Rotary club of karur angels
The first weekly meeting of Karur Angels took place at the Texcity Hall on July 2nd. The meeting was attended by more than 20 members.
The newly elected President and Secretary discussed on upcoming projects for the month with the members.
Our Signature Project VAAGAI SOODAVAA- a LIFE SKILL TRAINING PROGRAM for school children was started on July 5th, 2014.
Totaly 24 students from three schools in karur will attend this 12 weeks program.
The training program was Inaugurated on 5/07/2014 and trainers were from HELIX, SALEM.
The main focus is to build confidence and develop all multiple intelligence within themselves.
Our club’s Installation ceremony for the Rotary year 2014-15 was held on 29th June, 2014 at Alagammai Mahal.
Rtn.S.Meena was installed as the new President & Rtn.G.Geetha was installed as the new Secretary along with their team members.
Our club theme is CREATING LEADERS for the ensuing year and our new Signature project will be VAAGAI SOODAVAA- LIFE SKILL TRAINING Program for school children.
Chief guest of the evening was Rtn.C.Basker – coordinator zone-v Rotary International.
Key note speaker was Mrs.k.Sumathi -Advocate high court ,Chennai.
Karur Angels have joined hands with ASIAN FABRICS to start a Free Medical Center at the ASIAN FABRICS campus. The Free Medical Center was Inaugurated by the Chairman of AISAN FABRICS Mr. N R Venkatachalam.
The event was attended by members of Karur Angels and Rtn.Gopalakrishnan of Tex City and Rotarians from other local clubs. The President Rtn.Shanmugavalli thanked the Rotarians and visitors.
About the Project –
The Free Medical Center would be jointly run by Karur Angels & ASIAN FABRICS to serve the people living in villages in and around SEMMADI near MANMANGALAM for completely free.
The medical center would operate from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm every day of the week except Sundays.
Free medicines would also be given to the patients here. Dr.Uma Manohar would be treating the patients with the assistance of two staff nurses.
This would be an ongoing project and Rtn.Shanmugavalli will be the contact person and caretaker of this project.
The President Rtn.Shanmugavalli & Secretary Rtn.Meena hosted a Valediction meet on 24-06-2014 to thank all the club members and their team of office bearers for 2013-14 for helping and assisting to run their Rotary year. The meeting was a Dinner meet at Hotel Siva Muruga.
PDG Rtn.Baskar was the chief guest and PDG Rtn.Rajendran was the Guest of Honor.
The President Rtn.Shanmugavalli presented the Rotaract & Interact club leaders with awards for helping in various projects this year.
As to celebrate the Literacy Day, our club distributed Dictionaries to the 6th to 8th class students of Thanthoni Union School on 10.09.2013.
The Dictionaries were English-English-Tamil format Dictionaries that would benefit the rural school children a lot as their medium of education is in Tamil.
Total beneficiaries of this program were 125 students.
The chair person of this program was Rtn.Thamizharasi.
Our club conducted a One day RYLA to the college students.
The colleges that participated were-
NSN College
Chettinad College of Engineering
Velliyanai Govt Girls High School
Annai Aurobindho College
Faculty of this program was Mr.Senthilkumar, Chairman of Helix School, Salem.
Self improvement & placement training seminar also done well. Each month we conduct this project in various colleges & Schools.
Total beneficiaries of this program were 520.
The chair person of this program was Rtn.S.Saradha.
Our club members made a factory visit to the Jewelry division of TITAN industries on Vocational Service month.
Around 20 members and families went on a one day trip to the factory at Hosur. We were well received at the Factory and taken around where our members got a good insight in the manufacturing process of their Tanishq brand jewels.
Our Club has been donating 250 kgs of rice and wheat to Shanthi Nilayam, Vengamedu every month as a part of our community service.
This is an ongoing project of our club for the past five years. 150 children are benefited by this project.
The chair person of this project is Rtn.Manimegalai.
Sexual Abuse Awareness
One of the main project of this year is Awareness of Sexual Abuse program to the Girl students of various schools each month. Faculty of this program was Meera Ramesh. Total Beneficieries of this project were 3200 girl students. Total cost of the project was Rs.36000/-.
We held a seminar about the right touch and the wrong touch through power point presentation in all the schools. It was explained to them that there was no need for anyone to touch their lips or mouth, their chest region, their private parts or their back. We should not lose our original selves in the midst of a challenge whereas we should convert the challenge to our
advantage and we should prove our potential was emphasized.
With this mind set the children were slowly informed about the various problems which a girl may have to face in the present day. Moreover if they are subjected to emotional or psychological stress they should immediately seek guidance and counseling from parents, teachers or professionals. If they happened to face difficulty in managing gender attraction the need to ventilate their feelings and to get help to steer through those turbulent emotions was clearly elucidated. It was explained to them that such thoughts are biological and that they need not feel guilty about it. And also we teach about the problem through cell phone
chatting, emails and cinema. All this has given them an awareness of their own selves and during the interaction section their doubts were clarified all the more.