Team Events

Date : 05 October 2002

Place : Fremont Temple, Fremont, CA

Number of attendees : 170 (Approx.)

TEAM Events Compere : Ms.Sangeetha

Chief Guest Introduced by: Balaram Kuppusamy

Chief Guest : Mr.Chandrasekaran

Dear TEAM,

The Tenth TEAM meeting went very well on 5th October 2002. The meeting commenced around 5.30 PM, in Fremont Hindu Temple’s Children’s Hall Fremont, CA.

Around 170 members participated in the TEAM meet.

Welcome Song: Welcome song was sung by Selvi. Savitha.

Welcome Address: Mr.Muralidharan welcomed the TEAM members. He mentioned that TEAM is one of the ways to express thanks to our Motherland.

General Topic: Mr. Jayashankaran talked about TEAM’s unique structure in which everybody contributes and participate equally. Mr. Arun Athiappan mentioned that Utilization of our own money for our own schools gets us complete satisfaction. He also requested members to look out ways for TEAM to grow more and become powerful organization.

Introduction of Chief Guest: Mr. Balaraman talked about Mr. Chandrasekar’s contributions to several orphanages, Medical needs and schools.

Chief Guest: Mr. Chandrasekar expressed his opinions on educating the children population along with the provision of all the facilities. He also extended his thoughts on focusing our goals and motivation reaching the children by doing the measurements based on education rather than providing facilities.

Fund Collection: collected by Ms. Vimala and Mr. Karthik Somasundaram for meet expenses. Thanks to all the members for their generality.

School selection: conducted by Mr.Kumar Rethi and Mr.Udayakumar Below are the details of the members got selected for executing the projects in the schools. The School selection program was conducted by Mr.Kumar Rethi and Mr.Udayakumar.

Total Members in TEAM : 326

2000 Batch Members : 108, interested 36, selected 56

2001 Batch Members : 114, interested 54, selected 38

2002 Batch Members : 104, interested 89, selected 20

2000 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Gopinath Thailaapillai (Illangovel Thulasimani)
2. Manimaran (Suppusamy D Murthy)
3. Duraiswamy (Saminathan Seerangan)
4. VijayaKumar (S.R.Karthikeyan)
5. Vidhya Chinnasamy (Karthikeyan Easwaramoorthy)
6. Govardhanan Kuruchi (Illangovel Thulasimani)
7. P.Venkatesan (Suppusamy D Murthy
8. Ramesh Komarappan (Chinnasamy Saravanakumar)

2001 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Prema (Udayabaskar)
2. Swami & Kanchana (Karthik Somasundaram)
3. Venkatesan Ramachandran (Udayabaskar)
4. Kalaiarasu Arumugam (Senthil Subramaniam)
5. Lenin Kumar (Dhivakaran)
6. Senthil Palaniappan (Karthik Somasundaram)
7. Thanigai & Aruna (Murugesan Mohan)
8. Murugu (Senthilnathan)

2002 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Srinivas Rajagopalan(Sudhakar Sukumar)
2. Krishnakumar Shanmugam (Nagarajan AppichiGounder)
3. Radhika Nachimuthu (Sudha Ganapathikrishnan)
4. Shankar Narayanan (Saravanan)
5. Venkateshwaran Govindasamy (Sudha Ganapathikrishnan)
6. Senthilnathan (Jagan & Sudha)
7. Mahesh Iyer(Saravanan)
8. Venkata Simadhri (Saravanan)

Project Update and Execution Methods : Senthil KS presented the projects report to the TEAM Members. Details are as follows.

24 schools get $12,000 in total ($500 for each school). Team sends a check to each member who has been selected. TEAM has been registered as non-profit organization for 2 years. It has 326 members. 124 schools have been given $500 each so far (which adds up to a total of $62000/ RS.29,75,000)·

67 projects executed successfully. 57 projects in execution.

General Topic: Karthikeyan Eswaramoorthy extended his thoughts on leadership. He talked about achieving the leadership to execute the role like our team coordinators as small leaders.

Food was really great with lot items, TEAM thanks for all the members for bringing delicious food.

Appetizer: Vada

Tiffin items: Idli, Sambar, Tomato Chutney, Coconut Chutney, Naan and Potato curry

Rice: Tomato Rice, Lemon Rice, Tamarind Rice, Vegetable Rice and Curd Rice

Desserts: Ice-cream, Carrot Cake and Plain Cake

Snacks and Drinks: Chips, Soda

Fun event: Conducted by Mr. Sridhar Minor.Wonderful performance by Kids- Vaseegara song was the highlight.

Arrattai Arangam: Well done by all the speakers. TEAM extends its appreciation for each and everyone’s effort for such an excellent outcome.

The Vote of thanks was delivered by Mr. Sudhakar Sukumar. He thanked all TEAM members and TEAM Coordinators for the successful conduct of the meeting. TEAM thanks all the members for their continued support by donating money and contributing their time for this noble cause.

