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Rang De

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

It’s been one more long hiatus since you, our loyal supporters, have been updated on our activities here at Sangam India. We’d like to share something exciting that came up yesterday. We met with the CEO, Ram, of an organisation called Rang De (www.rangde.org). Rang De is a microlending organization based in Chennai and consists of a dynamic group of people who really want to make a difference. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting with them and are looking forward to working with them in the future. Please do check out their website for more information.

Rang De is hosting a fundraising concert on May 1st at 6 pm at Buck’s Theatre, YMCA, Chennai. The main artist will be Swarathma, an Indian folk band with a socially conscious message. Tickets are available at www.indianstage.in, or you can approach us for student tickets. The great thing about this concert is that Rs. 100 of your ticket cost will go to an investment in Rang De and its borrowers, and will come back to you. So you can listen to great music AND make a difference! Let us know if you’d like student tickets, or you can buy regular tickets online.

Please make sure you visit their website at www.rangde.org.

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CanStop: "Stree Spandan”

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Canstop is a great organization which focuses on cancer awareness and prevention in the Chennai area. Dr. Arjun Rangarajan from Canstop worked closely with us back in September 2008 when we held our women’s camp and since then we have wanted to continue working with them on projects in the Ramavaram area.

This Sunday, April 29th, Canstop will be hosting “Stree Spandan,” a traditional Indian dance recital features styles as varied as Odissi, Manipuri and Bharatanatyam. All the proceeds will help to fund their charitable work.

Here are a few lines from Dr. Arjun about next Sunday’s event:

Dear one and all,

Canstop cordially invites you to our fundraiser for the year. We proudly present “Stree Spandan” a classical dance performance featuring renowned artists Smt.Shovana Narayan, Smt.Sharon Lowen and Smt. Gopika Varma, together on the same stage for the first time in Chennai.

Date : 28th March
Time : 6 pm
Venue : Narada Gana Sabha

The proceeds of the show will go into our Corpus Fund for the “Drug Bank” – for the purchase of the drugs for continued treatment of children afflicted with cancer.

Tickets are priced at Rs.1000,700,500,300 and Rs.100 for the balcony.
For enquiries please contact the helpline at 2628-4256 or call me at 98410-61578.

We sincerely hope you can come and help support the drug bank and the kids who rely on it.

best wishes,

Arjun

To find out more information, please contact the number listed above.

For more information about Canstop, you can check out their website or their facebook fan page.

See event on facebook

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Food Expenditures

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Yesterday, Pamela, Vasundhra, and Shilpa went to go purchase the food that we’ll be giving out later today.

Here is the breakup of their costs:

  1. Rice, 2kg: Rs 39
  2. Toor Dhal, 1/2kg: Rs 26

The total is Rs 65 (USD 1.30). We’ve bought one hundred sets of this to feed one hundred families, coming to a total of Rs 6,500 (USD 130). 2 kilograms of rice, however, will only be sufficient for about 2-3 days, depending on the size of the family.

If the rains last, this activity may need to be repeated to ensure that the people at Ramavaram will have enough to eat.

If you would be willing to sponsor this food for even a few houses, please contact us. It would make a big difference!

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Facebook and Orkut Groups

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

We invite you all to show your support for Sangam India and join as members of our groups on the social networking sites, Facebook and Orkut.

The Facebook group has been started several months ago and has grown to over two hundred and fifty members. The Orkut community was just started last month and is just beginning to grow. Considering that several of our members discovered us through Facebook, we feel like it has been a success.

If you are a member of either Facebook or Orkut, please take a minute to join! Not only is it a great way to show your support, but we hope to make these sites into communities where people can have active discussions. In addition, we’ll try to keep them up to date with events that are scheduled and in ways that people can get involved.

Thanks for joining! Don’t forget to invite your friends.

NOTE: for the Orkut link above to work, you have to already be logged in with Orkut. If you have any difficulty, just log into Orkut and search for “Sangam India” (in quotes) and our group should be the first to come up. Look for the icon of the smiling child and you’ll know its the right group.

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New Tamil Flyer

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Uma Krishnakumar, a Chennaite who blogs in both English and Tamil, volunteered to help us translate our flyer into Tamil.

Here is the new சங்கம் இந்தியா சிற்றேடு (Sangam India Flyer.) As a counterpart to the English flyer, it shares the same design most of the content as our English one. Of course, for those of us that don’t speak or read Tamil, we still have our English flyer.

சங்கம் இந்தியா தமிழ் சிற்றேடு (.pdf)
Sangam India English Flyer (.pdf)

With this, we hope to have more success in getting our message across to a broader base.

As usual, please feel free to print it and share it with people you know!

Thanks to Ms. Uma for her translation, and thanks as well to our proofreaders, Ramachandran Ramgopal, Apoorvaa, and Pamela for helping her with this task!

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Sangam India Culturals Poster

Sunday, September 14th, 2008


We were able to put up a poster for the Culturals event at Sri Ramachandra University. It has some information about our group, what sort of work we do, and how people can get involved. It included flyers for people to take. Sneha did a great job by additionally distributing flyers at the reception table.

We’d like to thank Saumya Chintamaneni for her immense effort in getting the poster up! Also we would like to thank Ashwin for giving us permission and Anand Muthiah for helping to distribute flyers from his Vitagen stand.

We hope that our poster and flyers increased awareness of our group so more people can get involved.

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Upcoming Fundraiser

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Just a quick note regarding the upcoming fundraiser. The Basketball Culturals will be starting on Wednesday and we are planning to serve refreshments to those who come out and watch the games. The stalls will open at 4pm and will run until 6pm. Please contribute as much as possible as all proceeds will be going to the community at Ramavaram.

For more information, please contact Shilpa or Ahrar.

Hope to see you out there!

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Help Spread the Word!

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Please help us get the word out on Sangam India. We need all the support we can get – not only do we need contributions like funding and materials, we also are in need of ideas on how we can more people in more meaningful ways.

In his blog, I must write for you must think, Sridhar, a sports journalist from New Delhi, wrote a great blog entry about our organization. He’s doing a lot of work in Delhi helping us raise awareness and funds. Thanks a lot!

On the other side of the globe, Mr. Seshu Kavuri, from Dallas, Texas, has printed out our flyer and is posting all around his workplace at AT&T:

Please help get the word out about our organization by linking to our site from your blog or on facebook, or by printing out our flyer and posting it where others can see. And when you do, let us know so we can share it with everyone!

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New Flyer

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Ritin and I designed a new, one-page flyer for Sangam India. Please feel free to print it out and share it with your friends!

The flyer is currently designed for A4 sized paper.
Aslesha’s flyer, which has a lot more information, is going to be made into a brochure. Stay tuned for an update!

SangamFlyer.pdf (1.1MB)

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Thank you!

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

We’d just like to mention Ms. Usha Jayaraman of Bangalore for her generous donation to our cause!

Thank you for your support!

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