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Avvai Home

 

Needed:

Tamil story books to help create a good tamil library in Avai

Colored notebooks

Sports equipment

Films on value education for kids (stories on trees, environment, honesty, hardwork, etc)

 

Volunteer

1. Teach Maths, English, Science at all levels. Evening after 4 pm

  1. Help handle the audio visual instruments such as projector, CD, educational films
  2. Teach kids songs
  3. Entertain kids with magic tricks, games etc, to make coming to school a fun process and reduce absenteeism
  4. Give lessons on practical living: basic plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, how to mend things around the house
  5. Give sex education talks
  6. For two weeks in summer, someone to train children for track events and team games during the annual sports camp
  7. Sports coaches (professional players or coaches would be ideal)

Sponsor

1. Tea after the sports events

Per child for two weeks Rs 1000 (total 75 kids for the sports events)

  1. Annual excursion: 

Contact:

Mrs Rajalakshmi, Committee secretary

Mrs Susheela, correspondant

Ph: 044 24913226

Avvaihome31@yahoo.co.in

Address: 24/41

Besant Avenue, Adyar, Chennai

Chennai - 600020.

 

 

Vidyarambam

 (Has 600 education support centers in 12 districts, including Vellore. Teaches upto Class V students. Looks after underperforming kids)

 

Needed:

Tamil and English story/comic books for children upto primary level

 

Volunteer:

1. Teach ‘Basic English Classes’ for beginners and for tutors for two weeks in summer (May/June). Visit rural areas and report on working of the centers, singly or in groups of two etc. Basic accommodation and travel will be provided. Briefing will be given on what needs to be checked. Will involve two day’s stay and two nights to travel up and down.
2. Teach ‘Basic English Classes’ for trainers and for rural tutors for two weeks in summer (April/May). Assignment in Tirunelveli and Nagapattinam district
3. Volunteer teachers  for our English medium Nursery and Primary school at Nagapattinam.

Contact: Mr. V. Ranganathan
Email: vidyarambam@gmail.com
Ph: 91-44-2446 5377
Website: www.vidyarambam.org
Address: Admin Office: No.10/1, First Main Road
Kasturbhai Nagar
Adyar, Chennai 600 020

 

 

 

 

  

Anbagam Home for the Aged

 

Needed:

Soap, oil, surf powder

Buns, cakes at Christmas time,

Old clothes,

Medicines for headache, diarrhea, cough syrup.

 

Sponsor:

Rs 3,000 a month to be sent to each rural daycare center a month.

Rs 600 as salary for a staff member

Food, given six times a week for the daycare center inmates

 

Contact:

A. Hepzibha, administrator and matron

Ph: 9940217335

Ph: +(91)-(44)-24915047

Address: No 4, Opp To School, Besant Avenue, Adyar, Chennai - 600020

 

Nandini Voice for Deprived

Needs:

 

1. Urgently required: Space for a small outlet to sell products and art pieces made by the disabled.

2. Computers for the free computer schools for the underprivileged

 

Volunteer:

 

    1. Buy products from the existing outlet in T Nagar, or from the disabled sellers who can be sent to individual houses of interested buyers. Contact Ph: 044 24916037
    2. Organise an exhibition of products and art by disabled people, thereby helping give them a source of income.
    3. Buy online at http://www.nandinivoice.org/profiles.htm
    4. Read the regular journal on issues related to poverty and the disabled
    5. Take part in awareness programmes conducted by Nandini
    6. Help place disabled in jobs

Contact:

N.S. Venkataraman, Trustee

nsvenkat@md4.vsnl.net.in

Ph: 044 24916037, 24961346   / 24961792 / 24916037

 

 

Olcott School (free private school for the poor)

 

Needed:

  1. Racks for the library
  2. Metal bowls for food for the children’s protein enhanced meal (minimum 25 bowls or multiples of 25)
  3. Steel glasses (any number)
  4. Old fridge (for the crafts section, to store jams, ground masala, bulk tomatoes etc)
  5. Subscriptions for magazines like Chandamama or Magic pot, Tulika books, hardbound English books (basic stories)
  6. Grass mats (new, any number)
  7. Clothes (old will do) for children

 

Volunteers:

  1. Full time teacher and volunteer teachers
  2. Volunteers to play the games designed by the school (indoor games, will take place at volunteer’s time of convenience and during student’s free periods)
  3. Special educators, or people with much patience to help learning disabled children (commuting money can be offered)
  4. Housewives etc to help kids who have parents unable o coach them after class
  5. People who can help with sports or athletics. Games like football, volleyball, kabadi, badminton
  6. Someone to supervise activity in the laying out of the playground in May/June
  7. To help in fund raising
  8. Carpentry teacher from 2-4 in the afternoons (material already exists)

Sponsor

1. Fees for a student: Rs.6000 annually Rs. 3,000 half yearly, Rs. 1,500 quarterly, Rs. 500 every month, Rs. 250 every month Rs. 100 every month

For contribution through cheque: make payment to Olcott Education Society, with a covering note indicating the purpose.

For contribution through ECS (electronic clearance service): download forms at http://olcott-school-chennai.org/omhs%20appeal%20ecs.pdf

 

     All contributions are eligible for 80G tax benefits.

 

  1. Support a child post-10th std: cheque payment o be made in the name of India International Children’s Fund for between Rs 2000 or Rs 6000 a year.

Smaller amounts will also be appreciated

 

 

Contact: Ms Lakshmi Suryanarayanan, Headmistress

Ph: 9841091424

044 24915826

Email: lsuryanarayanan@gmail.com

Website: olcott_school_chennai.org

Address: Besant Gardens, The Theosophical society campus,

# 2, Besant Avenue, Bsant Nagar, Chennai 600090

 

 

Deepam (Free computer skills training and general awareness for under-privileged kids)

 

Needed

1. Just connect Deepam to groups of under-privileged kids anywhere in Chennai and the trainers will run a 20-week course. Currently Deepam runs three courses in South Chennai and is ready to spread further.

2. Old computers/laptops

 

Volunteer:

1. On weekends (two hours anytime between 2 to 5 in the afternoon) to teach the children

Location: At a Government run School in Besant Nagar and at a kuppam in Besant Nagar

2. To spread awareness about the programmes

 

Contact:

Shankarnarayanan Basu

Ph: 9940064384

Email: shankarnarayanbasu@gmail.com

Website: www.deepam.in

 

 

Ashanet (education for underprivileged children)

 

Needed:

1. Gift class by class notebooks, stationery, colors, crayons

2. Old computers

 

Volunteer:

1. Mentor underprivileged children through the Poornavidya project which is involved in teaching children at the corporation school opposite Ashtalakshmi temple, Kalakshetra Colony, Besant Nagar.

2. Document the projects, training material and methods devised

3. Urgently needed: Cover the annual free teachers training programme held in IIT for educators from all over the state

4. Visit and monitor/ check the work at balwadis in Adyar

5. Sing songs and entertain at the balwadis in Adyar

 

Sponsor:

1. Scholarship for children through the Poornavidya project

2. Teacher’s salary at a balwadi (cheques to be made in the name of Ashanet)

 

Contact: Malika

Email: ashanet.org-chennai