S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: August 2014

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Renovation of Government High School, Somajiguda on June 16, 2014

CIM-003 Renovation of Government High School, Somajiguda on June 16, 2014

About Community Impact Month (Giving back is Essential)

Lead India 2020 Foundation (www.leadindia2020.org) partnered with McGraw-Hill Financial (www.mhfi.com) the company which strongly believes in the motto, 'Giving back is essential'. 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 and 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'.

Below are details of one of the CIM projects.

About Government High School, Somajiguda

Government High School is located in Somajiguda at a distance of 8 KMs from Hyderabad office.

The school has approximately 800 students in school.

Present problems at the school

The school doesn’t have certain basic infrastructure, such as compound wall gate and benches.

There is no water storage facility.

The students being from poor background doesn’t have awareness on the various career paths after secondary education.

Volunteer work done at the school

Helped in the construction of drinking water sump for storing water

Donated school entrance gate

Donated benches and classroom tables

Educated students water conservation.

Conducted games, and elocution, quiz and essay writing competitions and distributed prizes.

Distributed sports material to the school management.

Impact of Volunteer work at Z.P.H.S: MAMIDIPALLY

Provision of benches and table will students and teachers to concentrate the process of learning in a better way. With the entrance gate, the school staff is able to restrict the entry of outsiders into the school, thus leading to a hassle-free functioning of school. With the storage sump, students can now drink water at anytime and conserve it in a better way. We have also conducted Lead India Life Skills Training and Career Guidance session, which resulted in helping the students understand their responsibilities towards the society and balance their personal and social goals. This project has motivated students to participate actively in all competitive exams and also setting their goals for their better future.

Feedback of the CIM Volunteers:

Ajay Krishna Katakamsetty (Leader): I would like to convey my special thanks to CIQ management for giving me this opportunity to serve the society. I am extremely grateful to all the volunteers and also my special thanks to Co-Project Leader – Mr. Jaganmohan Rao Chintada for his co-operation in the successful completion of this project. The manner in which you all immersed yourself in to the role of volunteer was amazing. Your interaction with those underprivileged children will stay forever in their minds and it will certainly transform them into good citizens of tomorrow. The words of Gandhi reverberated in my ears- "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." I am very happy to play my part in this endeavor by spending time with the Next Generation.

Jaganmohan Rao Chintada (Co-Leader): First I would like to say my special thanks to CIM Leader (Mr. Ajay Krishna Katakamsetty) for this co-operation in the successful completion of this project. I had the pleasure to serve the society. I was very happy to be the part of this wonderful project, which allowed me to work for the welfare of the school and children. The students are in real need of interventions like career guidance and life skills training to be competitive in the future.

Srinivasa Rao Ballada: We know many government schools run without minimum facilities this is true particularly in rural areas. However, It is very unfortunate that the Government High School in Sriram Nagar, in the heart of the Hyderabad city lacking basic infrastructure. There are many inconveniences, with respect to security to the school building, water facilities and furniture etc., found at the school. In my opinion, if we want to build good nation, we need to make every citizen educated so that they think what exactly they need to do to benefit them and their country. Thanks to the Ajay Krishna who indentified this noble project and led it successfully, & provided me the opportunity to serve the society. The teachers and students were so happy and expressed their gratitude. Thanks to the S&P Capital IQ for providing support to schools like this.

Hari Krishna Muriki: It’s a pleasure to be a part of this project. I felt very happy while interacting with the students. They are very active in every aspect and actively participated in every event conducted by us. I was really amazed by their talent. They don’t have proper facilities, but still excelling despite of them. They really deserve all the facilities that we donated. I am glad to give career guidance to those students. My special thanks to CIQ management, and my Team leader and co-leader Mr. Ajay and Mr. Jagan for conducting CIM projects. I am looking forward to participate in more CIM projects to serve the society.

Hemanth Harsha Vardhan Thippani: This is one of the best projects that I’ve participated this year. Students’ knowledge & response was amazing. I could see the happiness in school management on the infrastructure provided. Thanks to MHFI for giving such a great opportunity to serve the society. Yes, Giving back is essential

Lakshmana Babu Kavali: Thank you very much for giving me opportunity to work for School Students in Sriram Nagar, Hyderabad. I saw the happiness in the eyes of Student after providing benches and drinking water facility. I had a good interaction with students, and guided them on their studies and career choice.

Mekala Suresh: It was a good deed to attend the CIM project. It was one of my more useful days. Surest way to get happiness is to make others happy. Yesterday I saw glow on their faces (teachers & students).

Rajesh Gandham: It was a great opportunity to attend the CIM project yesterday. I would like to appreciate the time and energy spent by the team members. I really appreciate the career guidance classes being conducted in the project to enhance their analytical skills and cognitive skills of children. I am very thankful to all the participants. I will try to play my part in as many events as possible in future.

Sreenivasulu Racharla: It was a wonderful opportunity to help the students understand their responsibilities towards the society and balance their personal and social goals. The students were very enthusiastic and eager to know a lot of things. They participated actively in all the events conducted for them. This program trained the students very well and I enjoyed the interaction with them a lot. I hope and wish to be a part of similar activities as much as possible.

Ramesh Pasala: I feel very happy and proud to be part of this project, thanks to management for given such a great opportunity to the employees. I had enjoyed a lot while sharing my opinions and thoughts with school children regarding environment protection and career path, I also learn lot of things personally by involving in this. Finally it’s a nice and pleasant experience to me, I would like to do more like this in future.

Beneficiaries Feedback:

Suhasini (Head Mistress): I sincerely thank you sir for conducting the CIM project in our school. I highly appreciate the volunteer group for spending their valuable time with our students. They have indeed brought about a great change in their attitudes. They have encouraged, guided and motivated them. They conducted competitions and awarded prizes. Students will defiantly benefit from this Program. We once again thank you for your support and look forward or such in future too.

K. Winni Rani (Teacher): I would like to express my sincere thanks for voluntarily coming forward to help underprivileged students of our school. I sincerely thank the employee volunteer group for spending their weekly holiday with our students, and encouraging, guiding, counseling, inspiring and motivating them. Your career guidance session will definitely help the students to choose the career that is best suited to them. Your contributions will surely make much difference in improving the standards of the school. We look forward for such continuous support in the years to come. Thank you once again for your compassionate support.

CIM Team: Ajay Krishna Katakamsetty (Leader), Jaganmohan Rao Chintada (Co-Leader), Srinivasa Rao Ballada, Koteswara Rao Bandaru, Veera Venkata Jnana Kumar Chappidi, Sai Prudhvi Nadh Gaddam, Rajesh Gandham, Rama Krishna Gangula, Lakshmana Babu Kavali, Bhuvaneshwari Padmavathi Konda, Suresh Manthri, Srikanth Maraka, Hari Krishna Muriki, Ramesh Pasala, Shiva Raju Pawadshetty, Manjunath Perumala, Ajay Kumar Ponnapalli, Hemanth Harsha Vardhan Thippani, Sreenivasulu Racharla, and Mekala Suresh.

Volunteers Interacting with students Volunteers with school staff

Conducting career guidance session

Donated benches and compound wall gate, and constructed water sump

Conducting competitions

Prize distribution

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Provision of Amenities at Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir -Shabad on 5th July, 2014

CIM-029-Provision of Amenities at Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir -Shabad on 5^th July, 2014

About CIM (Giving back is Essential)

Below are details of one of the CIM projects.

About Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir, Shabad

Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir High School is located at a distance of 60 KMs from Capital IQ, Hyderabad office.

The school has 210 students.

Current problems at school, Shabad

The school does not have proper infrastructure facilities, such as benches, drinking water facility, and water storage facility.

Volunteer work done at Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir, Shabad

Keeping in mind these problems, S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad has conducted a CIM event at Sri Saraswathi Sisu Mandir on July 5^th 2014

Donated desk benches, sports kit, and drinking water purifier.

Helped in the construction of water tank for general use.

Donated related pipes, materials, and motor pump for the water tank.

Conducted career guidance session for 9th and 10th class students.

Conducted Awareness session on environmental conservation

Conducted Motivational session by explaining inspirational aspects of famous personalities

Conducted games, quizzes, and other activities, and distributed to cover all the students

Cleaned and planted saplings in the school premises.

Impact of Volunteer work at school:

After the CIM project, the entire school now has desk benches, which will enable students concentrate on their education

The water purifier will improve the health of students and decreases the drop-outs.

Students will play outdoor games with the sports kit, thus increasing their physique.

With awareness on career options students will now choose the area of their interest wisely.

Feedback of the CIM Volunteers:

Sudarsana Rao Battina (CIM Leader)

As an employee it is a great opportunity to serve the society. I am very happy to be part of this successful CIM event. I thank the CIM team and S&P Capital IQ for giving me this opportunity to coordinate and lead this event. I am Looking forward to be part of many more events, and kudos to the entire team for their support and enthusiastic participation.

Pavan Kumar Gudivada (Co-Leader)

It is a great experience becoming a part of this project as a Co-Leader. We were able to execute this project successfully with the guidance of Sudarsana Rao. He played a major role in making our project a grand success. He has taken care of the not only the project, but also the volunteers. I appreciate the way he made arrangements to the volunteers in all aspects from Start to End. Volunteers are the key for our project the services provided by them are not scalable in terms of money as it is done from the bottom of their heart. The volunteers actively participated in career guidance and environment sessions. Students & the teachers along with the management welcomed us with prayer & Dandiya. I can confidently say that, the students are well disciplined & sincere in all the aspects. The energy levels of the students touching the roof. While leaving that place, the smile that they were wearing on their faces is the real feedback for our good service. I am thankful to CIQ for creating such a wonderful platform and providing financial assistance. At last I would like to thank the facilities team for making arrangement for comfortable transportation. I would like to be a part of these projects in the future also.

