Sangeetha&rajesh donation of cooking vessels

Sangeetha&Rajesh donated Cooking vessels to Lovedale foundation and sponsored Lunch for Jeroham ,the occasion being Rajesh birthday. Their total donation was $200 and remaining funds will be utilized for the other projects.This was on 13 oct 2007.

New periodic work-Donation of artifical limb

We are glad to inform that we have started a new periodic work-Donation of aritifical limb to physically challenged individuals.Coordination will be done with Tamil nadu handicapped federation.The frequency at which donation will be made is 3-4 months.

Many thanks to our team members Balaji&friends,kavitha&friends.

New periodic work-Drawing and painting event

Our vision is to channel the potential of the underprivileged children.On that regard ,we have started a monthly drawing and painting events to be conducted in various special homes. We have started with sathya shanthi seva(SSS) on 18 sep 2007.
Two places have been selected as of now ,Thomson pubic school and SSS.

New home-Reach

Along with Chennai social service, we had visited home-REACH near red hills in chennai.We look to extending our services to REACH in the near future.

New project commence on independence day-Donation towards Thomson public school.

Towards better world will be helping Thomson public school by funding them for milk or a healthy drink to be provided for the kids between lunch and breakfast.

Independence day-Celebration-15-8-2007

We were invited by Thomson public school and sathya shanthi seva for their independence day celebration.In the thomson school "Towardsbetterworld" was honoured.In sathya shanthi seva home,group was cordially welcomed and greeted with dance and songs.

PS:Chk in videos in the left side links

New home found and donation towards Sathya shanthi seva rehab trust&Creation of TBW group in bangalore

Sathya shanth seva rehahabilitation trust was identified by the group.Starting from July2007 we will be donating 10Litres of oil and 15 kgs of sugar every month.
Details:
Nearly 20 kids and 40% of them mentally challenged kids.

Address of the home:
Sathya shanthi seva
No:Doddakanneli village,carmalaram post,Bangalore-560035.
Ph:9341931579
284404909
Creators:B.Loyd Noel&B.Hemalatha

Donating Public addressing system to thomson school

Towards better world has donated Public addressing system to thomson school,bangalore on 8-6-2007.We are glad to hear the lil kids prayer is held with this system .One of the main purpose that was foreseen was the need for a public awareness programs on AIDS and elderly education.Through this donation Mr.thomson(runs this school) says it will be very much easier.

Joel survives !finds a new life

Little 10 baby was abandoned by his mother in a street.Jeruham ,the special home near adambakkam(chennai) saved the baby . Funded rs.5000 for his medical revival .He was in a pretty bad state when he was admitted.Our efforts could reach joel due to the work of kirba and karthi,cheers to them.

There is sense of optimism in the group as Life is saved!

Donation made towards srikrishnasevasharama hospital towards building a operation theatre-Receipt

The collected amount was donated to the hospital .It was given towards the creation of operation theatre where it initially required emergency trolley.
Mr.Sudhir of Alstom on behalf of "towardsbetterworld" handed over the donation to the trust of srikrishnasevashrama.

Question on visiblity of our estimation

Greetings!There was query in our blog asking about the visibility of estimation so that everyone could contribute.

we will correct exisiting system and make it more visible,we will post on the blog once a project is identified and its corresponding estimate.

Thank you for ur question!we will work towards building a better system that would serve people better

*Kindly post with ur contact so that we could contact or mail-in your contact to anyone of us

Funding rising for operating a premature baby-details

With all our hearts we are grateful to all the donors who are gonna make a little child's life better!

The kid is presently underweight weighing 3.5 kgs ,she has to put on weight to atleast six kgs for the operation to be possible.We will be updating all on the improvement shown by the kid.The kid is presently in Special home,balagurukulam(www.balagurukulam.org)

For this operation ,which wld nearly be costing around rs.60,000 these are donors who are gonna make it possible.

Harish and pals :Rs.22,000

Aarthi and pals:$200

Balaji and pals:

Balaji N (PA) - $ 75.00
Kishwer Sultana (PA) - $ 50.00
Kavitha Kanagaraj (FL) - $ 80.00
Clarabel Martin (PA) - $ 20.00
Priya Nallakannu (NJ) - $ 20.00
Deenraj James (PA) - $100.00
SenthilKumar Dassan (TN) - $100.00
Prasanna Nagoti (PA) - $200.00 [Srinivas&Jagadhish(PA);Srikanth&Ananth (CA)]

Vidhya and pals:Rs.1500

We truely appreciate our team members aarthi,balaji,vidhya for their efforts and as a team as a whole.

