Help with continuing education of students

Posted on March 24, 2009
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Dear all,

Hope everyone is good. Recently one of our members communicated, regarding help to two college students studying B Com (3 years) in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. They are are currently in their 1st year of college and are in need of financial assistance. The situation is bad, and they might have to discontinue their studies, if someone cannot sponsor them.

They have heard about us, and wanted to know if we can help them on their studies. I spoke to both of them 2 days back and inquired more about their studies and financial status. I have also asked them to send the required documents, which will help us further.

Total Cost:
Fees per person (Per Semester): Rs. 6000
Exam Fees per person (Per Semester): Rs. 600

Update 1 (April 10 2009): We are glad to sponsor their education(Tuition and Exam fees) in full. We have called and confirmed this to them.

Update 2 (July 14 2009): We have paid the tuition and exam fees for the third semester to the college.

Update 3 (December 20 2009): We have paid the tuition and exam fees for the fourth semester to the college.

Update 4 (July 15 2010): We have paid the tuition and exam fees for the fifth semester to the college.

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

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Education sponsored by:

Prema Ramaraju
Ramalingam K C
Paramesh Raman
Antony Vincent
Balaji Viswanathan
Deepan Ignatius
Sowmiya Devarajan
Sowmiya R
Arulanandan
Venkatesh Varalu

World Community Grid

Posted on September 26, 2008
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Check out the below link.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

World Community Grid uses the processing power of computers connected to the internet. The processing power is being used for many not-for-profit researches (list available in the website). All you need to do is to create an account, install a small piece of software in your PC/ Mac and its done. Its absolutely safe.

Most of the time, we do not use 100 percent of the CPU and this can be used for such purposes. You do not have to worry about starvation of your processes, as you can set the preferences like the percentage of CPU and disk space that can be used by world community grid and ensure that the processing power of your system is used only when you are not using it.

for more… check out the website.

How is CKF contributing towards this?

We have formed a team and contributing towards the researches. Find the team details below. If you think you can contribute, create a login and join the below team.Thanks.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=BL9SHHMVT1

 - Varalu.

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.

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