FA4C team joined the walk supporting Organ Donation at Hyderabad on 29th Dec, 2013

Dear Friends,

As per the invitation from MOHAN Foundation, FA4C team joined the walk supporting Organ Donation at Hyderabad on 29th Dec, 2013.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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FA4C team prepared the Braille text books towards the education of Visually Challenged Students

Dear Friends,

Vidyabhyasam Program:

Many of us already knew that the visually challenged children make use of Braille system to understand and learn the Academic subjects.

FA4C utilized the opportunity (provided by Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, Bangalore) for preparing the Braille text books towards the education of visually challenged children.

For this conversion process, the academic English text books are converted into hard copy of Braille text books.

The conversion process involved:

1) Scanning of academic text books to either image or PDF format.

2) Each scanned page is then converted into a txt format using the optical character recognition software (which is available online).

3) The txt format pages are directly given to the Braille printer which prints the Braille format of the txt pages we created.

The first 2 steps are done from our home itself. The 3rd step is implemented by us in the school. Thus the final output is the Braille text book which can be used by the visually challenged children for their education to learn and understand. 

We would like to specially thank our friends who involved in this process of preparing Braille Text Books to the Visually Challenged Children of 'Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind', Bangalore :

1) Mani Sanni

2) Harika Kanchumarthi

3) Geetha Gudivada

4) Paraga Teja

5) Jyothi

6) Saritha Mandalapu

7) Samyuktha Karri

8) Madhuri D

9) Sridevi Matta

10) Sukeerthi Mulakala

11) Perni Kiran Kumar (for leading the team in this process)

The final Braille Books prepared by our team will be submitted to Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind by 28th December, 2013.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012) 

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FA4C - Team Meeting (Get Together) held on 7th December, 2013 at Chennai

Dear Friends,

Team get together of ‘Friends Association for a Change’ held on 7th December, 2013 at Chennai:

Currently, we have strength of about 11 members at Chennai. Due to heavy rains and other commitments only 4 members turned up for the get together held at IIT Madras Campus, Chennai. 

Minutes of Meeting:

1)       Introduced our friends to each other. 

2)      Discussed on the current FA4C organization programs & activities and we even shared our thoughts with each other. We mainly discussed on the events which we can plan for Dec 2013.

3)      Snacks to the team.

4)      Provided a service letter along with a service award to the members who provided their voluntary services to the organization from the past 2 years. 

The rest of the team from Chennai, who are yet to receive the service awards and service letters from the organization, will receive them soon from Sreenivasulu.

Attendees:

1.     Mr. Subramani

2.     Mr. Sreenivasulu   

3.      Mr. Lakshmana Rao Koppada

4.    Mr. SivaSubbaRaju

Special thanks to Sreenivasulu for the initiative and planning the Get Together event at Chennai and special thanks to Lakshmanarao for bringing special homemade “sundal” for all of us J

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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Sphoorthi: FA4C - Blood Donors from 17th Oct, 2013 to 5th Dec, 2013

Dear Friends,

Sphoorthi:

We would like to specially thank and appreciate the blood donors on behalf of our entire team, for their blood donation:

29th Oct, 2013: Mr. Ganesh Karanam 

2nd Nov, 2013: Mr. Bhanuteja Malla

3rd Dec, 2013: Mr. Rama Narasimha Raju.G

They donated their blood as replacement donors during medical emergency for the patients at Visakhapatnam.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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Donated plants as a part of FA4C Team Meeting (Get Together) held on 30th November, 2013 at Visakhapatnam

‘Friends Association for a Change’ Team Meeting (Get Together) was held on 30^th November, 2013 at Poorna Vedika, Visakhapatnam :

Sri Mangathayi (The Head Master of Andhra University Telugu Medium High School) discussing with our team.

 Inviting Sri Shaik Abdul Sattar (The Board Member of FA4C and who provided their own house address for our organization Govt. Registration).

Discussed on the 5 Programs (Vidyabhyasam, Pragathi, Sphoorthi, Sankalpam and Mee Nestham) of ‘Friends Association for a Change’

A few words from Sri Dr. Sungandhi (The Director of A.S.Raja Voluntary Blood Bank, Visakhapatnam).

Introducing Mr. Naresh (The President) and Mr. Solomon (The Treasurer) from ‘Generation Yuvaa’ Organization to our team.

A few words from Sri Malathi Chalamasetty (The Vice President) of ‘Friends Association for a Change’

 Sri Padmavathi Nishtala providing the memento on behalf of FA4C to Sri Salomi (The Head Master of Andhra University Telugu Medium Primary School).

             A few words from Ms. M. Renuka Devi (The Head Master of GVMC Primary School).

A few words from Sri K L N Murthy (Cost Accountant as well as the proprietor of 'Sree Vani Printers' Printing Press).

Accepting to promote Mr.Kranthi Kumar (LIC agent) to provide his services to ‘Friends Association for a Change’ 

Service Letters and Mementos to the team who worked from the past 2 yrs to ‘Friends Association for a Change’

 Few of the members with a group photograph at the end of the meeting.

Donated 80 plants to our team & to the guests on the occasion of our get together.

The snacks were distributed to the entire team.

FA4C team donated Books:

Miss Samyuktha Karri and Miss Sobha Komarapu donated books to our organization. We will announce the list of books donated by them soon and we will work for donating them to the needy in the upcoming days.

We would like to specially thank our guests:

1)      Sri Abhinava Raghava (Poorna Vedika)
2)      Sri Dr.Sugandhi (A.S.Raja Voluntary Blood Bank)
3)      Sri Naresh (The President of Generation Yuvaa)
4)      Sri Solomon (The Treasurer of Generation Yuvaa)
5)      Sri Jagadeesh (The President of AAWA)
6)      Sri Mangathayi (The HM of AU High School)
7)      Sri Salomi (The HM of AU Primary School)
8)      Sri Ravi (The HM of Mandal Praja Parishad School)
9)      Sri M.Renuka Devi (The HM of GVMC Primary School)

We would even specially thank:  Pena4, Softscript Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Jaypee Cement, LIC and TRAVELIQ  from Visakhapatnam for the best wishes from their end.

