S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: CIMA – 076-Construction of Shelter for Homeless at AADARANA

CIMA – 076-Construction of Shelter for Homeless at AADARANA - Saroornagar - Hyderabad on 17^th May, 2015

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Update about service project conducted by employees of S&P Capital IQ (www.spcapitaliq.com) - Business unit of McGraw Hill Financial (www.mhfi.com), Hyderabad, India

Project Location: AADARANA,The Home For Orphaned And Needy Students, Saroornagar, Hyderabad, India

About the Project: Aadarana provides shelter, food, education for orphans. They have started constructing a new facility to accommodate more needy youth. They need support to complete that project.

Non Profit Partner: AADARANA http://aadarana.org/

Project Leader: Suresh Manthri

Activity: Construction of room for orphans

Date & Time: 17th May 2015 from10am to 4pm

Number of Volunteers: 25

Highlights:

1. MHFI provided Rs.120,000 for procuring materials and expenses for the project

2. Volunteers helped construction of room by spending 6 hours of their personal time

3. Constructed 150sft room with this effort

4. Plantation also done

5. Distributed Gifts to orphans

Impact:

1. Orphanage can accommodate 10 more orphans

2. Helped orphans to have better facilities along with moral support

Names of Volunteers: Satyam Aadepu, Amrish Kumar Adaskar, Suresh Kumar Aravapally, Lakshmi Sarojini Bollu, Ashok Bakkathatla, Madhusha Chinnam, Uttar Deshpande, Santosh Kumar Eligaty, Prashanth Gunda, Ravinder Raju Karre, Muninder Komire, Thirupathi Reddy Mudiganti, Sandeep Mutalik, Sreenath Reddymally, Sampath Thota, Bhargav Tummala, Mallaiah Ushkamalla, Venkata Swamy Vallakati, Ramana Prayaga, Dilip Kumar Mupparaju, Venu Gopal Kamma, Ajay Krishna Katakamsetty and Bharath Kumar Velmula.

About Community Impact Program: McGraw-Hill Financial ( www.mhfi.com ) the company which strongly believes in the motto, 'Giving back is essential'. MHFI encourages its employees to work for service projects in which 20+ employees would be working together and for solving public problems in their community to build better lives and stronger communities. MHFI grants $2000 per project and employees spend their personal time on the project. This year S&P Capital IQ, Hyderabad (part of MHFI group www.spcapitaliq.com ) employees applied for projects from various areas.

FEEDBACK OF THE VOLUNTEERS:

Suresh Manthri (Project Leader): I am very happy that I got an opportunity to serve the Society through my company. This project is successful and the credit goes to the volunteers and Capital IQ which gave me an opportunity to do this. I am satisfied and got good experience with this project. This is one of my best memorable movements, and I hope will continue this in future.

Uttar Deshpande: I felt very happy to be part of this project, and also to Suresh Manthri as well. This has become a platform from where we can do well to the society.

To be a part of the collective effort which is needed to uplift the society and its values for a better living, is absolute privilege to me.

Muninder Komire: First of all I would like to thank you for the wonderful opportunity given to me, which made my free time so useful and satisfactory too. I was very much excited and pleased to work for the children who showed great affection and love when were there. And I want to thank and appreciate the founders and organizers of the foundation too. It is so inspiring for all of us to think about the society as being a part of it. Finally I really want to appreciate you, as I could see a lively example for the true leader in you for the first time. Thank you once again for giving me an opportunity to thank one and all who were involved in the much needed project.

Satyam Aadepu: It is a wonderful experience to me in serving the Orphans and I appreciate the ADARANA Orphanage home for their efforts in building the bright future for those Children who don’t have any one in the world. I feel very luck in participating in this project as a volunteer and thanks to this holy work as it reminds me that as a citizen of the country I should have the responsibility towards the society. By this I understood the meaning of the word “Giving back is essential” in reality.

My special Thanks to Suresh Manthri who is the Project Leader for giving this wonderful opportunity to serve to the society and appreciate the other volunteers who spent their valuable time for this good cause.

Sreenath Reddymally: It is a great memorable experience to spend time with the Orphan students of Aadarana foundation. It’s given me an immense pleasure to be a part of this “CIM" Project and I feel proud what we are doing in the form of "CIM" to the society.

This project made me to know how rich I am compare to them, everyone will have the problems and we need to face them. Our problems are nothing after seeing them. We need to salute their courage with which they are facing the society.

“Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names, they are easier to ignore before you see their faces , It is easier to pretend they are not real before you hold them in your arms, But once you do, everything changes” David Platt

My special thanks to MHFI and Suresh Manthri who has given this opportunity.

Santosh Kumar Eligaty: It is great experience in participating CIM project for an orphanage (Construction of a room), we contributed services like mixture of concrete helping head skilled laborers etc. it is different kind of happiness from bottom of my heart. Definitely every human will get utmost happiness to serve people like them. We got a good experience and my sincere thanks to Suresh Manthri who is the project leader and gives us the great opportunity to serve the people. My appreciation to fellow voluntaries that made the program grand success.

Madhusha Chinnam: It has been great opportunity to help the orphans in some or other manner. It was pleasure to be with those kids. I would like to thank the management and the project leader (Suresh Manthri) for providing such opportunity.

Prashanth Gunda: It was a wonderful experience to me, serving the orphans. I feel proud what we are doing in the form of "CIM" to the society, and by this visit I truly believe to the phrase which says "Giving back is essential".

My great thanks to management and my special thanks to Suresh giving me an opportunity to serve the people.

Ashok Bakkathatla: This is really a good thing for a good cause. The students are taking inspiration and learnt that some of the orphan boys are now pursuing higher studies like B.Tech., MBA etc.

My sincere thanks to Suresh Manthri, who is the project leader, for providing me an opportunity to serve the orphans. My appreciation to fellow voluntaries who became part of this noble cause.

Thirupathi Reddy Mudiganti: It is a very good memorable experience to serving for orphanage students in aadarana with our volunteers. I surprised many of the students in the competitive exams and pursuing B.TECH, IIIT from the orphanage.

My sincere and special thanks to Suresh Manthri providing me an opportunity and thanks to all the participants.

Madhava Rao: Founder and President of Aadarana Foundation: I am very happy; students got an additional room of shelter with this project. I am very thankful S&P Capital IQ and its employees for this kind of good causes, and our students very much thankful S&P Capital IQ.

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