Volunteering activities of Disha students

Disha Youth Movement is a volunteering force of the foundation. The boys and girls of the movement actively volunteer in all programmes we do, be it from organizing internal event or cleaning class rooms.
Active volunteering group call them-selves Soldiers of Society.
Some of the key volunteering activities:

A. Organised all the Disha internal events like Foundation Day, Graduation day, All the best gathering

B. Organised blood camp and raised about 200 units of blood

C. Volunteered cleaning activity in an NGO in Sathiammangalam.

Disha Sports Academy participated in tree plantation drive during Joy Of Giving week and planted nearly 210 saplings

The scholars who attended leadership camp continued volunteering activities in their villages.

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.

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