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From: Bikshapathi Nayakwadi
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:31 AM
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Bikshapathi Rao Nayakwadi

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Smiling, Sharing, Loving, Caring and Helping are my five main weaknesses

 

 

 

Helping Others Offers Surprising Benefits

Help yourself by helping others.

Published on July 2, 2012 by Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP in Do the Right Thing

You may have read about the newly released research study from the University of British Columbia about toddlers being happier when they give to others (see 1 below). The lead author, Prof. Lara Aknin, stated that “these findings show that children are actually happier giving than receiving.” This is no surprise in my book and there is much that we can learn aboutstress

 management, resilience, and happiness from this and similar studies in recent years.

In a nutshell, if you want to cope better with stress serve others. Stress management and resilience can be enhanced by connecting with others in need. For example, my students and I conducted a study of college students attending spring break immersion trips where they worked with those who are poor and marginalized either domestically or overseas (see 2 below). Assessing their resilience (as well as other psychological constructs like compassion, stress management, empathy) before they left for the trip, when they returned, and several months later in follow up we found that those who went on these community service learning experiences managed stress over time better than those who did not attend these trips. We believe that this finding is due to better perspective taking. When you have a sense of how much of the world lives (not the Hollywood celebrities and even some of your peers) you have a better perspective on life as well as the hassles and challenges of our lives too. Additionally, you experience more empathy, compassion, and solidarity with others as well.

 

Research by several of my colleagues (see 3 below) has also found that volunteerism (defined as two hours per week over many years) reduces mortality rates by 40 percent. This is really quite remarkable research. Since it isn’t a randomized clinical trial we can’t be exactly sure how this works but it may speak to the notion that serving others can be both good for your mental and physical health.

So, if you want to manage stress better and be more resilient, think about giving back by helping others in need. You’ll probably get more than you can possibly give if you do so. And you’ll likely be happier to boot.

So, what do you think?

Further reading….

(1)   Aknin, L. B., Hamlin, J. K., & Dunn, E. W. (2012). Giving leads to happiness in young children. PLoS ONE, 7(6): e39211

 

 

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Don't be scared to take a risk

 

Don't be scared to take a risk

Your priorities keep changing, so you might need to do a course correction. Don't be scared to experiment. "A lot of people are risk averse. But nothing in life is zero risk," says Puri. If you are at a stage in your life when you are not in a position to take that risk, postpone your decision. But don't let it constrict you, he adds.

 

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Smiling, Sharing, Loving, Caring and Helping are my five main weaknesses

 

When there is no holiday, everyone is teacher, everything is resource and everywhere is school!

When there is no holiday, everyone is teacher, everything is resource and everywhere is school!

 

Isha is turning two and a half. And the question that I get asked (that parents exchange among each other) in various one-on-one meetings and gatherings is 'Which school are you putting your child into?' I tell them 'Isha is not going to go to any school.' While some parents are quite shocked that there is such an option in the first place, there are others who ask me 'Are you going to homeschool her?' I tell them 'Yes and No, depending on what you mean by ‘homeschooling’!' There are elderly people (grandparents of kids who come to the park) who go off on a long lecture telling me why I am doing the wrong thing, and on and on...' Here is an FAQ where I have attempted to answer questions that we as parents get asked often.

Why won't you send Isha to school?
1. Children have an inherent intelligence and ability to learn with much joy. Schools don't respect this and treat them as empty containers that contain little or no knowledge, which need to be filled using instructions and information.

2. Children learn things with tremendous curiosity, joy and focus, when they have a context for them at that point in their lives. Schools thrust information usually with no context or relevance for the child, making 'learning' an unnecessarily painful struggle or a superficially intellectual exercise. It all begins and ends with what she can and can't memorise and remember.

