What's happened since the last post?

The last post was in in mid August after we distributed the TVs and play equipment to four villages affected by the Tsunami.

Nadukuppam village school was inspeted and found that the school was catering to children from about 4 villages. The village governng council made an appela for computers for the school and this was reviewed by the Board. I immediately made an appeal to Rtn. Tim Johnson in Oregon who immediately responded by sourcing USD 2000. Since then three computers, printer, scanner and networking equipment were purchased and installed at the village school.

The computer centre named after the donor will be called "Ed Edison Computer Centre" and will be inaugurated on 15th of October 2005.

The reconstruction of the school damaged by the Tsunami has commenced in Cuddalore and will be completed soon. This school was identified by Indian Council of Child Welfare and the Club had committed to carry out the repairs in June this year.

Meanwhile the project of starting a computer Centre for disabled people at Andhra Mahila Sabha, IPD Ortho Centre. (Here is where we carry out corrective surgeries for disabled people) this was done last month and the training has been underatked by Elmaq Edu as a public servcie project. This project will benefit over 60 disabled children by training them in the usage fo computers with specific emohasis on employability.