SEVA MELA - Joy of Giving Week Celebrations - next meeting on 17th July
Thiagarajan Arunachalam
A quick recap on the discussions on last Saturday 10th July at SEVA premises:
This meeting had just five NGOs participating.
Venkat, Aarti, Chandrasekhar and Sanjay of JGW explained about SEVA
Mela once again. The idea is to provide a platform for NGO's to
showcase about themselves and make it at the same time fun filled so
all visitors are engaged well. Additionally it was suggested that we
approach some restaurants to offer what they can so that the Mela
would a food festival/food court. Even if each of the restaurants
provide a few 100 of their signature dishes free the proceeds could
make a significant amount.
I am including below a concept note on SEVA Mela sent sometime back
for all of us to get more ideas to include.
We would solicit that there be more attendance for the next meeting on
17th July Saturday same time 2:30 PM.
This time the venue will be Aashray premises - Thanks Aashray for the
kind gesture to host this meeting.
The address is 309, Parthani Towers, Golconda X Roads, Mushirabad,
Hyderabad - 500 020.
Tel: 040-55822102, 27660729
Please Contact Ms. Grace Nirmala, Mobile: 9849356266 if you need
further directions.
After our meeting that day we happened to meet Mr. Manohar, Chairman
Kowtha Group of institutions who had kindly consented to provide
Kowtha Kamakoti Kalyana Nilayam premises for SEVA Mela on Oct 1 and
Oct 2. The total space available in this premises will exceed 7000
Sft. For those that came the other day to SEVA - this is the place
where Ayurveda Mela and the other textile exhibition was going on.
Additionally there is 1500+ sft inside also which could be used for
SEVA Mela.
We also met Mr. Sanjay of Rachnotsav (a big name Event Management
Organization) who has offered to provide help with ideas in managing
the whole event.
Please forward this to as many NGO's as possible for many of us to
come together and make it happen.
Look forward to meeting many more of us on 17th July Saturday at 2:30
PM at Aashrya premises.
Best Regards
Thiagarajan
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Here is a draft- some of this will change based on our evolving
discussions with the event team...
Seva Mela 2010
Connecting the Concerned.
Seva Mela is an expression of joy of service to humanity by bringing
together social workers, corporate, volunteers and colleges under one
roof. This year it is celebrated as part of Joy of Giving Week
About Joy of Giving Week:
The Joy of Giving Week is the beginning of a national movement. The
first of its kind for India, and for every single Indian. It is a
platform for all across the country to celebrate the joy of giving.
Whether you are a paan wala in Lucknow, a traffic cop in Mumbai, an
idli seller in Madurai, a millionaire in Delhi, a multinational
company in Bengaluru, a saree shop owner in Kolkata, a teenager in a
school or a college goer in Vadodara….This is your opportunity to
reach out to someone less privileged – by donating money, volunteering
time, providing your skills and even just saying a kind word to
someone who may not have expected it from you.
SEVA Mela 2010:
More than 150 organisations and volunteers exhibit their creative
talents and work through competition cum exhibition. This is a never
before opportunity to meet them all at Valluvar Kottam on Sep 26th and
27th.
The Events of Seva Mela:
Seva Park: A place to connect with different NGOs working for women,
children, heath, rural development and many more.
Seva Mall: Malls to change mindsets. The different stalls in the malls
gives you unique learning experience with fun.
Seva Talents: Competitions for Schools and Colleges on social issues
Seva Fest: Inclusive cultural programmes by students with different
abilities and talent.
Seva Entertainment/Food Festival: · Food Festival·
Special night: This can be a programme by special people. May be
Nethrodaya can work on this.Awards:
· C Subramanium Award for Young Social Scientist
· Business for People” Award: Corporate Social Responsibility
· Seva Award for grass root level worker
· Seva for the Doyan in Voluntary Sector.
· Seva Award for excellence in the field of Media.
Tentative schedule
Date: Sep 26th & Sep 27th
Major Events on day one: Sunday
Target Group: Common crowd
a. Inauguration
b. Food Festival in the evening
c. Seva Mall: Games and entertainment.
Day two: Monday
Target group: Organised crowd (Colleges, corporate, & schools)
a. Competitions for corporate, college and schools
b. Awards
Food Festival
Target group: General Public
Time: From morning to evening
No of Stall: Maximum 50 in the corridors of the valluvar kottam
Organised by Dutchess club
50 stalls for different food. 20 to be organised by Duthchess club and
the rest by NGOs.
Seva Park
Place where voluntary organizations, companies, and other service
providers come together to learn, to express to share with each
other.
Cause tourism:
The event would be managed by an NGO using various activities and
promotions for the particular cause.
Causes at Park:
n Children
n Women
n Disability
n Health care
n Rural Development
n Environment
n Old age
n Self Help Groups: Selling products of SHGs
n REUSED BINS: Space to collect old cloths, books, etc
Possible Ideas:
a. Tour Guides to take students, corporate around the place and introduce.
b. Registration coupon with raffle nos for prizes
c. Free for public on Sunday
d. Fee for corporate and college students on Monday
e. Each bay can have activities collectively decided by the NGOs
putting up stalls
f. NGOs can be given awards for best stall for awareness generation.
g. Activity and games in each stall
An amusement mall with different causes to change mindsets and provide
a new experience.
Some of the activities: ( for details see the excel attachment)
Granny tales and medicals would have old people telling stories to
children and teaching home Medicare.
Learn Braille, and read blind folded.
Play chess with visually challenged.
Learn to weave on charka.
Watch movie with hearing impaired students.
Drawing painting by kids.
Sell the products made by NGOs.
Learn dance with Trans gender.
Play Palanghuzhi with senior citizens.
Little senators (presentation on children parliament)
Light a candle in special way (learn it from special kids)
Photo gallery/ exhibition.
Quiz masters (simple quizs on health, education etc).
Dart.
Paramapadham,(life skill games).
Learn Art from Craft.
Organic food Stores.
Book Stalls.
Inventions and IT.
Raffle tickets sales.
Possible ideas
a. Some of the activities can be dispersed with in the park
b. Special corners with activities and games.
c. Participation charges in each games.
Seva Talents: (Optional if we decide to do on Monday)
Connecting Young Minds
Competitions are Schools and Colleges students on development issues.
The organizations here would be sponsoring the activity rganized for
the young talents.
For Schools:
1. Quiz
2. Street Theatre
3. Oratory competition
4. Donate used products (not a competition)
5. Painting competitions using organic/environment friendly materials
For Colleges:
a. Technical Colleges: May be we should tie-up with IIT/Villgro
organize some competition for the engineering students
b. Management Games for the MBA colleges
c. Visual arts: (Photo exhibition, 2 minutes movies etc)
d. Social work:
e. And Others
For Corporate:
· Corporate Quiz
o For manufacturing industry: Environment and quality quiz
o IT
o Hospitality
o General