September 2019

Foundation for CSR @ Redington REDINGTON CSR – CONNECT September 2019 A Child Who Reads Will Be An Adult Who Thinks InitiativesOf Redington FoundationTo Develop Children Reading Habit



“My hope lies in the youth of the country. Such of them as are prey to vice are not vicious by nature. They are helplessly and thoughtlessly drawn to it. They must realise the harm that it has done them and society. They must understand too that nothing but a rigorously disciplined life will save them and the country from utter ruin.” – Mahatma Gandhi. When children fail to succeed, the whole community is harmed. Keeping students engaged in the classroom is fundamental to academic success. The use of punitive discipline practices that rely on suspension, expulsion, and other harsh consequences—often applied disproportionately to minority students—undermine the goal of success for all. Positive School Discipline is a comprehensive approach that uses discipline to teach rather than punish and, as a result, helps students succeed and thrive in school. Schools that take this approach promote positive student behaviour while preventing negative and risky behaviours. Positive School Discipline is integrated into the policies, programs, and practices of a school and is applied system wide—in the classroom, school, and community—to create a safe, supportive learning environment for all students. Teachers play a vital role in shaping the future of the Students. Our Project Excellence focuses on bringing excellence in student community. The Foundation has associated with more than 60 schools and supports more than 1,00,000 students in schools. The Foundation’s association with Hewlett Packard (HP) for implementing their Digital Literacy program will equip children in the schools in rural Tamil Nadu with computer skills. Our training processes now in schools started focussing on value education. Through the remedial and career counselling program, the students are motivated and guided for their career aspects. Our support is also extended to the teachers with proven skills, know how and techniques including the differential teaching methods to address the need of the students coming from varied socio-economic backgrounds. Let’s together enable the students to evolve as tomorrow’s leaders. Saluting all the Teachers of India while remembering the Indian Soul Dear Bharat Ratna Dr Sarvepally Radhakrishnan on his 131st Birth Anniversary. Wish the Teachers a very Happy Teacher’s Day! Muthukumarasamy M Managing Trustee

CONTENTS 5 Medical Camp for Ensure Employees – Preventive Healthcare 6 Together We Can Achieve More 8 Glimpses Of All Zones 12 10 A Child Who Reads Will Be An Adult Who Thinks Start Autumn @ Tirunelveli

Medical Camp for Ensure Employees – Preventive Healthcare Article By Jerome Maria Dsouza, Project Coordinator We believe that the most effective health interventions are the measures, that aims to increase knowledge of basic health and hygiene practices thereby preventing the spread of contagious diseases. Such interventions lead to improved overall health of a community. Preventive health is also known as preventive medicine or prophylaxis. Aside from regularly advised healthy diet and exercise, physicians use other preventive health measures such as early screenings, warning signs and much more for many health conditions. Our foundation earnestly focuses on the conduction of Preventive Healthcare programs at various locations and primely in rural places. As part of the Ensure Employees welfare programs, Mr Sathish Sayee, who is a therapist in Yoga, Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Varma, Sujok, Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, Crystal Healer, Astrologer, Varma Touch Therapist and Buddhist Meditation trainer, was invited to present a workshop for the employees of Ensure Services on the following topics. The program was conducted on 13th September 2019 at the Ensure Services office at Guindy, Chennai. •Basic Health Awareness •Face Diagnosis •Tongue Diagnosis •Body Talk •Food Therapy •Mudra Therapy •Breathing Exercise • General Talk on eating habits •Acupressure emergency point •FAQ In this busy corporate life, where the employees hardly find time to spend for their healthy lifestyle, we are proud that we are able to contribute our best to 15 employees of Ensure Services by providing health awareness workshops. The session was concluded with relaxing therapy to employees. 5

