MADURAI SEED
To Support and Empower the Underprivileged
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Children's Day Celebration
A series of informative and interesting event was planned to celebrate the joy of this day. Madurai Seed celebrated Children's day on Nov 14th evening. Firstly, little masters were welcomed with Children's day wishes and candies. Hands and feet hopscotch, paper plane launcher, and more fun games amused them in the entrance. They enjoyed playing again and again.
The hall was decorated with happy emojis and balloons.
The main program started by telling the importance of celebrating this day and the reasons behind it.
Volunteers gave PPT presentation on famous child prodigies belonging to different field. Children listened to their life stories and achievements. Few clips and videos of the youngest achievers were screened for children.
Children enjoyed happy childhood songs, then one of our volunteers Sathish taught them dance for English songs. All volunteers and children enjoyed this evening. Healthy peanut was provided for them for snacks.
Mesmerizing children's dance was followed by two short animated movies. Laughter filled the hall. How nice to let them be like today. Happy faces with no worries about tomorrow. A day for them is not enough, let us celebrate them everyday and every hour..
Food Festival @ Madurai Seed
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Madurai Seed Education Centers
Education
centres in Madurai Seed provides a peaceful learning environment for children.
Volunteers’ support for helping them finish their homework, preparing them for
term exams are possible only with proper study area. There are 3 education
centres for children and 1 education centre for young people, and 1 library.
Centre functions from 6 to 9 in the weekday evenings. On holidays, library and
indoor activities are carried on in there from morning to evenings. With
projectors, and audio – visual aids in one centre, movie screenings and
meetings are held. Workshops, online classes, seminars are carried on often. Vandugal
Arangam – multipurpose hall that holds 80 to 100 children at a time, Kanavugal
arangam holds 60-80 children, Thedalgal arangam with library holds around 30-40
children.
Independence Day 2023
Madurai Seed was all set for the 77th Independence Day with beautiful decorations, and colourful presence of children and young people. One by one they arrived and pinned flag on shirts. Volunteer girls dressed in same colour and boy volunteers in white shirts gingered up the event. It was time to welcome our eminent chief guests Prof. Dr. E. Annamalai and his daughter Dr.Melliyal Annamalai from Asha Boston with handmade flower bouquets.
Usually at Madurai Seed, the national flag is hoisted by Children Federation leader. In that way, Keerthana in 12th std , MSCF leader was welcomed and honoured with parade. She was introduced to the guests and invited to hoist the flag. With mindful of pride, Keerthana hoisted the flag. Salute and claps of students sowed peace and love in hearts.
Keerthana shared the Independence Day message, "On Every Independence Day, we and our country grow a year older. Like as we age, our thoughts, good deeds and character must grow higher. Religion, caste, and gender-based discrimination, are on the rise in the country. It is the children and youth of the future generations that we need to prepare against this. Let us take pledge and stand together." Along with Keerthana, students took pledge to contribute their best to the society they live in.
Our chief guest Dr. E. Annamalai spoke to the students, " I’m 80 years old and have seen a lot of progress and milestones in the country. You should also see better progress. Flag salutation is not flag worship, it is worship of our country’s principles of freedom, peace, equality and secularism." His presence made the day more memorable and special.
Trustees Elavarasi, Mansur Ali, Mariammal teacher, Alumni forum incharge Sathish Babu and MSYF president Pavithra were honoured with shawl and bouquets. Breakfast was provided for children and guests. The morning went so fast, but not the prior preparation. The day before, children and young people had long rehearsals to parade, welcome guests, and organize without disturbing the public. Karthik provided a mind map on it and volunteers brought it up. Lively celebration with Jeeva's commentary, Keerthana's speech and guests' message and wishes.
Friday, September 9, 2022
Scholarships for young people 2022
Here are some details of our young people's courses:Diploma in Hotel Management - First year - 1 StudentUndergraduate (History, Computer Applications, Economics) - First year - 3Undergraduate ( Commerce, Maths, Tamil) - Second year - 3Undergraduate (English, Business Administration, Microbiology, Physical education) - Third year - 4
Bachelor of Teacher Education - First year - 1Master of Physical Education - First year - 1
Post graduate (Maths) - Second year - 1Post graduate (Geography) - Second year -1
Competitive exam coaching - 2Total number of benefited young people- 17 (Boys 7 + Girls 10)Among them, total number of young people going to government college - 10Total number of young people going to Govt. aided colleges - 7Total number of benefited families - 14Among 17,
Number of students going to college for the first time from their families - 12All 17 young people come regularly to Madurai Seed to teach children.They are socially deprived and financially weak. They seek only education to come out of the poverty line. With all the kind support of Friends of Madurai Seed in Zurich, they received the Cheque for their college studies.Dear friends and donors, we convey our many thanks to each one of you. Your generous support removes financial barriers and makes them shine through education.
Monday, June 6, 2022
VASANTHAM SUMMER CAMP 2022
MADURAI
SEED
Vasantham
Summer Camp
From
16.05.2022 to 31.05.2022
16 days 72 children 12
young people 6 groups
S. No |
Topic |
Speakers |
1 |
Traditional
Trees |
Mr.
Karthikeyan |
2 |
Children
Magazines |
Arun
Kumar |
3 |
Mobile
Phone Etiquettes |
Mr.
Madhavan |
4 |
Snakes
– Facts, Dos and Don’ts |
Mr.
Vishwanath, Mr. Srini, Wish
to Help Trust |
5 |
Story
Telling – Book Angel |
Mrs.
Poonkodi |
Practical
Sessions
S. No |
Activity |
Resource Persons |
1 |
No oil,
No boil Cooking |
Mrs. Renuka |
2 |
Science
Toys |
Mr.
Sathya Manickam |
3 |
Mobile
Phone Short Films |
Madurai
Seed Volunteers |
4 |
Thermacol
Cutting Crafts |
YouTube
|
S. No |
Training |
Trainers |
1 |
Theatre
Games |
Mr.
Vadivel |
2 |
Yoga,
Meditation |
Mrs.
Radhika, Ms. Krishma, Ms. Abhaya |
3 |
Illustrations |
Mr.
Marion |
4 |
Designing |
Ms.
Ramya |
Field Trips
1 |
Valaiyapatti Village |
Meeting with Farmer Palani |
2 |
Tamukkam Ground |
Government Exhibition |
Screening: The
Way Home
Physical Work
Day:
Cleaning Education centres in and around & Library
Healthy Snacks: Every day, children were provided with healthy snacks like mango, banana, jackfruit, watermelon groundnut, cassava, corn, curd rice, biscuits, ice creams, etc.