CSC-CRR(Child Rescue and Rehabilitation)-The action begins now.

Friends,

Thanks to all of you who support this program in terms appreciations, providing the details of locations of child labour noticed, locations of child begging in traffic junctions and above all 98 of you have volunteered to take part in the action of rescue and rehabilitation of these children. A BIG THANK YOU to all of you from CSC.

The CRR team headed by Augustin has done the spade work of coordinating with various govt agencies that will take part in our actions and visited various schools and homes that will take care of the children when we rescue and hand them over. They have chosen the best homes for handing over after due deliberations. A special thanks goes to Mrs. Mercy Joshua a Chennai Corporation official who is the Director of National Childlabour Project (NCLP) for her full support to our efforts.

Tomorrow they will start from Ripon building and cover Mylapore, Chindathiripet, Mugappair and Korattur, the areas identified for child labour and begging on traffic junctions. This is our small effort as Corporate responsibility to support the UN and National mandate of ensuring primary education for all children.

Is it interesting and want to join the action? Contact Augustin (ajosephx@hcl.in) 9488012192.

Best wishes to this team from all of us.

Regards.
Porres.
CSC Regional Head

Child Labour!!!

“Small hands can handle a pen better. Lend your support to abolish child labour.""World revolves around the children. Children's future revolves around education. Stop Child Labour"

Raise hands to prevent child labour!!!

Program Name: - CRR (Child Rescue and Rehabilitation)
First ground action on: - July 4th 2009 (1st Saturday of Every Month)
Please mail the details if you come across any Child Labour to
Augustin (ajosephx@hcl.in & amvinoth143@gmail.com) [9488012192,9940139497]

HCL CSC- Free Pollution Check for Two Wheelers

Dear HCLites,
As part of the Nature Revival Program (NRP) of CSC, we are glad to organize free pollution Check for two wheelers in Chennai facilities on July 1st. It is our small effort to reduce the air pollution caused by our two wheeler vehicles. This is being organized in collaboration with Castrol, under the following terms and conditions. You are welcome to avail this opportunity and make Chennai a better place to live in.

1. Free Emission Checkup.
2. Safety Checkup.
3. No certificates will be issued, but Castrol would be telling the CO level and give necessary advice.
4. Camp is for two wheelers only.

Location: AMB -6 Two Wheeler Parking Area (Basement).
Time: Stall will be open till 5.45pm.

Request everyone to use this opportunity.

Come Let’s make a change…

HCL CSC – AMB- 6

Free course on FIRST AID for ivolunteers-on 26th April 2009

April 7th is a very significant day! It is the World Health Day! To celebrate this important day, iVolunteer has something lined up for you to equip yourself as a better volunteer- a social doctor.
ARE YOU READY TO BECOME A ‘SOCIAL DOCTOR’?
What would you do if you have the unfortunate moment of having to witness your colleague collapse in front of you? If so, will you have a sense of panic or helplessness? Well, you are not alone! Medical emergencies are inevitable, and it is important for each one of us to be prepared to face it. While handling an emergency situation, every second counts and there is no scope for an error or a second chance.
iVolunteer along with ALERT will be presenting a course on life support skills, that will educate people on how best they can help to save a life by learning the essentials of basic life support. Having this knowledge and skill could make a ‘social doctor’ out of every individual who can now make an effort to attend on causalities before they deteriorate, thereby pave a path to a healthier society. ALERT has undertaken Emergency Response as its first and core project.Through this project ALERT aims to train various sections of the society in emergency response and also build support systems to make emergency care available to one and all in the society. This program is being taken to corporates, educational institutions and other social bodies.To register yourself for this course, kindly confirm your presence for the programme, through email by mailing to Chennai@ivolunteer.in or call us at 98414 87984.

Details on the Course:
Date: 26th April 2009
Timing: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Venue:Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR)24, Kothari Road,Nungambakkam,Chennai - 600 034,India.
Please do confirm as soon as possible as there are only a limited seats of 25 numbers for this course due to space constriction at the hall.
Looking forward to active participation!

As part of CSC member in HCL and maathiyosi group Augustin participated in that program and we are planning to conduct this program in all over chennai HCL branches.

Help Needed for the school admission of poor girl

Siva Ranjani's mother needs money for the school admission. Unfortunely she does not have enough money. If any help from our side would be really helpful for Siva Ranjani's education.
Here is the details of the kid and family.
Name of the kid: Siva Ranjani
DOB of the Kid: 23-June-2003
Mother's Name: S.Chitra
Father's Name: M.L.Selva Kumar
Address: M Block back side, Gandhi nagar, New Avadi Road, Chennai.
Fees Details: Rs.4800 is required for admission (We may need to sponsor for the kid). Rs.400 is monthly fees (Mother could manage this money).
School Details: St. Jhosva Anna Nagar Chennai
About Parents: Selva Kumar is working as a driver in a house and his monthly salary is Rs.7000. Chitra is working as a house keeper in our hostel. Selva Kumar is a drinker, he will not reach home till his salary gets over. Chitra is taking care of the family using her monthly salary of Rs.3500. Please let me know if you need any other information.
Thank you for your help.

We contributed Rs 4500 for that child,prema who is taking care of this collection(working in Amb4)added 1000 Rs and paid the fees and got admission.

Sale of Calendars in Cafeteria to raise fund for CHILD(NGO)

This email is to raise fund for an NGO named "CHILD", here is a briefinformation about CHILD CHILD is an NGO started and run by Mr.Senthil for children who turned to beorphans because of their parents infected with HIV. The children at CHILDare tested and approved to be HIV negative. Senthil is working in KMC underHIV blood testing unit, he is earning a salary of amount Rs.7000/month.Right now there are 9 childrens at home and the total expense for the homeamounts to 17,000/month. The fund income for this home is too less, as aresult the infrasturce is too poor and Senthil also finds it hard to managethe expenses for the home. Attached few of the photos which we took at CHILD, and you will know how badthe infrastructure and it seems to get very worst during rainy days. Senthil and childrens at home really in need of fund to run the home happilyand also to join few other such childrens to home. Who ever is willing cando your best help to these children in what ever way you want to do. Attached below is a vochure which explains in what all way you cancontribute fund for CHILD. Current Activity: Raising Fund: the children have drawn 12 pictures, I have scanned thepictures and printed table calenders(500 number) Printing Cost: 45/calemder Selling Cost:: 100/calender If all the 500 calenders are sold then the home will get Rs. 27,500.

We sold almost all 500 calendars with huge support of our employeers and gave 30,400 Rs to CHILD.

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

HCL CSC Week - Responses

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to yourself, respect, and to all men, charity. Your strong and active participation in the CSC week has poured in lot of energy within CSC to scale up to greater heights. This mind-boggling support has given us more responsibility to increasingly do well in all future assignments. God has given me today 86400 seconds and I will use some of those to thank you all. Every time when I say ‘thank you’ to someone, I experience nothing but heaven on earth. ‘Thank you’ is such a beautiful prayer. Once again CSC thanks each of you who made to feel the pleasure in giving and it would not have happened without you all. May the almighty richly bless you and your family with peace and opulence in abundance.

>You have donated close to one lakh Rs to be shared among the have-nots. Compliments to Amb 4 which collected the highest of Rs 31500. You have also volunteered to visit the orphans as part of Friend in Need Program.
>62 of you have volunteered to work to Rescue and Rehabilitate Children as part of CRR.
>66 of you have decided to become teachers in our Teach@office program.
>You have taken 1800 plants to Revive the Nature and you are continuing.
You are all wonderful people to work with. We remain.250 Strong Chennai CSC Team.