TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013

On a cold rainy night, when you see an old man shiver, do you turn away and pretend you saw nothing or walk up to him with a blanket and make a difference? On the way to work, when you see an ambulance siren on your rear view window, do you raise your glasses and blast the music, or drive to the hospital, donate blood and make a difference?

Contents Areas of interest: Education Medical Environment Awareness Camp

When you wake up in the morning and look outside your window, and can’t see green trees nor hear sounds of birds, do you blame the government and go back to sleep or do you wake up and plant a sapling and make a difference?

Others

When you see someone helpless, the less fortunate, the underprivileged, do you just count your blessings and walk away, or show some interest to help them to reduce their pain?

6 Educational cases

Have you made a difference in this world?

2 Awareness camp

It is not charity, it is not sympathy, it is our responsibility. Come Forward!! Join hands with us to make a Difference! One of the characteristics that make us unique as an organisation is our limitless vision and boundless compassion. We have undertaken every project which we felt can make a difference in the life of an individual or a community; right from tree plantation drives and blood donation camps to supporting individuals in their need of financial aid. Every quarter, time and again, we, the TMADians, prove that every drop in the ocean counts. Our passion makes us believe that we can make a difference in this world. We come across so many inspiring people, people who motivated us to do better, to serve more, and to reach out to more people in need. This fuels our desire to serve more. At the end of this memorable quarter, let us recall all the events that have transpired and give credit to the amazing volunteers here at TMAD, who make us believe that angels live amongst us on earth.

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Highlights Activities handled:

5 Medical cases 1 Environmental cases

2 Others Contact Us Website: www.tmad.org E-mail: [email protected] Harinath Mallepally, President [email protected] 9391920444 Pavan Pyda, Vice President [email protected] Prasanthi Uppalapati, Founder/Secretary [email protected] 9885026676 Anil Kumar BVN, Jt. Secretary [email protected] 9880994182 Sivaji Challa, Treasurer [email protected] 9908637414 Vamsi Kiran Kapuganty, Editor [email protected] 9885310286

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Upcoming Activities Educational tour for Government School students, Hyderabad Republic Day celebrations at Government Schools Blood donation camp in Bangalore Visit to Government Schools

New Volunteers Pallavi Singh Sai Krishna Someneni

Education Case 1: Support for Sravani Sravani is a hard working ambitious girl studying 5th year of MBBS. Her yearly fee amount is two lakhs. Her family is supported by her brother and sister, but as they are also under the burden of paying back their educational loans, the family is seeking help for Sravani’s college fees.

Donors Krishna Poreddy

This is an on-going and continuous project. Any support from sponsors is welcome. Remember, you will be helping in the making of a doctor, who will be serving the society tomorrow. Last year TMAD coordinated with Nestama group and NRIVA group and supported Rs 57,000. Sravani managed to collect the remaining amount with the help of other NGOs like KAT, Kachiguda Vysya Hostel and few other kind hearted donors. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD contributed Rs 59,000 towards a part of her college fees.

Sitaram Jakka

5000

Sudhakar Vaka

3000

UV Krishna Prasad

1000

Jaikishore Tunga

1000

Reshma Begum P

5000

Charan Kumar Raja

1000

Pyda V Pavan Kumar

2500

Lavakumar Alladi

1000

Srinivas Maddu

5000

Expenses: Rs 59,000

Yashoda

5000

Volunteers: Anil Kumar BVN, and Geethika Krishna

Total

Contribution 5000

Adarsh Padegal

2000

Mahesh Seelam

10000

Venkatesh Pallepati

12500

59000

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86-april-2013-march-2014/194-sravani-mbbs-saroornagar-ranga-reddy-ap

Case 2: Support for Prathyusha Prathyusha is a meritorious and hard-working student from a poor background. She secured 56 credits out of 60 in SSC exams. She also secured 94% in Intermediate 1st year. She requested TMAD’s support for paying Intermediate 2nd year college fee and for buying text books. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD contributed Rs 23,940 towards her college fee and buying books.

