Successful Flood Relief Camp

Hi All,

Thank You all for your responses for the flood relief activity we planned. Initially we planned to conduct the activity on 17^th of October. Since many of you could transfer money after 17^th, we postponed it to 26^th of October based on the availability of the village heads where we decided to help.

As expected the response was overwhelming from many of you. We selected a village called K.Singavaram which is near Kothakota (35Kms from Kurnool). We had a lead from one of our friends in this village who helped us in identifying the correct families and also in helping us to distribute to each one of them correctly.

We discussed on various options but zeroed in on Woolen Blankets and Towels. There were 400 families in the village that required immediate help and we were requested to help all of them. Govt. gave them rice and other house holds items so we decided to distribute woolen blankets & Towels (also because it falls into our budget and more importantly because it was winter) to the 400 Families.

We bought 400 Woolen Blankets & 800 Towels in Kavali and divided them into 400 packets and transported them to K.Singavaram. Mr. Chinna Satyanarayana , helped us in collecting the ration cards of the families well before the distribution started helped us in issuing each pack based on the ration cards he had with him. This way every family got their pack.

Since this was a major event considering the budget, we combined with 2 similar organizations named Baasata (Read here)& Sphurthy who are doing an excellent job among themselves. They played an important role in collecting the money required to complete this Important event.Would like to take his opportunity to specially thank Revendranath from Basata & Praveen GR from Sphurthy.

The most challenging thing during the flood relief activity for any group is during distribution (Many organizations could not distribute to the right people because other village people started looting the vehicles midway). So would like to thank Venkat Babu, Mr. Ratna Prasad & Chinna Satyanarayana (Head of the Village) in helping us take the parcels safely from Kurnool.

A special thank you note to all the people who came forward with old clothes(many of them still new). we were told that many of the villages were not accepting old clothes so we did not take them with us. We have around 60-70 pairs of old clothes right now. We are still collecting them and waiting for a genuine opportunity to distribute them.Kindly let us know in case you find people who are in need of old clothes.

Special Thanks to Revendranath from Basata for organizing the entire event which took a lot of effort.

Donations:

Baasata Society Rs.24,776/-

Our Revolutions + Sphurthy Foundation Rs 25,200/-

Grand Total : Rs.49,976/-

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Expenses :
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400 Woollen Blankets + 400 Towels : Rs.42,352/- (Includes Rs.280/- packing charges)
Transportation : Rs.04,100/- (Includes Rs.100/- for driver(Mahesh))
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Grand Total : Rs.46,425/-
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Remaining Amount with us : Rs. 03,624/-

Photos & Paper Clippings:

Few Photos below, will be adding the remaining photos and paper clipping soon

Regards,

Team REVOLUTIONS

Time to Unite & Support the Flood affected

Hi All,

Please treat this as a little urgent and come forward in all the ways you can. In the wake of recent floods in AP and Karnataka, we are planning to help the victims through "Revolutions" in all the ways we can. As we know many People in Kurnool dist, AP are worst affected and have lost everything. Your trash can be some ones treasure. So we request you to donate what ever you can, like Old clothes (More Importantly Bedsheets), medicines, money etc.Also please forward this mail to people you know and help us to gather as much as we can through Revolutions. We have already discussed this with some of the key members in Spurthi foundation and planning to help the people in Kurnool through a Physical visit on 16th October.

Please go through the following and let us know if we can do any thing better.

How to donate clothes and medicines?
Please collect clothes from your friends, neighbors/all possible sources and send a mail to Ourrevolutions@gmail.com/Grpraveenkumar@gmail.com with your address & number of clothes, if it is in Bangalore/Chennai/Madanapalli. If you have friends in other places who are willing to donate, please inform us so that we can plan to collect them as well through our network of friends.

How to contribute in funding for their relief activities?

You can send you contributions to the following account Bhaskar Sandra (A/C Number ICICI A/C No- 029701002755.) with a copy of the transaction email to ourrevolutions@gmail.com

How will the goods reach the needy ?
Few of our members are traveling to serve the affected villages on 17th Oct to distribute the collected goods the victims. Money will NOT be distributed directly but will be used to buy utensils and other necessities to the victims. As usual, a detailed account of income and expenditure will be shared to all the members.

In the first phase we decided to concentrate on one village called CHINNAMUDIYAM in Kurnool District. as one guy from that village is a colleague to one of our team members. He is trying to find out the people who are really affected and also preparing the list of things required to be donated. This way we feel that our Clothes/Medicine/Food Items are reaching the needy.

