Sri Sathya Sai Sevakshetra

Posted on July 29, 2008
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This I should say, is one of the happiest momentsl. Thanks to everyone out there that made this possible. People who have donated the computers, members, well wishers and others.

We have started the work and have given away the first computer :). Yes. true and delighted.

Last Saturday (19 July 2008) we visited Sri Sathya Sai Sevakshetra (school) in Marthalli, Bangalore and donated them a computer which we promised a month back. The school is basically for the children of the construction workers in that area. I should tell the children were excited that they were going to learn computers.The school is run by volunteers (They are looking for more, You can get in touch with me if you want to help them in any way…). There are around 20 students of different ages in the class and the classes happen from Monday to Saturday. The classes do not follow a very strict syllabi as of now, but help them face the world by teaching them general conversational knowledge and general knowledge.

Above are the pictures taken during the visit and the computer we donated to them.

Some of their wishlists

  1. Fund to pay salary(for some months…) to the staff which is around 3500. (as of now they have one dedicated staff)
  2. Volunteers during weekends.
  3. If you think, you can screen a movie for them on a weekend, you are welcome.

Please feel free to contact us, if you think we can help them in some way.

Hope to continue the good work with all the support. Thanks again to everyone.

PS: If you think you know a school, that might need some help in setting up a lab/ library please let us know via this page. And if you want to become a member, go here.

A mail of encouragement…

Posted on July 6, 2008
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Recently Aravindh Dorai sent us a mail via our site. Read the contents below.

” Kris Kamisetty from Intel directed me to this website, and I have to say - I’m really impressed! The work you are doing is truly inspiring and I have always dreamed of doing the same. In fact, my friend Sriram and I were planning on flying to India this summer to set up a computer lab in a rural Indian school (we currently reside in the US). Anyways, our idea was to set up a lab using thin clients so our hardware requirements would be really low. The server to which the clients are connected to would provide all the processing power as well as the hard disk space. This way, we figured that we can use old and low powered computers and still set up a successful lab. As for the operating system, we decided to use Edubuntu which has several productivity applications designed specifically for students. It would also allow the instructor to have control over every terminal.
Heres the website if you\’d like more information:
http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/edubuntu/handbook/C/


I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make it this summer, but if we do, I’ll surely get in touch with you. Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thanks,
Aravindh “

Thanks a lot for your mail and time Aravindh and I should say that i am delighted. We are trying hard to do more and we will. Thanks a lot again. Such mails encourage us and push us to do more.

More Computers

Posted on May 27, 2008
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More things to be happy about. 

I am delighted to let you know that Marami Kar from GS has donated her computer to Computer Kindness. I am delighted that people are going ahead and spreading the word and we get more response. Its also promising that some of the organizations have asked for help and we are going to help them. Expect updates on them sooner.

Thank you Marami for your generous contribution.

Please visit the link Computer Donors for the list of donors who have donated their computers. Thanks to them. For more updates keep visiting this page - http://www.computerkindness.org/news/

Please input your suggestions and feedback.
Thank you all for the continuous support.

Computers Computers !!!

Posted on April 27, 2008
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I am delighted to let you know that Kris Kamisetty from Intel has donated us his 2 computers and a printer last week. These are the first set of computers that we receive as donations and will help us help others better. Now that some organizations have approached us, I am sure we have so much use for these computers.

Thank you again Kris for your generous contribution.

Please visit the link Computer Donors for the list of donors who have donated their computers. Thanks to them.
For more updates keep visiting this page - http://www.computerkindness.org/news/

Please input your suggestions and feedback.
Thank you all for the continuous support.

Extending our hands !!!

Posted on March 30, 2008
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This is one of the first thing(help…) that we are doing. Bear with the choice of words, as i am delighted and not sure what i am typing. :)

Recently we got an information from one of our members regarding some help to Mr. B.Devarajan, Coimbatore, who was suffering from heart problems and has undergone a “Bypass Surgery” last week since he had multiple blocks in heart. We tried few other organizations for help. We also thought of contributing some funds to help him from our side.

