CIMA-019-Support to Pothukuchi Trust-Miyapur-Hyderabad-26th May, 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'.

About Pothukuchi Somasundaram Trust-Miyapur, Hyderabad:

The POTUKUCHI TRUST – (PSS TRUST) is established in the year 2003 August 15th.

The trust has firmly decided to bring some change in the life of downtrodden, and started educating the parents on importance of education and its further fruits in the shape of better financial up-gradation of the family. The students are picked from those who are studying in Government Schools only and imparting special coaching after school hours to them and making them to reach Polytechnic, Engineering & other vocational courses and also supporting up to getting employment. The trust has succeeded initially in the mission and at present around 350 students under trust activity.

Present problems at PSS Trust-Miyapur

· The children are facing drinking water problem. They are drinking fluoride ground water. Because of this the children are facing some health problems.

· The students who are studying polytechnic & Engineering unable to learn computer courses and their academic projects.

Volunteer work done at PSS Trust-Miyapur

1. We have given water purifier to change the ground water into mineral water with the capacity of purifying 50 liter per hour.

2. Because of this now they are drinking good mineral water

3. We have given TWO Laptops to learn computer courses which are useful to their career & to do their academic project works.

4. We have given sports material to them to play games.

5. We have provided one polytechnic teacher to teach subjects.

6. We paid polytechnic entrance fee to top 20 students.

7. We distributed note books to them.

Impact of Volunteer work at PSS Trust-Miyapur

After the CIM project the students are drinking good mineral water. With the help of provided laptops Polytechnic students are able to learn computer courses and help to complete their project works. In leisure hours, students can play games with the help of sports material. Students get clarifying their doubts with the help of newly recruited Polytechnic teacher.

FEEDBACK OF THE CIM VOLUNTEERS:

Prasaad Sure (Project Leader) :-Great opportunity to serve the society, very happy to be part of this successful CIM event, Thankful S&P Capital IQ for giving me this opportunity to coordinate and lead this event, looking forward to be part of many more events, and kudos to the entire team for supporting me in this event and for their enthusiastic participation.

Naga Raju Galigari (Co-Leader) : I am very much thankful to the S&P Capital IQ for giving me such a great opportunity to serve the society, it has been found that volunteers from our company are participating in GVDs with great enthusiasm and making this project a great success.

M sujathullah:-I am very glad to be a part of this project, I was first shocked by seeing the students who are learning under the water tank. They don’t have any kind of facilities like washroom, fan, playground and drinking water facility. I would like to thank each and every member of team who are the part of this project and for coming forward to fulfil their necessity and for selecting such a great project.

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