So request you all to help for this cause as much as you can.
Its time for us to show our humanity and support for the victims of the biggest natural calamity and we trust any little help from Revolutions team will make a Big difference for the needy.

Feel free to contact us on further queries (Mail Ids, Numbers). Also let us know if you want to visit along with us.

Many Thanks in Advance
Team
Revolutions

Our Bond Continues with Vidyadeep

Hi All,

We are pleased to share our "Revolutions" recent activity at Vidyadeep which was held on 22 Aug, 2009. This has shown them the Continued caring and sharing from Revolutions Team. To brief you our relationship with Vidyadeep, our Team had conducted a Uniform & Meal Distribution drive in December 2008 (Read here). Further, we had constant touch points with the School Admins and decided to donate some recreational Sports & Game kits on the Independence day Eve.

At the event, We were given a warm welcome at the event and the response from the kids was overwhelming.Our cheif guest was Mr. Somasekhar Pillai who has delivered a message oriented speech for children. Our interaction with students was much joyful as we were asking each and every individuals interest areas and gifted the game kits accordingly and Overall we had a great fun in that valuable time.Apart from the Sports kits, we have purchased some General Knowledge books, Maps and some Teaching equipment for Mentally challenged kids. Here is the distributed items list.

Abacus slates
Physiotherapy balls
Magnetic Numbers,frutis,vegitables,animals,cooking utensils and other identifiers

Chess & Carrom Boards
Volley balls & Footballs

Cricket Balls
Skipping Ropes
Word Building

Puzzles, Shapes and Color Identifiers
Teaching aid material for Mentally challenged kids.

Our team has done a great job for this event which included (Diwakar, Hari, Kishore(MPL), Praveen, Vishu). A big Thanks for Hari of our Team for being contributor for this event.

Here is the Expense calculation for the event.

Contribution from Hari : 5000

Expenses :

Sports Goods : 1200

Books, Slates & Maps etc : 700

Color Identifiers, puzzle games, building blocks : 500

With Hari's concurrence we donated 1000 rs to spoorthy foundation

Remaining Amount : 1600

Please have a glance at the pictures taken at the function by clicking here

Stay glued for the upcoming events.

Thank you
Team
Revolutions

Time to Celebrate as Revolutions turns 3!!!

Another year, the time calls for yet another celebration on the achievement of another milestone.

Yes Team, Our Revolutions has turned quickly to 3...:)

It's the time to celebrate the happiness that we are always giving and the light we are spreading to the society as a team. Celebrate what we want to see more of.

A big thank you to all of you for being a proud part of this journey and Thank you for being a part of all our endeavors and making Our Revolutions what it is today.

A glance at the events we have conducted in the last one year:

Sponsored complete term fee for Vinaykumar and Reddy Prasad, students of 9th and 10th class in ArogyaMatha School.

“The Revolutions” was made official by registering as a society at Registrar office, Chittoor (effective from Nov 1st, 2008).

School Uniform Distribution Drive at VidyaDeep School, Madanapalle.

Event@ Naren Rehab centre, Madanapalle- Provided Groceries & knickers cloth for 30 kids.

Aksharabyasam & Badibata programs through which we had sponsored stationery kits for 450 children surrounding villages of Madanapalle.

Apart from these,Velu who got operated last year with the help of our team is now a member of Revolutions and ready to contribute in all the ways he can.

A great pleasure to see that all the achievements that we had engaged came up with the combined effort of each individual from the team. Kudos for everyone!!

We are looking forward to your continuous support and encouragement with which we can take many initiatives, improvements and innovations in spreading the smiles to the society.

A special thanks to our active participants Diwakar, Bhaskar, Praveen, Bhanu and Shakeer for their special coordination for the activities.

Let’s wish our team Revolutions another bright year to lend its helping hands in many more activities.

Stay glued for the upcoming events and Wish our team to gear up for yet another successful year.

Once again, let’s round up our anniversary celebrations by raising 3 cheers.
One for each successful year!!

Team
Revolutions

Good News about Velu

Hi All,

         As you are aware about Velu ( The Accident Victim whom we helped in getting operated, Read here ). He is 75 % fit now. He will have to wait for 1-2 months for the bone to get completly fixed but he started  driving once in a while and started earning slowly. He also promised us that he will donate 500 for the next event to be conducted by our REVOLUTIONS team. 

