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Concerns News letter December 2011

Dear friends of Concerns,

Greetings from all at Concerns!

This mail brings special wishes of the season. We, all at Concerns are fine and busy with our own programs. Later, we may do a simple Christmas celebration. Weather at Bangalore is just wonderful and giving the feel of Christmas.

After our email id got hacked, we lost some of our contacts. Hope no one is misusing our contacts. We have tried our best to revive most contacts. If you know anyone who needs to get in touch with us, you are welcome to share our id and their id to us.

Coming to the news   of Concerns in the past few months….

• As you know our community college is monitored by three committees with representative from IGNOU, in October we had an academic committee meeting with Dr Pankajam, former Vice Chancellor of Ghandi Gram University, it was a good time of learning and we are working on all her valuable inputs to improve the community college.

• Though sometime we feel low, we feel so encouraged to see and hear from our old students of the community college. I met one of our student of  previous batch. When she was  in her  young adolescence stage, and was longing to  study but was pushed in to marriage with her uncle much  older than her. Now she has joined BA English literature and doing her 2nd year through correspondence and simultaneously mastering her computer skills in an institute.
• Children of all the Child care Centres were taken on a picnic to Cubborn Park by CIF one of our local supporters.

• The students of our community college participated in various competitions with other community college of Karnataka and won few prizes. In Rangoli we won the first prize and in declamation and public speaking we won 2^nd prize.  In Rangoli it was a team work of 4 students and the main student who did the freehand  drawing has vision only in one eye and she  said  that in her lifetime this is the first time she had participated  in competition and won prize and gone to stage. Also all the married girls did a special dance with sticks. Every one participated in some items or the other like singing, dance turn quote and throw ball. We were excited about their enthusiasm and it was a good day .All the teachers worked hard  to prepare them.

• All the students did internship for 2weeks, related to their trades in different institute as preschool teachers and assisted in office administration. The good news is for few students   their jobs are assured for the next academic year. We are excited about it but we need to still prepare them much more.
• We have a retired person from November, helping us in maintaining the accounts of Concerns, which is gradually reducing my workload of handling finance.
• We took the  community college students to Royal Archid a star hotel and they have agreed to give a free intensive training for them in the  end of our course  and get placement  for the students , we are motivating the students for the same, since hotel industry is a flourishing and can get decent salary and their life will be better.
•   On Childrens day ,we celebrated Vidya  s birth day  who is a  special child of Concerns at CCC with community college students.

• One of the volunteer  Jenny Reily, who was here with us  and  became a   part of Concerns  did a walk and raised   support  to purchase a laptop and desk top and printer cum scanner, which has come in right time  and we and  the students are much  benefited. .
• For the students of the community college, along with teaching of the present course, our aim is to make them go upward in their education, so we  will  coach them simultaneously   and prepare them for exams  which they  need to complete.
• we are yet to update all the information in our website. I am glad that Joy who is an software engineer has volunteered to come on weekends and help in that aspects. Hope we can do it soon.
• There will be a regional workshop on review of the community colleges of Karnataka on 17^th Dec 2011, organised by Fr Alphonse pioneer of the community college. We are asked to do a presentation about concerns community college; I think it is great privilege to share our work.
• There is a land we have identified seems to be appropriate in many aspects for concerns .Some  friends of CUF  have come forward to support to some extent and if you want be apart this concern, you are welcome to do .Also we would be glad if you  can connect  us, with probable donor for supporting this cause.
• Our community health program ,especially the anaemia prevention program going smooth and you can see the demonstration in  the community.

Closing with lots of Christmas and New Year Wishes

Chitra& all at Concerns