3. Children are beautiful souls that are born into this world to be respected, nurtured and helped to function at their highest potential. They need help to be able to listen to and follow their own calling and fulfill their unique purpose in life. Schools put all children through standardised training and churn out people who all think and act similarly. If you give some crayons and paper and ask a bunch of ten-year old children to draw something, they are very likely to all draw either a house, a mountain with a sun-peeping out, an Indian flag, a flowering pot, or a tree. If you tell them to draw something other than all these, they are very likely to say ‘I don’t know how to draw anything else!’ This is how our schools rob our children of their innate creativity and confidence.

 

I know many young people who have landed themselves comfortable IT jobs who wonder 'Oh my, how did I get here?' Our home regularly hosts such people who wonder what to do with their lives, trying to find their own paths that are more meaningful and nourishing for themselves. Most importantly, a path that is their own!

4. The world around us is a beautifully woven web of relationships - between people, places, animals and things. It is one big ‘school’, if you want to call it that, the child can have an endless go at learning so much. Schools keep children within four walls (four compound walls, if you include the PT period) and tell them all they need to learn is there and can be found in text books!

5. Whether children or adults, we all learn in a beautiful natural rhythm. We get interested in something when it has some relevance or context for us in our lives, or when it presents answers to some question that has been gnawing at us from our insides. Or simply because there is an unknown place inside of ourselves that is drawing us to it for reasons our small minds may not be able to grasp.

 

When we get naturally interested in something, we then get curious. We then slowly warm up to it, immerse in it (experience, information, exploration, etc), stay there soaking it up with all our being – five senses and beyond. Then follows a quiet do-nothing time when we are actually assimilating everything we have experienced. This period is important for that is when we are seeing for ourselves what deeply resonates with us and what doesn’t. We take in what does and reject what doesn’t. This has been my own learning cycle, as I’m learning to slowly recover it. Learning this way about one subject can go on anywhere from hours to months! ­

 

Schools fragment learning into 45-minute blocks, when none of this can happen, making learning a very inefficient process. It is like constantly being given something to eat (for a period of 8 hours) without allowing any time for the body to digest the first food and to become hungry for the next, gagging all the way! Even the most nutritious and tastiest food cannot be assimilated or enjoyed in this way.

 

What if Isha grows up and then turns around asking you ‘Why didn’t you send me to school like other parents?’

Well, for one none of the grown up children of parents (who I know) who have made this choice ask such a question. A few have asked to go to school briefly, and stopped going in a matter of days! Like a friend (father of two girls who don’t go to school) often says when he gets asked this question, ‘Do you think a wild tiger cub that grew up in a forest, would one day turn around and ask her mom tigress why she never grew up in a cage?’  

 

Will she be able to join college / a professional programme if she wants to?

Yes. If she chooses to. India has a way for kids to write the ‘National Open School’ exam which can open the doorway even to IIT. You can read about the 14-year old boy who never went to school, who took this exam, was an IIT-JEE topper (All India Rank #33) and is now a student at IIT-Delhi.

 

How can you ‘choose’ for your child? Isn’t it like imposing your preferences and ideals on her?

­­Isn’t sending your child to school a choice you are making too? Just because everyone else makes that choice does not make it any less of a choice. By sending children to school, parents are deciding how 8 hours (+ homework and study time) is spent by their children. Actually, it is school-going children who have no choice in how they spend their time!

 

If you are a vegetarian, aren’t you choosing ‘vegetarianism’ for your child? If you are non-vegetarian, are you not making that same choice for your child? Everything we do for (and with) our children is a choice we are making for them, consciously or unconsciously. As parents, we are all making choices for them which we think will serve their interest and welfare in the best possible way, within our means. Ours is one such choice.

 

Research has shown that children who have grown up eating and developing a taste for healthy unprocessed food are very unlikely to get addicted to junk food. In this case, would we say that we made choices for our children that made them dislike junk food, which is actually ‘so tasty’? In the same way, children who have grown up experiencing a healthy relationship with the world and with the process of learning, are very unlikely to dislike learning anything or to be want to be forced to learn anything when they grow up!

 

Are you going to homeschool Isha?

