Wednesday, April 29, 2009

CSC-HCL's helping hand to Gnanadeepam a school for mentally challenged

We had been helping GNANADEEPAM, a school for mentally retarded. We helped them to put up stalls to sell the products made by the children. Prior to their annual day we sold their lucky dip tickets among the employees. This year they will have their annual day on 4th Apr. We are planning to sell their lucky dip tickets in Vadapalani, NMR and Amb 6. Later we will give them a chance to put up their stalls in various buildings. For selling the tickets Nagendra the leader of NM Road CSC team will send the mails to Codc staff and for non Codc staff other members can send on behalf of CSC and help sell the tickets. Negendra will coordinate and send the ticket books to sell the tickets. The short write up is as under. CSC is trying to make a small difference in their life. I am keeping the Admin staff also in the loop.

GNANADEEPAM is a registered charitable Trust and is run with the sole aim to empower the Special Children from the nearby area ( Pammal , Pallavaram ) to be Independent and to earn their living without being a dependent. GNANADEEPAM has, over the years, lit a small lamp of hope to give sufficient light in the life of these children by imparting basic education and vocational training FREE OF COST. Presently, GNANADEEPAM provides for about 40 children in the age group of 5 to 40 years guided by trained staff, apart from a Honorary Physiotherapist. Vocational training like weaving, tailoring, screen printing is being imparted to the eligible children at GNANADEEPAM. These children now weave & make bed sheets, towels, floor mats, varieties of shopping bags, lunch bags & screen printing on the associated jute products while finishing is done by the staff members. The produce is placed for sale at many IT Companies & other Corporate offices and the proceeds are partially catering to the child care, maintenance and administrative expenses. Their products are Laundry bags , Fruit baskets, Pooja bags ( for nava ratri ) , Door mats , Towels , Carpet , Cell phone covers , Glasswork bags (Rajasthani handicraft ) , cloth & jute bags ( of different sizes ), Lunch bags and many more ...

Please support them by making liberal purchases on that day !!! GNANADEEPAM's mission has always been to try and give a normal life to the special children. As a part of our joint efforts ( HCL & GNANADEEPAM), as is happening over the past few years, we are trying to make a small difference in the life of the special children.

In Our branch(Amb6)we sold nearly 3 booklets and gave Rs 2030 to gnanadeepam

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