the library is a great place to be. If our students can be inspired by the excitement of finding knowledge and by works of the imagination, they are likely to benefit from these vital elements of personal development throughout their lives, both enriching themselves and enhancing their contribution to society.

“My Library” should help to build the linguistic skills needed for evolving competencies in telling, imagining, understanding, reading, and being a social person.

Rupali, 9th C from ZPHS Kukatpally stated that “ My Library, will help me to learn my favorite Science experiments and also English, I have seen a good number of collection in my library, I will keep my library clean and tidy"

Likewise, we can easily identify what are the possibilities that can be adopted by the students using My Library and below are few

• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to initiate and participation in Team Work
• Eagerness learn new skills and develop professionally

These findings underscore the important position the library plays in the reading achievement of children who lack access to books and other reading materials in their daily lives.

We thank our subscribers and contributors towards My Library.

!!!! 15 Feb 2014 !!!!

• A unique day in the diary of SAHAYA.
• A day SAHAYA stepped ahead to reach its goal.
• A day that reduced the gap between students - volunteers - school management.
• A day of joy and fun.

Why??  How??

“I learned many things in the ground that books didn’t teach me” - Sachin Tendulkar.
“Even an empty ground teaches more than a full book” - Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan.

These lines tell us how important sports & games are, in the process of learning. Today, even corporate companies recognized the importance of sports, especially team sports to develop the elements like team spirit, sportive spirit, fighting in odd conditions and many more and are encouraging employees to take part in team events.

SAHAYA, which always tries exploring and improving the talents of its children, will never forget or overlook such an important thing which helps children to achieve their goals.

SAHAYA conducted many events like JAM, Memory test, Drawing competition etc., to identify the talent of the kids.

Now it’s a similar kind of step by SAHAYA, that not only helps in identifying the talented students but also makes them resourceful . And that step is conducting a SPORTS competition. Even though it is limited to only one sport and to only girls this time, it is a good sign.

The day started for me with a surprise to see no volunteer in the school (ZPHS-KP) even at 10:00AM. After a long waiting other volunteers joined me. At around 12:00pm the arrangements started after taking the permission from the school management. Within no time the court was ready and the students were in the ground. Dharani (treasurer), who is good in volleyball, trained and shared his valuable suggestions and tips with the junior’s team (6th & 7th class). After the lunch break, both the teams were ready for the competition.

The game started with the words of encouragement from the principal, PET sir and Dharani. By 2:30pm, all the players, referees, score sheet (25 points) and audiences were ready for the action. The ball was first served by the senior team which got them 3 points in successive serves. Later the junior team opened their account and crossed the score of their opponents.

The match swayed in such a way that no one could guess who will win the match. At last, the senior team won the match with 26 – 24. The junior team fought till the last point but the result was not in their favor. With a small break both teams got ready for the next fight. Again a neck to neck scoring continued till 15 points then a girl from junior teams started to serve and brought 7 points in a row and everyone thought the game turned one sided, but senior teams bounced back when the serve was broken. Finally, the senior team won the second match also and emerged as a title winner.

Principal of the school presented the medals to the runners and  the winners and presented the winner trophy.

The boys came up for a friendly match where PET sir and Dharani also joined each team.  Sreeram and a school faculty joined Dharani’s team. The way Sreeram received the smash by PET sir and the blocking by the student got a good applause from the audience. Later, remaining volunteers also joined the play and had a very good time.

This event is supported by School Management, Sahaya Volunteers and a Team Lead from TCS through vol. Anuradha, who is playing a sponsor role in this event.

I end this post by conveying my heartful thanks to School Management, Anuradha and to all SAHAYA volunteers, who worked for making this event a success.

--Santhosh Kumar

Strong team work and enthusiastic children

Hello Everyone.........

Generally in Sahaya we organize events based on the ideas from volunteers or from a team discussion. But out of the box this time we have organized ""Field Trip"" to DRK Engineering College on  request by a student from 9 class in Z.P.H.S Kukatpally.

Firstly as usual a wonderful effort from all the volunteers especially from DRK for their extravagant efforts in organizing this event successfully. Team work by the volunteers was the stand out factor in the whole event. Though they were given a short notice,they have organized excellently and made this one of the perfectly organized field trips in sahaya.

Secondly we'd like to heart fully thank the College management for permitting us to conduct this event.

I don't want to generalize the outcome of the event by quoting " Students were very happy,we could see happiness in their faces". The main intention of field trip is to give them an undercurrent encouragement and making them in getting exposure to the world which they will be stepping out.

Yes the children were happy obviously they would be and the fact which really made us happy was the response from students after the field trip.Initially when they were questioned on their interest towards engineering there were very less no. of students who answered it. But after the completion of field trip the response to the same question was excellent. That was enough for all of us because the purpose of their trip was fulfilled. The interest with which they were observing  labs and  the way they maintained discipline was very good

I would also congratulate the kids for being lucky enough to visit an engineering college even before their 10th  standard as many of us has entered after intermediate. This earliest exposure to the college environment would definitely create a mark in their minds and most of them take this as a factor of inspiration and continue further effectively.