Yes, if homeschooling means exposing Isha to various learning environments (including libraries and books) outside the institution called ‘school’.

No, if it means having a strict syllabus which will tell her she needs to cover this and that in Physics and Geography, made to pass this grade and that. 

Won’t children lose out on social skills if you keep them at home?

Yes, it is very important for children to play and learn with other children. And it is sad that the only place that we can all think of for such coming together of children is school. But if we are more and more parents making this choice, we can work together on creating more nourishing and creative spaces when kids can come together!

We all went to school. Haven't we all turned out fine?
This is a tricky question to answer! I don't want to judge how fine each of us turned out. But the point is, if we had grown up learning a little less stressfully, a little more joyfully, being encouraged a little bit more to be creative, respected a little bit more, don't you think we'd have been finer than we are?


Are there other parents making such a choice?
Slowly but surely, the tribe is growing. You can see indiahomeschoolers.ning.com


Do you have the support of your family?
Isha is blessed with grandparents (on both sides) who work with us so beautifully as one team! When we talked about this choice with Rajeev's parents, his mother in fact said 'What a relief it is to know that you don't have to get stressed, waking up a sleepy child every morning, stuffing her mouth with food and send her to school!' My father-in-law in fact enthusiastically joined the Indian Homeschoolers Online network!

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Rajeev and I are working to co-create a network of parents in Chennai who think similarly. If you would like to be part of the network, we’d be thrilled to welcome you. If you have more questions, we’re both always available to answer them for you. Its true that we don’t have all the answers. But we feel so right about this decision that we feel confident that answers will unfold as we walk the path. In any case, you are most welcome to join us in this journey.

 

Please write to us at

rajeevpn@gmail.com

sriram.sangeetha@gmail.com

 

Your Days Define Your Life

Posted on June 7, 2012

Big idea: Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny – shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. There’s no such thing as an unimportant day.

Each of us is called to greatness. Each of us has an exquisite power within us. But for this power to grow, we need to use it. The more you exercise it each day, the stronger it gets. The more this power gets tapped, the more confident you grow.

The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life. And the days slip into weeks, the weeks into months and before they know it, they arrive at a place called Extraordinary.

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Grow Leaders Fast

Posted on June 7, 2012

Big Idea: The competitive advantage of your organization comes down to a simple imperative – your ability to grow and develop leaders faster than your competition. You need to develop a leadership culture if you want to win in your marketspace. And it needs to be done quickly.

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, like a CEO or Managing Director. This means they focus on getting to solutions rather than on the problems. This means they take personal responsibility for achieving results that move the business forward (whether they run the mailroom or sit in a boardroom). This means they shape culture, stay positive and lead by example.

Please hear me on this: I’m not saying everyone needs to do the job of a CEO or Managing Director. Showing leadership doesn’t mean every employee will run the organization. That would lead to chaos. All I’m suggesting to you is that everyone needs to know their role (and then show up fully in that role – like a leader would). And when they do – when they think, behave and feel like leaders – good things will happen. And soon, your organization will get to great.

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Master Your Life - and Have Fun Doing It

 