 Never felt so happy :) 

As they say "PAY IT FORWARD"

Team 

REVOLUTIONS

Loud and Sound we say - JAI HO!!!

Yes Team,

It's the time to congratulate each other JAI HO as this event was a huge success and has definitely added a feather in the cap of Our Revolutions. This is a BIG event from Revolutions team so far that has incorporated the value of Education in many lives. Every moment was exciting for us as we were able to plant yet another Stem of Education in Our Revolutions tree. And the Success Spree continues....

To brief you the event, Its a govt. program about bringing back the drop outs to school and also to educate people in joining the kids to school. We decided to encourage all the new joinees with all the stationary required.Our team has reached the village "Balanayini palli" on 20-June-09 at 10 AM and received a warm welcome from School Management and Staff. Strength of around 100 students was present for the event. We have many more guests like MLA, ZPTC, MPP & MEO who attended the function on behalf of Education Board of Govt.

The program was initiated by Principal of Balanayini palli school explaining the importance of Education in every one's life and the encouragement that Revolutions team is providing for Education. After this, we had a good interaction with Staff over there and got to know the reasons behind the hampering in Education start up. The discussions we had with many parents were heart moving and they were very thankful for our concern towards their lives. We made most of them realize the importance of schooling in every kid's life. Then the actual event has kicked off with the distributions as our team has chipped in to donating the stationary items to the kids. After we finished the program in Balanayani palli, the event was extended to Nimmanapalli, and then to other Villages. As promised, we were able to spread the Happy learning in all the ways we can. Overall the time we spent with kids was so cheerful.

Here are some highlights of the event.

• Our Contributions were made towards the Program BADI BATA which is to bring back the drop outs to the school and also join the new ones. AKSHARABHYASAM is a shorter version of the event which is dedicated only to KG Kids.
• We have gifted the stationary items to totally 450 students. The kit includes a School bag, Notebook, Slate, Pencil and Eraser.
  
• Team has spent some valuable time with the Parents. We were very successful in motivating the parents in making them believe that education is the most important thing that paves success in everyone's life
  
• In Balinayani palli, we have announced that we would give 500 rs as gift money to the top three students in the class and also would pay for their books the next year.
  
• The team has also interacted with Press people and spent some time in answering their questions and also conveyed the Motto behind Our Revolutions. They have promised us that they will help us in identifying the needy in future.
  

A Special note of thanks to Mr. Somashekar Pillai, MEO of Nimmanapalli Mandal and the Staff for helping us in identifying the students and arranging the needful facilities in a short notice.

List of volunteers involved: Diwakar,Bhanu,Vishnu,Kishore,Lawrence,Hariprasad & Shakeer from Our Revolutions team and Staff from respective schools.

Please go through the following link for the photos that covered the entire event here:

Donation Details :

S.No. Name Money Donated

1. Buffer Amount 6000
   
2. Bhanu Murthy 3000
   
3. Praveen Kumar 3000
   
4. Trilok 5000
   
5. Shyam Prasad 500
   
6. Siddarth Muvva 270
   
7. Deepika 2500
   
8. Diwakar 1039
   
9. Hari Kishore 1000
   
10. Bhaskar Sandras 2000
    
11. Yogesh Gupta 501
    
12. Pallavi 5000
    
13. Hari Prasanna 170
    
14. C K Santosh 500
    

Expense Details:

Total Number of Students : 450

Cost of each bag : 38 Rs

Total Amount spent on bags : 17000 Rs ( Bargained to 17000 totally)

Cost of each Stationary kit : 29 Rs/- ( Kit Includes a Slate,Book,Pencil, Eraser)

Total Amount spent for Kit : 13050

Transport : 430 Rs/-

Total Amount Spent : 30480 Rs/-

A sincere and heart felt thanks to everyone for your support and contribution which helped us again in making a difference in a BIG way and spreading smiles through Education and wish we will have more volunteers next time.

Media too covered this event, You can watch the clippings here , here & here

Thanks again,

Team REVOLUTIONS.

Aksharabhyasam- A new platform for Revolutions

Hi All,

Here comes a new platform for Revolutions-"Aksharabhyasam". As the Academic year 2009-10 starts for the Children, Team Revolutions is geared up for a big event which helps many kids in their Education Startup.

We had a break for two months as we required some time for capturing the exact information and planning regarding this. Hence we needed an extra mile in converting our plans to on paper implementations and all set for this in a short time.

