Sunday, 29 December 2013
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
FA4C team prepared the Braille text books towards the education of Visually Challenged Students
25 December
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)
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
FA4C - Team Meeting (Get Together) held on 7th December, 2013 at Chennai
17 December
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)
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Sphoorthi: FA4C - Blood Donors from 17th Oct, 2013 to 5th Dec, 2013
05 December
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)
Monday, 2 December 2013
Donated plants as a part of FA4C Team Meeting (Get Together) held on 30th November, 2013 at Visakhapatnam
02 December
‘Friends Association for a Change’ Team Meeting (Get Together) was held on 30th 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).
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.
The snacks were distributed to the entire team.
FA4C team donated Books:
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)
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
Sri Mangathayi (The Head Master of Andhra University Telugu Medium High School) discussing with our team.
Discussed on the 5 Programs (Vidyabhyasam, Pragathi, Sphoorthi, Sankalpam and Mee Nestham) of ‘Friends Association for a Change’
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).
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) We would like to specially thank our guests:
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 Kumar2) 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)