Dear Sreenivasa, 2011 is finding it's way to completion. Many of us are thinking about the holidays - and joy-filled moments with those we love most. This is also a superb time to carve out some solo time and begin reflecting on what you did well in 2011. And what you need to improve so that the new year is guaranteed to become your absolute best year yet. Please remember: success doesn't just show up via luck. No, success is the inevitable result of doing a number of specific things, in a consistent way. So as you reflect+deliberate on+journal your 2011 wins and record your "Opportunities for Improvement" (along with your 2012 Mission+Values and Goals), I invite you to remember the following 6 Insights to Master Your Life:   1. IT IS ALL ABOUT YOU! What I mean by this is that the #1 reason you may not be where you want to be in your career and personal life is who you currently are vs the external conditions you might be blaming. It's stunning how our limiting beliefs and core fears sabotage us and keep us small. And here's the thing: because most of them are subconscious, we can't even see the mess they are creating for us.   The key here is to clean up the self-deception in your life. And take a good hard look at why you are where you are. Is the truth that you're scared of failure or rejection or the unknown or success? The more aware you become of how you're the one standing in your own way, the more you'll move into choice. And have the power to make the new choices that drive new results.   2. YOUR NET WORTH NEVER EXCEEDS YOUR SELF WORTH. We get from life not all we want but who we are. To have more, we must become more. The more you can learn, grow and provoke the highest display of your potential on a daily basis, the more all you want will begin to show up. (How do you start this growth? Journaling, affirmations, reading the books of world-class people, associating with superstars, attending seminars+webinars, listening to inspirational audiobooks etc).   3. FOCUS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN INTELLIGENCE. You're smart enough to master your life - and play in the big leagues of success. Here's another thing that may be holding you back: you're really busy being busy. But what's the point of being uber-productive doing useless things?   So much of the leadership presentations I delivered across the planet in 2011 for clients like Starbucks and The Coca-Cola Company and KPMG involved showing people how to make the leap from being busy to achieving results. Two quick ways: turn off your technology for a few hours each day and do Real Work. And second, make your Stop Doing List more important than your To Do List.   4. DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED. OK, so here's the reality: the next 20 years will be nothing like the last 20 years. You and your team and your organization can "wait for the up cycle to return". But I think you'll be waiting a long time. I don't think we're in a down cycle. I think the way the global economy+society currently is, is the new reality. And if you agree with me, there's only one choice for any one of us: innovate - or become obsolete.   So, to win in 2012, out-think who you were this year and out-learn what you learned and outwork the way you worked. Read constantly. Iterate daily. And ferociously improve every part of the way you think, work and live.   5. SHATTER YOUR STANDARDS. It's stunning how many people - built to play at wow with their lives - accept mediocrity in their health, finances, work, relationships and mindset (the problem with letting a little mediocrity into your orbit is more starts to creep in until eventually it becomes your new normal).   Right now, I challenge you with my usual respect and affection, to raise your standards. Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.   6. HAVE SOME FUN. Life's a short ride when you really think about it. Yes, do your dreams while you change the world. But do it with a smile. And a festive heart. Make time for life's simple pleasures (the other day my daughter and I shared Chinese food in the food court of a shopping mall; the laughter and joy we experienced - priceless). Savor life's gifts. Embrace all that's good in your life.   And from me to you, and from my family to yours, have a beautiful holiday season and year end. Thanks for all the tremendous support you've given me this year. Let's keep the conversation going on my Facebook page. And - together - make a difference in the world!   Kindest regards,   Robin

P.S. If this article resonates with you, you'll love my "Master Your Life Holiday Bundle" that I've put together to get you ready to fly in 2012: http://www.robinsharma.com/store/master-your-life

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What I Learned from Richard Branson...

Branson in Bucharest (a city known as the “Paris of The East”) and wanted to share my takeaways with you to help you take your career and life to its next level of wow.

Richard was polite and larger than life. A pleasure to share time with. And a man who clearly adores all he does. I encourage you to read his autobiography “Losing My Virginity” as well as his book “Business Stripped Bare” if you haven’t gone through them yet. Uber-inspiring. For people who want to become Remarkable Entrepreneurs – and express their absolute best.

Anyway, I’ll get right into some of my observations as well as the ideas we discussed. Please don’t underestimate the power of these simple ideas – superbly executed, they yield brilliant results.

1. Politeness Matters. As mentioned, Richard Branson was unfailingly polite. He mentioned to me that when he was a kid, if he criticized someone, his mother would make him stand in front of the mirror at home and say, “what you’re seeing in others is really what you’re seeing in yourself. So look in the mirror.” This educated him on the key leadership habit of looking for – and then encouraging – the gifts and talents within other people.

