Here starts the book-e treet....

I hitched a ride with dharani n sreeram, all set to carry out books from all places to segregate them and I can safely say that we did it till  last night. We were able to manage to get 100's of various category books and around 150 dictionaries to launch a mini library today. As per plan dharani dropped me at ZPHS Shamshiguda on time along with books. As I reached n walked inside to be greeted by the children and after the usual “hello’s” and “hi’s” the children settled down in the ground where the Flag hosting was supposed.

By 8.30 Flag hosting program was started followed by HM sir's speech later followed by Chief guests speech. Which later followed by few nice  speeches and songs sung by kids interestingly in English n Hindi as well. Children showcase their singing talents and few of the girls and  boys, with no hesitation, came forward and sang beautifully! After the joyous singing we moved onto the most important part of the day - prize distribution. Divya, Vivek and along with few other volunteers who teach at Shamshiguda School also dropped in to help. Soon enough, we distributed the prizes for the winners and runner ups in the events organized couple of days in advance.

There after few more events like singing n dance programs one of the teaching faculty from school briefed the children about the library and  how the books donors has helped us out by getting various books to the students there and we received a token of appreciation from the Principal n chief guests attended for the event.

Soon after winding up the event at Shamshiguds we bunch of volunteers from here joined rest of the volunteers who were already gathered @ ZPHS Kukatpaly. I think Nischal would be the best person who can post the detailed event held in KP school better than me. 

Before leaving we had a group photograph with all the volunteers and as a perfect ending to the wonderful event, Dharani, provided all of us with yummy treats. Once that was done and the library in its place, we all left the place with a content heart as well as a content stomach.

Some interesting facts about our brand new mini Library  —

Total number of books – 200

Books from our donors – 150 Dictionaries, 15 Atlas, Many story books

Books from our volunteers – 35(Many more still need t be segregated and categorized)

Books which reached us from various donors say that how eager everyone was to help out by giving their old books and donations,  and  the children must make the most use of them and here after its Volunteers responsibility to motivate children about how important books are to  them and how much reading English books can help them develop their language and vocabulary. It would tempt anyone to read at least one book from there I am sure. As if those books weren’t already enough, there were some charts and information posters too. 

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.” ~Charles W. Eliot

Welcome to newbies onboard and Special thanks to book donors and Friends of Sahaya for all the help and Happy 65th Independence day to all!! 

Aug 15th preparations

Yesterday was filled with loads of memories ...I was little worried whether the schedule will b carried away in r8 way or not ...but wit nischal planning n dharani guidance everything went on well :) The day started by gathering the children participating in essay writing competition of 6th n 7th class , simultaneously quiz competition conducted for 8th n 9th children ...the children were very enthusiatic in participating for drawing competition ...after the competition while collecting papers i was really surprised by their art work !

so the day went on very excitingly conducting the competitions among different standards ...after filtering the best performance in writing quiz competition , oral quiz was done for few students by nischal , aastha n neelima ...Finally this day at zphs kp was fabulous bcoz of vijaya sree,saicharan , priyanka,vivek,amar,sai krishna,mahesh,vishal n his frdz ...Its my privilege to work in this organisation since it brings back my school life n i enjoy myself while spending time wit kids ...Eagerly waiting for the main day i.e 15th aug our independence day to celebrate ..ADVANCE HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY :) :) 

Same history but this time with different pages!

This is an attempt to share my experience on 02/07/11 at kukatpally ZPHS school.

I would like to extend my sincere apology to my team for late latif appearance.Like every year we started this year in kukatpally the largest school of all that are being operated by SAHAYA.I entered the session with srikanth walking by my side but he is busy in setting paper for the assessment we had planned already.It takes some time for experienced batsman like dravid to show off his regular style(sorry sreeram).I played some balls watching classes of eeshwar,neelima,neeharika,nischal and kavya in which they are trying to teach students to introduce themselves in English some of them(volunteers) are succeeded and some of them(volunteers) are suffering but in the mean time we sorted things and gained students attraction in the problematic areas too(Thanks eeshwar and lokesh for helping me).

Thumbs up:For neelima and neeharika for their discipline in class and srikanth for setting up good paper for assessment.3 newbies and their valuable feedback.

Thumbs down:Helpers should pull up their socks in maintaining discipline while our pal is trying to explain something.

Inspiration:Thrown by nischal in maintaining his class and an able editorial member.

EXPRESSION came out of EMOTION(IDEA):It is to make teams in classes so that we could extend our attention to individuals.To have an interactive session before each session to discuss on handout provided.

Thanks giving:to ZPHS kukatpally management for extending thier support,aditya for making the plan for day,nischee for content of the day

Special thanks to nikilesh for picking me up at my home Sreerem for special appearance

Finally its the same history(the work we are doing) but this time with different pages(new students with respect to thier classes)

Preparation of this academic year started

This academic year 1st activity CHART WORK is gonna help the kids a lot in learning the things quickly ..since we know that by seeing we can grasp things easily than listening ..Fabulous work by all my frndzz who coordinated n cooperated me ..The charts are prepared on basics of english that is parts of speech ..All have coordinated well in facebook by posting their ideas and by group chat the discussions went on well ..Niklesh has done a gr8 job by actively participating and posting many pics which inspired us alot ..As a part of preparing charts, i gathered the volunteers to share some views and distribute the work between ourselves .. I thank all of them specially because even under the absence of core team members they attended the meet and gave their valuable suggestions ..Seriously i experienced the hard work of core members as of a drop in an ocean ..But finally its the self satisfaction n productive work which sweeps away all the efforts put over ..i would like to thank rajshekar who pointed my few mistakes and corrected me :) Even when am discouraged at times its the volunteers who pushed n boosted me to complete the work successfully ..Frankly speaking am just a bridge between sreekanth and volunteers where an idea took its action form ..FLASH CARDS are on the way to take its implementation part ..Waiting eagerly for this academic sessions to start where all the volunteers are gonna rock on this year :) :) :)

A much needed Kick Start....

It was like any other meetings we have already conducted...wanted to discuss the  future aspects and the proper path to next year's activities...
The day kicked off with a little fumble...there was a mis communication with the people at Lamakaan...but thanks to those people...co-ordinated well and gave us the space...


The meeting began on a slow note...(Thanks to my poor anchoring skills...)but gradually as more and more volunteers slowly trickled in...the interest and the involvement also grew up...
Few experiences were shared....Karun shared his opinion on facing the challenges for Sahaya...
Eshwar and divya explained the experiences while conducting the Science fair...
And there was a highly motivating and inspiring speech from Revathi...she softly asked us to introspect ourselves....which is much needed....
Just as the meeting was going a little towards the kingdom of boredom...Sowmya ma'am came in and filled our nerves with energy an enthusiasm...

A round of complex questions for her from Rajasekhar,Vivek,Srinivas turned the meeting into  a sort of discussion...by the time she finished everyone had a clarity in handling the classes,motivated and were ready to take the future challenges to come ahead...in the meanwhile a bunch of volunteers ended up serving lemon water for the rest of us....
A spontaneously made skit from "creative" Karun and "Comrade" Sreeram made us understand the classroom situation in the schools...
Next came a bunch of surprises for our beloved president.....A series of wishes from far but near people....
And the meet came to an end....Giving us all a much needed kick-start to what we are trying to accomplish...