List of Materilas Needed :

Project  Wise :-

Project Vastra - The Old Clothes Bank :

1. Regular, frequent clothes collection drives.
2. Clothes mean clothes for all age groups starting from new born babies’ clothes to any age group.
3. Bed sheets, blankets, winter wear.
4. Floor mats, quilts, plastic mats, carpets.
5. Towels, under linen – for children & girls, sanitary napkins, adult diapers.
6. Soft toys, toys.
7. Used bags, used foot wear – children’s, used pencils & crayons, pencil boxes.
8. Used cycles, tricycles, indoor play equipments, balls, cricket set, shuttle set etc.
   

Project Aahaar - The Food Bank :

Project Vidhya : Educational Aid :

The following materials have to be sourced for all our rural schools :-

• Used Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 computers, with multimedia, speakers.
• Indoor play equipments.
• Out door play equipments.
• Band sets.
• Books required for Setting up Libraries.
• Material refills for the first aid box issued in all the schools twice a year
• Landscaping & gardening.
• Sponsorship of herbal/medicinal plants: 600/- per school.
  

Project Aarogya : Medical Aid :-

• Multivitamins.
• Pain relief balms / ointments/ jells.
• Epileptic medicines.
• Medicines for diabetics.
• Medicines for BP.
• Specific drugs like cyclosporine, prescribed by the doctors of various hospitals for the under privileged can be potentially expensive, starting from Rs.6000/- onwards.
• Support is needed to organize health check up camps for the rural government school children:-
  

1. Volunteer doctors: 5 doctors.
2. Duration of the camp: 8days.
3. Number of beneficiaries: 6000 children in different rural government schools.
4. Sponsorship of transport, Lunch, Sourcing essential medicines like pediatric multivitamins,     cough syrups, nutritional supplements if any, tooth brushes, small tube of tooth paste,      soaps.

TOTAL COST:-20400=00

Monthly Medicine requirements for our special need children:-

• Sponsoring picnics for the rural government school children, this cost around 4500/- per batch of 35 children including breakfast & lunch, entrée fee & parking charges at various tourist locations, around Bangalore. This excludes the bus as we can get the support of sponsoring a bus for the programme.

PROJECT: ARTIFICIAL LIMBS / MOBILITY AIDS & EQUIPMENTS :-

• Our managing trustee Mr.K.Venkateshwaran has designed & developed prosthesis for the above knee amputees. The details are available in the web page. The cost per prostheses is 4675/-. So far the foundation has supported nearly 80 amputees with this needed prosthesis, free of cost. Now the foundation is being approached by many above knee amputees needing the same support, we appeal to all to join us in this programme.
• Many amputees are not able to come to Bangalore for fitment, as many are below poverty line, they need to be supported with Rs.1000/-,for the three day programme, which includes their bus fare, food including the attendee they may bring. Anga Karunya Kendra has supported the foundation’s project by offering accommodation free to the amputees.

Long term volunteer efforts: -

1. We seek volunteers to just talk about our foundation to people, distribute pamphlets, and motivate people to join us in our effort to reach out to the needy.
2. Volunteers to collect clothes, food grains, medicines from different localities of Bangalore, to reach it to our administrative office.
3. . volunteers who can be part of the administrative effort like drafting letters with attractive phrases, drafting matter for the new brochures, designing the brochures, designing new templates for our web page for the coming academic year.
4. Design gardens/ vegetable gardens.
5. Volunteer doctors, physiotherapists, technicians to fit the prosthesis.

Short term volunteer efforts : -

Teaching English to our rural government school children for short period of three months, on Fridays or Saturdays for about 11/2 hours: fluency in Kannada is essential for effective communication.

Transportation is not provided by the foundation. After the initial introduction of the volunteer to the school they have to make their own arrangement.

This would mean that you may have to travel probably 30 to 40 kms by bus to the rural government school. The programme would amount to half a day.
Motivating the children to speak English: conversational English.
Educate them the ways of the modern world for what it is.
Talk to them about the environment, forests, animals, health related issues, waste management, plants, to the others of the same village, etc.
Adult education in a small way.
Community based programmes in co ordination with the stree Shakti groups.
Teach them games, yoga, karate etc. just sharing knowledge.