Gems of Disha

Foundation has been running tution centres for slow learners for the past 3 years. In 13 centres around 300 are given everyday guidance in education, extracurricular and annual residential camp has been a significant part in the growth of these children.

This year a four day camp was organ-ized for during half yearly holidays (27th to 31st Dec). We wanted each student who participated to go back with a feel-ing of winner. To achieve this goal differ-ent events, competitions, games etc were held.

Highlights of the camp
92 students participated. 57 boys 35 girl

Mini-marathon. 25 students completed 7 Kms in 30 mins.
Drama, quiz, debate, skit, story telling com-petition.

Powerful lectures by Udhaya Sandron life skill trainer and Mr Nambinarayanan

Breaking barriers: Glass walking by Ashraf,

Prizes, certificate for all participants

28 Disha scholars graduated this year

Mohan, Anandhi, Vignesh, Arun and Yogeshwari were all small boys when they became Disha scholars in the year 2004. Today they have completed college and have been placed in corporates like, Infosys, HP, HCL etc. 28 Disha scholars graduated out of college this year and they were all part of the first batch of students selected for the scholarship in Chennai in 2004. We organ-ized an alumni meet on 31st July 2011 ,memorable one for all of us.

Disha is proud to be a part of an eight year journey with these deserving students and helping them to shape their life. We hope to fulfill the dreams of many more stu-dents in the years to come.
Another 50 students will be passing out this year

DISHA SCHOLAR TOPS CHENNAI SCHOOLS

Disha Scholar Radhika, the daughter of a sanitary worker at DGP office, secured 3rd rank in the district in the SSLC examina-tion 2011. She emerged the topper among the 7,664 Chennai School students who cleared the examination. Student of Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School, Shenoy Nagar, she got 493 marks out of 500. A Disha Scholar of 2008 – 2009 batch, Radhika aims to become an IAS Officer.

Disha Classes

Weekly classes of the Disha Leadership school resumed in July. Each standard had 4 classes this year. For the college students bimonthly sessions were run. Guest lectures by entrepreneurs were this year’s highlight. More than 10 entreprenuers shared their experience with the students.
Some of the Entreprenuers were
a. Vanmathi, Maxwel containers
b. Sourav Jain Echovme
c. Kumaravel, Naturals Beauthy salons
d. Subramanian, Amrithaa Technology
e. Karthikeyan, Chip systems
 

Village tution centres in Virudhunagar

The Disha Kalvi Maiyam, village tution cen-tres, was launched in 60 more villages in Virudhunagar this year. These centers will be development centers for all the children in the villages. Mr. V Shanu Doss, Chief Edu-cation Officer, TT Madhan, Secretary VVV Arts and Science College inaugurated the development centers.

Disha Champions League 2011

Disha Champions League Football - 2012, an annual State level Football Championship Tournament for the children in U 13 & U 17 category was conducted by Disha Sports Academy in association with Chen-nai Football Association (CFA) for the fourth con-secutive year. Tournament lasted for a month and the finals was played between the Tiger Garden and Shaolin Soccer teams at Nehru Stadium on 4th of Feb. The winners were presented with the Disha

Championship league Trophy. Mr. Harish Lakshman, Director of Rane Group and actor Mr. Ajay Ratnam graced the occasion as the Guests of Honour. All other participants were also recognized and felicitated at the Awards Ceremony. The final match was followed by an exciting tie-breaker match for senior teams and a Football entertain-ment session called ‘Kick It’, an interactive fun session which was open for all to participate.

Highlights of the tournament :

League format at the U 17 level for the first time in Chennai.
Finals under flood light.
More than 88 matches were played between 74 teams .
240 goals scored .
Trophies and medals for all the winners, certificate for the runners.
St Micheal, Disha Sports Academy, SBOA and Shaolin Soccers were the winners.

Championships and Medals won:

•  Tamil Nadu State sub- Junior Boxing championship December 2009
•  Disha Champions Trophy January 2010 ( Football)
•  Tamil Nadu State level Sub junior Boxing championship for Independence Day Cup August 2011
•  Sub Junior Boxing Championship 2011 at Mannarkudi Runner Up Championship
•  Disha sports academy Shared Overall Championship With YMCA for Independence Day Cup August 2010
•  Out of 35 teams in the city we won the championship U – 13 Disha champions trophy - 2010.
•  Disha sports academy Athletics Team Won Overall Championship for K C Tech Y’s Men International Meet..

National Medals Won:

3 National Medals in boxing in 2010 and 11

Disha Scholarship Programme

New scholarships for the academic year 2011-12 were given to 470 students in Chennai and Virudhunagar. For the first time 96 college students were selected for scholarship directly from Virudhunagar district alone. With this the number of scholars who received scholarship in 2012 was around 3200.

Summer Camps

In the month of May we ran camps for Disha scholars at various levels. Three camps were held from 5th of May till 27th of May. The regular fun camp was held at Sevalaya School. 75 scholars partici-pated. Crafts and games were the main theme of the camp.

Disha Leadership Camp was organized for the first time for students from all Disha projects in Elagiri hill station. It was a mixture of talents from both sports and academics.
Sports Training Camp was also con-ducted for 10 days for selected players who had potential to play at the na-tional level.

Highlights of the Camps

63 students from Virudhunagar, Chennai ponneri and Elagiri participated.

Activities:

Trekking, Nature Watch Competitive Sports, Leadership Competitions and culturals. Yoga and leadership lectures were part of the camps.

34 sports scholars completed 24 KM trekking expedition.