“Together We Can Achieve More”. HP – WOW & Redington Article Content By Jerome Maria Dsouza, Project Coordinator, Mr. Vinay, Project Coordinator 2.0. If two individuals of same interest meet, they will have good time together. If two organisations who share common interests join hands, they can bring the best out of each and every endeavour. As a foundation which works a lot in the area of Education, we have associated with HP WOW to amaze our rural students. “HP WOW” – HP World On Wheels is called as “A Mobile World Of Connectivity” in their own terms. The HP WOW concept is instituted. to introduce the Digital Literacy, e- Learning, Entrepreneurship Training, and other citizen services to rural India. The bus is equipped with HP computing and printing equipment, as well as numerous software suites and e-learning tools. This bus aims in empowering citizens, especially rural populace, by making them digitally literate. This is intended to be achieved through collaborative digital platforms and by making available digital resources in their native language to ensure their participation. It will help tap into the data that will be freely available on the cloud computing platform—independent of an intervention. It also includes. 1. 44,000 training hours capacity annually per unit. 2. EDP training for youth, K-12 e-Content for students. 3. HP Classroom Manager and other software suites 4. 3.15 KVA solar panels for off-grid connectivity. 5. Common citizen service and digital literacy training. 6. Video-conferencing and remote trainings. 7. Equipped with 20 HP Thin Clients, Workstation, OfficeJet all-in-one printer and others. 6

This 20 seated bus is enabled with computer and IT enabled vehicle powered by green energy and backed by numerous software suites and cloud integration. The inauguration of the bus happened on 03rd September 2019. Professor J. Ramachandran, Non – Executive Chairman & Independent Director and Mr. Raj Shankar – Managing Director, graced the ceremony with their esteemed presence and chaired the event. Mr. Muthukumarasamy – Managing Trustee & Company Secretary, explained the features of the bus to the chairpersons. Students from Koilpillai Memorial Matric Hr Sec School, Ramapuram and CSI Thomas Hr Sec School, Butt Road were invited for this ceremony. On 10th, 11th and 13th September 2019, the hearing impaired students of St Louis Institute for Deaf & Blind participated in an orientation session of HP WOW. With the help of the interpreter, 80 students were oriented about the WOW Bus and its features. We are planning to identify 25 villages and operate the vehicle for 275 days in a year. The online courses will be conducted 8 hours a day. Our foundation is always keen to branch out and find ways to reach the disadvantaged in effective ways to elevate their condition and to make difference in their lives, and this initiative is one of them. 7

Glimpses Of All Zones Coimbatore Zone Planting the trees program held at Thanjavur Zone Gandhi Arts and Science College, Vinnapalli on 05th September 2019, along with Teacher’s Day Celebration. We had planted 500 saplings at Gandhi Arts and Science College campus. The saplings are sponsored by our foundation and the maintenance will be taken care by the college with the support of the students. Ms. Kalaivani, Zonal Lead, Mr. Dev Anand (Project Coordinator), the College Management, Principal, Staff and Students participated in the event. Workshop on Candle Making held On 14th of September 2019 at Kumbakonam Ishwar school for special children. Mr. Janaki Raman, Resource Person of the Workshop handled the session. 15 members of Ishwar School participated in the Workshop. The trainer explained about the types of wax and how to add the wax and colour for making the moulds. He further taught about filling the wax in the moulds. The participants made lot of candles with different type of moulds, like Flowers, Lord Ganesh, Teddy bear, etc.,. 8

Thanjavur Zone On 23rd September 2019, SAHYOG Award ceremony was conducted at Thanjavur SLC. Mr. Jeyashankar, Admin Lead and Mr. Vinay Project Co-ordinator of CSR 2.0 served as the guests and distributed the SAHYOG Awards to the Teachers and Students. Madurai Zone Teachers with Smart Board knowledge are given preference in Montessori Schools at the time of interviews. Due to that, smartboard training is offered as a part of the curriculum in Montessori Teacher Training program at Madurai SLC 2. Smart Board training for the Montessori Trainees was conducted at Madurai SLC – 2 centre. 27 students attended the training for 3 days starting from 04th September to 06th September 2019. Ms. Jessica, Centre Coordinator, trained the students on the topics such as, Operation of the Smart Board, Tools usage. e.g.: text, draw, erase, colour, shape, etc.. Insertion of picture and video and about how to conduct an online session. The trainees expressed their gratitude towards Redington Foundation for offering an opportunity to them to use & learn such technology. 9

