Construction of Mini Water Tanks at Mubarkpur Village on May 25, 2014

CIMA-047—Construction of Mini Water Tanks at Mubarkpur Village on May 25, 2014

About Community Impact Month (Giving back is Essential)

Lead India 2020 Foundation (www.leadindia2020.com) in partnership with McGraw-Hill Financial (www.mhfi.com), a company, which strongly believes in the motto, 'Giving back is essential' handles various community impact projects. It extends to giving back to the society. This year MHFI has launched Community Impact Month (CIM) in which 20+ employees would be working together for solving public problems in their community. MHFI grants $2000 per project and employees spend their personal time on the project. This year S&P Capital IQ (part of MHFI group) (www.capitaliq.com) employees applied for projects from various areas. These employees are working tirelessly to fulfill the motto and render true meaning to 'Giving back is essential'.

CIM Highlights of Construction of Mini Water Tanks at Mubarakpur Village

About CIM Project

Mubarakpur Village is situated at a distance of 50 KMs from S&P CAPITAL IQ, Hyderabad office. Mrs. Amruthamma, Sarpanch of this village approached us to support this cause of providing “Drinking water”. The main crop of the village is Leafy vegetables and they have to be cleaned before moving to market (Rythu bazaars). As Mubarakpur is a small village, It has a limited power and water, and the water from hand pump could serve a single farmer and it was a strenuous job.

Volunteer work done at Mubarakpur

Keeping in mind these problems, S&P Capital IQ Hyd. conducted a CIM event at Mubarakpur village on 1st June, 2014

We proposed to provide drinking water to the village and prevent the wastage of water by constructing water tanks. We have constructed a water tank at school premises, which will be more useful to both farmers and school children. We have also constructed two more water tanks for house hold.

Volunteer works on the CIM day:

1. Cleaning premises at constructed water tanks

2. Plantation at school ground

3. Painting of all water tanks

4. Conducting Environmental Awareness sessions

5. Educating the people about the benefits of storing water

Impact of CIM project at Mubarakpur village

Now the villagers don’t have to worry about water, one of the basic survival needs. They can now use their children’s time and their time in more productive pursuits. The construction of water tanks enables the children to study and farmers to maintain quality of their goods. They don’t need to depend on the power availability, which is a perennial problem for water consumption.

Feedback of the CIM Volunteers

Sri Krishnudu Velpula (Leader)

Knowing that a great impact can be made on others lives, through simple actions, makes the work worthwhile. Providing the water is in a way giving life to the many villagers. I thank Prabhakar Sir and S&P Capital IQ for giving me this opportunity to coordinate and lead this event. I appreciate all the volunteers for their gift of time, energy and enthusiastic support for this event and looking forward to be part of many more events.

Laxma Reddy Yenkannagari (Co-Leader)

It’s not easy and correct for me to say a single word "thanks" for the kindness and empathy shown by all the volunteers, who actively participated in CIM project held at my own village Mubarakpur. All my villagers are very pleased with our work and the intention of our company for the well-being of the society.

Raju Posanipally

This is a wonderful opportunity to for us to serve the society, at Mubarakpur village. The water tanks we constructed will be useful to the villagers to resolve their water problem especially to farmers in cleaning their leafy vegetables.

Nageswara Rao Devathi

For me it was really an amazing experience to share my time and help to the village people. As a part of this programme I had given my best to the society with the help of our volunteers.

Srinivas Kumar Korampalli

This event has given a lot of personal satisfaction and "A Day Out" in such village with my colleagues and with less pollution rejuvenated my energy. We have taken up the activity of plantation around school premises, which also promote water conservation.

Madhavi Latha Pragada

I feel great to work with the project. This project gave me the chance of giving back to the society and a way to do my little bit to help people in their time of need.

Nashiya

It’s a great opportunity for me to do service to the society. I felt very happy when I did that with all our team members.

Santhumani Behara

I had a wonderful experience of helping village people at Mubarakpur village. I have learned lot as a part of this event, things which we take for granted are becoming scarce these days. Water is one of them, to provide it and bring awareness on its conservation is truly a soul filling experience.

Venkataiah (Deputy Sarpanch)

Thanks to the S&P Capital IQ for providing water storage tanks for my village. It is very useful at the time of power cuts and used for the farmers for cleaning their leafy vegetables. You people have done such a tremendous work with in a very short time. The awareness program on water conservation has enlightened us so much.

Vishnu (Beneficiary of village)

We face water problem during in power outage. Providing this will now save a lot of time for me. Everyday I worry about water and power, now one of them is solved for sure. We are very happy for works. We never heard about this type programs but my village friend (Laxma Reddy) who is working for S&P Capital IQ told about this event. Thanks to the S&P Capital IQ company for providing water storage tanks.

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