S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: CIMA – 019 - Cleaning Campaign at Saroornagar and Providing Equipment to Amma Foundation, Saidabad, Hyderabad on 13th June, 2015

CIMA – 019 - Cleaning Campaign and Providing Equipment to Amma Foundation, Saroornagar, Hyderabad on 13^th 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: Potti Sreeramulu Govt.High School & Amma Foundation, Saroornagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

About the Project: This is a government school, as per request from them we have taken up a volunteer work of painting blackboard & Classrooms. And providing basic requirements to an orphanage home – Amma foundation in the same locality, which don’t have proper furniture to concentrate on education. Making contribution in these 2 areas will make significant change in their life.

Non Profit Partner: Lead India 2020 Foundation

Project Leader: Sriharsha Annamraju

Activity: On CIM day Volunteers have painted blackboards & class rooms of school. And arrangement and installation of all furniture and distributed school bags, uniforms & many other things like water purifiers, overhead tank , bathroom doors , hostel lockers , chairs, water drums etc. at Amma foundation (Orphanage Center). And also involved in conducting quiz and sports competitions and distributed prizes to Amma Foundation students and motivated the students.

Date & Time: 13th June, 2015 from10am to 4pm

Number of Volunteers: 25

Highlights:

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

2. Painting Black boards & Class rooms of Govt School

3. School has 300+ students

4. Providing Basic requirements to Amma-Foundation (Orphanage) in same locality

5. We are providing Lockers for orphanage Home, School bags, note books, Marker board, RO Water Purifier, Over Head Tank, Water Storage Drum, Bathroom Doors, Floor Carpet,.etc.

6. Amma foundation has 25 students.

7. Conducting games & quiz for Amma Foundation students

8. And distributing gifts for them

Impact:

There are 300+ students currently enrolled in the school. Painting the school& black boards will make them feel more interesting to come to school & listen to classes. And there are 25 students in Amma Foundation, by providing the basic facilities this orphanage home will become better equipped with good facilities. And students of Amma-Foundation will get inspiration from volunteers and concentrate on their studies by setting clear goals to learn and grow.

Names of Volunteers: Veeresh Kumar Thirri, Santhosh Kumar, Raviteja Giduturi, Asritha Santhoshi Venkumahanthi, Purva Shriniwas Joshi, Janardhan Reddy G, Vivek Saini, Ayush Khatri, Amitha Rapolu, Ashok Pothineni, Ramana Kumar Balaga, Prabhakar Rao Kotapati, Swapna Ailineni, Shaik Mahaboob Johny, Praveen Shivakoti, Nikhil Vementala, Varsha Teratipally, Sai Subrahmanyam Lanka V, Dharmendranath Vadlamudi, Chiranjeevi Rao Chitrothu, Priyanka Gaddamedi, Sujith Kumar Kupunarapu , Chirag Kirtikumar Joshi, Arkaprava De, Sreesha Saseendra Nath.

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:

Swapna: It is a great opportunity for me to help the children and see smiles on their faces. I hope the necessary things which we provided like books, bags, school dressed and lockers will be helpful for the children. I hope we made small change in their life. I am very happy to be part of this event and it gave me self-satisfaction.

Asritha Santhoshi Venkumahanthi: As part of Community impact month 2015, we had been to an orphanage named "Amma Foundation" located near Saroornagar, Hyderabad. It was a wonderful experience for all of us to spend time with kids, know what their interests are, play with them, eat with them, and gift them with needful things. There are certain precious things in the world which give us immense satisfaction more than the things we buy with money. This orphanage has around 30 children out of which some children do not know who their parents are, some know their parents but never saw them and some has parents but they cannot stay with parents because of financial constraints. We found undefined happiness in these kids’ faces and we really felt satisfied when we became the reason for their happiness. I would like to thank S&P capital IQ for this opportunity and proud of this organization which believes in "Giving back is essential".

Ravi Teja: First of all I want to say a great full thank you to you and our CIM team to make me the part of this fantastic event. Coming to out project, the first half activities like painting walls/black board are done well by providing all necessary things (brush, colors, buckets etc…). I’m sure our team was mingled very well with children’s by playing outdoor games like musical Charis, kabaddi and cricket. After lunch we played some indoor games and chit chat with children and career guidance speech given by our team. All are so good. Finally, I hope the activities we have taken in the project will give more energy in their life and I’m sure the things we have provided will definitely useful to their daily needs and for their education also. And also this event inspired me by participating in this. I am looking forward to participate in like these type of events again and again.

Purva Joshi: It has been a very fulfilling experience ding something for kids. And as such it was a wonderful day not just for the children we visited but for us as well; to experience the joy of giving. We've been to the govt. school and helped paint their courtyard and classrooms and felt like we were in atleast someway, re-painting our view as well. Our experience at Amma-Foundation was atleast equally holistic if not more. The games we played, gifts we gave and the moments we shared with kids made into wonderful time.

FEEDBACK OF THE BENEFICIARIES:

Rajesh, Ramu, Vamshi & Vijay (Students): We have enjoyed a lot. We want to invite you all to visit our Amma Foundation once again. We are so happy to meet you because we had so much fun with you all by playing games and all. We thank you all for giving gifts such as bags, school dress, etc. Thank you all for coming to Amma Foundation.

Ram (Student): In this Programme we enjoyed so much like cricket etc. We would thank you all who conducted this Programme.

B. Mohan (Student): We would thank you all for conducting this Programme and cricket etc. Thanks for coming.

N. Roshan (Student): We are enjoyed very lot. We played so many games like cricket, Kabaddi, etc. They gave us lockers, bags, Pens, books, etc. Thank you all for coming to our Orphanage Home.

Nagamalla Anil Kumar (Orphanage Home owner)