S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: CIMA – 080 – Training on “Manage your Study Time” and Providing Furniture to Z.P.H.School. Kodavatoor, Warangal, on 22nd June, 2015

CIMA – 080 – Training on “Manage your Study Time” and Providing Furniture to Z.P.H.School. Kodavatoor, Warangal, on 22nd 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: Zilla Parishad High School, Kodavatoor village, Warangal District, Telangana, India

About the Project: This is a government operated school run for educating underprivileged students from rural background. They don't get access to tools and techniques to plan and work on their studies. That results in low performance in studies. If proper guidance is provided to them about time management and planning their performance will increase and this school also lacks proper furniture.

Non Profit Partner: Lead India 2020 Foundation

Project Leader: Nagarani Gangam

Activity: Study Time training, Career Guidance, providing study desks, Note books and Sports kit

Date & Time: 22nd June 2015 from10am to 5:00pm

Highlights:

1. Guidance given to 9th and 10th class students about career

2. Volunteers actively participated in tree plantation

3. 3 Build Confidence to students

4. Conducted games to school children and distributed prizes to the winners.

5. 5 Volunteers Handover furniture, books and sports kit to school children and staff.

Impact: 150 students of this school will get good inputs which are essential for their success and because of the furniture provided they will have perfect seating to listen the lectures with attention, which will add value to their performance in exams.

Names of Volunteers: Sarita Mavuri; Sisinty Puja Patro; Ipsa Anand; Ananda Patnaik; Chandrayudu Mekala; Hareesh Velpuri; Mukesh Kumar; Lavanya Mallina; Lal Bahadur Shaik; Naga Sankar Rao Kakaraparthi; Somya Patra; Rajitha Karesetty; Nagarani Gangam; Radhika Mukkavilli; Rambabu Surla; Rama Krishna Narayana Reddy Padala; Suresh Goggura; Sunitha Gannamaneni

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:

Naga Rani Gangam (Project Leader):-I am very happy that I got an opportunity to serve the Society through MHFI. It was remarkable experience to reach school children and educate them about their career. I am satisfied and got good experience in my life with this project. With this project, we could do something to the society which really help the people around there and i am thankful to all volunteers who made this event great success. Looking forward to take like this opportunity to serve the society and thanks to all Volunteers.

Anand Patnaik : First of all I would like to thank you for providing me this golden opportunity to serve the society. It is my distinct pleasure to serve along with other volunteers, who despite of their busy schedule made their way to Kodavatoor and participated in such a wonderful program. Be continue the project every year and help to the poor school children and develop the country. I am fully satisfied with this project.

Rama Krishna Narayana Reddy Padala : On behalf of CIMA project Kodavatoor village and the project title is “CIMA 080-Manage your Study Time training & Provide Furniture to ZPHS Kodavatoor “. We are provided some facilities to the school and given training to students regarding their career concern and also we are conducted games and Quizzes’ to the students. I thought whatever we are provided there like Benches, desks, sports kits, books and plantation programs are more useful to them. I am very happy as a part of that project as a volunteer. I would like to say thanks to MHFI for conducting this kind of events.

Sarita Mavuri : I was really enjoyed a lot with Children and involved in few programs like Career enhancement program for school children and sports conducted. I am thankful to MHFI as our MHFI conducting such "Community Impact Month”.

Naga Sankar Rao Kakaraparthi : It’s a wonderful experience interacting with the children. Their enthusiasm is impressive. I can say that they have bright future. I taught few things to them but learned many. They really deserve all the benefits we have provided and even more. It’s one of the best projects I have attended till now. I thank all the other volunteers for their cooperation for making it’s a big success. I thank Nagarani for giving such a good opportunity to be a part of this project and guide the children…

Mukesh Kumar: CIMA project was very insightful; it has given a chance to contribute some amount of time to the society from where we come.

I had direct interaction with school kids, just loved to share our views towards Career and how to shape their future. It was really a nice experience for me. I would like to thank our company for providing me the opportunity to participate in this project.

FEEDBACK OF THE BENEFICIARIES:

Venu (Head Master): We all are very happy to your great support to our school and children and we look forward your support in future too and very thankful to S&P Capital IQ and their staff and volunteers.

Swetha(Student): We all are very much happy and thankful to all for providing the benches, note books, sports kit and guided us about the career. Thank you so much.

Ganesh(Student): Today with the help of you people we received benches, sports material, and books and has learned so many things about our future studies and conducted Quiz and distributed prizes for us and we request all of you to visit our school once again thanks to S&P Capital IQ and team.