MADURAI SEED NOTES 2008-2009

Dear Friends and supporters,

We share you with heart full of satisfaction that we’ve done some changes, to be highly noticed, for the disadvantaged area’s children and young people within ten years and during

2009-10, we could do some possible things with all of your contribution.

Some timely achievements of our SEED are:

The beneficiaries of MADURAI SEED are working in government jobs, schools, hospitals and even in abroad. The people, who were like sweet fruits, became a big tree that gives more fruits, benefits and give support to SEED are the only pain-relief medicines, to us those who stand and tackle all in the field. It’s a pleasure thing.

Report 2008-2009.

Beneficiaries:-

·  MADURAI SEED has 337 direct child beneficiaries and 30 young people beneficiaries. 337children (Including 160 Regular children) take part in Journal, art, savings club activities. Totally, 236 families are the members in MADURAI SEED.

Scholarships:-

38 male children and 48 female children are given education kits. 12 male children, 13 female children are getting scholarships. 16 college boys and 3 college girls are given educational scholarships. We’ve made 9 school children and 1 college young person to have scholarship from “Honey well”.

Facilities to children & young people:-

·  Children and young people are facilitated with each Arangam (centre) for children and young people respectively and a library. Likewise, they have full amenities. They have also 2 open Arangams

·  One computer, big size Television, C.D Player, 5 Tape Recorders, C.D.S. and thousands of books are in use.

·  Honey well Institute has contributed 3 beautiful Racks. This is to be noted that a Swiss Book stall has given hundreds of books.

Awards in Schools 2008-09

Names of the Children / Std
Pratheeba / 5
Ramesh / 6
Babuji / 7
Yogaraj / 8
Manikaraj / 9

·  The above children and young people are doing well in their studies in their respective schools.

·  80% of the children are interested in games.

·  Each child has learnt a folklore, which resulted in many of our children won prizes in their school competitions.

Children at District Level:-

·  S. Muthu Ganesh, A.Sharmila, V.Jensy Rani, P.Pandiya Rajan are working as MADURAI district representatives of Federation for Child Movement of Rights to Participation (FCMRP) during the year of 2008-09.

·  Balaji from VIII std, Mathan from VIII std. and Rajkumar from VII std. Participated in district team and won the trophy in hockey.

·  Manjula from x std. won the first prize in fencing.

Zonal level:-

·  Padiyarajan was elected as the Representative of the south zone for FCMRP and he performed well in the year 2008-09.

·  Manjula won the first prize in fencing at MADURAI divisional level in Bharathiyar Republic day sports and games competition.

·  Mathan, Balaji and Rajkumar Participated at the zonal level team and won the prize.

At the state Level:-

·  Manjula won the second prize in fencing at the state level conducted by the department of school education, government of Tamil Nadu.

Awards and prizes for young People:-

·  There are 30 young people in SEED. Among them, 23 are actively involved in SEED activities.

At the college level:-

·  Ms. Saranya won the first prize in essay competition titled” great leaders” and won the first prize in Mathematical Rangoli and won the second prize in “Wild life”-Rangoli, “Peace” – Rangoli.

·  Mr.Sulthan participated in three days environmental camp held at kodaikanal. Mr. Alagiri and Ram Kumar donated their blood.

At the state Level:-

·  Mr. Suresh Rajan and Mr. Marimuthu participated in National Cadet Corps-state level camp at Thuthukudi.

Participation of children

District Level:-

·  MADURAI SEED has participated in FCMRP conferences and 1 FCMRP conference was conducted by MADURAI SEED.

·  In the book exhibition conducted by the district government, our 60 children contributed their cultural programmes and gave their shine.

Zonal Level:-

·  Pandiya Rajan, selected as the representative of FCMRP south zone, has participated in all trainings held in Theni, Thuthukudi and Rameswaram

State level:-

·  MADURAI SEED is one of the members of FCMRP and FPCP, the state level organizations.

·  Our children participated and strengthened their knowledge by attending Tribal day, Makkal Television channel’s annual day, International tourism day, Dhaan foundation’s film festival, a workshop on documentary film, Evidence’s Human Rights Seminars Etc.

