S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: Provision of amenities at Z.P.High School, Devalamma Nagaram, Nalgonda

CIMA-040-ZPHS-DevalammaNagaram-Nalgonda-Sekhar Kasaramoni -05-July-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 the details of one of the CIM projects.

About ZPHS, Bejgaon:

The ZPHS, Devalamma Nagaram Village is located at a distance of 67 KMs from S&P Capital IQ, Hyderabad office.

Approximately 150 students study in this school from classes VI to X.

Current problems at Devalamma Nagaram Z.P.High School:

The school lacks basic amenities, such as benches, fans, sports materials and even they don’t have Note Books also. As the students are from rural back ground they don’t have enough knowledge on available career options.

Volunteer work:

Keeping the above in view, S&P Capital IQ, Hyderabad has conducted a CIM project on 5^th July 2014.

1. Donated school benches.

2. Donated Fans.

3. Donated sports material to students.

4. Donated Notebooks.

5. Cleaned the school premises.

6. Conducted quiz and essay writing competition to students.

7. Conducted Career Guidance classes to students.

8. Conducted games and distributed prizes

Impact of Volunteer work at Devalamma Nagaram Z.P. High School

With the provision of school benches, fans and note books to students, they will be able to concentrate better on their studies.With awareness on career options students will now choose the area of their interest wisely.

Feedback of Volunteers:

Sekhar Kasaramoni (Project Leader):

Thanks for MHF for giving me such wonderful opportunity to server my childhood school. It really unforgettable experience with school children’s, they were really happy about our visit and they motivated a lot with volunteer speeches who studied top reputed universities. School staff and students were so happy about fans, benches, note books, sport material and random gifts. It remembered me my childhood schooldays through this CIM project.

Soumi Majumder (CIM Co-Leader): The CIM day was an unforgettable day in my life. Spending time with remote village Students and doing something for them is a fabulous job. Neither they nor we will forget what we experienced that day. I bet I will never be able get so much happiness even if I put double the effort to do something for myself. I really appreciate the work done by each and every member of the team in this regard. These efforts really worked as a bowl of ambrosia for those students and institutions. At last I can now confidently say “We shall overcome every obstacle.”

Soumi Majumder (CIM Co-Leader): A good day spent with the school students. Small gestures can bring so much of happiness to school kids, faces that it’s totally worth. This project took me back to my childhood.

Ramana Kumar Balaga: Being a part of this event is really amazing. It was an awesome experience to spend time with the school children & interacting with them. I got a chance to relive my school days through this CIM project.

Sourabh Surana:

Bikash Agrawal:

Mohit Kumar Agarwal:

Abhishek Sainani:

Feedback of Beneficiaries:

Venu Gopal, Head Master of ZPHS: I am happy that I was able work and spend my time with S&P Capital IQ volunteers. This Organization is doing a great job and all the young friends are so enthusiastic and working so hard by forgetting their own designations. They worked whole heartedly to improve the infrastructure at our ZPHS. I am glad for their work and I thank the entire team for their selfless efforts.

School Staff: We are very happy to tell that the CIQ team came here. The students inspired by their motivation speeches from various people of different background. They worked very hard and spent their own time here. We convey our heartfelt thanks to our CIQ friends.

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