SAHAYA FAMILY's 4th ANNIVERSARY

Again and again SAHAYA for needy is turning out to be a reality show for all the volunteers with fun packed entertainment and loads of new things to learn...

Day starting pleasantly in the morning to SANGHI TEMPLE for the 4 anniversary of SAHAYA considerably my first bday in sahaya.We have travelled all the way to the temple with full energy and enthusiasm whereas we returned back into the bus with our feet fried in the hot sun...But a nice experience to visit a temple with all the members of sahaya which meant me as a family visit..

After that a exhaustive journey to the cotton mill nearby in an adventurous route..probably we have traveled all the way through ''THE ROAD NOT TAKEN'' to the cotton mills and had a good learning session of visit in the mills...
After that the favorite time of all the lunch time as usual our friends proved that they are experts in preparing delicious items which gave us a sound meal for the lunch..

After lunch it started a long good celebration cermony in which we had a great time with all the presentations to our friends...(A type of National award presentation done by presentors Karun and Nischal in a most interesting way)

And the award winners are.;....
BEST ATTIRE: Srinivas and Malli chowdary
BEST TEAM: Team of bhuvana and naga saranya
BEST IDEA : Rama Raju
BEST EMERGING VOLUNTEER: Bharath Reddy ,Sushmitha
BEST BLOG :Neelima
BEST VOLUNTEERS :Eshwar and Bhavya

We all shared our experiences during our journey in sahaya in a most expressive way...(Mine is the most worst speech with no links of the topic:-p)

The point to be noted in this session of presentation is that i have learned inspirational aspects from all the core team members especially the way they presented and the way they planned is a great sign to learn..

we have ended the celebrations with the certificate presentations to all of us which we felt a proud thing to achieve...

Our fantastic day ended with the hand prints of the ""BEST OF 2012"" and we called it off a day and returned back to home with loads and loads of happines and enjoyment..

But as usual my personal experience of the is a wonderful one in which no member of the core team nominated themselves in the awards which all the members of the core team really deserve all the awrds presented... This shows how they care us and how they respect our happinessss....

I feel that a  year of emotios and happiness in SAHAYA which is a relation in my life which i never end and the relation which made me to turn up into a new person....
      LOVE YOU ALLLLLLL
 

Fantastic Four Years...

This is a journey of an ordinary people started way back in 2008, where they turned out to be more focused with composure and dignity by having 150 professional volunteers operating 8 Govt schools in and around Hyderabad. Sometimes our journey was very tough with many ups and downs because of the environment we are in, if all else fails in any situation criticism will be severe. It takes time getting used to extreme reactions of different levels from the state of joyousness through cordial and indifferent to irritation and sometimes ends up with the state of incongruity.

One of the things that have always lifted us as a volunteer is the aspirations and exaggeration of the children when we attend a session. On every session, it always amazes me how much they light up and waited for every Sahaya session that they’d. There is an instantaneous smile, directed not just at the volunteers they see – but after the session, for whatever reason, means something to cheer up their lives.

Our events in the school are living entity going through a most remarkable time i.e., on every patriotic occasion. In this last year, Sahaya represents more than ever before with innovations that we brought here through establishment of libraries, field trip and many more, though our volunteers are from different colleges, who had different attitudes and perceptions, follow different ideas, but we stand as a single unit in developing the standards of organization with meticulous care and discipline.

Personally, I enjoyed every session in Sahaya, I marveled at the range of difference and the ability of students from so many different backgrounds to share a classroom, to accept, accommodate and respect that difference. In a world growing more insular, being a volunteer to a social organization like Sahaya is a precious quality to acquire, because it stays for life and helps you understand students better, understand the significance of the other which in turn gives you the great respect and responsibility in country’s development. On the eve of Sahaya's 4th anniversary, here we deeply appreciated all our patrons, well wishers and volunteers who gave us the courage to work for a noble cause that we initiated four years back.

With Respects

4 fantastic years...

When we started sahaya, we didn't expect anything. We didn't have a great master plan for a successful organization for children run by enthusiastic volunteers like you all. Then fire finds first form. We did not lose focus, we relied on instinct more than once, we stayed patient, and we pulled the occasional hurdels...

That was 2008..

And then you came along..
We passed the word along, dropped emails, campaigned. You joined hands with us. You let us know that we matter. You let us know that we are doing something meaningful. And you let us know that our humble work deservs your attention. And we carefully handled it...

That was 2009..
Sahaya has changed. That small obscure team of six members and one school evolved in to professional organization , editorial structures and we grew big...

The sahaya family no longer has only 6 members, but rather a dedicated team of experienced volunteers Friends of Sahaya, expert advisors....

we all do our best to give children a joy of learning and encourage them to dream but more importantly aspire to empower them to deliver on their dreams.

That was 2010...
Sahaya is a quality obsossed, passionate team but is also you... Every single volunteer has been working with sahaya.

That was 2011...
This week sahaya turns 4. Its hard to believe that the years have passed so quickly.


For us 2011 was the year where we feel like Sahaya came to grips with its medium.
Collective work has helped us really understand that. Not only that it has helped our kids, to whom we bring wonderful books for, understand it..
       
The rise of good responsive project "My Library" has been most memorible. Many things have changed when we look back, we realize how wonderful the journey has been so far...

this is 4 years of GROWTH and SUCCESS..

Promising Kids - Emerging Leaders

We believe the great way of learning the situation is intricately depending on the best way of experiencing the very same situation. Every session in Sahaya has its own significance in extending and strengthening the knowledge and wisdom from session to session. Similar kind of experience has been taken place with few students on our last session at ZPHS Kukatpally. As we all know, we have established a library at ZPHS Kukatpally as a Children’s Day gift to the said school. Now the greatest challenge is to run the library without any imaginary hurdles or virtual boundaries on the utilization of the Library books which it is meant for!

TEAM - My Library

Yes, there is a solution and we found it from our concept titled “My Library”. Most of the students are very enthusiastic in taking up challenges; few may feel they’re the “LEADERS FOR BETTER INDIA”. Though the concept of picking up the students was not up to the standards but still it is good enough because they came on their own interest. At the initial stages of the Sahaya, we “Core Team” work as Volunteers later with that experience turned into Organizers. This transformation was not happened in a single night, it takes 3 long years to learn the pros and cons of organizing an event. Now, we believe the transformations will come by assigning tasks and responsibilities to the students in the school level itself which in turn gives the good and responsible citizens to the society. From here, there are no more assumptions, we are on action to build and give the good society to the coming generations where the society itself is free from all evils. Our focus to assign a task to a particular student as follow..

1.    The selected student should be able to maintain confidentiality and that he/she is should be further capable of soliciting advice from wise and knowledgeable people for appropriate allocation of the work.

2.    Specific mention is also made regarding library administration, stating that preference is to be given to the student who is capable of maintaining discipline through regular contact with other students.

3.    To impart leadership qualities that pave the way for success through task management and student management.

4.    There is always kind attention and bold focus on the special students through register entry in library, personal assessment and so on.

In very near future we can see LEADERS dealing with task management and student management, where they can able to initiating the task and also capable in multi-task management by finding ways and means, ultimately with well-chosen expressions. Equal emphasis is also laid on stressing the need for self-reliance and absence of despondency, with the virtues of endurance and humility which eventually lead to prosperity of their own and others too.

Hoping for the Best...

Sreeram B

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