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A team of 15 volunteers joined together to spread a Smile, the symbol of happiness! Volunteers gathered together at Balar illam, an home for girls. All the volunteers along with the girls made and ate the sandwiches together. On the process everyone had an experience. The experience of trying something new. In the end, with all smiles they said goodbye to each other with a unspoken promise of doing more next time.
ARTHAM stepped forward in helping the younger minds improve their self confidence and create them awareness among them about the competitive exams. ARTHAM planned and conducted one such event at AMHNU Matriculation higher secondary school at Aundipatty, Theni on 15th of October.
AMHNU is located at Aundipatty. It started off with very few students and with its successful board results, the school has become more prominent in the area. The Principal and teachers take greater care of the students and guide them on their success and welfare. Mr. Yogesh, one of the ARTHAM members, collected information about the school, the number of students and their requirements.
Then, we, the ARTHAM members, Dheeban Raja, Prasanna, Siva Chidambaram and Yogesh planned for an event in order to create awareness and to educate the students about the upcoming competitive exams and also on the steps to be followed while preparing for their board exams.
The 10th, 11th & 12th students of the school were assembled at 4:00 PM. Yogesh started off with the general introduction about ARTHAM’s contribution in adopting of a girl child from the school. He motivated the students and gave them ideas to secure good grades in their exams. Mr. Siva Chidambaram stated about our nation’s contribution in NASA, Microsoft, INTEL AND IBM. He encouraged students to prepare for the competitive exams and also insisted on the ways to overcome the pressure. Then, Mr. Dheeban Raja briefed about the various competitive exams such as AIEEE, JEE, UPSC etc. He also shared ideas about the coaching centres for these exams and the effort that the students should put in, in order to succeed. Finally, Mr. Prasanna explained about the different Arts & Science and Engineering courses that are available. He briefed about the 29 diversified engineering courses and the benefits of each.
Members of ARTHAM fulfilled the needs of the school students and cleared their doubts about the competitive exams and the courses. With the best coordination of the staff members, students and the ARTHAM members, the event turned out to be successful and more interactive.
‘It’s your attitude not your aptitude that determine your altitudes.’
We, the Artham charitable foundation team, conducted a game of cricket been played by **Shenba, Siva Murugan, Karthik, Kishore, Siva Balan, Kumaresh Annamalai, Arun Kumar, Indrajit, Ram Kumar, Stanley.**The main motto of this game is to create an environment of friendly relationship. The energetic, enthusiastic players made the game even more interesting. An amount of Rs.1300 has been collected on behalf of this event. The winning team has been awarded with a trophy. The response was even more awesome. Kudos to Jeevana school boys for their eagerness and involvement. As a whole, the event was successful in all ways.
To enlighten the younger minds and to make them understand the role of an Indian citizen by bringing out the self-confidence, ARTHAM planned an event in ABODE, a home in Arasaradi, Madurai (with the information given by Mr. A. Pandian).
ABODE, the precious home located in Arasaradi, Madurai is running with 42 children for the past few years as a recreational place for the children, to prevent the children from violent activities when they were brought up in an imprisoned environment. They were being educated in the nearby Govt. schools - George middle school, TELC middle school, Fathima Middle school and Velliveethiar Hr. sec. school.
We, the Artham members, Ms.C.Shivaranjani, Ms.P.Priya, Ms.I.Abirami and Ms.K.Meena Rosheni arranged the event with the activities related to our nation on the one way or the other, on 26th January 2013. Other members attended were P.Alagarsamy Ashok,M.J.Karthick,I.Chinnathambi, Anuja,Srihari Narayanan,Pattu Subhalakshmi
Mr.P.Arumugam started the event with a brief introduction on the event and the trust. Then the children were asked to introduce themselves with their name and ambition. It was followed by Chart drawing with 5 teams of children on the topic ‘Future India’. Then the Jigsaw puzzle with the pictures of national leaders was conducted. The third event was Quiz on the topics - Leaders and activities, Indian States and Capitals, Important Indian cities and places, Indian Sports. Finally the Dumbsheruts on proverbs was conducted. Each kid was given a small memento from Artham.
