FA helped a student Rahul by paying his School Fee for the year 2012

Dear Friends,

Our Team paid the School Fee Payment (One-Time) to a student studying 6th standard from AU Telugu Medium School:

Student Details:

Name: Rahul Kumar.

Rahul is studying 6th Standard B Section in Andhra University Telugu Medium School.

His father is expired and mother is working as a servant.

Regarding Rahul Education:

ü  Text Books are provided to Rahul by the Government through the school management for this year.

ü  Uniforms are donated by the school teaching staff.

ü  Note books are donated by our team to Rahul during the event on 16th July,2012.

Rahul who is need of help to pay his School Fee is helped by Rakesh Kumar Sunkara and Devi Priya Relangi.

ü  Rakesh Kumar Sunkara and Devi Priya Relangi came forward immediately and paid the school fee of 615 rupees to Rahul kumar on behalf of their team.

ü  Though Rakesh Kumar Sunkara and Devi Priya Relangi are leading a team in separate from the past 2 yrs and are working towards social activities, they joined Friends Association with their own interest and have been working to their best in supporting, suggesting and through active participation of FA activities.

Special thanks to Rakesh Kumar Sunkara and Devi Priya Relangi and even to their team on behalf of Friends Association.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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FA Get Together Updates held on 8th Sep,2012 at Hyderabad and held on 15th Sep,2012 at Visakhapatnam

Dear Friends,

Main Reasons behind FA Get Together:

ü  Everyone among us should interact with the rest of the FA team members so as to work together during the social activities.
ü  Distribution of each plant to each of our team members is one other important event which cannot be done in normal days.

Hyderabad Plan	Visakhapatnam Plan
FA Get together on 8th Sep,2012	FA Get  together on 15th Sep,2012
Venue: Botanical Gardens, Near Kothagudem Forest Reserve, Near Hi-Tech City, Kondapur, Hyderabad – 500033.	Venue: Poorna Function Hall (A/C), Beside Poorna Theater, Near Poorna Market, Visakhapatnam.
Schedule: 11:00 AM: a)      Distribution of FA badges(with the logo) to everyone. b)      Discussion on FA Activities. 12:30 PM: Lunch (Catering) 2:00 PM: Introducing each and every person in the team with rest of the team members. 3:00 PM: Fun Activities and gifts to the winners. 4:00 PM: Distribution of each plant to each of our team members.	Schedule: 11:00 AM: a)      Distribution of FA badges(with the logo) to everyone. b)      Discussion on FA Activities. 12:30 PM: Lunch (Catering) 2:00 PM: Introducing each and every person in the team with rest of the team members. 3:00 PM: Fun Activities and gifts to the winners. 4:00 PM: Distribution of each plant to each of our team members.

The amount for purchasing the plants and badges will be taken from the funds of Friends Association.

Special Thanks to Abhinava Raghava.G.M (one of our FA team members) for providing his own Poorna Function Hall towards the event of Friends Association Get Together in Visakhapatnam on 15^th September,2012.

ü  We are provided with this Function Hall at Free of Rent.
ü  The Function Hall is Air Conditioned and provided with 4 wheeler as well as 2 wheeler parking.
ü  We are requested to provide only the maintenance charges (Current, Cleaning, (From Outsiders: Chairs and Tables(used for catering)) etc: 2500 rupees) for utilizing the function hall on 15^th September,2012.

As our team is not willing to draw the amount from FA for conducting get together events, 100 rupees per head is the amount that we are planning to gather from our team.

100 Rupees Estimation Per Head
To Hyderabad Team:	To Vizag Team:
100 rupees expenses: Catering (85) + Garden Entry Fee (15)	100 rupees expenses: Catering (75) + Maintenance charges (25)
Catering Food Items: 1)      Sweet (Semya Kesar) 2)      Biryani 3)      Raitha 4)      White Rice 5)      Curry (Both for Biryani and White Rice: Meal Maker Tomato) 6)      Fry  Curry (Aalu - 65) 7)      Dal 8)      Sambar 9)      Papads 10)   Curd 11)   Mineral Water	Catering Food Items: a)      Sweet (Semya Kesar) b)      Biryani c)       Raitha d)      White Rice e)      Curry (Both for Biryani and White Rice: Aalu Chenna) f)       Fry Curry (Cabbage – 65) g)      Dal h)      Sambar i)        Papads j)        Tomato Pickel k)      Curd l)        Mineral Water

Note:

ü  Hope everyone among us will provide the amount within the time limit of our get together plan to make this event successful. In case of any deficiency in gathering the amount from our team, we are planning to replace that amount from the funds of Friends Association.
ü  We have some of our team members who planned to travel all the way from Pune to Hyderabad and Vijayawada to Vizag especially to attend our FA Get Together event.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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Finalized the 'Logo' and 'Tagline' representing Friends Association

Dear Friends,

We finalized the Logo and Tagline representing Friends Association as per the voting done by our team.