Concluding,we collectively are very much thankful to the management of DRK for their continuous  support to the events of sahaya especially for the book collection drive that was recently organized in DRK which has produced a good no.of book.

On behalf of campaigning team we are very happy that one of the major events was completed successfully by the courtesy of a team work. Hope this support would continue further on the book collection drive which is going to be completed on NOV 10.

Team sahaya..... let us continue the same for the next nearest target (Book collection drive) as our work together as team would create wonders which is already a proven fact..

For more details about book collection drive visit:
http://www.sahayasociety.org/Library


 

 

TEAM WORK - DREAM WORK

It is well known that "Teamwork" can lead to better decisions.When "WE" work together it can complete tasks faster by dividing the work among ourselves based on different abilities and knowledge. In our Book Collection Drive, I have witnessed a great Teamwork in reaching our targets. Words were short after looking into last one month active participation from our volunteers towards the drive.

Every volunteer offered their unique knowledge and ability to help/improve other volunteers in our Book Collection Drive process. Through teamwork the sharing of these qualities will allow volunteers to be more productive in the future phases. One can visualize the passion of each volunteer from the below comments

INITIATIVE:
"Let us not waste time. All the volunteers must get ready for the Mobile campaigning, if we are not permitted for the campaigning in the college premises.We need to finish this campaigning part before the vacation (Dussera) inorder, not to give a pause to the book collection drive."

 --Sree Sruthi

PLANNING:
"We also have plans like going to any school in the mean time and asking them for comic books because being engineer student i know what books we have and what not so campaigning in school for books is beneficial than campaigning in colleges"

 --Yaswanth

RESPONSIBILITY:
"Today me and Divya (out of our own interest) started the campaign SAHAYA BOOK COLLECTION DRIVE , about which most of the students at JBIET were not aware"

 --G.Divya

ACCEPTABILITY:
"The main reasons for collecting less no of books are
1) We haven't got any permission for campaigning
2) Most of them have promised that they would be bringing books, but haven't brought them"

 --Sreeraam

COORDINATION:
"As discussed earlier OCT 10 will be the last day of the Phase 1 in campaigning. Hence we request all the representatives to update the status here about the book collection drive in your colleges"

--SAHAYA Campaigning Team

STATISTICS:
"122 Story Books, 38 English Reference books, 30 General Knowledge books, 12 Kids' Magazines, 8 Atlases, 8 Dictionaries, 8 self- improvement books, 5 books on Hindu Mythology, 2 Encyclopedia, 2 Novels..." 

 --Nischal

EXPECTATIONS:
"Today the response was just amazing. Many are interested to join as volunteers in Sahaya. I am sure that new volunteers will join with us in the next sessions"

--Mounika

STRATEGY FORMULATION:
"No further promotion process has been done in college due to exams and also gap because of holidays. We will be doing promotion from 17th i.e., after holidays. More books can be expected from college after holidays. we would like to continue book collection in college till the end of this month"

--Pratibha

Hopefully this transition will move from "Make a Dream - Start your Team" to "Make your Team - Chase your Dream"

Regards
Sreeram Bhagavathula
Team SAHAYA

The Day You Stop Learning Is The Day You Stop Growing

This post is inspired from the line “The Day You Stop Learning Is The Day You Stop Growing”

  

I am overwhelming by the level of enthusiasm and the commitment from all the volunteers of Sahaya during on-going Book Collection Drive '13.

Sahaya Book Collection Drive ’13 is creating an opportunity to the Govt. School Children for easy access to their favorite ones. Starting from Dictionary to Atlas, Story books to Work books anything will be accepted in this Drive provided the condition of book should be reasonably well. Sahaya Campaigning team took up the responsibility of organizing this drive in and around 8 reputed colleges in Hyderabad and planned to make available these collected books to children on Nov 14^th 2013 during its first phase.

The benefits of books are enormous, some books will inspire us, reading the stories and understand how they articulated, some of them will give immense courage and determination and stand as a great inspiration to go on and achieve our dreams. Reading is significant, everybody who wants to better their life should read a book every week infact every day, when we stop learning we stop growing and in this life we do one of two things, either we move forward in life or stay where we are.

The intention of this Book Collection Drive is a combination of many factors, where we have observed in our regular sessions on the significant impact in every student life. Some studies stated that in a single hour span, the average student will divide their time between listening to class, murmuring with their mates, monitoring their premises, completing homework in advance and many more. But here if we can add a component of “reading books” which will helps improve the concentration that helps to exercise and boost the memory powers because it encourages to remember characters, their backgrounds, ambitions, history and facts.

In addition, story books can engage students in a world which is miles apart from their own, here they can have a glimpse of what goes on in the lives of many fictional characters, where there is a great chance of experiencing empathy, sympathy and compassion, this definitely improves the “Power of Imagination”. There are lots of advantages of books where it will expand the awareness and knowledge, each book will make student more wiser and intelligent and in turn it also helps to improve their vocabulary. 

Finally, one can never stop learning and there is an endless supply of knowledge, information and entertainment available in the form of books. Please come forward and donate books at Sahaya Book Collection Drive ‘ 13.

Best Regards

Sreeram Bhagavathula

Team SAHAYA