First year anniversary celebration of AAZRAYA

March 22, 2009... one of my memorable day of my life. That was the day i joined aazraya to help the needy. Also i got more friends and felt more fun with them... In a month time i will be celebrating the day... Before... Aazraya(we) celebrated our first anniversary day on 21st of feb, 2010 @ New life charitable trust, Erayuir village... I know it is bit late to blog about the celebration, but am happy atleast i can write it now. Though Aazraya was helping the needy for more than couple of years, we completed a year now after officially registering. This day was another memorable day with aazraya,.. Though i could not spend more time but i enjoyed... With so much of kids from New life, Saradha Sevashram and my fellow friends members, do i need to explain the fun?!
Some of the highlights from the celebration...

• Our chairman Vinod's speech about Aazraya... he is good in speech now a days and his way of introducing the members to guests was good, i enjoyed it... also i don't want to miss Sri vidhya's speech in tamil on "Aazraya and me"... She was excellent and she told what i felt too...
• Mr.Muthuram, founder of Suyam charitable trust had unique way of presenting the kids and gathering with a song and dance... His presentation was unique and the kids enjoyed a lot.
• The culturals were few and best. The folk dance by a group of girls, classical dance by the kid Shakthi, the Dhooma chale by fellow member Sreleekha(the choreographer for the dances above), Shoban sab's flaring(soon u can see him in a kollywood movie song if everything goes well)... I enjoyed every programs and the best was the kid Shakthi's dance. Won't you feel amazing if a kid dance well practicing just only one day for it?! Soon i will update the videos here.
• It will sound weird if i tell i enjoyed the programs in evening sun, but yeah! the loved the evening sun, it helped me to click some pictures of kids. The sun changed the hue and i few pictures came up well.
• The smile on the face of the kids when they carried make ups done by our trust girls... Am sure they will remember the day ever... Thanks to make up specialists for making the kids smiling and beautiful.
• I felt really happy and comfortable to meet the old members/friends after quite long time... And felt good to have new members too.

Everyone felt like we were back to our school days and college days... Won't you feel the same if you have a gang of kids and friends around, also with chance to cheer up the dancers?!?! The first year celebration was amazing.


My friends cum members Viky, Dilip and Velu had come up with seperate blog for Aazraya. To know more about the celebration, click here.

P.S.
Check here soon for the video updates of the programs,
And Subas, i will take you to the trust next time. Sorry i couldn't this time.

Lacking but Gifted.

Today, I got an opportunity to read for visually challenged students. I felt happy to see many volunteers who came to help them. Our role is to read or write the subjects for the students. I am new there today but i heard its happening for years and on every Sunday. If you like to help them just contact
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan School‎
5th Cross Street, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Well, i just want to talk about my experience there. It was an awesome feel, not only from helping them but also learning a lot from them. Yes, i did go there to read for them, but it was me who learnt the different perspectives of life from them. They never feel that they are visually challenged but they just challenge their visual perception, also they don't feel it us a burden. They just don't have vision, they just lack in a gift by The Almighty, but they are gifted with concentration, confidence, memory, talent, hope and many more good qualities. One of my friend said that they don't have an option of distraction. Yes, when i read ,my eyes go around 360' often - distraction for me, but they just concentrate and hear to what i read. They an advantage out of their problem. I feel there is always an advantage hiding in the problems we do face, we need to search for it to survive.
also,
Shankar.K, the guy who gave me an opportunity to help him shared his feel with me. He can't see from birth, and his brother too. His younger brother is mentally challenged. The reason behind was that their parents are blood relatives. We do know the marriage between two close blood relatives is not advisable scientifically/medically. Their kids will face problem like Shankar and his siblings. So please do advice ur neighbors or relatives or friends, if they plan for this kinda marriage unknowingly. Friends, please do post ur comments and links about the problem Shankar is facing, if u know. It would be helpful to know more about the problem in marriage between two close blood relatives.
love,
danny.

U can save a LIFE!!!

Hey all,
Me and my friends from Aazraya have a plan of creating a data base for Blood donation.
We would like to collect details of kind hearted, who wish to donate their blood when others are in need and we will share the details to maximum hospitals. The hospitals can contact u when a life is in need of help and if u are the right person who can save.
If u r interested to donate your blood to save a life, please mail me the details with your name, blood group, date of birth/age, last date of donation, height and weight, contact no. andnd email id. We planned to finalise the donars list before the end of this month(april, 2009), so please do send ur information as soon as possible . If u r interested and if u dont know ur blood group, just mail me that u r interested and mail me the blood group as soon as possible when u find ur blood group.
Mail me @ a.mariadaniel@gmail.com
thanks for ur help in advance.
love,
danny.

AAZRAYA

Aazraya with physically challenged and orphans...

A Day with Aazraya.

hey all...
am back with bla bla s after long time. Many scenes happened - good and bad, from AR Rahman's oscar to 26/11 terrorist attack. Days never stop rolling. I hope i will continue posting...
well, here it is...
22nd march, 2009 - one of the memorable day in my life. I went to an "old age home" - AKSHAYA TRUST, with AAZRAYA Group.I really had a good time with thaathas and paaties there, though everyone there had their own sad story which made them to be there, our aim is to hear them and to make their day happy and best. Yeah, AAZRAYA made their day happy, the day was fun with more happenings like dancing, singing, games, chit chat, mocking, stories etc and we had lunch with them. I felt really different, good and great. Though this was my first visit with Aazraya, i felt i was with my college friends, they were so active and friendly. The day introduced another gang of buddies for me.
well and if u feel to help poor, orphans, old people and anyone who is in need just contact AAZRAYA, they will show u the way. Aazraya is a registered NGO, with group of college students and very few working members with loads of energies to help the people in need, u can contact Mr. Vinod, the chairman of the group.
Call him at 9884124248 or mail him to aazrayacharitabletrust@gmail.com.