Here is the Logo representing Friends Association which is selected by our team:

LOGO included with the Tagline:

Description Of Logo Representing Friends Association:

Globe Surrounded By the People : Indicates the Members of Friends Association working together as a TEAM globally.

Book & Students : Indicates the purpose of helping towards the education of children who are financially poor.

Green leaf: Indicates Friends Association support towards Environmental Development.

Shake Hands: Indicates the ‘Welcome’ to the people who are interested to join Friends Association.

Friends Association feels proud of the entire team who worked for designing the logos to represent on behalf of Friends Association:

Imran Mohammed, Prathyusha Bayya , Rupa Saraswathi. VVS, Santosh Lin, , Anil Bezawada, Banka Santosh Kumar, Navaza Khan.

Special thanks to the entire team for suggesting the taglines to represent on behalf of Friends Association:

Pavan Kumar. K.V, Nagarjuna Nudurupati, Nellipudi Sandeep, Bhanuteja Malla, Satyanarayana Yerninti, Sudhir Rayapureddy, Bondada Rajesh.

Note: Apologies as we missed out 10 more names of our team members whoever suggested the Taglines representing Friends Association.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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Friends Association planned Get Together on 8th Sep,2012 at Hyderabad & on 15th Sep,2012 at Visakhapatnam

Dear Friends,

Friends Association planned for a get together in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam locations. As we have a strength of 140+ members from Visakhapatnam and 65+ members from Hyderabad, we hope that this is the time to arrange a get together so as to introduce everyone in the team with each other.

Get together in Hyderabad:

Date: 8th September,2012  

Location: Botanical gardens, Madhapur.

Get together in Visakhapatnam:

Date: 15th September ,2012

Location: Poorna Function Hall(A/C),
Beside Poorna Theater, Poorna Market Area, Visakhapatnam.

We planned for a lunch on the get together day for our entire team.

Important Activities on Get Together Day:

ü  Introduction of each and everyone in the team with the rest of the team members.

ü  FA planned to provide a plant to each of our team members (whoever are interested to grow a plant in their house). 
ü We are planning for Fun Activities on the get together day.
 

For the rest of the team from other locations:

As we do not have a strength of more than 10 members from any other locations, I hope the rest of the team can understand and support us. We always welcome you to join us on the get together day from any of the locations which is close to you.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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Please Vote to the Logo and Tagline which represents FA in the Best Way

Dear Friends,

Please vote to the Logo and Tagline which represents the activities of Friends Association in the best way.

Special Thanks to Imran Mohammad, Rupa Saraswathi.VVS, Banka Santosh Kumar, Prathyusha Bayya and Navaza Khan for sharing the 18 logos with the team.

Our team have shown  a lot of patience and time for the sake of designing the logos. This is really a great effort.

Out of 18 logos, we have chosen the best 9 logos for voting.

Important points to remember while voting:

Tagline:

ü  Each person can choose 3 taglines at a time during voting.

ü  The last option: ‘Other’ is an option to suggest a tagline other than those displayed on the website.

Logo:

ü  Please enlarge the logos to view them as some of the logos are not clearly visible due to pixels variations.

ü  Each person can choose 3 logos at a time during voting.

Here is our temperory URL to poll your opinion: http://friendsassociationteam.org/

Note: 27^th August,2012 is the last date for Voting.

Please reply back with your answers to the email sent in private for the teams of Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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FA donated 50 food packets to the destitutes at Visakhapatnam on 15th August, 2012

Dear Friends,

**Wish You Happy 65^th Independence Day**

Our team cooked the flavored rice and packed the food in 50 packets. And then provided these 50 packets of food to the aged people who are destitute near Jnanapuram Railway Station @ Visakhapatnam on 15^th August,2012.

