Newsletter
2007 Issue 2 December
From the secretary’s desk.
This is the second Newsletter in 2007. The previous issue can be accessed through the Archives link.
In the previous Newsletter, I posed the question "Are we making a
difference?
Once again, the answer is in the affirmative. The difference that we - together with all of you donors - have helped make in the lives of these two youngsters was sufficient to encourage them take on the responsibility to continue the cylce of "making a difference" in the lives of their fellow villagers. Both of these youngsters, Mahender and Sravan (from the class of 2004), recently presented their first sponsorship cheques of Rs. 5000 each, to the headmaster of the RDF School, Kalleda at an impressive assembly meeting conducted in their honour.
The new found affluence that of these two is not the only case of "sustainable difference" that we are seeing. We have another example of Sudhaker, class of 2006 from the RDF School, Matendla and currently working as a heavy earth moving equipment operator. He is donating 10% of his salary to his alma mater. This will be sufficient to meet the expenses of one child.
Highlights
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Income Tax returns for the year ending 31st March 2007 have been filed.
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Hearing on our application for the renewal of the income tax exempt status posted for the 19th of December 2007. As soon as this is disposed off (favourably), we will post receipts for donations received during this financial year.
§ The RDF board has accepted the proposal of Dr. Raghu and Mrs. Rekha Reddy of Overland Park, Kansas, USA to establish a Vocational Training Institute in the village of Shayanpalli of Mahboobnagar district, in memory of Mrs. Rekha Reddy’s late father, Sri Janardhan Reddy. The courses to be intially taught will relate to computer applications. A "nurse assistance" course will be conducted for women. In course of time other training in other vocations, especially those that will provide employment in rural areas will be added. The project will be implemented in a phased manner and will be fully funded by Dr. Raghu and Mrs. Rekha Reddy.
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The Annual General Body meeting of RDF will be conducted on the 29th of December, 2007 at 7:00 PM. The venue
Donations received since August 2007 |
|
Donor Name |
Amount |
| India Rural Development Fund | US$ 26,000 |
| Sri Shyam Sunder Reddy | 500,000 |
| Value Labs | 400,000 |
| D. Shobha Rani | 100,000 |
| Deccan Granites | 83,000 |
| Tulip Granites | 83,000 |
| ANG Auto Private Limited | 61,120 |
| Sri Rmana Batta | 25,000 |
| Sri Nikhilesh Rao | 20,000 |
| Sri Dukkipati Subba Rao | 18,000 |
| Sri Faizal Khan, Sri Dabur, & Smt. Kavitha | 14,000 |
| Miss Mollie (Malaysia) | 11,000 |
| Sri P.K. Reddy | 10,000 |
| Vikram and Anuradha Reddy | 10,000 |
| Sri Viqar Ewari | 4,000 |
| Eurokids | 1,400 |
| Srinivas Murthy | 1,000 |
Sponsors of Children |
|
Donor Name |
Amount |
| Sri Vikram Rao Gundavaram | US$ 3,000 |
| Sri J.N. Jaganath | 15,000 |
| Sri Darshan Bhatia | 5,000 |
| Sri Naresh Kumar | 5,000 |
| Sri Saurav Chakravarthy | 5,000 |
| Sri Sravan (RDF School, Kalleda Alumni) | 5,000 |
| Sri Mahender (RDF School, Kalleda Alumni) | 5,000 |
| Sri Anirudh Kumar | 5,000 |
Pledges received |
|
Donor Name |
Amount |
| Sri Ramchandra Reddy Nomula | 15,000 |
| Sri Suheim Sheik | 5,000 |
New
Website
The new and revamped RDF website still has many pages
Reports from the schools
RDF School - Matendla
CH.Sruthi and two other students rank 1st, 4th and 6th at a talent test conducted for class 10 students at Thornal village. 15 schools participated.
"Wings" started for gifted students. The four wings now in place are "Sports", Computers", "Accoounts" and "Drama".
D.Babu, class 7 has been selected by MAA TV for his excellent singing talents and is being given training in singing at Sharathi Studio Ameerpet Hyderabad.
RDF School -
Redlawada
Children help raise vegetable and cotton at the farm located within the school compound
The Board has entrusted a sub-committee consisting of Sri Shyam Sunder Reddy (Director), Sri Rammohan, Sri K Madhusudan and Sri S.T. Prasad with the twin tasks of raising funds for the completion of the Junior College infrastructure and also running the institution for the next two years. This committee has also taken upon itself the task of completing the construction works at the RDF School, Narsimpalli. Towards this goal, Sri Shyamsudender Reddy and his associates have donatation Rs. 10,00,000 and Smt. Vandita Rao has loaned a sum of Rs. 7,50,000.
Other News
Washington University in St.Louis conducts a Diwali Chartity Show and decides to donate the collections to RDF.
The Washington University Student Paper runs a big story on the front page regarding their program at the Vanitha Achuta Pai Vidyalaya, Kaleeda, last July.
http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2007/02/16/News/Anthropology.Department.Launches.village.India.Program-2724454.shtml
Vidya Sagar Rao
Secretary