About Aksharabhyasam, is a program dedicated in encouraging every Child to know the value of their Education in their early stages. For this we have gathered information from reliable sources (Officers in charge for education for few Mandals - Luckily it was one of our members Father) in a few villages near MPL with which our initial estimation has strength of 450 children.

As a part of that, we decided to donated some basic needs like Slates, Notebooks, Stationary kits and School bags from Revolutions team to each and every student. We are confident that this is a quality time for gifting, Educating and sharing, to show how much we care for their Education. As they start their Academic year, let us donate some basic needs of Education to those who have not been as fortunate.

That's the event we have planned to start this academic year. All the time we were moving ahead with a great faith on the spirit and enthusiasm of our friends and so we were able to succeed in organizing these activities. We expect the same support from all of you.

So please do send us the feedback/queries/suggestions to Ourrevolutions@Gmail.com by End of this week (13-June-09) as we can start our preparations in the coming week.

Further interested members can send their contributions to the following A/C followed by an intimation mail.

Name: Bhaskar Sandra
ICICI A/C No- 029701002755.

Venue Details will be mailed soon.

We call for volunteers to spend some quality time with these children to know them, and let them know the importance of Education.
Let’s spread the Happy Learning in all the ways we can.

Thank you
Team Revolutions

Event @ Naren Rehabilitation, Madanapalli

Hi All,

We wish to update you on the recent activity of Revolutions. Last Sunday i.e. on 1st of Feb, We got the opportunity to visit Naren Rehab Center which is in Burma Road, Madanapalle. Naren Institute is an orphanage home which provides shelter for around 30 orphans and most of the kids in this are afflicted ones. It was good to know the services taken by Management of Naren Institute. But currently they are running short of funds and finding it a bit difficult to meet up there basic needs. As it was our unplanned visit, we have asked them to provide us the list of some urgent requirements with which we have sponsored them some Groceries for one month, Knickers cloth for 30 kids ( They said they have a tailor who will stitch it for free) and a Medicines.for Fits etc. for one month.

If anybody wants to contribute something towards Naren Rehab Center, please contact us on Bhaskar (09886770051)

Stay tuned for the update on future activities of "The Revolutions".

Thank you.

Team

The Revolutions.

School Uniform Distribution Drive @ VidyaDeep, Madanapalle.

Hi All, 

This time we got the opportunity to take up a “Clothes and Food Distribution Drive” @ VidyaDeep Orphanage, Madanapalle.

 VidyaDeep is a Orphanage set up in madanapalle which takes care of around 40 orphans/mentally Challenged kids.We were so moved when we visited this school last time that we decided to donate school uniforms to the kids.

After finishing our Alumni meet on 27th Dec, we have planned for this Drive on 28-Dec-08. We gathered at the venue in the morning at 11:00 a.m. The kids and staff were keenly awaiting our arrival. As soon as we reached, we started our preparations in arranging the requirements. In a little time we have received our Honorable guests(Parents of some of our team members) for this occasion. 

What made this drive even more special was the enthusiasm shown by the Kids who were interacting with us very actively. Our team had a good time with the kids who performed the activities like Playing, Dancing and singing. we were so shocked to see the kids singing all kinds of songs and few of them were so good at dancing. 

The actual event started off with a prayer from the school children followed by the valuable speeches of our guests and then we distributed School Uniforms (Giving the very short duration to arrange, we couldnot get them stitched so we decided to donate the cloth on that day and will get them stitched later),Stationary (viz.. Pens,Pencils,Sharpners,Erasers & Sketch Pens), Chocolates & sponsored for Lunch soon after the function. 

After a while we all had a lunch together with them. All in all, we can say this was a huge success and it wouldn’t have been the same without the tremendous support and enthusiasm of our team members. 

Would like to take this oppurtunity to specially thank 

• Trilok for being the main sponsor
  
• Mohan Reddy from 2001 Mechanical Batch (MITS), who came forward as soon as we contacted
  
• Shakeer who donated the money his team won in a quiz event at his office.
  
• Praveen who donated a used (Good Condition) washing machine 
  
• Siva who donated a sum of 1000/- to the school directly.
  
• Vishnu who donated Tennis balls for the kids
  

And all the whole team who made this a huge success. 

You Can find few pics in the following link. 

(http://picasaweb.google.co.in/ourrevolutions/ClothesDonationVidyadeepOrpanage?feat=email#) 

Stay tuned for the update on the upcoming events in the year 2009.....

Happy New Year 

Cheers.

Team Revolutions