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SEP 2008

MUMBAI

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PUNE

~Pankhudi Newsletter | SEP 2008

FeatureThe Sahayata effort was carried out by the Delhi chapter, just like all the other chapters. A significant amount of food, clothes, utensils etc. were collected and delivered to the Goonj office.

News• The Rotary club provided us with more medicines since there were still a few people who had come to the health camp but not received medicines. These were distributed in the slum.

• Clothes and toys donated by various people were also distributed amongst the people at the slum.

ActivitiesTeaching activities have been going on as usual with an improvement in volunteer attendance. A new volunteer, Samantha, has recently joined the team. We have been looking into several places where we can get shelter for our classes.

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Thank YouWe want to thank Mr. Prateek Jain from the Rotary Club for the constant support he has been showing Pankhudi Delhi.

WantedA sheltered place to conduct classes, and volunteers

DELHI

MUMBAINewsAn interactive and learning-cum-fun workshop is going to be conducted on 19th Oct at 2.00pm at Suman Nagar, Mumbai to create awareness towards Science and future aspects in this field. This workshop is conducted by Udaan- Aerospace Students Group of IIT Bombay.

FeatureThe feature of the month in Mumbai chapter was “The Batch Distribution Test”.

In this we conducted a test in written and viva and segregated the students as per their performance in the test in three batches: Junior, Intermediate and Senior.

Activities• The classes have been started again with full zeal and enthusiasm.

• The restructuring of processes has been done and different groups were formed to frame and maintain the processes of each cell.

• The course structure and content has been designed.

• Team Building event conducted by Ashish Tiwari.



Thank You• Mrs Shashikala Avask for guiding us and giving valuable ideas for conducting classes in more disciplined and efficient manner.

• To all members and volunteers of Pankhudi Mumbai for their support and active participation in all the events.

WantedWe require dedicated and regular volunteers for Protasahan classes

FeatureThe Protsahan classes for the school dropouts from Patil Estate, Wakdewadi have now acquired the full swing mode. The experiment of recruiting slum students to conduct regular Protsahan classes for school dropouts has appeared quite successful.

Pune team has also started weekend English speaking classes for the recruited teachers and is planning to arrange vocational training for them. Pune team is also in the process of collaborating with “Centre for Learning Resources, Pune” to conduct training for the recruited teachers.

News• ‘Centre for Learning Resources’ has agreed to provide training to two of our teachers, on ways and means to teach the children effectively. The trained teachers will in turn teach the other teachers. The training sessions will be conducted in the 3rd week of October.

• Pankhudi Pune is also participating in a “Dandiya Nite” early next month. The motive of the event is to spread education awareness and convey a social message.

• A team of associates from IBM and TCS visited Pankhudi Pune activities. They have shown interest in pune activities and are ready to extend the relationship to the org. level.

PUNE



ActivitiesProtsahan • Regular classes for school dropouts have were conducted.

• English and Life skills classes for senior batch were conducted regularly on weekends

• Spoken English classes have been started for Protsahan teachers.

Aashayein • Visits to Manavya have been made on weekends.

Thank You• Tanmay, Pritesh, Dipesh and Akshay of Magik Events for inviting pune team to "DHOLI TARO – Dandiya Nite" to convey a social message and promote ~Pankhudi activities.

• Mrs Aparna Banerjee of CLR, Pune for accommodating our training request.

• Jagruti Team for helping pune team in the preparations for the Dandiya event.

Wanted• Sponsor a teacher – 500 per month

• Sponsor a class – 2500 per month (5 teachers)

• Sponsor teaching material / aids.

• Volunteers for Protsahan classes - situated near shivaji nagar.

• Volunteers for Ashayen project - situated near Sukhsagar Nagar/VIT College or Kothrud.



MEMBER-SPEAKA huge thank-you goes out to all the community members and volunteers of Pankhudi who displayed their support for “Sahayata”, the Bihar flood relief collection drive conducted by Pankhudi( in association with GOONJ and few other help groups worked for the same cause) all over India from the 24th of September to the 4th of October 2008 .

As we all know,last month Bihar had to face the wrath of the Kosi river. It wrecked havoc in North Bihar leaving millions of people homeless and without basic necessities like food,clothes and shelter. Even though a month has passed by, the situation is still very grim and millions of people are badly affected and have nowhere to go. We, Pankhudians have deep empathy towards the victims and came up with ideas to help them in various possible ways. It was a great time to remind ourselves of those who are less fortunate and the downtrodden. We felt that it was time to do our bit for the society we live in and in turn for our country.

The event “Sahayata”, hosted by Pankhudi was led by volunteers at all chapters (Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune). Donations included

Dry ration: rice, pulse, gram,biscuits,milk powder.etc.Also utility items like candles & matchboxes, torches & batteries, storage & cooking utensils etc were also donated.A large number of donations included clothing items like sarees, bedsheets, shirts etc.

The supplies were collected by individual chapters, sorted out according to the respective categories and packed in gunny bags by our volunteers and were sent to the respective coordinators in each city . All the supplies collected by Pankhudi were shipped to Bihar through GOONJ (www.goonj.com) who has actively been working on this front for a long time.