2. Be Massively Independent. When Richard was just four years old, his mother stopped her car and instructed him to find his own way home, over many miles. When he was about 12, she told him to cycle 100 miles to Bournemouth alone, to visit a relative. He expressed to me that these childhood experiences were his mother’s way of growing his self-reliance. And building the invincible inner core that has served him so well as an entrepreneur.

3. Screw It – Just Do It. What makes a great company (and great life) isn’t so much the inspiring idea as the flawless execution around the big idea. As Edison once said: “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Richard shared that much of his success came from his philosophy to disregard the naysayers and those telling him his dream was impossible and just get the dream done. (Please remember: the impossible is generally just the untried). This is a man with a giant bias towards action.

4. Lavish Praise on People. I know you know this: the bigger the dream, the more important the team. Having worked with many of the best entrepreneurs in the world, I’ve learned that every single one of them gets that you can’t do it alone. Beautiful to have a brave vision. But the real key is finding the genius-level talent to get that vision delivered into reality. And if all you know how to surround yourself with is mediocre people, you’re destined to experience mediocre results. Richard is brilliant at finding the right people that bring his targets of opportunity to life. And he confirmed that once they are on his team, “I lavish them with praise.” Our takeaway: relentlessly celebrate+develop+inspire your people.

5. Be a Radical Innovator. When he was a young entrepreneur with nothing more than the little college newspaper THE STUDENT, he still showed a lust for disregarding all the rules. He challenged the status quo. And disrupted what was considered normal. An example: he somehow was able to get John Lennon to do an original piece of music for him. He then put the song on a special disc and packaged it into the newspaper, right next to the interview he’d done on the rock ‘n roll legend. At Virgin Records, he recruited the Sex Pistols and reinvented a whole category of music. At Virgin Atlantic, he gave passengers massages on airplanes and dropped them home in limos. And with Virgin Galactic, he’s taking people into space. Very cool. Fantastically bold.

At the Bucharest meeting, he told the 2500+ people in the concert hall that “sometime in your lifetime, every one of you will have visited other parts of the universe.” And I believe it.

6. Build Your Brand. Richard Branson gets branding. He knows what he – and the Virgin name – stands for. Fun. Good Value. Strong customer service. And so at every possible opportunity, he evangelizes all it stands for. Oh, and he’s also clearly a master of getting attention. From hot air balloon adventures that made global news to showing up at a press conference nearly naked to promote Virgin mobile, this Remarkable Entrepreneur gets the value of owning a share of our brain cells.

7. Find Your Necker Island. Get this: Branson paid roughly $300,000 for his beloved Necker Island. He and his then girlfriend Joan were visiting the Caribbean on a getaway. They fell in love with Necker – but it was about $4,000,000. But he wouldn’t give up (let’s never discount the power of a ridiculous amount of persistence around your most closely loved goals). A few months later, the owner needed cash. Branson made his deeply discounted offer. It has served as his retreat away from the world for many years. Here’s the real point: in the world of so much noise and complexity, find your personal retreat (even if it’s an aged wooded bench in a public garden) where you can withdraw to think+create+renew+rest.

8. Lucky Wins. We make luck. Enough said.

9. Don’t Do It If It’s Not Fun. Branson wears a smile pretty much all the time. He laughs naturally. And radiates happiness. Zero doubt: he loves his life – and all that’s in it (George Clooney said he’d swap his life for Richard Branson’s – much to the delight of Richard’s wife). The lesson for us: life’s just too short to be doing work that destroys your soul. This is the best time in the history of the world to become an entrepreneur. Find work you adore. And get busy changing the world with it.

10. With Gifts Come Responsibilities. OK, so Richard Branson’s one of the richest people on the planet. But he gets that being good trumps shiny toys. He mentioned to me that, “with great wealth comes great responsibility.” And so he’s spending a lot of his days evangelizing Virgin Unite, his foundation that helps kids in need. Reminds me of what my amazing father taught me – using the words of the great poet Tagore – growing up: “Robin, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Son, live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”

So there you go. What the iconic Richard Branson shared with me on a sunny Wednesday in Bucharest. I hope the lessons also serve you well.