A Child Who Reads Will Be An Adult Who Thinks Initiatives Of Redington Foundation To Develop Children Reading Habit Article By Mr. Murugan, Regional Lead An initiative to create an opportunity for the rural school children to experience reading a well-designed children magazine is successfully implemented in Madurai Zone. Reading habits in kids will enable them to articulate thinking skills and imaginary skills. My visit to Dr. T. Thirugnanam Primary School, Madurai, made me observe the concept of “Class Room Library” introduced by Mr. Saravanan, Head Master of the School. The primary class children are motivated to read the books available at the class room to develop their reading skills. As I already know about “THUMBI”, which is a well documented kids magazine, our foundation planned to sponsor the issue of THUMBI” magazine in the rural schools of Madurai including Dr. T. Thirugnanam Primary School. Thus “Reading Skill Development Program” was introduced under our Excellence Project for our associated and non associated rural schools. A children monthly magazine “THUMBI”, published by an NGO from Thiruvengikal, Thiruvannamalai, is subscribed to deliver 10 copies to 10 schools for an year. This “THUMBI” has good pictorial representations to attract the young readers and the story contents are published on bilingual (English & Tamil) in facing pages. This may also enhance the young readers to learn English language, with better understanding. Bilingual Articles 10

This initiative has been well received by recipient schools, which are primary and has under privileged students. Ms. Barbara Aro Ramya, Project Coordinator, who took care of the execution activity with regard to the issue of magazine, received an acknowledgement message from a school which is given below. “்துடர, ைோ ்ைர் டி. திருஞோன்் துே ் ப் பள்ளியில் , பள்ளித் தடலேர் சுகரந்திரன் போபு தடலட்யில் , பள்ளிெ் செயலர் ெதோசிே்் முன் னிடலயில் நூல் ேழங் கு்் நி ழ் ெச் ி நைத்தப் பை்ைது. ஆசிரியர் சித்ரோகதவி அடனேடரயு்் ேரகேற் றோர். சரைட் ிங் ைன் பவுண் கைென் ெோர்போ து்் பி ்ோத இதழ் அடனத்து ேகுப்பு ளு ்கு்் ேழங் ப்பை்ைது. தடலட் ஆசிரியர் .ெரேணன் கபசு்் கபோது \" 'உைலு ்கு எப்படி உைற் பயிற் சிகயோ அதுகபோல ்னது ்குப் பயிற் சி புத்த ேோசிப்பு!' Mr. Saravanan, என் று சி ்்ண் ை் ஃப்ரோய் ை் கூறுகின் றோர். தினமு்் புத்த ங் ள் ேோசிப்பதன் மூல்் ந்் ்னடத நல் ேழிப்படுத்த முடியு்் . Head Master of Dr. Thirugnananam School 'ஒருக ோடி ரூபோய் கிடைத்தோல் என் ன செய் வீர் ள் ?' என் று க ைை் கபோது 'ஒரு நூல ்் ைட் ுகேன் ' என் று பதில் அளித்தோர் ் ோத்்ோ. பணத்டத விை அதி மு ்கிய்ோனடே புத்த ங் ள் . ஏசனனில் , புத்த ங் ள் நற் பண் பு டள ேளர்ப்படே. ஒரு குழந்டத ்கு நீ ங் ள் ேோங் கித்தரு்் ஆ ெ் சிறந்த பரிசு ஒரு புத்த ்் தோன் என் கிறோர் வின் ஸ் ைன் ெரெ் ்சில் . புத்த ங் டள ேோசிப்கபோ்் . கநசிப்கபோ்் . சபோது நூல ங் ளு ்குெ் செல் கேோ்் . குழந்டத ள் ேோசிப்டப ஊ ்குவி ் து்் பி ்ோத இதழ் ஒரு ேருை்் பத்து ேகுப்பு ளு ்கு ேழங் கு்் சரை்டிங் ைன் பவுண் கைெனு ்கு நன் றி ள் \" Sow in right time to reap the best. Learning two languages is easier for the children. For young children, learning language is a part of their brain chemistry. Children are built to absorb information; they do this in an unconscious state of mind, like they’re learning, and they don’t even know it. Therefore providing the opportunity for kids to read a bilingual magazine will help them to develop the skills in both the languages. Creating opportunity for 11 young readers is a way of creating future leaders.

