Chennai & Bangalore Beneficiary meets

In the month of July, Beneficiary meets were held at Chennai & Bangalore by Vidial.

It was a day long fun filled event at Cubbon Park, Bangalore. Various activities in Bangalore meet were as follows,

• Team split & Introduction
• Know the Fruits and Veggies + Clay modeling
• Lunch
• House game
• Pictionary - One from each team has to draw and show some simple items and other team members have to identify the same.
• Memory game - Ten items were displayed, 20 secs given to the teams for memorizing the items and 20secs to rename them.
• Snacks time
• Food Chart - To create awareness among the kids about the importance of good food
• Chart signed with thumb impressions by all participants

The Chennai meet took place on the same day at Gandhi Mandapam, Adayar, Chennai. The meet began at 3.30 pm and winded up by 6.00 pm. The number of children whom we support is comparatively large at Chennai and hence the could not be held for a full day.

At the same time Onus should not be taken away from the Bangalore team, which had a more clinical performance. Our Chennai team is eagerly awaiting for the next beneficiary meet to showcase their ability.

The various activities of Chennai meet as below,

• Prayer song – “ Manathil Uruthi Vendum”
• Team Introduction - Name telling game – all the participants tell their name first and person who identifies another randomly pointed stays on. A nice and simple to know about others with fun.
• Couple of Games which involved team work
• Elango Anna ‘s Speech about Importance of Village Development.

Though Chennai meet was short, it was a sweet one and people had good memories to carry when they parted ways at the end of the day.

The impact of Elango na's speech was seen when Dhivya, studying 7th Standard, remarked that "From this I see that we can develop our country by doing small things in our to day lives."

You can view some of the photos taken during the meet in the below Picasa album.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Vidial/ChennaiBangaloreBeneficiaryMeets2009#


We sincerely apologize for the communication lapses from our side. We don 't want to provide excuses, going forward we will strive more to provide proper communication.

One of the decision taken during our Annual meet at Coimbatore, during August was to provide more transparency. In the coming weeks you would receive further communication from us regarding the details of the students we support, our finance data, etc.

We would be extremely happy and glad if we you can let us know regarding what kind of updates you would like to receive.