Vibrant and full of colorful hope through books

Our logo design incorporates a rainbow, Clouds, and a Book. Each 3 aspects of the design represent small parts of our dream Library for children.

Rainbows always stand for hope. Everyone can relate to the rainbow because it's in nature. It's rare, but when it appears everyone can see it. This simplicity and rareness would comprise curiosity, a Joy for Children through Sahaya. 

Clouds are symbol of imagination, creativity, and also inspiration. We sow seeds of inspiration in these books have motivated children to follow their dreams and achieve their potential.

Books - There are many little ways to enlarge child's world. Giving kids the Joy of reading is best of all. 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, kids learn something new – 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.

Every support, big or small, is a rainbow of hope.
You can choose to be a part of spreading the Joy.

Donate books. Enlighten lives. Ignite Minds.

Visit: www.sahayasociety.org/Library

Sahaya Premier League-13

Every Sunday has something or the other that makes the day special, but quite often they are made special by the SAHAYA sessions. The previous Sunday (15/09/13) was altogether different from the previous Sunday’s and previous sessions, it was a combination of Brain Storming session & Sahaya premier league. It turned out to be the best combination ever, and to this combination rain added much more essence& value (priceless). 

The SPL-13 started with the match between the home ground team KUKATPALLY KINGS & SHAMSHIGUDA SHERS; it was the match that I would never forget in my life. The spirit & the sportsmanship shown by the players of both the teams despite rain was Incredible & the captains of both the teams 

(Sreeram.G & Divya.P) who stood out in the front to represent their respective teams deserve a standing ovation , the match was nail biting were the result was not decided until the last ball. SHAMSHIGUDA team had the upper hand in the end. 

There were many things that one can discuss about this match, rather than describing them in this article it would be better that I start writing a book. (Semi-Colon Parenthesis)

Stats of the match: Kukatpally 49 Runs in 10 Over’s

                             Shamshiguda 50Runs in 9.4 Over’s 

(Final result: Shamshiguda won the match by 1 wicket).

Both the teams showed the spirit & Competition which is quite often observed in matches between INDIA & PAKISTAN. One thing that I can say to the people who missed this match, you missed a life time experience.  

And the second match of SPL-13 was between the SHAMSHIGUDA SHERS & MOSSAPET MUSKETEERS, it almost looked like a one sided match, Moosapet Team have dominated the match completely from the starting. The Innings by Sreeram Bhagavathula was worth watching and made him not only a great leader but definitely a great cricketer. His Innings showcased his love & respect towards the game of cricket.

Moosapet won the match quite sensibly & emerged as the strongest team of the day. 

Few people who were unique throughout the day: 

Best Team: Shamshiguda 

(played 2 games Back to Back, despite the bad climate)

Best Catch: Tej from VNR

Best Performance overall: Ravi from Shamshiguda

Most Consistent Player: Prathibha (1st ball four, next ball out)

Umpire of the Day: Harsha Vardhan

Super Golden Duck: Rama Raju (Credits to Anirudh for his golden words)

Bowler of the Day: Naga lakshmi (Three wickets in One over)

Best Silent Supporter: Divya Pinky

Active Players of the day: Sreeram.G, Manoj & Om Prakash

Coordinator of the day: Srikanth Kothala

Sledger of the Day: Nischal Samji

Cheer Boy of the Day: Anirudh

Best Captain: All FOUR 

Guest of the Day: Bharat Reddy

                In the end it was SAHAYA who won the match

We care, We Educate & We have Fun. We're Sahayans

Adios,

Anirudh Kasibhatla

Exploring New Methods of Teaching

Sahaya retreats periodically as a continuation of tradition from the establishment early on. Watching volunteers in action at regular sessions, events, gatherings and brainstorm sessions is an opportunity at lucid best growth of organization in providing better services to kids we are working for. This always motivates each one of us, brings out more ideas, with every idea we get a step closer to our goals.

