By B Sankar Mahadevan | Founder Trustee
Gift of Education - 19th Year Anniversary Celebrations
Udhavum Ullangal Public Charitable Trust
Date & Time: 02 June 2019, Sunday; 3.30 PM
Venue: TAG Auditorium, Sri RKM School, 54 Burkit Road, T Nagar, Chennai.
In the Presence of:
Mr. Sivakumar Ekambaram, Global Delivery Lead, Accenture
Mr.Venkat Ramaswamy, Chief Investment Officer, Srinidhi Investment Group
Ms.Vijaya Prasanna K, Senior Director, Wipro
Ms.Uma Palaniappan, Head of Core Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland
Mr.Saravanan A, Sales Planning & Analyst, Grace Davison Chemicals
Mr. Jonathan Britto, Project Manager, United Way Chennai
& Udhavum UIlangal Trustees
The Proceedings:
Mr. Ramesh, Trustee welcomed the gathering of student beneficiaries with their parents/ guardian, Udhavum Ullangal volunteers and well-wishers,
The guests were welcomed by offering bouquet. Student beneficiary Ms. Pooja (Name Changed) arranged these bouquets.
UUPCT founder and Managing Trustee, Mr. B.Sankar Mahadevan, narrated beautifully the activities of the Trust. Besides Education, Health especially cancer care is the other main goal of UUPCT.
Mr. Santhanam, Trustee coined an acronym “MRE”(Marks, Relationship, Energy)to explain the effectiveness of Mentorship Progromme in the life of the students of ‘Gift-of-Education’.
Two past beneficiaries of Gift of Education, shared their life-experience.
Ms.Kavitha Name Changed , now working as Data Entry Operator with a national financial daily, recounted her poor childhood days narrated her story beautifully. UUPCT came into her life when she was only 8 year old and supported her education and also guided her through out to become self-reliant and confidant.
Ms.Sivaranjani (Name Changed), another beneficiary, admitted that when she came into UUPCT fold, was not very good at scoring marks in the school. She recalled how her mentor guided her to achieve her goals and went on to secure an employment in a leading private sector bank.
Ms.Keerthana Jain (name Changed), another student beneficiary, presented hand-made paper-flowers, created by her, to all guests present on the stage.
Students were called on stage and awarded for their special achievements in academic performance and 100% attendance.
Later, Mr. Mr.Venkat Ramaswamy, Chief Investment Officer of Srinidhi Investment Group and Mr.Sivakumar Ekambaram, Global Delivery Lead at Accenture addressed the gathering.
Mr. Venkat Ramaswamy said that he was very happy to see the “UUPCT family” and wished them to benefit from the ‘Gift-of-Education’.
Mr. Sivakumar Ekambaram, said that our Gods have more hands and therefore UUPCT would definitely get the funds for Gift of Education. He narrated how he created an environment at home for his family to interact, by getting rid of TV. How TV, Whatapp, etc affect the communication among the members of a family. He advised the parents to take a serious note of this and “spend valuable time” with the children.
Mr. Govindaswamy gave vote of thanks.
The programme began with Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu and concluded with National Anthem.
The guests and the beneficiary students had a photo session.
The school/college fee cheques were handed over to the parents/guardian.
Note books, school bags, uniforms were also distributed.
Student beneficiaries viz. Gracy (Name Changed) and Gowsher Fatima (Name Changed) compered the event.
By Sankar Mahadevan | Project Leader
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