In 2011, starting of the year with
the new board, we first held recruitment to help us achieve our new goals set
for the year. On July 31th, at Gymkhana Club, opposite to KBR Park,
we held the recruitment. Launching it at 10am, we started off with Group
Discussion, then Team Stimulation and after with Personal Interviews. Including
elimination at each round, it went on till 3pm. At the end of the day out of 32
people that came to be recruited, 17 enthusiastic people made it to be our new members
of the club.
On August 14th, we
decided to formally invite our newest recruits officially into the club. Knowing
to do this we decided to hold Ice Breakers at one of our members’ house. Where our new members can comfortably get
acquainted with our old members, through some different games we planned for
them. Also during the session we presented in detail to what sort of work we
have done in the past and the projects we have planned for the year coming
along. Getting a positive feedback from new recruits about our session, we were
delighted that they had fun and learn more about our club.
August 28th, we held
installation for our new board and members at Hotel Grand Seasons, Shivam Road
at 5:30pm. The president of Rotaray Club of Hyderabad East, Ravi Sreenivas Rao
was present for the Ceremony. The new members were welcomed with great
enthusiasm into our club. The installation ceremony was followed by a
delightful dinner.
In October we had our hands full
with the project in association with SMILE.
We associated with SMILE foundation to sell fire crackers for Diwali. We
sold about 16,500ruppees worth of fire crackers. This small project was
very successful. Also in October our club actively participated
in the Joy of Giving Week from October 2nd to October 8th. On October 3rd our members spent
the day with the children for the disabled at Ranigunj, located in Secunderabad.
While we organized lunch and different games for the children, we also
distributed clothes for the kids and different stationary items and also for
the girls we gifted bangles.
On October 4th, we went to visit Cherish, an
orphanage in Gudimalkapur. Cherish is a grass-root level orphanage started
solely by a lady who help to nurture the lives of kids from the streets. We
spent the second day of Joy of Giving Week at Cherish, where the children
showcased their talents by singing, dancing, and telling us different types of
stories. We later organized and played different types of games such as, “Simon
Says”, Passing-the-Parcel, Cricket and Jump Roping. After we individually
distributed packed snack boxes to each child including of a juice box, a slice
of cake, a veggie puff, and a couple of biscuits.
October 5th, we had a trip to an old age home
located in Secundrabad. We sang different kinds of song putting our hearts into
it, surprisingly later as we kept singing on the others started to join us and
sing with us. It was such a wonderful experience knowing that such little
things can makes you smile and spread a smile across others as well. Bonding
while the singing, we spent a deal of time with them, having a great day in the
form of music.
With out knowing the week has gone by so quickly, the last
two remaining days October 7th and 8th, we participated
in the Karma Yoga Seva Mela. It was held in the Zorastrian Club at Begumpet.
The mela was basically for visitors to interact with around 60 different NGOs
that were there to understand their work and anticipation. We also kept a stall
at the mela for both days. Also during these both days we had a signature
campaign to spead awareness about polio eradication. We successfully managed to
achieve 412 signatures in two days. Knowing that Joy of Giving Week was a
success for our club.Next month on November 6th, we had our first fellowship at one of the members’ house. Celebrating the success of Joy of the Giving Week, we had a very fun evening with all the members getting together. We played a few different games such as Tambola. That evening was followed by dinner. Due to exams in December we didn’t get to work on any projects.
But in 2012, January 7th, we had our New Year
celebration at AGAPE. We took cake and snakes for the children there. We spent
the day interacting with them, singing different songs and dancing around. At the
end of the day we had a small interaction session where member guided each
child who appeared for their 10th board exams.
On February 25th, we volunteered for Child Reach
International at Lakshanika International School. Child Reach International
India proposes to facilitate an interactive platform for the children – My School,
My Voice – at few reputed schools in the twin cities of Hyderabad. My School,
My Voice strives to provide an opportunity for school children to stimulate and
provoke thoughts and actively participate in social actions; and make a
proactive and positive difference to self and other children around them. It aims
to provide a space for children to feel, express and be listen to – an opportunity
often overlooked.
From March 3rd to March 16th, we
started our next project called Silver Lining. Where we successfully organized
scribes for students at Sai Junior College for the blind for their intermediate
board exams. We managed to find 75 different scribes for each day. The project
was very successful.
Also in March Aurum ’12 took place. AURUM is a signature event done by our club. Where we had 65 cars participating in the Treasure Hunt. Where we raised 1.2 lacks from the event. We had the actor Arvind Krishna give away the prizes worth 70,000rupees.
In May, we held a medical camp in Mahalingapuram. This is the
second year for the medical camp, with collaboration with Care Hospital. We had
five doctors and six support staff sent to Mahalingapuram for the medical camp.
They conduced check up on 298 patients from 11am up to 4pm. We also distributed medicine
to the patients as per requirements.
