Chairman's Visit to our club along with Inner Wheel Club of Adyar and Inner Wheel Club of Madras Fort

Chairman's Official Visit to our Club's Project at Sahaya Illam on 25 Oct 2014

Chairman Visit Project -  Support to Sahaya Illam Project

Date:  25 Oct 2014, Saturday

Time :  10 am – 11 am

Venue : Sahaya Illam Oldage Home, St. Patrick Church Road, St. Thomas Mount, Chennai

Participants: 

1. District Chairman Swarnalatha Jyothikumar
2. PDC Sita Laxminarayana
3. District Secretary – Kala Rajasekhar
4. President Umasree Raghunath
5. Past President Dr Nalini Ramamurthy
6. Vice President – Gayathri Ramadoss
7. Secretary – Rajeena Magdoom
8. Treasurer – S. Sandhya

Project Details and Support Provided

·         Uma thanks Chairman Swarna for her acceptance to visit the project

·         PDC Sita presented Chairman Swarna with a shawl as a token of honour and appreciation

·         Uma introduced the home and inmates, they good will gestures and taken Swarna around to see the facilities which is maintained by St.Patrick Charitable Trust.  The home is neatly maintained and care taker Jhansi and her family takes care of the inmates by providing timely food, medicines and moral support along with host of volunteers coming in.

·         Monthly supply of Tea, Cofee, Oil, Milk Powder worth of Rs 5800 sponsored by Nalini in memory of her mother Mrs. Sarojini.

·         Cheque of Rs 3500 for one day food to 25 inmates from Club Charity

·         New Blankets worth of Rs 4000 sponsored by Sita

·         Moov oitments worth of Rs 630  sponsored by Rooma

·         Amrutanjan worth of Rs 650 sponsored by Gayathri

·         Biscuits and Fruits worth of Rs 500 sponsored by Rajeena

·         Chairman Swarna provided Rs 2000 to the charity for this home

·         20 used sarees provided by Sita and Nalini

·         Interaction with elders, hearing to their specific needs and request for prayers.  Inmates were very happy to have us on that day and provided their blessings, thanks and with assurance of keeping us in their prayers.

·         The project ended with picture moments of the participants feeling good a project well done.

 Pictures of the work well done:

October Diwali Fellowship, Friendship and Felicitations- Ofcourse Fun, Funtakshari , Food and Fabulours Fotos!

GB Meeting - Diwali Fellowship- Meera Ramanathan Felicitation- Oct Birthday cake cutting - Diwali potluck feast- Joyful Anthakshari and picture time in silk sarees.....Had a wonderful time on 14 Oct 2014

WE love arranging food,  making it for the meets

A ritual - coloring of the President by Secretary at every official meeting

All Meetings begin with the Inner Wheel Prayer

Felicitation of Meera Ramanathan by Charter Member Oligi

Meeting friends is always a pleasure

Celebrating birthdays of all members is a sheer happiness

Know Your Member- This time its PDC Sita-  learning is a continuous process

Green Babies of our club-  As we grow old, we also get new members in:-)

Anthakashari -  Remembering and singing songs of all era's

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Family of Inner Wheel Club of Madras South -  Missed few who could not attend this meeting

We cook - We bring - We Eat- Ofcourse the food made by others !

What are meetings without food?

Happiness is sitting together and sharing the joy of friendship

Blind Welfare Trust , Chennai - Contribution of Walking Sticks and Mobile Track for Education

Blind Welfare Trust-  Need Social Acceptance Rather Than Sympathy

Thank you Ulagammai Veerappan for her generous contribution of Rs 5460/-  towards four fouled Walking sticks and Mobile Track for Education as on 9 Oct 2014.  

Blind Welfare Trust of Chennai is very much thankful for her generous patronage and we at Inner Wheel Club of Madras South are very proud of Oligi's continued support to all good cause.  

Way to lay the path for us, dear Charter Member....The vision you people have set for us is commendable and inspiring.  

 

 

Light the Path - Essay

Light the path-   This is the Essay that was submitted to District contest..though it didnt make it to prize winning,  worth sharing for what makes Inner Wheel in our lives is drawn from its unknowing presence that makes it worth ......

***************Read On************Light the Path*******************************

…….the woods are tall and sky is dark.  Here and there few stars shine.  The moon is hiding behind the dark clouds like a new bride.  There is silence.  Silence of a woman who is in pain, who is in despair, who is in helplessness and who is lonely fighting the life’s battles.  She is quiet looking at the dark sky.  Her heart has no hopes or thoughts. 

She closed her eyes in prayer.  Prayers seeking help.  And support to make her comfortable.  She slept off in fear and lonely night dawned with the first ray of sun falling on her tired face.  Her tired eyes opened slowly.  The first sight of sun rays brightened her tired face.   She stood up slowly but steadily… she could see the new path of hope and light that can take her forward.  In the distance, she could hear the sounds of flowing waters from the brooks and crippling of the birds in the forest.  A spontaneous smile invades her tired face.  She looked beautiful and stunning with the sun rays on her.  Yes, she found the light.  She found the path. She will move on.

A monkey hopping from one tree to another, playfully threw a fruit towards her.  Hunger reminded her to grab it fast and eat it too.  She walked to the brook and took a plunge in the stream and started to enjoy her bath.   The water looked clean.  Fresh water made her drink a gulp and she realized how thirsty she was.  The thirst for truth, hope and for life.  Where else she can find all this at a time, than in the dense forest filled with nature and free from modern hassles of the outside world.   Her eyes shined bright.

She sat on a rock.  Took the twigs around and started to drum on the tighten skin of a dead animal.  The sounds emerged from her drums made from no where… made the birds around making wonderful sounds.  She knew she is educating them.  The cuckoos answering her sounds made her get up and walk towards the trees.  She found a fleet of swans flying ahead in the direction against the winds.  A beautiful v shape that made the leader take the route to fly and the fleet just follows making the winds shy away in pride.  Above all the birds, the girl saw an eagle.  Uninterrupted by the sudden showers of rain drops that come from dancing clouds.  Yes, the eagle is flying just above the clouds.  The giant bird.  An undisputed leader.   The girl just wished that she relives like an eagle. With pride.  With wisdom and with power.    

The woman is none other than the one who found her inner self.  Her true inner self.  Her immense strength and power.  Her Inner Wheel.   The wheel that makes her drive away fears, empower the inbuilt strengths.   The passion for self-esteem and self-respect makes her a true woman.  Yes, she is none other than you and I.  Every one who is part of Inner Wheel just ahead to light the path.   Towards a new dawn.

-          Written By Umasree Raghunath,

President, Inner Wheel Club of Madras South