A Year Gone by... '09

As we are about to step into new year, we would like to thank you for your support and look forward to working more closely with you in the days ahead.

What started off as a small Endeavor to help the children by providing them with basic English and computer knowledge, has now grown into a network of volunteers who help about 600 children across 7 schools in and around Hyderabad. Our greatest strength lies in the fact that we’ve registered a tremendous growth in the number of man-hours we spend with every child. The number of volunteers associated with us has increased to 100. The response of the schools has been very encouraging.Our intention aimed to allay the fears of englis language. We have setup and updated our syllabus based on our experience over the past years.
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The past year…

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SAHAYA is a youth volunteer network, which began with the lucid aim of making a difference in the society. This crusade against the unjust plight of underprivileged tots was fueled with the zeal to make it a reality. To many, this was a wake-up call; the concept begot a whole new genre of people working selflessly for one aim. The response we got after our first Anniversary Celebrations ever session on March 18, 2009 was both overwhelming and humbling at the same time. More than 100 ppl joined as volunteers, dedicated to the motto of “bridging inequality through education”. From then, SAHAYA was on a continual hike in the success-graph;

The events of the past year, right from the first session of SAHAYA, has played a very important role in bringing to the forefront our vision and ideology.

January & February : Sahaya sessions in NEW GOVT HIGH
SCHOOL with 8 members.

March: Sahaya celebrates its first anniversary on 18th at "Shivananda rehabilitation orphan home for children" .

May: ZPHS kukatpally (HYDERABAD)
Thanks to MR.Shankarayya sir (HEAD MASTER, ZPTS) for given us opportunity help kids.
Sahaya Team Size : 40

August: Essay Writing & drawing Comp ---- 15 Aug Celebrations.
Sahaya Team Size: 60

November: Children 's day Celebs.
Sahaya Team Size: 80

 

December: Sahaya In Media. An article about sahaya in EENADU daily.

 

Apart from all this, our accomplishment lies in the fact that we are now proud teachers to some very smart minds. It especially makes us swell with pride to say that we have covered over 7 Schools spent meaningfully in imparting quality education to the children! With figures looking very bright and the growth moving upwards steadily, SAHAYA dreams of soaring to greater heights in the near future.

We do not believe this to be a charity; we feel this is our duty, our obligation.

Wishing you a very happy, healthy & successful 2010

Warm New Year Wishes
From SAHAYA TEAM

The Tour (30-11-2009 to 4-12-2009)

Around 250kms away from the Hyderabad , its a small village , excellent atmosphere , one big ground, this is about a small introduction to ZPHS veldurty (guntur dist), Its always a great feeling when we do something good to our mother land,  Some NRI’s decides to do the same thing and starts doing projects in that school providing infrastructure,sanitation,computer education, conducting sports and cultural fest and they named these one week celebrations as ZPHS community “mahostavalu”(celebrations), veldurty. Luckily i got invitation from Mr.Ravinder reddy (Main member in community  and Sahaya 

HR’s uncle as well) to take some classes to the ZPHS veldurty students.
As I started with my pals Mr.Dharani Kumar and Mr.Srinivas, According to the schedule we suppose to take classes on 30^th onwards... We enjoyed the nature,nativity and some traditional spicy food of “Palnadu”.... six days six different experiences to me... here we go...
Day 1,2,3 : Computer class to 8^th, 9^th, 10^th students respectively

Myself went to {8^th A sec,9^th B sec, 10^th B sec} , Dharani and Srinivas went to{ 8^th B sec,9^th A sec, 10^th sec } while we entering into the every class students starts singing like “ goooood morninggggg sirrrrr” ,I started the proceedings with a little smile on my face. Personally this is first time to take up one class for whole day with one subject. It was very difficult but I judged it well to conduct some competitions, discussions, dictation along with practical and theoretical class. Students of ZPHS veldurthy are hyperactive and proactive.




Day 4,5 : Sports Fest

Mr. Chanukya joined me the last couple of days, Me and chanukya(Asst HR of sahaya) gave some training to the students, We actively participated in most of the gamesJ as a referee, scorer but not as a players , sun burning out all the day but we never drop our energy levels and encouraging all the talents, I impressed with senior kabaddi team from ZPHS veldurty, plenty of talent but lack of resources which makes me hurt a bit.  These two days are the most awaiting days for the students in every year.
Day 6 : Annual Day Celebrations

Well, Everything goes according to the plan as per the invitation many of the Village officials ,Panchayiti Heads arrived into the school @2pm , Sorry to say I didn’t remember anyone of the names but I observed one person who got the “BEST TEACHER AWARD” from Guntur dist, his words were adorable every child shows their attention towards his speech after some time suddenly crowd gets excited I turned back, One dynamic personality stepping towards us, its none another than fun star “shiva reddy” children gets excited they stopped listening to the speeches and everyone shouting shiva reddy, afterwards he steals the complete show with his awesome talent, his gestures, art of mimicry everything was fantastic to watch… some stubborn dance performances by the students which makes  mesmerizing. At the end of the day every student came to me and they took my phone number which makes me happy....

