Team-Samvedana is very happy to share with you the fact that a small initiative taken by us last year, of funding three students' education, has now spread its wings further and that we are now trying to pitch in for 12 students of different age groups. Please find the details tabulated below:

                   Before I begin to officially share the experiences of the team from the past ten months, at a personal level, it doesn’t feel right to term anything we do as “charity” or “benevolent” deeds when we are accounting them publicly! Nevertheless, considering this only as a place where we share our experiences with a hope to conjure up a sense of Samvedana (empathy) and not as a place where we glorify our minisculer contributions, I proceed forward.

Suraksha is a group aiming to spread the awareness about the cloth donation and forming collection campaign. With an aim to inspire and involve the students from different walks of life, this group which laid its roots in IIIT-Hyderabad and is now aiming to spread to many other institutes both in and around Hyderabad and outside.

The continous and patient efforts shown by our friends and juniors have been recognized and Ashakiran is in news yet another time. Find out more about Ashakiran here http://ipis.iiit.ac.in/ashakiran/index.html

The news article is attached.

Cheers to each and every person involved in it and truly hoping for many more such initiatives..

Article

If he can see God in his Blind parents, then why can't I?

I was enjoying my college life, doing BC at coffee shop, watching movies and series of TV serials, playing games, visiting home after every two months and making plans for the next visit during classes. Then one day, one of my friends asked me to come to the Samvedana presentation. I was not interested in going, but don’t know which force inside pushed me and on the given day, I found myself in room no. 119 at 3:00pm.

Title: Breakfast serving at Chavadi Child Welfare Trust
Location: Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Description: Standing by the promise which we made to ourselves, we were at Chavadi again this month on 15th with a different group of enthusiastic volunteers and served breakfast. Children were very excited and interacted with the volunteers and the volunteers on the other hand made a new set of friends albeit a little younger to themselves

Total Expenditure: Rs. 375/-
Date: 2009-03-15

Title: Treatment for a kid in Chavadi Welfare Trust
Location: Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Date: 2009-03-08

A kid residing in Chavadi Ashram has been suffering from a hole in his heart which needs immediate treatment and an operation too. The kid’s mother is the caretaker of the Ashram and she tried very hard to procure a white ration card which is necessary to obtain ‘Rajiv Arogya Shree’ card, but all her efforts have gone vain.

Title: Volunteering as scribes for visually challenged students for their board exams.
Location: Hyderabad
Date: 2009-02-28

Title: Breakfast serving at Chavadi Child Welfare Trust
Location: Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Date: 2009-02-15

Samvedana’s team visited Chavadi Ashram on 15th February with a humble purpose: to spend some quality time with the kids.

About Chavadi Ashram: