S&P Capital IQ Hyderabad Community Service Projects: CIMA – 068 - Colors to Compound Wall and Providing Furniture to M.P.U.P. School, Bandam Kommu, Medak on 27th June, 2015

CIMA – 068 - Colors to Compound Wall and Providing Furniture to M.P.U.P. School, Bandam Kommu, Medak on 27^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: M.P.U.P. School, BANDAM KOMMU Village, Patancheru Mandal, Medak District, Telangana, India

About the Project: This is a Government Mandal Parishath Upper Primary School run for educating underprivileged students and lacks various basic facilities like proper furniture, library books and sports equipment to engage students. The compound wall is old, needed to do whitewash and paint slogans on the walls. The blackboards should be painted.

Non Profit Partner: Lead India 2020 Foundation

Project Leader: Rajeswara Rao Thodeti

Activity: Volunteers will procure material for whitewashing, black board painting and will give their time to work on whitewashing of 4 walls and painting on black boards and plantation in school premises. This work will add new look to the building and premises. Volunteers will also procure furniture, library books, sports equipment and other items to create basic infrastructure to the school. We are planning to assign the responsibility to students for maintain the school premises and environment in good condition.

Date & Time: 27th June, 2015 from 10 am to 5pm

Number of Volunteers: 25

Highlights:

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

2. Providing School Benches for 100 School Students

3. Painting the compound walls and write on the slogans and painted maps on the class room walls

4. Painting Black boards

5. Cleaning the premises

6. Providing Sports material to students

7. Conducting quiz and drawing to students.

8. Conducted games and distributed prizes

Impact:

Good atmosphere creates good learning experience. There are 200 students in the school. They will get inspiration from volunteers and learn the importance of good environment, service mindedness, living with social responsibility and cleanliness of school and surroundings.

Names of Volunteers: Haritha Vemulapalli , Arakh Bijay Kumar, Vamshi Krishna, Gopikrishna Bandekar, Venkata Satya Shiva Prasad, Veerareddy, Govindu, Kapil, Venu Gopal, Nizamuddin Khan, Deepthi, Rama Durga Kumar, Sreenu, Rama Madhavan, Rupsa Sinha, T Lakshmana Rao, V Jayasankar, Y Ananth, A Mallesh, Qtubuddin khan, N Rama Krishna, K Sudhakar (Manager)

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:

Rajeswara Rao Thodeti (Project Leader): This is my first CIM project, It was a wonderful experience, 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 S&P Capital IQ, who approved this project. I am satisfied and got good experience from this project. This is one of my best memorable movements, and I hope will continue this in future.

Haritha Vemulapalli (Co-Leader): CIM Project is one of the most valuable Days in my CIQ life, under this project we provide basic facilities and pour our affection to children, every volunteer involved in the work and engaged with children. School management & children are requested us to conduct these type of activities again and again, it’s a good sign for us, they felt very happy with our facilities. It is immense pleasure to me to say thanks to S&P Capital IQ and My leader Rajeswara Rao.

Rupsa Sinha: It was an immense pleasure to be a part of CIMA project. For the first time I took part in event like this and it was truly amazing. We met small kids over there and they all welcome us with a big smile on their face. It was my life first experience but still one of the best. The total task we performed really nice. Visiting school, meeting the students, having fun with them, serving them food, etc. was actually too good. In short I can say that the tag line “Giving back is essential “is not only the tag line but it is something which we actually did there. So once again thank you for conducting such events and making me part of that.

Rama Madhavan Therla: I felt so happy being a part of this CIM program; it was a very nice experience. Being a volunteer here and helping society. I am very happy to see the kind of mutual help and kindness in all the people. I learned many things from this program, and very happy to be with all the students and giving something back to society and environment by being a part of this great event.

Jayasankar Vellooru: Mainly one thing that I will tell is I had chosen excellent project good things that are very useful for school students and Environment. Plantation, wall paintings etc., we had a really good time and enjoyed it a lot. Thank you very much Rajesh Anna for giving me the opportunity to join your group. You being hardworking and Honest, I am thankful to be part on this project. Overall a very pleasant experience

Venu Gopal Kattamasu: It’s a wonderful experience interacting with the children, Kids were very excited to meet us and we were very happy to guide them and conducted various sports to children, to take part in this CIMA project I felt really very much happy. I am thanking full to MHFI as conducting such a great inspirational social welfare programs like "Community Impact Month".

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