Best time : I got positive feedbacks from every Student of ZPHS veldurty
Worst time : I hurting my right index and thumb fingers while im playin volley ball…
Special thanks : Mr.Ravinder Reddy, Mr. Laxma Reddy for giving me the opportunity to participating in this memorable event.
2)Mr .Rajshekhar, He suggests my name to his uncle
3)Mr.Dharani and Mr. Srinivas for thier company in first three days, they helped me alot in all aspects.
4)Mr.Chanukya , He is very handy in last few days especially in sports and cultural fests.
Personally, this is the event which makes me little bit consicious about few things and we got some sort of experience in
1)How to organise an event?
2)What are protocols that we have to follow before doing an event?
3) Cost estimation
If possible and things gone well then sahaya will adopt this school and runs with Engg students from Newton college of Engg(macharla)
Thanks to all ZPHS veldurty community members, students and villagers...
Sreeram

SAHAYA in MEDIA

Sahaya Guru's - An article in eenadu local Hyderabad edition

Happy Children s Day.. :-)

Millions of Indian kids will celebrate Children’s Day while almost the same numbers of kids will be picking bins and selling articles or even skin. After all this is just another day for India.


But it is not just a day for SAHAYA kids..... They had their day out there....

Date: 13|11|09
Event: Children s day - Essay writing competition.
Venue: ZPGHS & ZPBHS narsapur.
Members attended(Sahaya team): Me, Lavanya, Rajsekhar, Kesavi, Srinivas & Veda Vays.
Number of students attended: 220 students of 9th and 10th standards.

Every thing has been scheduled on 12th nov at our camp office(sree flat) after the final negotiations vth our sponsor in which President,Hr and some important person of the society was participated and president instructed us to b there at balnagar by 8:15am but our creator has created the new schedule and asked us to b there at balnagar by 8:00am but by the time we reached there our creator as well as Mr.Perfect proceeded 2 narsapur and it helped us a lot in the later part anywayz creator is creator he surveyed all the soils of narsapur 4 us.

without wasting anytime we proceeded to girls school n me sidetracked my route 2wards police station to arrange 108 for demonstration part and by the time i reached the school with vehicle children were already given da instructions to follow and students felt excited to know abt 108 and they even raised some doubts while the 108 personnel explaining abt the things that they face in real time and there after we conducted essay writing competition for children in vch hidden talents of the children were mined.

After doing with evaluation part we distributed prizes to children and proceeded to zphsb completing with thanks giving of the school management and carried out the same process even at the boys school.

Highlights of da day:
->Participation of each n every students in all competions and activities.
->Both print media and electronic media queued to cover the program.

Backlogs of the day:
we miss our president,vice president even bala n harsha and our Hardware Engineer

We could do even more events than this.. However, with the limited resources and limited man power we have done our best. Expecting more and more of these events......Thank you all...

“AWESOMENESS” BETA

1 day, a big ground, a Rs 200,00 budget, 300 hundred students, 50 volunteers, 45 degree celsius temp, 1 genuine celebrity, professional dancers, a big parade, a 312 hour delay in blogging about it and numbers don't tell 1/100th the story!!

But SAHAYA just actualy set the new bench-mark in AWESOMENESS_

Sorry about the overdose of superlatives, but then super events are described in superlatives I guess :) …The independence day event was so cool, the effects so profound, that a day after wen I'm blogging about it, I still get goose bumps it was defenitaly the biggest "KICK" I've gotten from activites made in SAHAYA!! Now I gess I shoud stop dragging and get on with the reporting...:)

Here we go…on the 15th @ ZPHS(Gawdavalli), we are in school around 9.00am (v are supposed to b there by 8.30.. v are late which should be not done according to SAHAYA rules book) any ways we were ready with the speech, essays writing and drawing winners finalized, gifts packed...

Students of ZPHS came to school after a long march in the Gawdavali village. Thesession startd.. Grama sarpanch was called as the chief guest and in their presence HM of school Mr. Sajauddin hosted the flag.. continued with some speech's, songs and dance programs...

HM of the school startd with the speech by thanking all the chief guests and called SREERAM (president of sahaya) on to the stage and gave a place along with the chief guests. (can view images in my profile :) ). He introduced SAHAYA to all the members who visited that place including chief guests, parents and village ppl..

Patriotic fervor was seen at its best when the student of school sang a Hindi-Patriotic song. He was ANJI, best @ his performance. He got many fans in sahaya team. There followed by yasmeens speech and many other students speech in hindi, telugu and english.On behalf of sahaya team there was speech by Gayatri and Shrvya which was excellent.

Now its the show ....

Navya Bagam startd announcing names of the winners in essay writing and drawing competitions. winners are provided with gifts by the guests who attended the eve... :-( bt rain interrupted the smooth going event, however it was all went nice within short time. Finally management distributed some refreshments for us along with the students of the school. This was brief happened @ ZPHS Gawdavalli Independence day celebrations.

I would like to thank each and every one for making the event a awesome one.
More specifically :

• SREERAM huh hez the crucial man behind this success. SreeRam u made it. thank you very much. I think with out you this event coudnt be a successful one. Thank you once again.
• Thank you Harsha (my driver :) ): He was very handy for me in packing gifts, and in all aspects.
• Thank you Nischal and karun for preparing and helping Children s in Telugu speech.
• Thank you Navya Nithyanand for preparing and helping children s in Hindi speech.
• Thank you Sindhu Priya and Lakshmi priya for preparing and helping children s English speech.
  

Thank you each and every one of core members - volunteer - all supporters, well wishers for providing their valuable support on and for Independence day Celebrations.