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.