Happy School Project : by Rotary club of Madurai West

The verdant grounds of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Othakkadai with its pristine buildings formed the perfect backdrop for the RI President Elect Rtn. KR Ravindran’s first stop. Enthusiastic children lined up on either side, clapping and chanting ‘welcome, welcome’, as each guest entered, creating a fitting atmosphere for the ‘Happy Schools’ initiative by Rotary India Literacy Mission.

            The entire programme was confidently executed by the children. Incidentally, the RIP – Elect in his speech later on that day drew attention the crucial difference between Polio eradication and Literacy programmes. While the former could be compromised by the detection of a single case, every penny spent on literacy will yield rich dividends he opined.

Further, he said laudable though the efforts of one club’s project, if many clubs join hands to promote the same project the sheer magnitude provides better visibility to Rotary. The bigger the benefit to the community the better the visibility.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:

1.      Installation of 2 RO plants for purification of drinking water.

2.      Renovation of 30 toilets.

3.      144 desks and chairs provided.

4.      Concrete bridge for the children to access the school with ease from the village without using the main road (Melur Highway)

Project Cost: 15 Lakhs.

Rtn.RR Memorial Interact RYLA : 16th Feb 2013

 

On Saturday the 16th Feb 2013 our club conducted "Rajagopal Memorial Interact RYLA" at SDH Jain Vidhyalaya, Thirupalai, Madurai. "Learn to Lead" was the theme of this meet.

 

The inaugural speech by our eminent member Rtn. N. Siva subramanian was very wonderful and thought provoking. It really stimulated the budding youngsters to decide their direction of progress in their life .

He outlined the efforts to be put in to shape the future India in a better way. He said that different countries are known for different talents e.g. U.S.A. for their progress in communication, U.K for medicine, Germany for mechanics, Japan for its untiring efforts, UAE for their oil wealth. But India is known for its intellectual talents.

He very much emphasised that the future of a nation depends upon its progress and achievements in the field of science and the related researches just like that in the present China. He rightly pointed out that the Indian school syllabus and the teachers lack in the knowledge of modern scientific developments. The laboratories in our schools should be updated and modernised every now and then.

He advised for a curriculam of half- a - day theoretical teaching and the other half practical learning. He asked the students to have the flare to excel in their achievements. For this he cautioned them to decide their goals and future action as early as possible and emphasised that the last 1000 days in their school life will play a great role in moulding their bright future.

He was very correct in stating that the parents and the teachers should take the responsibility in making their kids to develop their individual skills and put in special efforts in that direction.

He asked certain very interesting questions such as what is a leap year (29 days in February, once in 4 years and its result.) What is a leap second and the time interval between two leap seconds (once in 11 years), the last occurrence of the leap second (2012 November), how it is measured (by an atomic clock).

Rtn. Nagasamy Subramanian was awarded the "Life Time Achievement Award" by the Tamil film actor Sivakumar through his Methagu Kamarajar Foundation on 15^th February 2013 and in 1996 he received an award for medical application stunt.

In 1994 the government of India recognized his scientific researches and honoured him with an award. He has 40 years of experience and has worked in ISRO and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Institute along with our expresident of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Dr. Madhavan and such other well known scientists.

In the begining of this session the purpose of the meet was explained by our PP. Lalji G. Vora. His daughter Mrs. Kavita Chheda the correspondent of the school along with the principal Mrs Anitha and other staff members had done very good arrangements to make this project a very successful one.

Our President Rtn. A.P. Athithan, Secretary G. Veeramani, Director New Genrations, Rtn. Ravi Parthasarathy, PP NAN had done a very sincere and effective planning and chartered out the various parts of the agenda in executing this very useful project for the students of SDH Jain Vidhyalaya.

Mahatma Matriculation, CBSE and Baba Building Schools , Rajan Matriculation School in addition to other schools.

The various items of the agenda were conducted as per schedule. Students particpated enthusiastically in all the events - from quiz programs to painting competitions to cultural programs.

Over all winners championship shield was won by Mahatma KK Nagar school and SDH Jain Vidhyalaya won the runner up shield. Rtn.Dr.Pugalagiri Vadamalayan participated in the valedictory function and gave away the prizes.

Independence Day Celebration on 15-Aug-2012

Our club celeberated Independence day on 15th August 2012 along with students and teachers of YMCA Kamak School for Deaf and Dumb. Rotarians headed by Rtn.President Athithan assembled at the School campus. School authorities were busy making preparations.

Starting with March Past by 7.45AM, President Athithan took the honour and hoisted the tricolour flag with jubliation among students, teachers and Rotarians. The agenda ( given in photo below), had lots of activies to entertain the gathering. 

Principal of the school, welcomed the gathering and expressed happiness over the continued support and encouragement they have been receiving from our Rotary Club and wished to receive the same patronage in future too. Students did lots of Drill excercises and exhibited their abilities.

Rtn.President Athithan in his Independence Day speech shared his happiness on India's 66th Independence day and motivated the children to scale new heights inspite of their challenges. He sighted few examples to explain their children about the significance of hard work and efforts which often leads to good results. He encouraged the children to study well and become succesful in life. Rtn. Meenakshi Sundaram in his speech admired the physical fitness of these children and wished some of them could become sports person and add laurels to India. Both our Rotarians speech was translated by a senior teacher of YMCA so that these children who were deaf and dumb could understand.

Followed by this was the Prize Giving ceremony. The school had conducted competitions and had kept the list of winners ready. Our club got the gift articles for these Prize Winners. Our Rotarians were actively engaged in congratulating and distributing the prizes.

Though it was getting late (8.45am) and it was time for breakfast, School Children had lined up few dances to entertain the gathering. They were cheered by their fellow schoolmates, teachers, Rotarians and parents.

Excellent Breakfast was sponsored by our club for all those present in the school. Rtn.Gunasekaran had made elaborate arrangements by carefully following up with the caterer. Everyone of us enjoyed the breakfast along with the children and the celebrations came to an end by 10.30AM.

List of Rotarians who attended the Independence day celebrations were : Rtn.Athithan, R'Ann Usha Athithan, Rtn.Meenakshi Sundaram, Rtn. NMP Gunasekaran, Rtn.Anwar Batcha, Rtn.Damodharan, Rtn.KLY.Premnath, Rtn.Shankarnarayanan, Rtn.Ramanathan, Rtn.B.Srinivasan, Rtn.Karunakar and Rtn.Ramaswamy.