So we extend the help by donating him a sum of Rs.5000(Five thousand only) from Computer Kindness which will be of some use to the person. Below are the details of the person to whom we are going to help. We will be handing over the cheque in a day or two to the concerned person.

Details
Thiru.B.Devarajan (Age: 62)
No:9/1, Vinayagar Koil Street
Venkittapuram
Velandipalayam Post
Coimbatore - 641025
Hospital: PSG Hospitals

Thanks to all for making this happen !!!

Update
A word from Mr. Devarajan. Thanks Mr.Devarajan. We are happy that you are recovering.

Visit to Mullai Wholesome Academy

Posted on February 4, 2008
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This is regarding the visit by us as planned earlier to Mullai wholesome academy, Dharmapuri. Below details are not in a particular order, but we want you to know what we know.

We (2 of us - me and Deepan, one of our members) visited the place on Feb 2, 2007. We had a small meeting with Mr. Prem Kumar and Ms. William Prem, Principal of that school. The school was started in the year 1994 and has grown gradually and provides education for about 600 students taken care by 23 teaching staffs. The school is completely autonomous and helped by organisations and foundations like us. They were quite delighted that we are going to help them.

The school is situated some 7 kms from Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu in a small village and they have concentrated on the poor families in the locality and we are happy that they do provide value education. The atmosphere and the facilities in the school are quite good.

They do have a fees structure minimum of Rs.20 for primary and maximum of Rs.60 for the higher grade students.

Computer Lab
They have a small setup of 2-3 computers (very old - 8086 processors) for the school students and they follow a syllabus. They also provide computer hardware training by experts on weekends to the local youngsters for employment opportunities.

We spent around 2 hours with them and we have promised that we will help them. We also said that we will get back to them in one or two weeks and move ahead in setting up the computer lab. We have also said them that we will visit them occasionally and give them training on various aspects.

It would not have been possible without all your support. Thanks. We will keep you updated.

Please input your suggestions and feedback.

Mullai Wholesome Academy

Posted on January 30, 2008
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We are very happy to let you know that we are in touch with a school (Mullai Wholesome Academy, Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu) and very positive in helping them with computers. The school has a strength of around 600 and has one computer for basic teaching purposes. They have approached us for help.

We are meeting them in person this week for a small discussion and making arrangements for helping them. It is also possible for you to join us in the visit to the school. Please let us know if you would like to join us to visit the school so that we can make arrangements.

Thanks for your continuous support. It would be great if you can help us with suggestions and feedback.

Happy new year !!!

Posted on January 1, 2008
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A very happy new year to all the members of Computer Kindness Foundation.

Not much happenings last year.. Few of them below

We hope to reach more people and extend our kindness. We are dependent on your members. Thanks for your support and kindness and hope to see it more in the future.

We have moved !

Posted on December 25, 2007
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So, finally after long thought’s as how to keep the members and others frequently updated we have moved to computerkindness.wordpress.com. So, you can hear from us (computerkindness.org) now more frequently and also react to that through comments.

We are energized and working more to help people.

 

Update

computerkindness.wordpress.com is now deleted as we have moved to the page that you are currently reading. Thanks.

Syllabus to Students

Posted on November 11, 2007
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We at (www.computerkindness.org) are in the process of designing the syllabus for the students in schools that we are going to help.

As you know already, we will be concentrating only on the student community (also planning to expand for disabled children in future) and will be concentrating on the basics of computers and computer science and also some basic software packages.

So, it would be great if you can help us in designing the syllabus. All feedback, suggestions, comments are welcome. Please forward it through computer.kindness@gmail.com

Some points here:

* Platform is going to be Linux ( edubuntu.org) mostly — to avoid copyright and legal issues.

* Basic introduction about computers + related things.

* Software Packages includes — Open office, Editors, Compilers, Internet basics, Softwares that can be used for their academics etc.

Please input your suggestion and help us in creating a syllabus. It would also be great if someone can take interest on this, design a full syllabus and be an advisor on this regard.

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