New home found-'Jeruham' Donation towards that!

Thanks to aparna for identifying a very good home called Jeruham.It runs with 28 kids.One the first visit,we donated cash to buy two basins.

We are looking forward to educate three kids in a good school.

Kirba is allocated the charge of group activities towards jeruham

Place:Jeruham,adambakkam,chennai.
Date:8-4-2007
Pic details:Kids from the home,kirba standing.
Group members visit:Aparna,kirba,veera.
Incharge:kirba

Project Evergreen-Planting tree ten sapling

We were delighted to plant ten tree saplings.Little ones such as banyan sapling was selected keeping in mind future and time it lives.We selected place near hospital so that it will give shade to people.
We are planted them with tree guards,we are gonna lay separate water lines for these little ones.We understand that more that planting them,taking care of them over their lifetime is more important,made ample arrangements for that.

Place:Thirninravur(40Km from chennai)
Date of plantation:8-4-2007
Pic:Area in chief planting ,sathya looks on,karthi on the extreme left.
Group member present:Sathya,kirba,uday,karthi violin,thangarasu,veera.
Project incharge:Sathya.
Cost:450(tree guard)*10=4500+500(includes labour and sapling)=Rs.5000

"Project Evergreen"-second work-Planning and place selection freezed-March

Place where tree sapling to be planted was finalized near thiruninravur,chennai.Planning to plant ten of them.The group was honored to have a conversation with sathya's father and village head.The plans were decided as how to make them survive the initial growth period and live of a long time.Care will be given to these little baby trees as their lives are respected and considering the fact 'these kids are the only one's gonna save mother earth'.

Pic shows one of the two places where sapling will be planted.The other place selected was near the village hospital where people will find shade in the trees.

Visiting "Friends for the needy"-Home for mentally challenged-March

Visited 'Friends for the needy",near ambattur,chennai.We decided way to help these friends would be provided some entertainment.We are planning to conduct musical events.Suresh,sathya,karthi violin,veera were present.

Touchin new heights!-Conducting a free medical camp

Conducted a free medical camp in Thomson school,bangalore(near hosur) for the people who live in the lines of needed .It was combined effort from Thomson educational group,srikrishnasevashrama,towardsbetterworld group.

Summary:

1.Three doctors,four asst,one volunteer .

2.Free medical check ups for general health and diabetic tests.

3.The camp served more than 200 people.

4.More than 50 people tested for blood,HIV and diabetics

5.Free medicines on the doctors advise[medicines 'towardsbetterworld' provided]

6.Health improving medicines were given to visually impaired who are taken care by 'Thomson'group.veera was present.

Funding needy for dialysis-Feb works

Needy person was sponsored for dialysis procedure in srikrishna sevashrama,bangalore.veera,vikram were present

Donating medicines and soaps-Feb works

Medicines and soaps were given to balagurukulam and additional funds were given to as to enable tree sapling planting.vijay,subash,sathya,vijay were present

Project Evergreen-takes off! on 31-12-2006

With a intention to grow more trees in the planet-Project Evergreen is started by the group.It was started with planting five tree saplings on 31-12-2006 and in next two weeks time about 100 trees saplings will be planted around balagurukulam.Actually it doesnt there..saplings are also little babies...proper care will be given and a nearby person will take incharge to take care of the trees saplings growth.

Vision of the project-Try our best to plant atleast 300 saplings within the end of the year.By the end of ten years we should have completed atleast 30,000 saplings and see them grow into trees.Hopefully the green house effect comes down!

New year eve with the kids in balagurukulam

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Soaps and washing related things were given to balagurukulam on 31-12-2006.

Pic:Dina who belongs to the balagurukulam is seen feedin another baby belongin to the same place.One grown kid takes care of another smaller one!

Account balance in the end of the year

Previous balance-10510

Expenditure-Rs 2000 (for wheel chair)

Remainin=8510


Decemeber expenditure-Rs 2000(buyin trees)+Rs 1000(soaps etc)=Rs 3000

Remainin=8510-3000=5510

Karthick donation=Rs.4000

Total=5510+4000=rs.9510