National Level:-

·  Folklore programmes are contributed, by Karumbalai children for the national visitors from CESCI.

International Level:-

·  MADURAI SEED children and young people conducted a folklore conference for SAGE students from U.S.A.

·  About 40 children attended Swiss Laura Amma’s on-line classes.

Participation of young People:-

·  Under the leadership of Mansur Ali, 5 young people participated in state level Asha’s teacher training camp.

·  Sulthan Alautheen took part in more than 6 state level human rights conference.

·  R.Karthik attended state level workshop on documentary film.

·  K.Anbarasan got training on professional leadership by Soc Sead (Trichy), CIRHEP (Nilakottai) and Vizhupuram.

·  6 programmes have been conducted via Health care Programme and spectacles were given to one student.

·  80 children and 30 young people were benefited through SEED-computer literacy program.

Club activities are conducted in accordance with the following numbers

Children federation / 13
Young people federation / 14
Pudhuyugam / 04
Library / 82
Vanmugil / 06
Film projection / 08
Science / 08
Social Science / 12
Sports activity / 10
Field trips
Small tours / 69
Seminar
Workshops / 16
Trainings / 90
Annual camp / 01
Quarterly camp / 01
Half yearly camp / 01
Celebration / 05
Special days / 10

·  Young people saved Rs.36, 000/- through young people Bank and shared that among themselves in a cyclical way.

·  The children saved Rs.21, 899/- via Thenkoodu Children Savings Bank. In order to honor them, MADURAI SEED gave Rs.4, 379/-. It is to be noticed that 337 children are the members and 152 children are as self-desired people to save.

·  Pudhuyugam grandly published 4 magazines and 500 people are its beneficiaries(2008-2009).

·  Pudiya Velichangal published 3 magazines. 1500 people are its beneficiaries (2008-2009).

·  By honoring MADURAI SEED’s achievements, local T.V. Channels and daily newspapers like Dinamani (1 Time), Dinamalar (4 times) and The Hindu (one time) published our news and photos.

·  MADURAI SEED functions for the children and young people with the kind relationship of 5 arts and science colleges, 5 Engineering colleges, one ITI Institution, 5 primary schools, 4 middle schools, 2 high schools and 9 higher-secondary schools.

·  About 26 national visitors and 36 international visitors have visited MADURAI SEED in this year.

·  In according to celebrate SEED 10th year completion, whole programmes conducted on between 17, February 2008 to 18 June 2009, were all very special programmes.

The Results in the beginning of eleventh year, 2009-2010:-

·  VI to VIII std,-95 %, IX std,-77%, XI std,-100%

·  The result of 10th std, is 80%. all students, written the 10th exams, are slow learners. Some people didn’t even know how to write and read. 8 of them have failed in one or two subjects. Even though 14 of them are slow learners, They have showed a nice result. The girl who gets the first mark is Kaliseeshwari 363 out of 500. Among the 14, those who has written exams, 12 students are girls and 11 of the children are the first people to pass X standard from their families.

·  Murugeshwari, who was attended “100 out of 100 in Science” conducted by Madurai seed, Scored 99 in science. What a sweet news is this! Maheshwari, influenced by SEED activities to give enthusiasm to non-SEED students, got 475 marks out of 500 (current SEED volunteer Vijay scored 475 before 5 years).

For the past 10 years, a girl has achieved high score. This is the most delightful news (particularly being in corporation school).

·  In the new academic year, SEED has given helps for the 14 students’ Higher secondary Admission. It is to be noted that they’ve taken groups such as Bio-Maths (1), pure science (1), Accounts (4) commerce (9), Arts (2) and Engineering (1) in government and government aided schools.

·  In the twelfth standard, the progressive is about 86%. 13 students got aids and other helps from SEED. M.Thangalakshmi got the first mark of 1036 out of 1200. for the last 10 years, among all SEED girl children,. She is the only girl to score this high mark. The boy who got 1035/1200 is Saravana Kumar. He is the first boy to score this marks even in Bio-Maths. There is no doubt that these both achievements will make the upcoming students to score more than this.

·  Out of 15, written the exam, 5 students got marks of 75%. Among them all, 9 students are the first graduate from their family and that is to be noted.

