S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: CIMA – 005 - Empowering Self-employment through Tailoring at Utthatoor, Nalgonda on 21st June, 2015

CIMA – 005 - Empowering Self-employment through Tailoring at Utthatoor, Nalgonda on 21^st June, 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: Utthatoor Village, Ramannapeta Mandal, Nalgonda District, Telangana, India

About the Project: Uttatoor village is predominantly agriculture based and consisting of below poverty line families. There are 300 women who are unemployed, because they could not go to field works due to their physical fitness to that work. If we can train and facilitate some stitching machine industry at their village that will create additional Income for those Underprivileged Women

Non Profit Partner: Lead India 2020

Project Leader: Praveen Shivakoti

Activity: Volunteers will help the society to procure necessary machinery, fittings and install the same in the proposed unit. Volunteers also will give necessary training for accounting, administration and marketing. In addition to above we provided 2 Garbage collection cycles for clean and green of village and planting saplings with tree guards in the village and conducted awareness programed on clean and green .

Date & Time: 21st June 2015 from 10 am to 4pm

Number of Volunteers: 20

Highlights:

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

2. Providing 10 stitching machines

3. Training for accounting, administration and marketing

4. Providing 2 Garbage collection cycles

5. planting saplings 50 with tree-guards

6. Conducted awareness of clean and green.

Impact:

There are 300 women currently unemployment in this village. They will get employment from our project; In addition to that we will provide wealth to poor women by self-employment. This also will become role model for other villages to come forward with similar ideas.

Names of Volunteers: Thirupathi Garige, Suresh Maddipati, Venkata Ramanaiah Munapati, Naga Somesh Pallothu, Haribabu Ravuri,Praveen Kumar Cherukuru, Kuchaiah Thatikonda, Ramkumar Akumarthi,Kiran Kumar Casarla,Dinesh Polina,Swaran Kumar Mishra

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:

Praveen Shivakoti (Project Leader): First of all I thank this community for giving me such an opportunity for doing such a valuable service to the society so my sincere thanks to S&P Capital IQ, It is not easy to spend personal time in doing community services like this. There should be a lot of effort, dedication, planning and execution is required. Really appreciate the efforts of Volunteers. Thanks to all volunteers who made this event great success. It was really my pleasure to get chance to do service to the community.

Thirupathi Garige: I feel honored to be part noble cause, and I feel great to be part of this CIM program where we provided stitching machine to village, it is provided employment to village women and they earn additional income.

Naga Somesh Pallotu: This was my first CIMA, to take part in this I felt really very much happy. I promise that I will take part in upcoming CIMA. I like to thanks to my entire colleagues for giving me the opportunity to serve people, I would like to see in future more opportunity for this type of social activities.

Ram Kumar Akumarthi: It was a wonderful time and learning experience for me and I am thankful for S&P Capital IQ and whole team members for giving me this opportunity. It was one of the memorable and happy days in my life with all of you.

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