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