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.

Sports Day at Disha

On 3rd of March disha sports day was held for the first time. 343 students partici-pated in running race, shot put and throw ball
On the same day to mark the end of this year’s Disha classes, we had graduation day. Scholars who performed well in at-tendance, participation, volunteering were
recognized and were given certificate and prizes. Mr Udhaya sandron, life skill trainer and Mr Karthikeyan Director Chip systems distributed prizes

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.