Sponsoring Scholarship for Students of Challa Yanadulu

Challa Yanadulu are a community of around 50 families in Jaladanki village, Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District. They are one of the most socially and economically backward people.The adults in this community will do many odd jobs and are employed only for 6 months a year. They earn around Rs.50/- per day. Their living is very pathetic during the other 6 months. They do not mingle with the rest of the world, when they are sick they do not goto hospital, they do not wash their clothes, they do not visit other places, etc., To put it in a word, they are in 21st century but they behave as if they belong to people of old ages. The only way to improve their living condition is to educate their children. We were wondering why their kids were not going to the school. In fact their kids attend the school only for mid-day lunch and they stay out rest of the time.

We have been working for almost 2 years with them, donated books, stationary items, playing kits to encourage their children to attend the School. Unfortunately nothing has worked out. As a part of our regular discussions in addressing Challa yanadula's problems one of our friend's has suggested that issuing Rs.200/- scholarship per student so that this may motivate their parents to send them to school. Our members agreed to this and we discussed this idea with teacher Rajani(she teaches at school located near this community.). She extended her co-operation to us and notified this to the parents.

Among 50 children, 7 are coming to the school regularly from the month of August 2010. On Friday, September 3, 2010, our members Sarath D, Pradeep V and Siva Krishna K visited them in person, talked to their parents to let their students attend the school with 100% attendance and distributed the scholarship of Rs.200/- per student.

Action Items :-
1) Maintaining the record of students attending the school regularly. Teacher Rajani is helping us in this aspect.
2) The children are wearing torn and dirty clothes. We are planning to provide some clothes to them.
3) Visiting the school, meeting the children and their parents once in a month.

Medical Pension to poor patients @ Thufan Nagar

In Thuffan Nagar, Kavali we came across many people facing a lot of health problems. Among many we identified four well deserving candidates and started distributing Rs.200/- per month as pension to them. Firoz and his mother has handed over for money for the months of June and July to them personally and are maintaining a written note of it. We are planning to provide them Rs.200/- per head per month on regular basis with which they can buy medicines or fruits to support their health. Please find below the details of the patients we are supporting.

In Thuffan Nagar there are many such people who we can address and help. Let us start planning on addressing their problem in future.

Supporting an ITI Student

Venkateswarulu belongs to the village Sitarampuram, near Kavali. He and his sister lost both of their parents at very young age. Their aunt is supporting him with great dfficulty while his sister is under guardianship of some others. He successfully completed his 10th class and is one among the brightest students in his class. His hostel warden has dropped a request to support his studies in local news paper and our guys [Vamsi and Mahesh] took it up from there. We counselled him, enquired his problems and with his interest we joined him in Fitter course at an ITI College in Udayagiri. As a part of first installment we paid Rs.3000/- as college fee, got him 2 uniforms, shoes, books and handed over some money for expenses. To finish his 2 years of ITI we are supporting him with scholarship of Rs.20,000/- [This Excludes accommodation]

Supporting a First year Intermediate Student

Reshma lost her father when she was five . Her mother,with the meagre amount she gets from tailoring clothes, has raised her and sent her to school. Reshma finished her 10th class and has a great interest to study. One of our friends Firoz Khan referred her to us and we are providing her scholarship covering her college fees, which would sum up to Rs.4,500/-. We joined her in our Sai Co-operative Junior College. The management has given concession and agreed to accept the payment of fees in installments. As first installment Rs.1000/- has been paid and she was given Rs.500/- for books and other stationery items.

Scholarship for a Xth Class Student @ Venkatagiri

Battireddy is a 10th class student at Mother Academy, Venkatagiri. He has been class 1st ranker from his 6th Class. His school principal has supported him without fee so far. One of our friends Thota Vamsi has referred us this student. This guy had problems back home and is struggling for food and clothing. We gave him a scholarship of Rs.6,000/- so that this amount would assist him in finishing his 10th class successfully. The scholorship is with Principal and he will be giving it to the student based on his need/performance.

Mohan giving a scholorship Cheque to Batti Reddy.
[Principal of school, Ramesh at the right]