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Expenses: Rs 23940 Donor: Srinivas Kudikala Volunteers: Lakshmi P, Prashanthi Uppalapati and Harinath Mallepally FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86-april-2013-march-2014/305-prathyushaintermediate-2nd-year-bhimadole-west-godavari-ap

Case 3: Support for Amala Amala is the daughter of Venkanna who is an agriculture labourer whose income is Rs 47000 per year. She has two siblings. Amala is a physically challenged girl studying in Kavitha Degree College and used to stay in Spoorthi Jyothi home 2 years ago while she was doing her intermediate. TMAD supported that home 2 years ago for groceries. Amala has completed her degree 1st year in Khammam by staying at a home but that home was closed this year due to lack of funds. So now she is in need of hostel accommodation. Amala gets fee reimbursement from the Government under ST and disabled quota. She requested TMAD to only support her every month towards hostel fees of Rs 2400. There is a private hostel near to the college which charges Rs 2400 per month. Since TMAD could not find a hostel which supports these kind of students, made her to join in a private hostel near her college. TMAD is supporting her Hostel fee every month. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD paid Rs 4800 towards the hostel fees for the months of October and November. She has informed us that she joined in a Christian mission hostel where they provide her accommodation without any fee. Expenses: Rs 4800 Donor: Roopesh Sompalli Volunteer: Krupal Kasyap FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86-april-2013-march-2014/294-amala-bscuggampalli-warangal-ap

Case 4: Support for Pushpa Puspha is studying B.Tech 2nd year Computer Science, first semester, in Seshachala institute of Engineering and Technology in Puttur, Chittoor District. Her native place is Sathyavedu village of Chittoor District and she lives with her parents. She has one sister who is married. She comes under OC category. Both her parents are daily wage labourers earning around Rs 6,000 monthly. However, her father never contributes his income towards household expenses as he spends all his income on drinking and even forces her mother to give money. Also, her mother faces everyday violence from the husband. So far she had got assistance from Sri. Sarathbabu of Child Ashramam Paatashala (http://www.childashramschool.org/) of Nellore. He provided Rs 3000 based on the Ex-District Collector Sri. Ravichandra. However, now it is beyond his limitations to continue to support the girl. TMAD decided to support the girl. She needs Rs 2200 towards hostel fees. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD Rohit Bajaj came forward to help Pushpa for all her education expenses. He paid Rs 19,500 towards her hostel fees, spectacles and books.

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Expenses: Rs 19,500 Donor: Rohit Bajaj Volunteer: Harinath Mallepally FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86-april-2013-march-2014/264pushpabtech2ndyearputturchittoor-district

Case 5: Support for Venkat Kanth Venkat Kanth is studying Intermediate 2nd year. His father is missing and his mother works in an orphanage home, with her little income she is not able to support his studies. He completed his education till now with relatives support but they refused to help him this year so her mother approached TMAD to support her son for paying Intermediate 2nd year fee. In Q3 TMAD supported him by paying his college fee of Rs 11000 as first instalment. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD paid the second instalment of college fee. Expenses: Rs 15,000 Donor: TMAD Group Fund Volunteers: Krupal Kasyap, Shivaji Challa and Naveen Ramisetti FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86-april-2013-march-2014/297-venkat-kanthintermediate-hyderabad-ap

Case 6: Support for Swathi Swathi Jasti is the daughter of J. Venkateswara Rao who is an agricultural labourer in Madicherla of Krishna district, and has a monthly income of Rs 4000. She has one younger sibling who is doing first year of polytechnic. Swathi is presently studying 4th year in Sri Sunflower College of Engineering and Technology, Lankapalli. She requires assistance for Rs 30,000 towards hostel fees. Being from an Donors Contribution economically deprived Pavan kumar Y 15000 background, TMAD decided to support her. She has to stay in U V Krishna Prasad 2500 hostel as her home is more than 2500 100 km away from college. M Saikrishna TMAD supported her for paying hostel fee of Rs 10000 as first VSSN Sitaram Gupta 1000 instalment. During Q4 of 2013 TMAD paid the college fee of Jayasimha 700 Rs 20000 as second instalment. Charan Raja 600 Expenses: Rs 20,000 Volunteers: Anil Kumar BVN

Anonymous

500

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL:

Pavan Pyda

7200

http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/86april-2013-march-2014/292-swathi-btech-final-yearmadicherla-krishna-dist-ap

Total

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30,000

TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Medical Case 1: Support for Ramana Ramana is an IT Software engineer who also has got an onsite offer to Germany. While travelling from Bangalore to Hyderabad he became unconscious in the bus and he was admitted in the hospital due to wrong diagnosis of brain tumour as typhoid fever. In his present condition, he is unable to move his limbs. His parents who are uneducated sold all their assets and paid the hospital bills of around Rs 16 lakhs. His father requested TMAD to support for the hospital expenses. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD supported him Rs 30,750 for medicines and hospital bills. Expenses: Rs 30,750 Donors: TMAD Group Fund Volunteers: Krupal Kasyap FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/current-projects/87-april-2013-march-2014/304-ram-reddybrain-tumor-hyderabad-ap