College Young people Details 2009-2010

S.No / Name / Subject: / Course / Year / Institute
1 / Karthik.R / Tourism / MTM / PG-I / MKU college
2 / Periyasamy.M / Engineering / BE / UG-IV / MAVMM Eng. college
3 / Vijay.G / Engineering / BE / UG-IV / Thiagarajar Eng.college
4 / Muniyasamy.P / English / BA / UG-III / Thiagarajar college
5 / Murugapandi.S / Social studies / BA / UG-III / The American college
6 / Ramachandran.N / Social studies / BA / UG-III / The American college
7 / Manikandan.O / Engineering / BE / UG-III / PSY Eng college
8 / Saranyadevi.P / Zoology / B.SC / UG-III / Meenakshi college
9 / Amutha.M / English / BA / UG-III / Meenakshi college
10 / Sureshrajen.M / Social studies / BA / UG-II / The American college
11 / SivaguruNathan.M / Social studies / BA / UG-II / The American college
12 / Mohan.O / Tamil / BA / UG-II / The American college
13 / Alagiri.K / Tamil / BA / UG-II / The American college
14 / Marimuthu.M / Tamil / BA / UG-II / The American college
15 / Baskar raja.R / Tourism / BSc / UG-II / MKU college
16 / AshokKumar.M / Engineering / BE / UG-II / Raja Eng.college
17 / Maruthu pandi.M / Engineering / BE / UG-II / PSY Eng college
18 / Sulthan Alautheen.S / Electrician / ITI / II year / Loyola
19 / Arunkumar.C / English / BA / UG-I / The American college
20 / Shobanadevi.P / Business administration / BBA / UG-I / Sermathai vasan college
21 / Thangalakshmi.M / English / BA / UG-I / Meenakshi college
22 / Karpagajothi.C / English / BA / UG-I / Meenakshi college
23 / Saravana Priya.P / communication / Diploma / Latha mathavan polytechnic
24 / Suganya devi.R / Zoology / BSc / UG-I / Madura college
25 / Pandiya Rajan.P / English / BA / UG-I / Thiagarajar college
26 / Rassic Ahamed.R / commerce / B.COM / UG-I / Thiagarajar college
27 / Bisarkhan.A / Business administration / BBA / UG-I / Wakf board college
28 / Saravana Kumar / Engineering / BE / UG-I / K.L.N. Eng.college
29 / Magudapathi.M / Engineering / BE / UG-I / S.I.T. Eng colleg
30 / Muthu pandi.K / commerce / B.COM / UG-I / Wakf board college
31 / Manikandan.P / Tamil / BA / UG-I / The American college

Among these 31, 24 young people are the first generation to go college. Among above 31, 23 take part in daily regular activities and other 8 college students and other 10 young people are very helpful and give their contribution to SEED.

Finally,

In our complete journey, our sincere and heartful thanks, to the people who continued the journey with us like Boston ASHA (Ms.Melli), Vidiyal, India (ASHA), Kasi ASHA ((Mr.Vallabha), Bangalore ASHA (Mr. Ram), Chennai ASHA (Mr.Baskar,Rajaram,lakshmi), Friends of Madurai seed Members Swiss, Mrs. Laura Villiger, Mr. John, Eveline Masilamani, Isabel, Dr.Annamalai, CESCI (Mr.Biju) Princeton University professors (Katherine Newman), Mr. Nicholas , Kanton Freudenberg School, Honey well (Anna Mariyal), Switcher, oxford Press(U.K), Swiss Book stall, Mr.Parri, Mrs.Heena, Mr.Arul, Mr. Chandra Mohan, Mr.Naga Rajan, Mr.Gowthaman.

I hope that, our great works for the disadvantaged young people and children will go on with your superior support in the upcoming years. MADURAI-SEED will coordinate and make them to help, who are willing to help for the disadvantaged young people and children and make their life brightful.

Thanks for your support and kind.

A.S.Karthik Bharathi

Founder & Managing Trustee

MADURAI SEED

Reporting Team:

K.Anbarasan M.A.,

V.Mariyammal M.A., B.Ed.,

M.Mansur B.Sc.,

C.Arunkumar B.A.,

C.Karpagajothi B.A.,