All the children actively participated in all events. The members of the home gave feedback by thanking the Artham for such activities.
‘One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing more is doing more.’
With the start of New Year 2013, ARTHAM has moved forward by lending hands to educate children in Balar Illam on January 1. Education should be substantial and is a continuous process. To help the students of Balar Illam with their education, ARTHAM has decided to support the home continuously and visit the home every month.
Balar illam, a home for girl students (Class 1st -12th), is located at Thanakankulam, Madurai, consisting of nearly 80 students. It was inaugurated by PTR family with the aim to educate the poor girl children coming from the nearby villages of Madurai. The students in the orphanage are taken immense care and are provided with good education in Seethalakshmi Govt. Hr. Sec. School opposite to Balar illam. They are brought up with high discipline and good qualities.
There had been few camps conducted in the home like drawing camp, martial art classes, and yoga. Students have utilized this opportunity to display their talents and have won prizes in district level competitions. Those students were brought up in the Tamil medium curriculum and find it hard to come up with English Grammar and few topics of Mathematics.
We, the ARTHAM members Dhanalakshmi, Kalai arasi, Sowndharya, Kamala, and Yogesh under the backing of Sivakumaran decided to guide the students on Sentence pattern, transformation on sentences in English Grammar and Trigonometry, Differential calculus in Mathematics. The participation of the students was extraordinary. The interest and involvement they showed were remarkable. They really proved to be the promising future of our country. Distributed sweets at last to the students to mark the start of New year.
They happily, enthusiastically spent time with us and they never showed the feeling of being deprived of something at any point of time. We were able learn a lot from them.
To face the generation of next-pace, we need intelligent students who can explicit their talents without a burden. In order to achieve it, we the ARTHAM helped the Destitute School of Children (informed by Mr. Vinoth Pandian, ARTHAM member) with the gift of education by making them know the basics of English better and also to improve their fluency.
The Destitute School of Children located in Madurai, was started in 1974. It comprises of two teachers and thirty five (sixteen boys and nineteen girls) students at present, ranging from Class 1 – Class 5. Mrs. Jayashree, Headmistress of the School maintains the School with extreme dignity fulfilling the requirements of every single student with utmost care and responsibility. The blossoms of friendship and altruism were found among those students. The teachers make the students gain better knowledge of everything. Instead of learning through books, Madurai Corporation has made it much simpler, by using the card system.
Ragadivya, Karthick and Varshini, the ARTHAM members, went to the school on 14th December 2012 by 10.00 PM. They helped the students with the practice session for the sports meet that was about to be held on 15th December 2012. On 17th, Class 3 and Class 4 students were trained on the basics of English and the easy ways to pronounce the words. On 18th December, the children were taught about the basic manners to be followed and then, they were introduced to the world of words which owns great respect and greetings.
The students were very much involved and excited to learn, throughout the event. They maintained discipline and clean environment. On the final day of the event, they gave a feedback by requesting our ARTHAM members to train them with more and more such sessions.
We, the ARTHAM members are always looking out for a better change..Hope it starts from here..!
Educating a man is to earn for a family, and educating a woman is to educate the family and thereby the nation. One such thing was made by ARTHAM, educating present girl children who are the future women.
Balar illam, a home forgirl students (Class 1st -12th), is located at Thanakankulam, Madurai, consisting of nearly60 students. It was started in 1960s with the aim to educate the poor girl children coming from the nearby villages of Madurai.
The children in the home taken immense care and are brought up with high obedience and good qualities. They are provided with healthy food and environment. Apart from education, the students are involved in sports and other form of activities. They are educated with the values and the ways to lead their life.Mr. Sivabalan, member of ARTHAM came to know about Balar Illam, through Mrs.Mala. He then got through the person in-charge of the home and inquired about the needs of the students in the home. He was informed that the students in the home were in need ofextra coaching for theirbasics in grammar and mathematics. And then it was planned to make over the necessary things.
