TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014

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? 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? 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? Have you made a difference in this world? 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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Contents Areas of interest: Education Medical Awareness Camps Others Highlights Activities handled: 6 Educational cases 3 Medical cases 1 Awareness Camps 2 Others Contact Us Website: www.tmad.org E-mail: [email protected] Harinath Mallepally, President [email protected] 9391920444 Pavan Pyda, Vice President [email protected] 9986329966 Prasanthi Uppalapati, Founder/Secretary [email protected] 9885026676 Anil Kumar BVN, Jt. Secretary [email protected] 9880994182 Sivaji Challa, Treasurer [email protected] 9908637414 VamsiKiran Kapuganty, Editor [email protected] 9885310286 Swetha Pyda, Sub Editor

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 Upcoming Activities     

Republic Day celebrations @ Government Schools Participation in Clean & Green Program Blood Donation Camp @ Bangalore Blanket Distribution @ Hyderabad Plantation Drives @ Bangalore

New Volunteers 

Sruthi Subramanya

Education Case 1: Support for Chandra Sekhar Chandra Sekhar is the son of Naga Murali Sarma and is a resident of Nizampet in Hyderabad. He has one younger sibling. He is studying 5th class in Spring Valley School. Since his mother and father are suffering from illness, he is taken care of by his grandmother. Since the government school is far from their house, around 9 km, for the time being he has enrolled in a nearby private school. He will be joining a government school from next year onwards. Last year with the help of his uncle he paid his school fee but this year he could not get any support. Since his grandmother is unable to pay his fees, he requested TMAD to support him for his education. TMAD supported him by paying his school fees. Expenses: Rs 15,000 Donor: TMAD Group Fund Volunteers: Sivaji Challa, Sudharani Challa FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/322-chandra-sekhar5th-class-nizampet-hyderabad

Case 2: Support for Karthikeya Karthikeya is the son of Naga Murali Sarma, brother of Chandra Sekhar (Case 1) for whom we supported school fee. He is studying 1st class in Spring Valley School. Expenses: Rs 13,000 Donor: TMAD Group Fund Volunteer: Sivaji Challa and Sudharani Challa FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/321-karthikeya-1stclass-nizampet-hyderabad

Case 3: Support for T Dharma Raju Tadela Dharma Raju is the son of Mahalaxmi who works as a daily labourer and earns Rs 3000 per month. He has one sister who is married and one younger brother studying intermediate. His ambition is to become a teacher so that he can serve the society and also support his family. With the help of a donor, he enrolled for Teacher Training Course (TTC) at The Mother Integral College of Elementary 2|Page

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 Teacher Education, Aryavatam, Kajuluru Mandal, East Godavari District. TMAD supported him for his food and room rent expenses. During Q3, 2014 he requested us to support for DSC coaching, and TMAD supported him to join Sri Sai Aditya Coaching Center for DSC 2014, Kakinada. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD supported him for monthly expenses of Rs 4,000. Expenses: Rs 4,000 Donor: TMAD Group Fund Volunteer: Kishore Kumar Javvaji FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/225-dharmaraju-ttcnandigam-srikakulam-ap

Case 4: Support for BDS Student - Srinivas Nayak Srinivas Nayak, son of a labourer, is an aspiring student with lot of dreams to serve the society in the capacity of a Physician. TMAD supported him in every step towards realizing his dream. After he secured a rank of 7034 in EAMCET, TMAD helped him in filing an RTI and offered advice in selecting the branch and college. He started his BDS course at MNR Dental College, Sangareddy, Medak. This is an ongoing project where we have been supporting him from 1st year for books, exam fees and lab instruments. During Q4 of 2012, TMAD supported him by contributing Rs 21,000 towards his exam fees. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD paid his final year fees. Expenses: Rs 5,000 Donor: Pyda V Pavan Kumar Volunteer: Kishore Kumar Javvaji FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/136-srinivas-nayakmbbs-kamaram-thanda-medak-ap

Case 5: Support for Lamare Lamare is a visually challenged girl from Meghalaya. She doesn't have parents from childhood. She has 9 siblings; all of them are illiterate and work as labourers. A small Church took care of her till 12th standard and now the Church is unable to support her for higher education. After completing 12th standard, she lost hope to continue her education due to lack of financial support. She learned computer with screen reader for her studies in Enable India and is a student of Sandesh. Sandesh joined her in Jyothi Nivas College to study BA in English and also paid college fee. Since the hostel fee was very high in Jyothi Nivas College, he enrolled her in another PG accommodation near college. Lamare requires support for her hostel fee of Rs 3,500 per month. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD supported for her hostel fees.