More than teaching kids English and organizing events we are building platform for kids where they can design their dreams and more importantly achieve them.

The following illustration in our own creative way  in our teaching.

Children leaders - Idea was borne out from many discussion between our Volunteer G.Karthik and Nischal.

"Encouraging  high class students to teach/mentor the lower class"

Here is the illustration of IDEA by Sree Sruthi a volunteer from ZPHS kukatpally. She asks...

Ever tried asking this question to the students in the schools we visit?

Try asking this question, their answers will surprise you.  

There is an increasing pressure on the volunteer, especially with large, overcrowded classes of pupils with varying abilities, standards, mediums and languages. However, volunteers try to gather children's interests through various assessment methods and come up with productive ideas to motivate kids on their interests.

Kesana Santhosh Kumar suggested us to organize a field trip to motivate kids he teaches regularly.

Field Trip

Children learn about different professions, ideas and opportunities when they visit new places. A field trip can awaken the desire in a child to try new things and pursue previously unconsidered dreams and can spark new interests and passions.

There is much more that we have been able to accomplish in Sahaya. It is in the doing that we find out how kids can be motivated, inspired, benefited and what our own wonderful idiosyncrasies will be working.

Here illustration is the tool that I used to spark conversations and help volunteers build bridges within our team and across friends of Sahaya.

Thank you for being awesome

To make all our volunteer feel

that there is something in them

To look at the sunny side of everything

and make optimism come true.

To those who think only the best, work only for the best,

and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of organization

as are about children.

To learn from the challenges of the past

and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times

and give every kid you meet a smile.

To volunteer who give so much time to the improvement of children

To every little deed, to every caring effort 

Its time to appreciate who does something AWESOME.

A glimpse of work process with the help of Sanjana :-)

Cheers,

Srikanth

Stay tuned for updates on Giving kids the joy of reading

Mentoring Process at ZPGHS, Narsapur

I can say "life time opportunity for me to experience the Best"

We all know mentoring is not a new concept, but it only matters on how we look into this process. For me, mentoring process should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound.

The inception of this idea was borne out from a discussion between our Senior Volunteer Pro G.Karthik and our Chief Editor Nischal on April 28th 2013, where it started off with "encouraging some of the upper class students (10th) to teach/mentor the lower class". By the time it was an impossible proposition, but when we started analyzing on its practical implementation, we got to know that children will get benefited with the opportunities tailored to the needs within their own circumstances.

It's a tough decision to start off our mentoring process with Narsapur school because of its distance decay with other schools that we'd adopt. However with all faith driven hope, we have experienced the "Best Moments" during this entire mentoring process.

On 3rd August 2013....

                                                   Super Team of  13 lead by Ms.Shivani

                                                       During Mentoring Process

We noticed that the "Communication" plays a vital role in this process, where 10th class children should have rapport with 6 & 7 class children  that helps this program run smoothly.


On 15th Aug 2013...
 
Here is the Beautiful Picture story....

                                             We won't find any beautiful art than this...

                                  Students were practicing to perform for a Patriotic song

                                                                          At 7.30am

                                                                         At 8.30am

In this process, mentor efforts will bring energy to the program which able to expand participation and increase overall support from the participants.

                       One of our Mentors Ch. Priyanka with her feedback on this process

                                                              Feedback in detail

Very simple feedback, but effective as well, she strongly believe in mentoring process which is about individual learning and growth.

                                                                       Super dance Show

                                                                       Full House

                                                                         Patriotism

The main intention is to make our Mentors to gain invaluable insight beyond their own education and experience. In turn we strongly believe, these mentors can inspire and guide all the Volunteers of Sahaya in near future.

We are greatly looking forward to have these mentoring programs regularly in all Sahaya adopted schools for the benefit of Children. We will be encouraged students with specific goals and expectations in their academic pursuits.

Finally, we would like to THANK each and every volunteer by name for their strong foundation towards Event Oriented Activities under the name "Swecha".

With Respects
Sreeram Bh
Team SAHAYA