Special Thanks to our Team:

ü  Raghavendra Baswa cooked the flavored rice at his house with the help of his mother.
ü  Satyanarayana Yerninti have packed the food in packets.
ü  Banka Santosh Kumar have provided his own vehicle for the transportation of the food.

While donating food:

ü  On hearing that we are providing food packets, an old lady who is at the other end of the road ran and reached us requesting for food. This moved us a bit.
ü  Just keep remembering that our country is still having people who are not in a position even to have the basic facilities like food, clothing and shelter.

I have felt the internal happiness when I heard that our parents are supporting social activities and helping us during the events. Great to see the inspiration given by our parents to encourage these kind of social activities by our team - Vinod

This event is considered as a part of 'Mee Nestham'.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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FA team meeting held at Visakhapatnam on 14th August, 2012

Dear Friends,

The following are the important points discussed in the meeting today:

1)      Regarding Child Foundation of India:

a)      Sponsoring of the Faculty: We kept this decision in hold.

Reason: We are not sure on the funds being received by Child Foundation of India (which is being ran from the past 22 years) in the way of food and charity activities by public. Instead they are waiting for the outsiders to sponsor the faculty. So, we are planning to take the decision after speaking to the girl who is willing to work as a faculty on regular basis.

b)      As the Foundation is having Television: Our team is willing to carry a DVD player (team members personal DVD Player) with certain Video DVD’s or CD’s(education related) in the weekends in their free time and play the videos which are interesting to the students in the foundation.

c)       Projector Purchase: Team will enquire the cost of the projectors which are feasible to our activities.

d)      Classes to the students by our FA team on extra cultural activities: Venkatesh Rachakonda came forward to enquire the people(skilled in particular cultural activity) known to him on implementing the extra cultural activities to the students of Child Foundation of India in the weekends. And we request our team to come forward if interested and let us know your names.

 2)      Regarding implementing the plantation program:

a)      We have gathered the areas where maximum number of our team members stay in Vizag. But the areas where maximum number of team stay are not feasible to implement the plantation program. So we decided to enquire in the schools and hospitals where we have an option to implement the plantation program.

b)      We will gather the details of interested members of our entire FA team on their interest to grow plants in their houses. We planned to provide them with each plant on the day of our FA get together.

 3)      Implementing the Message Alerts:

We planned to gather the details of the interested members of our entire FA team on the message alerts related to FA activities and even regarding the blood requirement alerts.

Once we gather the interested members details, we will start the activity of message alerts to your mobile phones.

 4)      Contact Persons on behalf of FA regarding Blood Requirements:

Anuradha Dasari (Contact Number: 9908364244) and Venkatesh Rachakonda(Contact Number: 8142440044) from our team came forward to work as contact persons to represent FA regarding blood requirements.

 5)      Events planned in August and September months of 2012:

a)      15^th August,2012 : We are going to provide food to the aged people who are destitute near Jnanapuram Railway Station, Visakhapatnam.   

We planned to cook 8 kgs of flavored rice, pack and distribute to the aged people who are destitute on 15th August,2012.

b)      FA get together in September across the locations Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad (Total FA Strength: 226, Vizag FA Strength: around 140 & Hyderabad FA Strength: around 65):

ü  Teams will be divided and each team should bring one food item.

ü  The 1^st or 2^nd week of September choice is left to the team.

ü  We selected 3 locations from Vizag: Vuda Park, Tenneti Park and Shivaji Park. The choice is left to the team.

ü  We have to yet to select the location from Hyderabad.

c)       Paper Donation Drive to the students who are visually challenged in the last week of September across the 3 locations: Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

The selected schools will be announced soon.

d)      We will be conducting a service oriented event in a school @ Hyderabad in the month of September or November.

6)      Government Registration of FA:
            We planned to start enquiring the details of government registration.

We will be preparing the bylaws (booklet with the list of FA activities) soon so as to restrict our FA activities in a limited range (per an year) as per the rules and regulations.

Thank you all for your great participation in this meeting:

Venkatesh Rachakonda, Anuradha Dasari, Swapna Vadlamani, Bharathi Priya, Raghavendra Baswa, Yerninti Satyanarayana, S.V.N.Vinod Krishna.

Thanks & Regards,

Friends Association

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