P.S. If you want to learn exactly how the best entrepreneurs in the world get their results in these uncertain times and grow the business of your dreams, I’d love for you to join me June 2+3 at The Remarkable Entrepreneur SuperConference in Toronto, Canada. There are just a few seats left so I strongly encourage you to grab a seat while you still can. Here are the details: http://www.theremarkableentrepreneur.com

 

Is Swadeshi good for India?

Is Swadeshi good for India?
Some people have recently started a campaign to make India 100% swadeshi. They want that our industries, technology, education, healthcare, language, food, dress : everything must be swadeshi. Is 100% swadeshi good for India? Jago Party is of the view that insisting on 100% swadeshi would be disastrous for India. Reasons for this are given in the following dialogue between a supporter of swadeshi and that of Jago Party: Swadeshi: India has been a spiritual guru for the entire world in the past. India developed atma-gyan, ayurved, jyotish, vastu-shastra, artha-shastra, etc. Real happiness and peace can come only if we follow our spiritual culture. So why should we copy the bad materialist Western culture? Jago : We too respect great Indian spiritual culture. But, there are two aspects of this : individual and political. We think every individual should be free to choose his or her lifestyle (such as food, dress, religion etc). Even Indian culture never forced its ideas on any individual or nation in the past. As to political aspect, we have to discuss merits or otherwise of a swadeshi economy. Swadeshi : OK. Let us start with industries. We believe that no foreign companies should be allowed to operate in India because they are exploiting us by taking away huge profit from out of India. Jago : A company makes profit only if people buy its products at the price fixed by the company. So let people decide whether they want to buy such products or not. If these products are bad or inferior or expensive compared to goods manufactured by Indian companies, people would not buy them. Besides, foreign companies bring in a lot of capital, new technology & new management techniques; they generate a lot of employment; give better salaries to their staff than Indian companies do; pay huge amount of taxes. So, what is wrong if they reinvest it in India sometimes, while take away profit another time? Swadeshi : But why should we allow our money to go out of country? Jago : If every country thinks like you, international movement of capital, goods and services would completely stop, thus every country losing its advantage in specialization in certain sectors and depriving all other countries of its unique skill and product at lower price.  Secondly, now Indian companies are investing in other countries and they also repatriate their profit back to India. So repatriation of profit works both ways.  So if we follow you, we will end up losing whatever capital is coming to us. After lots of liberalizations, India has now come to rank 3 in terms of Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index 2010 after China and the US. Because of your obsession with swadeshi, India will lose this advantage and slip into isolation again. Swadeshi : You appear to be right on this. But surely our Gurukul system of education was the best. So why should we follow Western educational system? Jago : Modern education consisting of science, humanities, math etc started only about 300 years ago for the simple reason that before this, there was no systematic scientific knowledge on any subject. Besides, there was neither printing press, nor paper, nor books. Gurukul system was teaching mostly Vedic mantras and spiritual knowledge orally to a few selected students. There was no professional knowledge at that time like our modern day engineers, doctors, chartered accountants etc have. So, obviously the Gurukul system cannot meet the professional requirements of today. Of course, we can incorporate yoga too in our curriculum even today and keep it optional for students. Swadeshi : OK. But you would surely agree that our Ayurveda is the best in the world and it can cure all diseases. Allopathy on the other hand treats only symptoms. Jago : Let this be decided by people. If Ayurveda, Pranayam and Yoga can cure all diseases, the whole world would start following it. Why do you demand that government should ban Allopathic science and permit only Ayurveda. You just sell your idea vigorously : if there is a merit, it will be accepted by the masses. Then automatically, there would be more demand for Ayurvedic doctors and people will start studying your Ayurveda all over the world. Then allopathy would die a natural death. Swadeshi : You have awakened me today. Thank you very much. Jago : You are welcome!