On 16th September 2k12, we, the ARTHAM, took an initiative of educating the girl students. The ARTHAM members, Kavitha, Meena kumari, Raga divya and Varshiniheaded to the place by around 2.00pm.The students had their quarterly Examination on the next day. Initially, they were grouped according to their classes (6th, 7th, 8th and 9th) and the ARTHAM members made them learn the basics of English grammar and few topics in mathematics.
The event can’t be described as a success. But a seed for a sapling. This is the beginning…let all the little drops make the ocean. Make haste for women education.
To raise the funds extensively , many events are planned to be conducted across the city. As a first step,the First Fund-Raising Event was Conducted on Aug -12 2k12 (Sunday) in Madurai. A 10 over friendly cricket match among members of Artham. There were two teams between which a spirited cricket match was played. The Participants :Kumaresh Srvnbv , Sathish Babu , Pandi Kannan , Vignesh Gv , Bharathi Raja , Vinoth Pandian, Poornaraj Selvaraj, Dini Dinesh & his friends, Karthick Kn , Senthil, Vinoth,Praveen , Siva Balan , Siva nishi , Prakash , Dinakar Thangamuthu. Each player contributed some amount and a sum of Rs.1300 was collected through the match and the amount is deposited in artham account for the future cause.
Artham is not only for foundations and funds, but also involves in education by conducting Guest lecture’s in all Technical disciplines, Events and so on. This time it was a Guest lecture made byMr. John Kishore and Mr. Arun Kumar in Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College in Sivakasi. It was conducted on August 4th 2012, Saturday.
The lecture covered,History of electrical energy, Indian power system structure, Electrical energy conservation, Techniques andtips to conserve energy and various losses taking place in generation transmission and distribution.
The main motive of the event was to expose the Diploma students to the ongoing industrial development, the need for energy conservation, the do’s and dont’s which must be followed to conserve energy. The seminar covered topics like the story of electricity, which has become the fourth basic necessity, adding to the list consisting of food, clothing and shelter. Various methods of obtaining electricity from various forms of available energy like thermal, hydro, wind andnuclear were discussed. Topics like electric energy generation, transmission and distribution were discussed in an interactive way. A set of rules that must be followed and the things that must be avoided in conserving the energy was given to the students. Finally a couple ofinspirational videos were played to the students and feedback about the event was gathered from the students as well as the staffs of the college who attended the event.
SHINE foundation,Madurai a special school formentally challenged (Special kids and adults) people, started in 2003 with three children initially. At present, there are around 75 students, 10 trained staffs and 4 physiotherapists. Some students were accommodated in another building at a fewer distance. With the coordinated help of the specially educated staffs and physiotherapists, it is functioning well.
Students are trained based on their capabilities. They are educated about the basic needs. To make them learn their daily routine activities, staffs trained with occupational therapy has been employed. For students withautism (A disorder of neural development marked by impaired communication and short attention span),memory loss and ADHD (A condition, mostly in boys, characterized by behavioural and learning disorders), staffs trained with the sensory integration therapy has been employed. Also, therapists are involved in order to train the students on their basic movements. In addition, various other activities like operating the computer, dancing, and music are also included, specially, to strengthen their abilities and thoughts.
A group of young minds from ARTHAM comprising of Siva Balan, Prabhu, Dinesh, Sundararajan, Arumugam, Vinoth Pandian, Vignesh, Manikandan, Anu renuga, Swetha and Varshini visited the foundation on 18th july 2k12 and engaged students with different activities. Various events were conducted. The day started with the students’ introduction. Few volunteers from ARTHAM, made them to participate in various activities such as crayon colouring, picture puzzle, sticker collage, and snow bowling etc. The turnout of the event was too good. Students took part in the event with more joy and enthusiasm. The shine event planned and executed with extreme care as 1st event of ARTHAM, was a great success.