Case 2: Support for Vishnu Vishnu is an MCA student and both his kidneys failed. He needs transplantation. Unfortunately none of his immediate family members were able to give kidney to him because of various health reasons. His uncle came forward to donate kidney but as per the rules NIMS can only do the transplantation if it is from immediate family. Vishnu took the approval from medical board (board consists of senior doctors of govt) for this exception and then he got the operation done at KIMS. Vishnu approached TMAD to support him for medicines after operation which cost Rs 25,000 per month. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD supported him with Rs 21,531 worth of medicines. Expenses: Rs 21,531 Donors: TMAD Group Fund Volunteers: Geethika Krishna and Harinath Mallepally FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/current-projects/87-april-2013-march-2014/303-vishnu-mcakidney-transplantation-support

Case 3: Support for Manohar - A Thalassemia Patient Manohar was diagnosed with Thalassemia when he was two months old. His parents (coolies from Hindupur) spent three lakhs on his diagnosis. Vani Vilas hospital has been providing free blood transfusions for the past eight years. But unfortunately, the transfusions have a side effect. The iron content in the body goes up which leads to stomach pain and swelling. Manohar also needed to take two vaccines before he undergoes a Splenactomy surgery. The cost of the vaccines was taken care of by TMAD. TMAD had been supporting him by providing monthly medicines from 2009. TMAD provided medicines. During Q4 of 2013, TMAD provided medicines worth Rs 4700. Expenses: Rs 4700 5|Page

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Donors: Vanaja Manne and Shalini Kokku Volunteers: Srinivas D and Sagar M FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://www.tmad.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:manohar-9-yrsthalassemia-blood-transfusion-hindupur-anantapur-ap&catid=36:april-2011-march-2012&Itemid=34

Case 4: Support for Tulsi Merekar Tulsi Merekar is a student and belongs to a family where the mother and brother have a total annual income of Rs 174,000. She suffers from dimness of vision in both eyes which Homocysteinemia. To rectify the problem, she needs to undergo two operations each costing Rs 35,000. Out of 4 operations required, two operations were got done by the family, however they are unable to do the rest of two operations due to financial problems. Our volunteer visited patients' house in Surat and found that she needs to be operated at the earliest. The first operation has been completed successfully on 7th December. The second operation date will be scheduled after a few weeks depending on the patient's condition. She is being treated by Dr.Bhavin Jariwala, Surat.

Donors Srinivas Bulusu

Contribution 1000

K. Muralidhar Reddy

1000

Pratusha Nedunuri

300

Ram Naresh Rayaprolu

5000

K. Sai Babu

500

Shobha Nandula

1000

Deepak Battula

1000

Sudhakar Oggu

15000

Pavan kota

4115

Syam Sunder Sure

2000

Koteswara Rao Engla

1000

Amarendra reddy Javvaji

20000

Karthik Pagadala

2000

Expenses: Rs 35,000

Lakshmi Bujjala

300

Volunteers: Ashish Chouhan, Jyothi Patidar, Krishna Prasad Vurubindi and Anil Kumar BVN

A.Hari Krishna

5000

Vanaja Manne

400

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL:

http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/currentprojects/87-april-2013-march-2014/298-tulsi-merekarsuffering-from-eye-problem

Murali Krishna Hari

5000

A.Hari Krishna

2500

Tanguturi Srinivasamurty

1500

Rajesekhar Pallantla

1000

K Anusha Total

500 70,115

Case 5: Support for Patients from B.kothapalli (near Kadiri, Anantapur), AP Dr. Khadeer Ahmed and his team of dedicated doctors and volunteers brought smiles on the faces of the elderly in B.kothapalli. He has diagnosed many senior citizens from this village with BP and diabetes. Since these senior citizens lost support from their families, they are unable to buy medicines for their treatment. TMAD has adopted 10 such people for support and have been providing them medicines and nutritious food every month. This is an ongoing project. TMAD is contributing Rs 4000 every month to provide medicines, raagi malt and eggs to the needy. 6|Page

