From a Great visionary:APJ Abdul Kalam

From: Abdulkalam APJ mail id editied
Sent: Saturday, 05 July 2008 12:03 PM
To: Kumar R, Aneesh
Subject: Re: FW: Saktyavesh weekly update -> 30th June 2008

Dear Aneesh,

Thank you for your mail. I wish you and your team success in developing Saktyavesh. You can do the following: a) Work for excellence of each students, pay particular attention to mediocre and below average students. (b) include moral science classes to elevate the young minds. (c) create earn while you work scheme, so that the students do not dropout (d) arrange for vocational training matching international needs.

Greetings and best wishes

Kalam

27th April 2009

Domain name email – info@saktyavesh.org

We now have our domain name email address – info@saktyavesh.org. Going forward we shall be communicating using this – including the weekly updates or any information which needs communication. Request you to send your communications also to info@saktyavesh.org

Pan card

We have initiated the process to get PAN card for Saktyavesh. Shall keep you all updated on further developments

Weekly updates


All our weekly updates are recorded in our blog http://saktyavesh.blogspot.com/. The link is available on our website. All our historical information communicated in weekly updates are stored here

20th April 2009

We welcome Arun Ranganathan and Sreedharan Arunkumar (both from Bangalore) who will be working with us going forward. Thank you both, we are happy to have your loving partnership

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true” - Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam

We have dreamt and we have worked on our dreams to make it come true. It’s one fine year gone by since we registered Saktyavesh. We thank each sincere soul who were expressing support and continue to do so, silently or otherwise, right throughout or at any single moment. We thank the parents and all the near and dear ones who knowingly or unknowingly inspire us to work for a better world. Thank you all and congratulations to each of us!!! May we work to the best of our capabilities to make positive differences to this world with the highest level sincerity, transparency and integrity

Below is a brief update –

Our work till now

Currently we have partnered with two Schools – G. L. P. S. Vibhuthipura School in Bangalore and National Primary School in Chennai. We identified these Schools after looking into their needs. After getting the confidence of the staff, we have started to conduct activities at respective Schools – activities like Teaching and games. We have donated note books, drawing books, story books, games etc…. Till date we have spent Rs. 11,573.75 in donations for Bangalore School and Rs 10,555 for Chennai School. All these were made materially and no cash was handed to any of the Schools. Totally we have spent Rs 22,128.75 on the Schools

Activities and Events held last year at the School

Successfully conducted sports events in both Bangalore and Chennai Schools
Started with Teaching activity at Bangalore School

Major milestones and Key Moments

Received feedback from Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam for our work
Received feedback from Dr. W. Selva Murthy (Chief Controller Research & Development, Ministry of Defence, R&D Organisation) for our work
Conducting sports events at Chennai and Bangalore Schools

Interaction with the Parents of the children’s of Bangalore School
Crossed 1 lakh in donations

Important lessons learnt & Challenges

Sincerely, Transparently and Integrity
Our transparency with respect to our finances, has been appreciated and we have to continue to do that
Proper planning
We have to share work with friends who are honestly interested to take it up
We were given wrong information when creating bank account, and hence we created a current account. We are still in the process of creating a savings bank account
Our application for Business Objects funding was a good learning

Our plan for the next year


Streamlining of work
Engaging the ideas received
Conducting more activities like cultural day, Science Exhibition, and engaging the parents of the Children of the Schools
Getting our website completely up and running
Working on making the Schools, we are partnering with, a model School and then partner with more Schools

Thank you for all the suggestions/ideas, do keep them coming

Feel free to spread the message of Saktyavesh in letter and in spirit with interested individuals and organizations

13th April 2009

We have a new friend, Anup Baldwa (based out of The US) among us. Thank you Anup for interest. We warmly welcome you and look forward for a fruitful partnership for a noble cause

Registration with Income Tax

We are now working on registering our Saktyavesh trust with Income tax office in Bangalore (the place of registration of the Saktyavesh). Gathering information on maintaining accounts, the procedure to register and their related information, was the work during the last week. If there is any information that can be shared in this regard, kindly do so. It shall help

Ownerships

As we grow, there are a good number of tasks emerging. If any of you would like to share his/her skills by devoting time and effort, do let know. Time and effort are surely needed, with interest, with dedication

Do share ideas/comments/suggestions or questions

Feel free to spread the message of Saktyavesh in letter and in spirit with interested individuals and organizations

06th April 2009

We are happy to introduce the following friends who have shown interest in working with us - Sivathanu Neelakantan, Bharath Kumar Nagarajan, Banupriya periyasamy, Abirami Sridharan, Selva Ganesh, Ebenezer Joseph (all from Chennai); S Vijayalaxmi (Coimbatore); Kavya (US) and V N Karthikeyan (UK). Thank you all for extending a partnership for a beautiful cause. We shall together work for a Better world

Balance Sheet

Attached is the latest balance sheet. Thank you all for your contributions. For people who contributed please check and let know if there are any errors which sneaked in by mistake.

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Below are the credentials for money contribution. Please send a mail to saktyavesh@gmail.com once done so that the transaction can be verified

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Chennai School Requirement

There has been a new request from the Staff of National Primary School, Chennai. They have asked for table fans. Currently they are sitting under asbestos sheet and this summer time the temperature is really high. We have planned to visit the school one in the next week to evaluate the cost of the requirements

Do let know if there are any ideas/comments suggestions or questions

Feel free to spread the message of Saktyavesh in letter and in spirit with interested individuals and organizations