Tata Volunteering Week II : 8 September, 2014

Conduced a 45 min session on Civic Awareness which was attended classes of 8-10th students. 6 teachers along with the Principle were also present in the session. Started off with identifying problems in the locality such as Bad roads, Garbage, Lack of water facilities, lack of street lights. The session became more interactive when a video was shown depicting how Right to Information can be used as a Common tool to find solution to ALL issues. Brief steps were shown on the process including how to file an RTI, fees involved and how change can happen through RTI.Children became further involved when it was shown that the use of RTI can be extended to solve students issues such as ‘’answer sheets of exams can be obtained, birth certificates, scholarships can be got’’ etc. The session was concluded by showing another video to the students on the work done by 7-8th grade students in a very low income school in mumbai on how the issue of garbage was collectively solved in their locality.

Tata AIG Kolkata organized street photography contest on 8th September as part of TVWII. The idea was to bring out the social issues prevailing in our location. Our employees came up with some interesting facts with the help of photographs. The winner was Anup Shaw with the picture below and captioned ‘Ganga Maili’  which captures how we are in the name of religion polluting the Ganga.

Mr. Umanand Jha, Mr. Harpal Singh and Mr. Prantik Sarkar doing volunteering on sunday on various village of TCL Babrala site.

JUSCO on September 6th, 2014 made an attempt to make a difference on how the midday meal was eaten at the Rajkiyakritya Odiya Middle School at Adityapur. JUSCO provided utensils required for this and also donated the benches for children to sit and eat.

24 volunteers from Inspection & Quality Assurance and Sub Transmission departments of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. visited children residing at SOS Village, Bawana on September 8th ‘2014. These volunteers carried food packets, sweets, fruits and other utility items for nearly 140 kids and spent quality time with them. Senior leadership team of TPDDL also took part in the program. 20 volunteers from Finance & Accounts department of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited visited Delhi Council for Child Welfare and spent quality time with the homeless kids residing at the center. Volunteers carried with refreshments and utility goods for the kids.

Water is focus area of Rallis under CSR. We have been involved with Anegaon project for last 2 years. Rallis has planted 11000 trees in this deforested land. During summer as there is water scarcity, we have planned to have water conservation facility this year. Hence under this project. To initiate the activity we prepared temporary dam with stones and sand bags to store water from the flowing from the top. our 9 volunteers with family members participated in the activity, Besides Rallis team, volunteers from Tatateleservices and Tata Toyo also participated in the activity. A.K.Rural Development Trust is implementing partner with us in this project.

As part of Tata Volunteering Week II, I have participated in School Health Awareness program focusing on "Health is Wealth" for 111 students from High school and Middle School in Bileipada. Proud to be a Tata Volunteer in contributing for future citizens.

Saturday, 6th of September 2014, was a day of sheer ecstasy for the underprivileged children of two organizations of Kolkata, when TSPDL organized a Kids’ Carnival for them. Cruising through the day began with the gathering of children and volunteers for the event, which consisted of TSPDL employees, their families and retired employees. The venue was chosen as the school grounds of FAPS, Kolkata. The school management was too happy to host the show and with their active participation, the event was held. A fulfilling breakfast led to the sports events starting with Flat Race, then Biscuit Race to Relay Race to Football Match to Girls’ Games – all one after the other with accelerating enthusiasm. A sumptuous lunch for the children followed at the venue. To feed in their tired bodies and ever-spirited souls, TSPDL volunteers organized a magic show followed by a kickboxing demo show and ended with a singing competition between the two organizations. Wonderful prizes to the winners of the various events and beautiful mementos for all the children were given away. Children sang and danced and swayed away bidding goodbye to all of us. Oh what a day it was! TSPDL always feels nice to see big smiles in those small faces. May God bless them!

Experienced the Joy of Tutelage, spending time at the LP School, Mawlynnong Village, Meghalaya. Got to learn a whole lot more in the bargain listening to responsible children from Asia's cleanest village.