~Pankhudi would like to specially thank the following non-rep Coordinators Vaibhav, Lipika and Arvind from Bangalore,Naval, Nitin, and Amit from Delhi. Jeevan and Sajani from Hyderabad.Yogesh, Amit and Abhishek from Mumbai. Amruta, Murthy and Sumit from Pune. Neeraj Kumar, Gaurav Bajpai and Gaurav Ranjan from Kolkata for their efforts put into making the drive a success.

Also a special mention to the following people who have shown exceptional coordination and support .Yatin, Rashmi, Shahzad, Krunal, Anvesha, Ram Kumar .They were also well supported by Pankhudi Finance Head, Aditi Kulkarni and PR&Resource Head Surya Adavi.

For the detailed collection analysis of Sahayata please check out our next newsletter.

If you have any questions pertaining to the drive, you can email us at [email protected] for more information.

Jyotsna Bobba

Pankhudi PR and Resource Cell

for ~Pankhudi Parivaar

[email protected]

Sahayata



MEMBER-SPEAK

“Each one teach one”. This is one slogan I have very firmly believed in since the time I was in school. Since the time I got a chance to do some community service in school, I always believed that as good citizens we should always give back something to the society. Since I now have the time to serve and give back something to the society I joined Pankhudi India. And its been a wonderful experience.

I was really excited when I enrolled for Pankhudi. I loved teaching and interacting with kids. At the same time I was a bit skeptical. Would I enjoy working at this organization? How would the people be? Questions like these kept cropping up. I went for my first class on Friday the 26th of September 2008 at 6 pm. I met Ms Smriti Dey and she was the first person I interacted with face to face in Pankhudi.The classes were just going to begin that day after a long break.And I was informed that I would be teaching the “Senior” batch. As we walked the gully that lead to the classroom, kids thronged Smriti asking her if they had a class today.It was a wonderful sight. ”Didi, aaj hamara class hai?” and Smriti answered each and everyone patiently.I caught my first glimpse of the Kurla classroom and it was a wonderful one.Filled with colorful benches and posters,it was one place I would love to teach in.Smriti,I and a few others started collecting the kids together and asking the respective students to come and attend their class.This took quite some time and I realized that this task of collecting students is indeed a very difficult one and eats away a lot of our time.Some of them forgot their notebooks,some their pens.One even ran away because he forgot to drink milk and vowed to come back soon.Finally all of us gathered in the classroom to begin our class. There were about 20 students.I started off with English and simple sentences like “What is your name?”,”What do your parents call you?” etc were taught and made to be written down. Teaching these kids requires a lot of patience and determination. It’s a tough task to make them understand everything. Some of them are very slow learners and sometimes one has to personally go and sit with them in order to make them understand. I also observed that some of them are very keen and quick learners. And then there is always the notorious lot who come only to trouble those who are studying. So,it’s a tough task to deal with all kinds of kids. But they are a truly wonderful lot who enthusiastically answer each and every question that is thrown to them. When I went on to Maths , they answered each and every question however tough it may be. I’m sure that if they are put on the right path, India has a very bright future ahead. One thing I made a note of is that its very important to improve the overall personality of these kids. One may be very educated but if he/she does not have a character, there is no use. So, We as Pankhudians should also focus on aspects of discipline. Among all these kids, there is one mentally handicapped kid called Vishal who comes and participates in everything inspite of his handicap.I had a great time teaching him last Friday. He laughs at everything he does and always considers himself a part of the crowd. He’s very determined to learn and doesn’t let his handicap come his way. Looking at such kids , one also tends to get a lot more determined and the will power to achieve something also increases multifold. This is what teaching at Pankhudi can do to a person.

Teaching at Pankhudi gives me a sense of satisfaction that I don’t get anywhere else.At the end of the day,when I head home, I feel I have done something worthwhile and it gives me a sense of happiness. I look forward to each Friday and I hope to give my best whenever I teach these kids and I hope that someday one of them can end up being India’s greatest.I also hope that I can contribute everything that I can to Pankhudi.I am glad that I’m working with people who are all focused on the same cause,to make these kids the best. There are so many underprivileged kids in our country who are not properly trained or educated. We are indeed very fortunate to make it to school and our parents have made sure that we received the right training that has made us whatever we are today.I am very happy to be associated with Pankhudi and I hope that we all can work together to make India 100% literate and the best.

- Abhishek Shenoy | ~Pankhudi Mumbai

My Teaching Experience inPankhudi Foundation



MEMBER-SPEAK

- Priti Dargad

~Pankhudi Pune

Lessons

A sweet smile on their face,

Finding their path in life's maze…

Exploring things with innocent eyes,

To make their mark, each one strives!

If you dance, they dance along,

With you they will hum your song…

Always keen & eager to learn,

Teach your style – soft or stern!

But as you teach, you learn more,

There's more then bread on the winning shore!

From every little act, draw pleasure,

Cherish & put it in the little box of treasure…

Express yourself without hesitation,

Treat all with respect, no discrimination!

So what if hardships come your way?

Go ahead & face it, don't just stay!

As you tread you might stumble,

Just hold on but don't grumble!

What matters is your zest for life,

Be it small or big & wide!

Whether you finish or not,

Just begin the race with a dazzling start,

& on your way, you will win every heart..!

Working towards a better tomorrow

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