Recent Updates

Dear Friends,

I hope you all are doing great. It's been a while we gave you any updates regarding I+WE activities. I apologize for that.

Project Kids Update:

Our school kids are doing great. They have been coming regular to the school and have been working hard towards good grades. Click Here to see the progress report of all the school kids. Progress report includes 1'st Unit, 2'nd Unit, Quarterly and 3'rd Unit marks and grades. Also, we paid the 2'nd phase fee in December. All receipts are placed in our google docs. Specific details will be sent to each and every donor.

Maartha, the nursing student has started college in Jan, 2011. Her tuition cost is sponsored by Venkat Reddy & Raji.

Chinnammadu, the tailoring student has finished training and started taking professional orders. Hersewing machine, training and materials fee is sponsored by Noor & Leah.

Winter Help:

My good friend Sunil emailed me one day about any special project we are planning for Diwali. He wants to contribute something to kids in need at the school not just specific to our project kids. As you all remember the school runs an orphanage too. After discussing with other team, we agreed that something for winter would really help the kids. I+We program coordinators Sita Raju and Vasu helped us in organizing that for us. We bought 96 blankets for all the kids in the hostel. The kids were so happy and here is a sample of one of the kids reaction:

I am filled with tears of joy after watching this picture. Thank you so much Sunil & Shilpa for coming forward with such a noble idea and made it happen.

Extra Curricular Competitions:

In the same month we are crafting Winter help event, my other good friend Venkat Reddy contacted me about an exciting idea. He wanted to see if we can conduct some competitions with prizes to encourage all kids to participate in extra curricular activities. We all know that how important extra curricular activities are. They bring each kids personality into lime light, builds confidence and broadens their ideas.

After collaborating with school team, I+We coordinators were able to conduct several competitions include games, essay writing, singing & painting. The school team encouraged all kids to participate. The winners in all categories and awarded with prizes which include hot packs, prize cups, puzzles and pens. As we never wanted any kid to be left disappointed we presented pens to each and every participant. The kids had a blast and had a nice break from regular studies. They are already asking the school team when is the next event going to be. See how excited they are -

Thank you so much Venkat Reddy for your initiative and for making this happen.

I am so blessed have friends like you all. With out your help I+We wouldn't be possible. You all brought me such an enthusiasm and inspiration to do much more like this. Special events like Winter Help and Extra Curricular Competitions show everyone how great our team spirit is. Please feel free to contact us any time for any question. We always welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Posted by Vani

I+WE Kids updates: Happy faces

Dear Friends,

It's been a while I updated you all about our I+WE first project - Sponsoring kids education. You know how a software developer's life will be in the time of big releases :-( .

I am so excited to share these beautiful pictures of I+WE kids sent by Miriam public school correspondents. Watching the BIG smile on their faces made my day.

Here is the slideshow of the kids once we took them under the wings of I+WE.

Before pictures of the kids when we toured their villages and their homes.

I always believe that pictures speak better than the words. All the credit goes to you friends. They are healthy & happy; How can I express my gratitude to you all!! You are amazing. Once again thank you, thank you and thank you so much..

We paid the first phase of the school fee. The fee receipts are sent to each donor and also placed in our google docs along with the kids pictures and 1'st unit exam progress reports. Feel free to browse through them. We really appreciate Miriam School's timely updates about the kids. Here is the fee receipt for all kids signed by the school correspondent.

We are still waiting on more updates about Maartha(Sponsored by Venkat Reddy & Raji) and Chinnammadu(Sponsored by Noor & Leah). Meanwhile I am posting all the pictures inline for you all friends reading this post in the mobile.