Neha Saxena

I am feeling proud to say that I was a part of this CIM project, which helped us to offer our services to the needy children. We got an opportunity to perform such activity for that I would be grateful to Sudarsana sir and Pavan sir who approached us to be a part of such noble cause. I relived my childhood days. Their discipline and culture attracted me .The students actively participated in the tasks and their energy level boosted my confidence and energy too. Overall this project for me was totally a motivational factor as we worked for society above all for our self satisfaction. If we were successful in doing our bit that will help that children a lot. The activities we performed there, hope will help the children to focus on their studies and curricular activities. Our career guidance class will guide them for their future. Hope our little effort will make a difference in their life. It was a great experience to visit Saraswati Shishu Mandir and will like to be the part of such activities in future too.

Venu Madhav Devu

The school we went is well disciplined not only in the studies, but also in the culture. They really have good faculty who are teaching them not only from books and also the morals and ethics which aren’t in the books. The students were very enthusiastic and are showing willingness to learn new things. They were very active in the classroom activities and outdoor activities. And I’d like to thank Mr. Sudarsana, who has given the Wonderful opportunity; and to my fellow volunteers, who were very friendly.

Suresh Kothapalli

I am very much thankful to Sudarsan and our company who provided me a great opportunity of participating in this CIM project. I was impressed with the school that is having good discipline and enthusiasm. Though they don’t have minimum facilities to study, they have great ambitions towards their career. This made me more energetic and active on that day. I wish to visit next year as well. Finally, their hospitality is superb. I was impressed with our co-leader’s energy and his active role on that day. My sincere thanks to all the volunteers for their support.

Komal Gehani

Overall it was a very nice experience and a good opportunity. All the associates have made this visit a success and a memorable one. The children were also supportive and very kind, and have shown keen interest on what we taught to them. They enjoyed the as much as we did. Playing games, clarifying doubts, and their willingness to learn new things have encouraged us to deliver our responsibility so well. I thank God and wish to get more such opportunities in future.

Neelima Kollati

First of all I appreciate S&P capital IQ for coming up with such a platform for addressing social issues. I would also like to thank our project leader and co leader who motivated us to join them. For me this was the first CIM experience, which has showed me how students are working hard to bring themselves to a very good position. Frankly speaking I never saw such type of school in my whole life time, so thanks for showing me the other shade of education system. I would plead S&P to come up with more projects and help (financially) a lot. The students require financial help a lot for there upliftment. I personally enjoyed a lot there explored many things. Once again thanks to all.

Nikil Kumar Reddy Eakambaram

First I would like to say thanks the leader and co-leader for giving me an opportunity. Actually I went with a motive of service, instead we also learnt something from the environment in that school. We worked well with a great energy for entire a day because the zeal created by both the leaders. Thank you so much to entire team……..

Vamsi Sriram

I had a nice experience and good chance which made the visit, a success and a memorable one. School staff and children were so supportive for our team activities and kind for what our contribution. The students have also shown keen interest on what we educated to children. I thank my group leader and co-leader for giving such kind of opportunities and wish to get more such opportunities in future.

Naga Surya Venkata Sriram Vuddagiri

I feel proud of myself as I am also a member of the CIM Project team. We guided them in their career aspect. It is a wonderful moment in my life. I enjoyed a lot while volunteering this project. I would like to say thanks to the Capital IQ and CIM Project team for giving this big opportunity to me. I am willing to participate this type of social service in the future.

Akhila Teja Sudabathula

Firstly I am thankful for our organization for giving each of us such a wonderful opportunity to serve the society. Beside our corporate life such kind of activities enhances the personal transformation. I am very glad to be a part of this CIM program. Being a part of this program I have learned that “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves” by which happiness comes to our way. The basic necessities of the school are fulfilled to certain extent with this program conducted by our organization .To the best of my knowledge I have shared tips and the various opportunities they have after schooling. I have also conducted games, quiz and various activities which added to the personal enhancement of children. I will be trying to participate in such kind of activities as long as I have the opportunity to serve as “No one becomes poor by giving”. Once again I heart fully thank my project lead and co-volunteers for organizing and making this project successful.

Subrahmanyam Natteti
In general the people who are working in corporate they think of movies and sight seeing to pass the weekend. In my view, this is not correct as this is wastage of time and money. If we utilize this time to serve the people of society that would be productive. I remembered my childhood days as I spent time with the students. I advised and guided the students to the best of my knowledge through the career guidance session. I think the session would be helpful for them to reach their goals. I enjoyed with the co-volunteers and built up new friendships. By serving the people of society we will get self-confidence and self-motivation. So, I had wonderful time with you all these people. I am glad that CIM team leader has given me this wonderful opportunity. When we are getting something from the society we should come forward to give back something to the society.