And finally we would like to thank our team who worked in behind for this event:

1)      Mr. P Venkat Kumar
2)      Mr. Shaik Abdul Rehman
3)      Ms. Sai Sri Velaga
4)      Ms. Neelima Medikonda
5)      Mr. Demudu Naidu
6)      Mr. Syam Srinu Dondaparthi
7)      Mr. Narasimha Raju

8)   Mr. Naga Sekhar

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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FA4C - Team Meeting (Get Together) held on 23rd November, 2013 at Hyderabad

Dear Friends,

Team get together of ‘Friends Association for a Change’ held on 23^rd November, 2013 at Hyderabad:

Currently, we have a strength of 149 members from Hyderabad. And as per the follow up on phone calls, the estimation to the get together is 50 to 60 members. But due to heavy rains on 23^rd Nov, 2013 (Saturday) at Hyderabad, our team was unable to attend the get together.

Overcoming all the odds and travelling in rain, 9 of our friends made their presence to the get together on 23^rd November, 2013. Due to the hopeless situation at Botanical gardens, we gathered at a nearby Hotel: Swagath De Royal, Kothaguda X-roads, Kondapur.

Minutes of Meeting:

1)       Introduced our friends to each other. 

2)      Discussed on the current FA4C organization programs & activities and we even shared our thoughts with each other.

3)      Snacks to the team.

4)      Provided a service letter along with a service award to the members who provided their voluntary services to the organization from the past 2 years.

The rest of the team from Hyderabad, who are yet to receive the service awards and service letters from the organization will receive them soon from Mr. Patnam Muktheshwar, Mr. Ramu Singampalli, Miss Priyanka YK, Mr. Raj Vikas Pakki and Sri Krishna Chaitanya Nannapaneni.

Attendees: 

1.       Sri Krishna Chaitanya Nannapaneni

2.       Mr. Ramu Singampalli

3.       Mr. Murali Krishna Reddy

4.       Mr. Raghav Annavarapu

5.       Miss Priyanka YK

6.       Mr. Raj Vikas Pakki

7.       Mr. Patnam Muktheshwar

8.       Mr. Srikanth

9.       Mr. Vinod Sravanam

Special thanks to Mr. Patnam Muktheshwar, Mr. Raj Vikas Pakki, Mr. Murali Krishna Reddy, Mr. Ramu Singampalli and Miss Priyanka YK who spent a lot of time and efforts in planning and organizing the Get Together event at Hyderabad.  

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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FA4C team provided prizes to the winners on 14th Nov, 2013 (Children's Day )

Dear Friends,

‘Friends Association for a Change’ conducted games to the students of GVMC Primary School on 9^th November, 2013 at Visakhapatnam.

On 14^th November, 2013 (Children’s Day) , the team of ‘Friends Association for a Change’ provided 31 prizes to the winners of the games and distributed chocolates to all the students of GVMC Primary School, Visakhapatnam.

                                      

                                      

                                     
                                      
                                     

Special thanks : 

1.       Mr.  P.Venkat Kumar for volunteering in purchasing the gifts (Hot Packs) to the winners on behalf of FA4C.

2.       Shekar, Demudu Naidu, Mohan, Santhosh Kumar Kottakota, P. Kiran Kumar, Himabindu G, Sunil, Rehman, Yenda Mahesh, Satya Sagar Datti for volunteering to this event on behalf of FA4C.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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FA4C donated blankets to the financially poor and old people at Chittoor District, AP on 10th November, 2013

Dear Friends,

We donated blankets to the 8 identified (aged and orphan) people from 3 villages named: Pathikonda, Peddine Palli and Besthagani Palli of Chittoor District on 10th November, 2013.

Among the 8 people: 

1)      Pathikonda Village : 4 

2)      Peddine Palli         : 2 

3)      Besthagani Palli     : 2

The 6 people from Pathikonda and Peddine Palli gathered the blankets at the house of Mr. Sreenivasulu Thumsi (Our Program Coordinator) at Pathikonda Village on 10^th November, 2013 and our team travelled to Besthagani Palli to donate the blankets to the rest of 2 people (as they are too old enough even to walk).

Special Thanks: Mr. Sreenivasulu Thumsi and Mr.Bala Krishna (Who is on below photographs and Brother of Mr.Sreenivalusu Thumsi), who took the complete responsibility on behalf of our team.

And we donated one more blanket on 26^th Oct, 2013 to an old women who is somewhat mentally retarded and is completely shivering due to rains by sitting on a footpath near old post office, 1 town, Visakhapatnam.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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FA4C conducted games to the students of GVMC Primary School, Vizag on 9th Nov, 2013

Dear Friends,

'Mee Nestham' Program: 

‘Friends Association for a Change’ conducted the games to the students of GVMC Primary School at Visakhapatnam on 9^th November, 2013.

Running and Musical Chairs to all the students from 1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd Standards.

Caroms, Chess (only boys participated), skipping(only girls participated) to the students of 4^th and 5^th Standards.

Drawing to all the students from 1^st standard to 5^th standard.

The prizes to the students are planned to be given on 14^th November, 2013 (Children’s Day).

Special thanks to Ali, Satya, Bhanu Kiran K, Syam Srinu Dondaparthi, Santhosh Kumar Kottakota, Himabindu G and Shaik Abdul Rehman for organizing the games.

Regards,

Friends Association for a Change

(Society No. 587 / 2012)

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