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Expenses: Rs 12,000 Donors: Amarendra Javvaji, Sitaram Jakka and Srinivas Maddu FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:need-support-for-patients-frombkothapalli-10-km-from-kadiri-anantapur-ap-&catid=36:april-2011-march-2012&Itemid=34

Environment Case 1: Plantation drive at Bharatiya Gramena Mahila Sangh in Bangalore TMAD conducted a plantation drive on the eve of Joy of Giving week on the request of Yodlee Company. TMAD conducted a plantation drive at Bharatiya Gramena Mahila Sangh, Bangalore. TMAD volunteer Suresh Pyda told the importance of Plantation drive to the children and the employees of Yodlee. Around 75 plants of 18 different varieties were planted. Sponsors: Yodlee Pvt. Ltd. Yodlee Coordinators: Neetu Sagar and Amita Agarwal Volunteers: Vasu Pyda, Suresh Pyda, Srinivas D and Kamalnath N FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL:

http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/environmental/137-plantation-drives

Awareness Camp Case 1: Blood Donation Camp at Rotary ttk Blood Bank, Bangalore TMAD has been conducting blood donation camps every 3 to 4 months at Rotary ttk Blood Bank, Thippasandra, Bangalore for the past 2 years. Rotary ttk Blood Bank has been providing free blood to Thalassemia patients. Thalassemia patients require blood transfusion once in three weeks all through their life. During Q3 of 2013, TMAD conducted a blood donation camp on December 1st in which 31 people donated blood. Volunteers: Sukumar Pyda, Suresh Pyda, Vasu Pyda , Rajasekhar Pallantla , Sridevi CV, Kamalnath N, Srinivas D, Arun Kanth, Vani Pyda and Sailaja Vadlankunta FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/awareness-camps/79-blood-donation-camps-in-bangalorekarnataka 7|Page

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 Case 2: Career Guidance Session for KH Govt College Students at Dharmavaram TMAD conducted a free workshop on career guidance for degree students of K.H Government College, Dharmavaram, Anantapur. Students benefited: 250-300 Session covered the following topics: Importance of goal setting and how to set and achieve the goals Importance of time Different career opportunities available in the market Other resources available to study Speakers: Satyanarayana N and Kamalnath N FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/awareness-camps/184-job-orientation-program

Others Case 1: Blanket distribution at Hyderabad TMAD volunteers with the help of Shoppers Stop, GVK Mall, Hyderabad distributed 120 Blankets to the students of Government School, Gudimalkapur in Hyderabad. Expenses: Rs 17700 Donors: Shoppers stop, GVK Mall, Hyderabad Volunteers: Prasanthi Uppalapati and Harinath Mallepally FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL:http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/otherprojects/215-blanket-distribution-at-hyderabad10

Case 2: Mahima Orphan Home at Vikarabad TMAD worked with the CSR wing of IVY Comptech Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad to build the shelter for Mahima Orphan Home at Vikarabad. With the support of generous donations of Rs 16 lakhs given by employees and the company, the home was inaugurated in October by CFO of IVY Comptech Pvt. Ltd. Apart from being the key driving factor to get this initiative pick up, TMAD has also contributed for electricity connection. Volunteer: Harinath Mallepally 8|Page

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter October – December, 2013 FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/other-projects/280-support-to-mahima-orphan-home-atvikarabad

We need your Help – An Appeal Below are our current on-going projects. We appeal to all the kind hearted donors to support the needy: Name of the needy

Category

Summary

Requirement

Manohar

Medical

A 9 year old Thalassemia patient requiring lifelong patient.

1,100 Rs per month

B. Kothapalli patients

Medical

Nutritious food and medicines to the poor old people from nearby villages.

400 Rs per person per month

Vishnu

Medical

28 years boy who needs post kidney transplantation medicines

22,000 Rs per month

For more details, see http://www.tmad.org/index.php/we-need-your-help .

Donations Feel like doing your bit and reach the needy through these activities!! Every penny has a value. Act on your thoughts. Start donating to make a difference in other’s lives and there by yours. Good decisions need quick implementation. Donors with an account in India may transfer their contributions to the following account:

Name of the Bank: ICICI Bank Limited Account Name: TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE (TMAD) Account Number: 000801210382 Branch: CIBD, Hyderabad NEFT/IFSC/RTGS Code: ICIC0000008 Note: All donations to TMAD are exempted from income tax under 80G. Any queries related to donation can be sent to this ID: [email protected]

We, the TMAD team appreciate and acknowledge your support. Thank You!

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