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Archive for April, 2008

Survey

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

As mentioned in the email that went out, please check out the final draft of our survey here:

FinalSurvey.doc

If you get a chance, please familiarize yourself with it, especially if you are going on the trip this weekend!

Also, it seems like Gmail users may have their emails get filtered as spam. To make sure this doesn’t happen, please add ramavaram@gmail.com to your contact list. If the email went into your spam box, please do us a favor and find the email in your spam inbox and tell it to “Unmark as Spam.” That way, the gmail system can ‘learn’ if many users do this. If you’re using another mail client and you find your emails getting thrown into the spam box, please add the mail address to your contact list. Thanks a lot! Of course, please let us know if you’re not receiving emails! You may not be on the mailing list.

Upcoming Survey

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

This Saturday April 12th (2 PM), we are heading back out to Ramavaram for a pilot survey of the community.

The purpose of this survey is to better understand the needs, practices, health, education and socio-economic status of the Ramavaram population so that we can streamline our efforts to assist them.

Currently, eleven volunteers have committed their time for Saturday, but if anyone else is interested in either administering the survey or coming along, please contact me (Apta) or Sriram.

Thanks! Hope to see you on Saturday!

Our First Visit

Monday, April 7th, 2008

On March 8th, 2008 we went on our first visit to the slum, distributing about 225 packets of curd rice (thair satham) and bananas to the people who lived in the slum. The consensus was that this was a successful project which has led to the idea that we could do more for the residents of our adopted village. A large group of people helped to make the food and distribute it.

Included are some of the photos of the project. Feel free to visit the entire album on my picasa site. Some people took some other pictures and it would be great if they could add them, especially the group photo! Please email us if you have anything to share!

Yesterday we held our basketball tournament and it sounds like it was a huge success, but I wasn’t there for it. Stay tuned for a report on that!

Also, to all members of our group, feel free to make any announcements on our board. Please contact me to get added to the author list!

Welcome to the Blog

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Welcome to the blog of our group! Stay tuned for news about our activities and ways you can help!

Thanks for visiting!