Start Autumn @ Tirunelveli Article by Ms. Dolores Scholastica, Resource Centre Coordinator September is a wonderful midpoint through version 2.0 programme by our between the end of Summer and the start Foundation. He also distributed the of Autumn that eases us into the colder prizes to the students who Won in the months. In this special month, our “Kalam-2020” competition conducted foundation involved in activities such as, by our Redington Foundation at our Annual Day celebration at Avvai Ashram, Excellence Schools. Ms. Santhi Glory Wellness Programme for Spinners and and Mr. Dev Ananadh appreciated the Weavers, Teacher’s Day celebration and services of our foundation and they Elite Enabler’s meeting for all zones at also recognized our involvement with Tirunelveli district. regard to the uplift of Differently abled Children conditions. Avvai Ashram Annual Day & Wellness Programme For Spinners 12 & Weavers On behalf of Redington Foundation Tirunelveli unit, the Wellness Program for Spinners and Weavers family was conducted at Sivasailam Avvai Ashram on 13th September 2019. Our trustee Mr. Muthukumarasamy, Ms. Santhi Clory, DDO, Mr. Ramakrishanan, Founder of Amarseva Sangam, Mr. Dev Ananadh, DCPO participated in the event. Our Trustee presented the Scholarship Award to the descendants of Gandhian followers for their education support. During his speech, he introduced “Early Intervention” which is to be implemented

Mr. Bala Murugan, Deputy Correspondent of Avvaiashram, explained our contribution on activities of each unit at Gandhigram Trust, Avvaiashram. Shri Subramanian, Manager of Ambasamudram Khadi branch appreciated our support to the Spinners and Weavers descendants education. Finally, our trustee was honoured by the students who received the scholarship award. Teacher’s Day - We are very happy to share about the celebration of teacher’s day at our Sivasailam SLC. Our trustee Mr. Muthukumarasamy, Avvai Ashram Deputy Correspondent Mr. Bala Murugan participated along with Remedial class teachers . Our trustee interacted with Tuition Teachers and discussed about the students performance in the remedial classes. He also shared some ideas on finding out their extra curricular talents and the ways of increasing the Memory Power. Our trustee suggested tuition teachers to develop their capacity on the following areas,  Planning for Exam  Planning for Studies 13

 Improving Memory Power  Removing MTI (Mother Tongue Influence)  Developing Reading Habit At the end, our Trustee recognised the efforts of teachers by honouring them with gifts. Southern Elite Enablers Orientation @ Tirunelveli - Elite Enablers meeting of all zones with our Trustee was organised at Saradha College for Women, Tirunelveli on 14th September 2019. Our Trustee Mr. Muthukumarasamy, Zonal Lead Ms. Shanmuga Vadivoo, Elite Enablers and Trainers of Tirunelveli Zone, Madurai Zone and Thanjavur Zone, along with Project Coordinators Ms. Sabina, Ms. Gomathimari, Mr. Koilraj, Mr. Jaspher Soundararaj and Ms. Rajalakshmi were present in the meeting. In the meeting we discussed about syllabus of all the three years of ESLC’s and the role of the Elite Enablers in detail. Ms. Renganayagi, Trainer of Saradha College added a point that, the students lack a lot in communication and the syllabus should give more importance for basic communication development. Our Trustee shared about the concept of online training which is planned in the future in all the ESLCs, wherein the trainer will conduct online training from one place and students of all zones can participate in the training via online. The orientation provided by the Trustee gave a clear idea about the current academic year activities to the participants. The session ended with a clarity in process and the vision to achieve the common goals. 14



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