Overall the functions was very successful, well organized and all members had very good time. Hope to see you all in the next meet.

Thanks & Regards.

Uma Natesan

Date : 04 May 2002

Place : Elizabeth Park/Central Park, Fremont, CA

Number of attendees : 135 (Approx.)

TEAM Events Compere : Kanchana Senthil

Chief Guest Introduced by: Nirmala Karuppusami

Chief Guest : Mr. Manivanan

Dear TEAM,

The Ninth TEAM meeting went very well on 4th May 2002. The meeting commenced around 12.30 PM, in Elizabeth Park/Central Park in Fremont, CA.

Around 135 members participated in the TEAM meet.

The welcome song was sung by Swathi Rammohan. Elango Periyathambi welcomed the TEAM members.

Saravanan Nagaraju shared his experience and difficulties in enrolling new members for TEAM 2002.

Chandra Suresh had brought out an exciting idea of Creating Items Template and Preferred Vendor List. This suggestion will help the members with guidelines for purchase activities more economically,and also help to get more items out of TEAM contributed money.

The purchase items can be divided into (Template) three different categories.

– Large Value items (Construction Activities)

– Medium Value items (Furnishing Items)

– Small Value items (Eating plates, writing materials etc.)

By transacting with the preferred Vendors, the template items can be purchased at more attractive price.

The details will be made available in http://www.indiateam.org shortly. The write-up on this activity is also appened with this note for reference.Click here TEAM Template and Vendor

Thamari Selvan had published the TEAM’s communication magazine, he also acknowledged the TEAM member?s contribution to the magazine and he also emphasized the benefits of material contribution by the way of poems,stories and essays etc.

This time our Chief Guest was Mr. Manivannan, the architect of Norton Anti-Virus Software. He shared with the TEAM members, the urgent need for computerization of Tamil literature. The further details can be obtained from

http://www.infitt.org

http://www.tamilinternet.org

Senthil KS presented the projects report to the TEAM Members

Total Members in TEAM : 324

2000 Batch Members : 109

2001 Batch Members : 110

2002 Batch Members : 105

Total Selected Projects(todate) : 108

2000 Batch : 56

2001 Batch : 37

2002 Batch : 15

Total Money Contribution to INDIA by TEAM : 108 x 500 = USD 54,000/-

Total Kids Benefited : 108 Projects x 100 Students = 10,800 Students benefited

54,000 $ x 46 Rs = 24,84,000 Rupees, so far TEAM has contributed “24 lakhs and 84 thousand rupees” to India !!!

School Selection :

Below are the details of the members got Selected for executing the projects in the schools. The School selection program was conducted by Senthil KS & Sudhakar Sukumar

2000 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Saravana Suthanthira (ChinaSwamy SaravanaKumar)
2. Siva SelaPathy (KandaSwamy Nachimuthu)
3. V. ParamaSivam (SuppuSwamy D. Murthy)
4. N. SivaKumar (RajKumar ThangaVelu)
5. D. EswaraMurthy (SuppuSwamy D. Murthy)
6. Sangameshwar (Vimala Murthy)
7. Vijay Anand (RajKumar ThangaVelu)
8. Suresh Rangan (ChinaSwamy Saravana Kumar)

2001 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Ram MOhan Krishnan (Senthil Subramaniam)
2. Govind (RaviKumar Dhanidivel)
3. Senthil Varathapan (Rajamani / Kavitha)
4. Arun / Kavitha (Rajamani / Kavitha)
5. Balaraman Kuppuswamy (Sivakumar SengottuVelappan)
6. Karthik Somasundram (Karthik Somasundram)
7. JayaKumar (RaviKumar Dhanidivel)
8. Govardhan Ramachandran (UdayaBaskar Nachimuthu)

2002 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Senthil Venkatapathy (Nagarajan Appichigounder)
2. AshokKumar (Arun Kumar)
3. Suresh Arumugam (Kumar)
4. Padma Prakash (Hemalatha/ Siva)
5. Ram Subramaniam (Thamarai Selvan)
6. Arulmani Krishnan (Sudhakar Sukumar)
7. Ramesh BalaKrishnan (Nagarajan Appichigounder)
8. Cottalango Loorthu (Karuppuswami)

Selected Members Please Note the following :

1) Please send your address to Vimala Murthy at vimala_karthik@yahoo.com.

2) Vimala will mail the TEAM check for USD 500

3) Kindly visit http://www.indiateam.org for more details

Karthikeyan Eswaramoorthy clarified some of the doubts of the TEAM memebers. He also popularized the 4E-concept amongst the TEAM members. 4E stands for ‘Enhancing Educational Environment Everywhere’.

The Vote of thanks was delivered by Arun Athippan. He thanked all TEAM members and TEAM Coordinators for the sucessful conduct of the meeting with his own punch by delivering short and effetive messages.

