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