Anusha: Sponsored By Sanny & Lata

Giri: Sponsored By N. Sriharigopal

Jagadeesh: Sponsored By D.V.V. Surendra

Joga Rao: Sponsored By T. Phanidra

Kiran: Sponsored By Sudha Kalyan

Lavanya: Sponsored By Mohan & Nirmala

Levi: Sponsored By Bharath

Mohana Rao: Sponsored By K. S. C. Gupta

Neelima: Sponsored By K. Sreekanth

Pavan: Sponsored By Saiprasad Samudrala

Pavani: Sponsored By S.J. Naidu

Rafi: Sponsored By M. Sai Sunil

Renuka: Sponsored By D.V.V. Chaitanya

Sharmila: Sponsored By A. Vijay Babu

Srinivas: Sponsored By Naresh & Raji

Suresh: Sponsored By Tirupath Rao & Vidhyavathi

Uma Devi: Sponsored By Sunil & Shipa

Vanajakshi: Sponsored By K S N Murthy

Venkata Rathnam: Sponsored By Sudha Kalyan

No matter, how many times I see these pictures I am not getting tired of them. What about you ? :-)

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Posted by Vani

Helping the fire victims

Dear Friends,

Thank you one and all for your quick response to the fire victims as soon as we asked for it here. We are able to raise 8000Rs and donated that to each family.

I+WE Srikakulam program coordinator giving cash to one of the families.

Also, Miriam publish school correspondents came with us and donated rice,lentils and cloths to the families. We really appreciate the school's support to the fire victims.

Urgent Call for Help

Dear Friends,

We just got to know that one of the I+WE kids home is burned down by a fire. The fire burned down not only their home but 5 other homes in the same street. The kids and other familes are lucky to be alive. They got out just in time before the fire engulfed their homes. They lost everything including food, money, cloths, books and home. We came to know about this disaster through Miriam Public School family. They event sent us these pictures to us. They consoled the fire victims personally and donated food and other items.

Before:

After:

More Pictures:

These people are in desperate need for help. We are trying to raise funds to give a new start to their life through some money per family, food and books for the kids. Please send us an email or leave a comment if you would like to help for this cause. Your donation is greatly appreciated by everyone at I+WE. Thanks you all again.

Donations:

Kalyan & Family : 50$

Venkat Reddy & Raji : 50$

Sai Prasad: 1000 Rs

Vani's Works: 50$

Together we can do anything!! Yes we are thinking..

Friends,

I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the sponsors behalf of I+WE team. Here is a quick visual reference to what happened until now for I+WE through one of my favorite video.

'Tum Chalo Hindusthan Chale..' (You go and India/World goes with you)

Written by: Gulzar

Music by: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Sung by: Shankar Mahadevan.

Directed by: Unknown (Any one know?)

English Translation: Uncle Cruise Blog

The concept in the video is not just for India but for the whole world.

Everything told in the video is exactly what happened with I+WE today. When we planned to start the organization, we don't have a single penny in our hands. Then through some fund raisers & art work we raised 700$ as the initial fund which is used to register I+WE as a non profit organization in USA.

We only have faith in fellow people when we started executing the first project. You showed us that we are going in the right path! With in 2 days of request for sponsoring 17 kids, we got overwhelming response from everyone. This project would never have happened with a single person(I), it was made possible only because of you all (WE).

You all let I+WE slogan heard loud through your deeds.

I+WE: when 'I' starts thinking of 'WE'

List of sponsors and kids:

Sponsor Name Student Name Education Saiprasad Samudrala Pavan Grade 1 Sanny & Lata Anusha Grade 7 K. Sreekanth Neelima Grade 1 S.J. Naidu Pavani Grade 5 A. Vijay Babu Sharmila Grade 5 M. Sai Sunil Rafi Grade 1 D.V.V. Chaitanya Renuka Grade 4 N. Sriharigopal Giri Grade 9 Sunil & Shipa Uma Devi Grade 9 Naresh & Raji Srinivas Grade 5 T. Phanidra Joga Rao Grade 2 K. S. C. Gupta Mohana Rao Grade 1 Bharath Levi Joel Nursery D.V.V. Surendra Jagadeesh Grade 1 K S N Murthy Vanajaakshi Grade 1 Venkat Reddy Maartha Nursing Noor & Leah Chinnammadu Tailoring

Thank you one and all!

**Together we can do anything! Quoted by Venky.

Posted by Vani