Tuesday, August 18, 2015

School Uniform and Merit award Distribution function – 2015


At the outset, I start with pranams to Jagadguru Sankaracharya His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Bharathi Theertha Mahaswamigal, the ruling and 36th Pontiff and His successor designate Jagadguru Sankaracharya His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Vidhu Shekhara Bharathi swamigal the 37th Pontiff of Sri Sringeri Saradha Peetham for everyone’s welfare & continued prosperity.
We will enable their dreams
Dreams are not what you see while you are sleeping. Dreams are those that keep you from sleeping – Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Shri SS Srinivasan being felicitated
Our sincere thanks to all our philanthropist sponsors and donors. With your guidance and support, for the 5th year in a row, under the aegis of Smt Alamelu Trust (Regd) and Sri Kailasanathar trust, we successfully conducted the distribution of school uniforms to 250+ school children (Class 1 to Class 8) in 2 schools and Merit awards to 32 students from these 2 schools

The schools are:

Panchayath union school in Satttanathapuram and
Harijan Welfare school in Surakadu
Physically challenged student receiving sponsorship



Merit Sponsorship

Merit sponsorship



Merit sponsorship





Uniform distribution

School Head Master Shri Rajshekar and Alamelu Trust chairman S.Jagadeesan

Merit sponsorship





Cultural programme - I

Cultural programme - II


The elders in the village and School staff spoke about the consistency with which we are helping the school children with Uniforms and Merit awards every year.

I recently read the below article from our puranas and felt like adding it to the blog section. I would like to equate the message in the below article to the support provided by our esteemed sponsers and donors.

“ when you think of the pain and needs of others and work to help them, you are doing God's work and hence God Himself takes care of you"

School children with Uniforms

Distribution of Uniforms
One day Krishna and Arjuna were taking their usual walk, when they came across an old Brahmin begging, taking pity on his condition, Arjuna gave him a bag of gold coins. The man was overjoyed and went home. On his way he was robbed by a thief in the forest. He cursed his fate and the next day set off to requesting alms again.
Arjuna and Krishna saw again and when Arjuna got to know of his story, once again took pity and gave him a large diamond. The man took it home and kept it in an old pot which had been unused for many years in order to keep it safe and went to sleep. The next morning before he could wake up, his wife went to fetch water from the river and on her way back, she slipped and her pot broke. She immediately remembered the pot at home which lay unused and brought it to fill it with water. Just as she dipped the pot in to the river the diamond escaped the pot and went in to the river. When she returned home the Brahmin was desperately searching the house for the pot and when he saw it in his wife's hands, he got to know what had happened. Dejected with what had happened, he once again left home to go begging.
Once again Arjuna and Krishna saw him and when Arjuna heard of the unfortunate incident that had happened, he told Krishna ," I don't think this man is destined to be blessed at all, I don’t think I can help him anymore". Krishna then gave the man two pennies and the man took them and walked away. Arjuna then asked Krishna," My Lord, if gold coins and diamond could not change his condition, what good can two pennies do to him?". Krishna smiled and replied, "let us see".

As the man walked home he was cursing his fate when he saw a fish that had just been caught by a fisherman and was struggling for its life, he took pity on it and thought to himself," these two pennies cannot fetch me food anyway, let me at least save the life of this creature" and he purchased the fish and was about to throw it in the river when he saw that the breathlessness of the fish was caused due to some large obstruction in its mouth and when removed it , it was the very diamond he had lost in the river. He was overjoyed and started shouting "Look what I found! Look what I found". At this very time the thief that had robbed him in the forest was passing by and heard the Brahmins shouts, he recognized the Brahmin and thought that the Brahmin too recognized him and was thus shouting. Fearing that the Brahmin may take him to be executed, he rushed to him and begged for his forgiveness and returned all the gold coins he had stolen from him. The Brahmin was happy and walked away joyfully with all his wealth. He went straight to Arjuna to narrate the turn of events and thanked him for all his help and went away.
Arjuna then asked Krishna,"My Lord, how is it that my gold and diamond could not help him but your meager two pennies did?. Krishna replied," when he had the gold and diamonds he was only thinking of himself and his needs, but when he had the two pennies he put the needs of another creature before his and so I took care of his needs. The truth is O Arjuna,
“ when you think of the pain and needs of others and work to help them, you are doing God's work and hence God Himself takes care of you"

Trust members on stage
Special and profound thanks combined with gratitude to Shri S.S.Srinivasan for co-coordinating and making all arrangements for making the event a grand success
Special thanks to Mr Somasekar Sundaresan from Mumbai for supporting the complete Merit award sponsorship for the second year in a row.
Our sincere and profound thanks to our donors
(In Alphabetical listing - after the trusts)





Sl No Name
1 Alamelu Trust
2 Kailasanathar Trust
3 Ajit Ashok Shenvi 
4 Bhooma Srinivasan
5 Cadavasal R Natarajan (USA)
6 G Manavalan
7 Gomathy Ram
8 Harini (USA)
9 Kaweri K Pattar
10 Lalitha Natarajan (USA)
11 Linea Properties
12 Mahesh Chandra
13 Meenakshi Jagadeesan
14 Ms Meenakshi Ramamorthy - Muscat
15 Praveen Baskaran
16 Puneeth Upadhyaya
17 Rajsekar D S
18 Raju MRC
19 Ramu Mahalingam - Chennai
20 Sathish Chandrasekaran (USA)
21 Shriram (USA)
22 Sivasubbarayan (USA)
23 Smt Gnanam Viswanathan - Hyderabad
24 Smt Kamala Natarajan - Chennai
25 Somasekar Sundaresan
26 Srinivas Rao Bonu
27 Srivatsa Ganesh
28 Suresh Swaminathan
29 Veena Priya Gopu