FoC Activities Jan 2007 - Dec 2007 Recap

Dear Friends

The year 2007 has been wonderful and very eventful for FoC Pune. We have grown in numbers and we have now spread our activities to villages in 3 districts and with all your continuous support we are now supporting 450 students for their higher education.
Since we are reaching the end of the year, we thought it would be right to update you on all the events that filled up our calendar 2007.

January
Makar Shankaranthi is a very auspicious festival in Maharashtra. It was all the more sweeter for 150 students from various streams of education today.FoC Pune handed out scholarships worth INR 5,20,000 to 150 deserving & needy students from Pune and neighboring villages.
Related Posts
Student's Felicitation Day Pictures
The Eyes... They don't lie...
FoC- IBM SaradaMath Sweater Project


February
FoC finally after four years got a place which could be used for the students. We decided to set up a learning center and a Library. We kickstarted our drive for collection of books for an FoC Library in Pune. We hope to setup libraries in other locations soon.
FoC Library Project March.
After the Library setup we realized the need of computer education for the students hence with the support of E&Y foundation FoC set up a computer lab with 5 computers at the Learning centre. Related Posts Meet Sadhanand on-line /Dr Harish - FoC student

April
FoC volunteers got trained in ELIP (English Language Improvement Program) course by Capt Anand and Bhuvaneshwari. About 12 volunteers from FoC and other NGO's attended the 'Train the trainers' program for 3 days. Related Posts ELIP Train the Trainer Program / Volunteer Speak - Unmana

May
It was nowtime to giveback. FoC volunteers conducted the ELIP program for the students for 2 weeks. At the end of the course we also had a small function conducted by the students. As of now ELIP is being conducted by E&Y for 3 batches of students.

ELIP Students Training Batch - 1

June
With the beginning of the new academic year, FOC decided to have four different projects and support about 400 students for the academic year 2007-08 with an Approx budget of 15,00,000 Lakhs. The Students would be from Pune, villages of Manchar, Junnar, Narayangaon, Ale and villages surrounding Sangli District. Related Posts Students Guidelines 2007-08 / MoM June 23 & June 24 Meeting


July
97 students of Class 12 and degree courses were given fees for the academic year 2007 - 08 at Narayangaon on 28th. The Total Fee disbursed is Rs 3,20,000.

Related Posts : Minutes of the meeting held on 22nd July at Synygy / Fees distribution at Narayangaon on 28th July


August
60 students from Pune were given first term fees for the academic year 2007 - 08 at FoC Learning center in Pune on 11th Aug 2007. The Total Fee disbursed was Rs 2,78,000. The second term fee will be decided based on their first term marks and will be disbursed in the month of March 2008.

Related Posts : Pune Fee Disbursement / Minutes of the meeting held in Synygy on Aug 26th 2007


September
FoC got some very good news in the month of September
1. Ramesh Girme has joined Patni Computers as a regular employee from September.
2. Ganpat Lokhande has joined Thermax Limited from September.
3. Deepika More has joined Central Park hotel from August . She will be trained & employed by them.
4. Devidas has become a permanent employee in Intervida as site engineer .
5. Rahul Deshmukh (Visually Challenged) has stood first in Pune University in his M.A course. He is still looking for a job.
6. Ujjwala Mane is joining Acceltree as Trainee.
Good News - September 2007


October
Fees distribution at Sangli on 06th Oct 2007 was conducted. 135 students from the villages surrounding Sangli were given fees for the academic year 2007 - 08 at Sangli - Rani Saraswati Kanya Mahavidyalaya. The volunteers of FoC and Infosys Hjw foundation handed out the fees to the students. The Total amount of fee disbursed was Rs 4,20,000

Related Posts: FoC Picnic Oct 02 2007 / Sangli Fee Disbursement


November
We received an urgent request from two of our volunteers regarding the treatment of two young kids of ages 1.5 and 11 . The total amount required was Rs1.8 Lakhs. With your kind support we were able to raise the required funds in a week's time.
Now both Sushant Shivaji and Baby Priyanka are doing good.

Related Posts : A Perfect Diwali Gift / Update : Baby Priyanka More & Sushant Shivaji / Pics of Baby Priyanka & Sushant Shivaji / Why I Didn't Sleep For 31 Hours... HARSHA

December
FoC has extended support to 150 economically challenged students from Narayangaon and Nagar districts on 9th December 2007. Fees of Rs 4,01,740 was distributed.

FoC Nurture Merit Financial assistance Project Update - Dec 09 2007

MoM - Students Meeting Held on 16th Dec 2007

FoC News Articles in TOI and Marati News Papers



As of Dec End 2007, we have extended our support to 450 students from Pune, Narayangaon, Sangli district & Nagar for the academic year 2007-08.

The total educational expenses for academic year 2007-08 date is about 18,00,000 Lakhs(We have spent about 16Lakhs and 2 Lakhs is kept on hold for March 2008)

All in all, as you can see , we have had a very fruitful and fulfilling year. We have grown in more than one way and look forward to remaining committed to our cause of "Empowering children through education " with your continued assistance.

Every Child Has a DREAM and YOU have the POWER to fulfill it.

FoC Team

Pune