 

Meet to Plan & Finalize 2014-15 Activity Calender

Hi All

 

Theme: - We are conducting a meet to Plan & Finalize 2014-15 Activity Calendar based on the No of volunteers available and the time allotted by them.

 

 

Meeting date      :      1^st June, 2014 Sunday @ 5.30PM

Venue                    :         Ground Floor, C/o Sarath Chandra, Near BK Guda Park, SR Nagar, Hyderabad

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We can do all the following activities with JUST 1 HOUR TIME IN A MONTH OF 1 VOLUNTEER.

 

 

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ü  You can spend 1 hour in a Month either regularly or occasionally

ü  You can suggest us and help in planning

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WITH YOUR 1 HOUR WE CAN DO THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES (OUR PLANS FOR 2014-15)

 

1.    CONDUCT MONTHLY SESSIONS IN GOVT. HIGH SCHOOLS TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS (5 to 8 Schools-2 Hours of a Saturday in a Month to each school)

Ø  Conducting different types of Educational competitions & activities

Ø  Conducting different types of Sports competitions

Ø  Conducting Awareness Sessions

Ø  Teaching them Communication, Dancing, Painting and other skills

 

2.    CONDUCT WEEKLY SESSIONS IN 2 PRIMARY SCHOOLS (Every Monday Morning 1 School and Afternoon 1 School)

Ø  Teach Basics of Telugu, English and Mathematics

Ø  Inculcate values through different types of activities

Ø  Conducting different types of Educational, Entertainment Sports & activities and competitions

 

3.    CONDUCT WEEKLY / FORTNIGHT/ MONTHLY SESSIONS IN ORPHANAGE HOMES

Ø  To spend time in our monthly Orphanage and old age home visits

Ø  Teach them Values, Morals and Subject

Ø  Motivate them with Inspiring Stories

Ø  Conduct different entertainment, educational and sports competitions

Ø  Monthly Groceries and provisions donation

 

4.    CONDUCT QUARTERLY BLOOD DONATION CAMPS

Ø  Blood Camps to Support & save 2000+ Thalassemia Children

Ø  Create Awareness about Thalassemia & Blood Donation

 

5.    CONDUCT MEDICAL CAMPS OCCASIONALLY OR REGULARLY

Ø  Conduct Medical Camps In Slums

Ø  Conduct Health related Awareness Sessions

Ø  Guide Poor patients in Hospitals

 

6.    FOOD DISTRIBUTION (INCLUDING OLD CLOTHES AND FRUITS)

Ø  To Road Side destitute

Ø  To Poor Patients attendees in Hospitals

 

7.    PLANTATION AND SAVE EARTH RELATED ACTIVITIES

Ø  Plantation in Schools and Colonies

Ø  Plastic & Save earth awareness in Schools and Colonies

Ø  Rain water Harvesting Pits construction

 

8.    CONDUCT SESSIONS ON RTI

 

9.    PERSONALITY & OTHER SKILL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS TO VOLUNTEERS

 

10.  Apart from the above still we have many other administrative works like

Ø  Accounting (Tally updates, Vouchers Checking etc.,)

Ø  New Volunteers Follow up

Ø  Reviewing activities

Ø  Motivating Donors

Ø   Communication with the Group Members, donors, volunteers

Ø  Updating Blog

Ø  Posting Mail updates to the Group members and Many more

 

 

You all know, it’s not an easy task to run as organization in our leisure time, but still our Volunteers doing it with utmost dedication with minimum available resources, Kudos to all of them. They are spending their entire leisure time to help others. It would better if every one of us can extend our support just by spending 1 Hour in a Month.

 

There are kind hearts to donate money and we are very less numbers of people who donate time. Hope you can…..

 

 

 

Please Note that Schedule/ works will be flexible based on volunteer timings

 

Please do turn up to the meet to take part in planning.

 

Love all-Serve all

AMMA Srinivas

www.aswa.co.in