Donor name B V Pullarao Maddu

3500

Pyda V Pavan Kumar

3087

Ganesh Prasanna T

3913

Total

Expenses: Rs 10,500 3|Page

Amount

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10,500

TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 Volunteer: Sandesh and Charan Raja FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/318-lamare-ba-inenglish-meghalaya

Case 6: Support for Gayathri Gayatri Rajendra Telang is from Basavakalyan taluka, Bidar district and does not have parents. Her father expired when she was in tenth class and after that she started studying in Government College in Bidar with her scholarships while staying with her grandmother in village near Bidar. She has got admission in Central University of Karnataka (GULBARGA) in Master of Social Work. She got 12th rank among 150 members in and All-India examination. She got admission using previous year scholarship. Now for every month her mess bill will be around Rs.1000 and Donor name Amount every week she has to go for field work for which Rs.200 is required. For every month she needs amount of Rs 1800. From last Pyda V Pavan Kumar 11000 one year some friends are supporting her clothes and stationary Srinivas Kolluru 5400 exam fees and all. Her grandmother works in marriages. TMAD 16400 supported her by paying hostel and mess fees. During Q4 of 2014, Total TMAD supported her by providing a laptop for making presentations and providing expenses for mess fee and field expenses. Expenses: Rs 16,400 Volunteer: Geethika Krishna, Harinath Mallepally, Deepak C, and Saleem Ahmed Khan FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/317-gayathri-pg-bidarkarnataka

Medical Case 1: Support for Akash Akash, 10 Yrs old is suffering from Thalassemia major. At 2 months old, little Akash was diagnosed with Thalassemia. He needs blood transfusion for every month. Vani Vilas hospital is providing free blood from the past 10 yrs. Because of transfusion, iron content will be more which leads to health problems like stomach pain and swelling. Need Defregit medicine to remove excess iron which costs around Rs 1000 per month. So, TMAD started supporting him for his medicines. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD supported him with Rs 1964 worth of medicines. Expenses: Rs 1,964 Donor: Pyda V Sukumar Gupta Volunteers: Srinivas D, Shruthi M and Ramya FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/current-projects/93-april-2014-march2015/324-akash-10-yrsthalassemia-gavipuram-bengaluru-karnataka

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 Case 2: Support for Venkatakanth Venkat Kanth is studying BTech 1st 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. TMAD supported in paying his intermediate college fee and also provided spectacles to him. During Q2 of 2014 he met with an accident so he required support for medicines and CT Scan. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD supported him. Expenses: Rs 8,000 Donor: Rama Marlapaty Volunteer: Sivaji Challa

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/past-projects/92-april-2014-march-2015/297-venkat-kanthintermediate-hyderabad-ap

Case 3: Support for Manohar 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 from 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. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD provided medicines worth Rs 982. Expenses: Rs 982 Donors: Vanaja Manne and Shalini Kokku Volunteers: Srinivas D, Shruthi M, and Ramya FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/current-projects/93-april-2014-march2015/81-manohar-9-yrsthalassemia-blood-transfusion-hindupur-anantapur-ap

Awareness Camps Activity 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 6 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 Q4 of 2014, TMAD conducted a blood donation camp where 65 people donated. A request was made for platelets from Apollo Hosiptal, Banergattha Road and our volunteer Srinivas D donated.

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 Volunteers: Sukumar Pyda, Suresh Babu Pyda, Vani Sailaja Pyda, Sridevi CV, Mahesh K, Akhil Pyda, Manoj Pyda, Ganesh Pyda, Sathvika Pyda, Rishima Bharathi CV, Vasu Pyda, and Rohith CV FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BLOOD DONATION CAMP, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/awareness-camps/79-blood-donation-camps-in-bangalorekarnataka

Others Activity 1: Old clothes Distribution in Anantapur District Bank of Baroda employees approached TMAD through mail to conduct old clothes distribution; they collected old clothes of all ages and sent parcels to our volunteer through VRL courier services. Our volunteer recognized 7 places in Anantapur where they are needed and distributed them to different age groups. Donors: Bank of Baroda staff Volunteers: Kamalnath N, Harinath Mallepally, Madan Mohan and Krishna Reddy FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/other-projects/183-old-clothes-distribution

Activity 2: Support to Vijayawada Livelihood Center TMAD has been supporting Rs 12000 per year to this livelihood center since 2011. The center was running from October 2007 where free coaching in computer and tailoring was given for ladies exclusively. It is situated in the Office Building of Y's Men's Club of Vijayawada Town in Satyanarayanapuram, Vijayawada. TMAD got request from Director Mr. Ysm.K.Virabhadra Sastri of livelihood. They do not get funds from government. Generous donors in the city are helping them to run the coaching centre. With great difficulty they are running this coaching with a view to help the ladies to earn money for their existence. During Q4 of 2014, TMAD supported them for maintenance expenses in addition to the regular support. Expenses: Rs 9,000 Donor: Prasanthi Uppalapati Volunteers: Prasanthi Uppalapati and Sivaji Challa FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT TMAD URL: http://tmad.org/index.php/projects-12/other-projects/311-livelihood-center-in-vijayawada

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TMAD Quarterly Newsletter Oct – Dec, 2014 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

14 years boy who needs lifelong Medicines for Thalassemia

1,000 Rs per month

Lamare

Education

A Visually challenged girl who needs hostel fee

3,500 Rs per month

Gayathri

Education

Who needs hostel fee

1,800 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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