Food, was really great with lot of vegetarian & Non-vegetration items, TEAM also thanks for members for bringing delicious food.

This time fun events conducted by Sridhar,Divakaran, Abirami, Sudhakar & team was really interesting, everyone had good time by participating in “Satti Odaithal” , tug of war between Sunnyvale verus Fremont area members, and group mingling game.

TEAM thanks all the memebers for their continued support by donating money and contributing their time for this noble cause.

Overall the functions was very successful, well organized and all members had very good time. Hope to see you all in the next meet during September 2002.

Thanks & Regards.

Muralidharan & Saroja

Date : 26th January 2002

Place : Fremont Temple,Fremont

Number of attendees : Over 100

TEAM Events Compere : Brindha

Singing Program Compere: Sridhar.

Dear TEAM,

Our 8th TEAM meeting was a great success as usual, meeting was started around 12.15 PM on Jan 26th 2002 at Fremont Temple, CA, compeered by Brindha Kumar.

Welcome Song was sung by Savitha (daughter of Senthil & Sakthi) and Rammohan Krishnan welcomed the Team members.

Over 100 members attended the Team meet.

Karthikeyan Eswaramoorthy briefly talked about the TEAM’s history, what we have done and how the schools are benefiting etc. Team magazine was distributed to new Team members. It was a great work and Team appreciates the effort put on the Magazine preparation by Thamarai Selvan and group.

New Team members were introduced by their coordinators.

Finance:

Finance statement for the period of Nov’00 – Jan’02 was read by S. R. Karthikeyan.

Income: 26801.75, Expenditure: 23840.59, Balance: 2961.16

As Team has received Tax exemption status, Vimala/coordinators will distribute the receipts to Team members for claiming in the tax filing. This time Brindha and Kandy had brought $100 from Intuit as a dollar to dollar matching. Vimala Moorthy has suggested that interested team members can approach their employers to see whether they have any such programs.

We need more volunteers to help finance department as we are growing big.Volunteers, please contact Team treasurer Vimala Moorthy.

Project Execution & Web Updations:

As we have grown to 300 members now, it has been decided that the TEAM meet will takeplace for every 4 months instead of 3 months. It is expected that the selected team members will execute their projects within the next 3-4 months time frame. Please send your project execution details to the TEAM Data center after executing the projects. Send the details like Receipts, Photos, Headmaster letter etc. Even if you don’t have receipts please send a memo, so the details will be updated in our TEAM website www.indiateam.org. For more details, please contact Senthil KS @ senthilks@yahoo.com.

School Selection:

We have executed 62 school projects in India so far, approximately 6200 students were benefited. This is a great success within the 2 years time.

School selection event was conducted by team member Arasi Kumar, she cheered the kids to participate in the school selection, finally there was a great competition among kids to participate ! Following TEAM members were selected for executing the school projects:

2000 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Lidwin (Rajkumar Thangavel)
2. Chandran (Rajkumar Thangavel)
3. Indra Ramesh (Rajkumar Thangavel)
4. Devilakshmi Narayan (Rajkumar Thangavel)
5. Sivakumar Subramaniam (Pravin Balasubramaniam)
6. Vimala Moorthy (Vimala Moorthy)
7. Devarajan (S. R. Karthikeyan)
8. Chandrasekar Appachiannan (Illangovel Thulasimani)

2001 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Sathesh (S. R. Karthikeyan)
2. Ramu Govindasamy (Senthilnathan M)
3. Murugan Natesan (Senthil Subramaniam)
4. Selvaraj Ramasamy (Karthik Somasundaram)
5. Uthiramasamy (Senthilnathan M)
6. Senthil Varadappan (Rajamani / Kavitha)
7. Mohanraj Krishnaraj (Dhivakaran. M)
8. Muralidharan (Senthil Subramaniam)

2002 Batch

Name (Co-Ordinator)

1. Rajan Viji (Saravanan)
2. Varadharajan (Arunkumar / Kavitha)
3. Vijayamurugan Rangasamy (Nagarajan Appichi Gounder)
4. Chander Devaraj (Hemalatha Sivakumar)
5. Govindasamy Haridoss (Bala Nachimuthu)
6. Santhana (Thamarai Selvan & Meena)
7. Malathy Kannan (Arunkumar / Kavitha)

1. Seleted members please send your address to Vimala Moorthy @ vimala_karthik@yahoo.com

2. Vimala Moorthy will mail the check for $ 500.

TEAM thanks the members who brought all the delicious food and managed the distribution. Special thanks to Latha Kandy & group for managing and distributing the food.

Following the potluck lunch, TEAM entertainment group entertained the TEAM with various songs and music. Special thanks to entertainment group conducted by Sridhar. Excellent performance. Keep it up TEAM.

Finally vote of thanks delivered by Sivakumar Sengotuvelappan by thanking members of the Team who made this TEAM meet as a grand success !

Thanks & Regards,

Chandra Suresh