20th July 2009

National Primary School – Chennai

• On July 15th 2009, eminent leader Kamarajar’s Birthday was celebrated at the School. We were invited and Prakash from Chennai represented us. The Staff thanked us for the support. Hopefully we will be able to do much more and be a worthy partner for each Children and the School as a whole. There were few competitions conducted and prizes distributed. We had donated Rs 500 for this towards the prizes

• As requested by the staff, we had decided to buy the SLM (Self Learning Material) for the School. We have donated Rs 7000 (in DD) to the contact person in SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) office. Expecting the kit to be delivered very shortly (hopefully tomorrow). Also, we had donated three mats, each costing Rs 800. The mats were brought by the staff as per the needs

• We are still on the look out for a place to have meetings between friends from Chennai. If there is any appropriate place, please feel free to say so

Auditor in Bangalore

On July 15th 2009, we met an auditor in Bangalore (as we are registered in Bangalore) to discuss filing our Income Tax returns and getting to know of the legalities involved in running a Non Profit Organization. The auditor’s name is Suresh. His firm’s name is Kurli Reddy & Company. They should be of good help as they are also the auditors for Bangalore Red Cross. The cost charged will be Rs 3000 (for auditing this year). The important outcome of the meeting was - we have to file our returns before September 2009. We are working on this with top priority

G. L. P. S. Vibhuthipura – Bangalore

• On Saturday, 18th July 2009, we went to the School to prepare the Children for the inter School competition to be held on 23rd July 2009 (this Thursday). Senthil, Sai Shree, Jayalakshmi, Ashwin and Dinesh were helping the students with Sanskrit sloka’s, clay modeling, Fancy dress, drawing and story telling competition. As said earlier this is an inter School competition involving close to 20 School and the students winning here will get opportunities at the taluk level and further at the district level

• 2 students are prepared for Sanskrit sloka’s, another 2 students are prepared for fancy dress, another 2 students for clay modeling, another 2 students for story telling competition. In Fancy dress competition the representation is nature, having a Student dressed as a tree thus emphasizing the importance of nature. Please feel welcome to attend this competition

• New dresses delivered – The dresses which we had sponsored are being delivered. The tailor had finished 30 dresses as of last week – for 15 boys and 15 girls. Rs 2200 has been paid as advance till date

• Back to School drive – The campaign which was conducted to attract more students to School from the near by localities seems to be bearing fruit. 10 to 12 new students have joined after the drive was conducted