Saluting the Sheroes of Puducherry

 We're delighted to announce the 1st edition of The Sheroes Award, a remarkable initiative by Deshna Foundation dedicated to celebrating, empowering, and inspiring women.

Over the years, we've been privileged to witness incredible stories of women being encouraged and reaching new heights, motivating us to make each edition even more impactful.

Please do come and join us to be a part of this empowering journey as we celebrate and uplift these extraordinary women. Your presence will contribute to making this event truly special!

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International Literacy Day 2017

India's literacy rate is at 74.04%. In a participative democracy like India, a literate population is required to build a nation with strong social, economic and political foundations. Literacy is an important starting point that brings awareness in people to work towards a better living.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.
Digital literacy is the set of competencies required for full participation in a knowledge society. It includes knowledge, skills, and behaviors involving the effective use of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs for purposes of communication, expression, collaboration and advocacy.

To create an awareness on the need of Literacy, Deshna foundation organized an event - ‘International  Literacy day’ on 10th September, at SOS Children's village, Puducherry with the theme of "Literacy in a digital world".

Morning session started with a presentation about Deshna Foundation and followed by a brief presentation about the theme"Literacy in Digital world" by Mr. Praveen Kumar. Also we spoke about the demerits of internet addictions, cyber bullying,etc,. Later the children and volunteers were split into micro groups.

The students were engaged with information on Digital literacy and practical sessions on common computer operations like searching contents on the web, use of email and the use of Digital Library. Their skills were tested through a contest on preparation of power point presentation about the generic topics and were neatly presented by the children. Best two teams were awarded with prizes by the chief guest Mr. Kabilan ( Suyam IAS Academy).

Deshna foundation would like to thank all the volunteers, Donors and faculties of SOS children's village for their kind support and cooperation.

Bag Distribution @ Government Primary school, Kalitheerthalkuppampet

We , Deshna Foundation distributed the school bags to the students of "Government primary school, kalitheerthaarkupam".

The event started off  with some ice breaking games with the kids and the teacher spoke about the purpose of our team members presence at the school. 

The students actively participated and also exhibited their talents on Thirukural reciting , singing etc,.

Then the bags were distributed to each and every children, during the distribution the parents also took part in the event.

Later we distributed the snacks to all the children.

Deshna foundation would like to thank all the individual donors especially , Team Pranavam ,  Spread the smiles and Aakkam Foundation for their tremendous support  in bringing the smiles in these buds.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.-Mother Teresa

Kids Carnival - the fecund fun

"The best part of life is to make someone smile" 

       On 31st January, we witnessed 200+ smiling hearts from various schools and NGO's enlightened through Kids Carnival'16 - the fecund fun organised by Deshna foundation.

Thunderous dance performance gave a sparkling start to the event which was further shaped by clay modelling making to understand that even a trash could be converted to treasure. 

Many Ramanujam's evolved through problem-solving tasks. The importance of air and water were understood by balloon blast and bottle filling events. Memory game proved that 6th senses do exist. Physical fitness a real boost for the children to contest sac race and a cluster of other events. 

 Finally the best team was crowned as The United champs 2016. We envisioned to conduct this event was to make the children participate, to create self-confidence in them and to make understand their participation rights. All this happened because of all the dedicated Volunteers and the donors who were at the front end and back end who made the Event a grand success!!! 

A big heart felt gratitude to one and all. 

 Be proud of yourself and Stay Blessed!! 

Pic Credit : Crazy Adorner Photography(Naveen) & Ketha sankar.

Govt high school, Mettupalayam - The United Champs of  Kids Carnival '16

                         

Kids Carnival - 2016 come lets celebrate

Kids Carnival is back again!!!

Like last year we gonna have kids carnival, for the Govt school and Non profit Institutions at Poothurai Fraternity Centre, Ousteri, Villupuram dist. It's going to be MAXXX FUN this time around.
 Fun games, Dance,Drawing and much more.....Come and join us.... 

Donations and sponsors for the event are welcome. 

For donations please contact us or Email us : deshnafoundation@gmail.com.

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Flood relief by Team Deshna

#chennai_flood  #chennai_micro  #TN_flood  #rain_relief 

Popular hashtags used in the social media during the recent flood which hit northern Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

       Worst hit rains of the century..... Chennai, kancheepuram, Cuddalore , Pondicherry regions faced heavy rainfall and flooding. Many for the first time saw such heavy rains in their lifetime. Government single handedly couldn't handle the emergency situation. The police, the military and many volunteers from various places  joined hands, rescued peoples to safer places, providing food and shelter. Rains have taught us there is much superior power than money , the nature. Not just Deshna Foundation joined the rain relief teams, there were inumerous souls who came into action for the rescue and rain relief.  A big Salute to those Unsung Heroes!!  

     We at Deshna Foundation started our Rain relief activity with the funds from Friends and their family. Started small but we ended up benefiting 3800 families at least through our rain relief kits in Cuddalore and Pondicherry Region. Team Deshna would like to thank the donors and the volunteers who helped us in the cause.  Our rain relief kit consist of the following material Rice,Sugar,Atta,Bathing soap, Detergent soap, Masala packets,Candle,Matchbox, Aquasafe water purifying sachets, Biscuit, Towel. 

Some of the images during the rain relief activity by Team Deshna

Visit our Facebook page for more Photos of the rain relief.

Diwali celebration

Deepawali or Diwali is certainly the biggest and the brightest of all Hindu festivals. It's the festival of lights (deep = light and avali = a row i.e., a row of lights)  which literally illumines the country with its brilliance, and dazzles all with its joy. The festival of Diwali is separated by different tradition, but what remains true and constant is the celebration of life, its enjoyment and goodness.

         
          This year, we at Deshna Foundation decided to spread the happiness and enjoyment with the kids and elderly people. Our team of volunteers despite of rains and their busy work schedule made this years deepawali event a great success..

  More than 150 beneficiaries which include differently abled children and elderly people have been benefited. We thank our donors for supporting us to share happiness with them. A delicious meal, fruits,sweets and snacks were distributed for the following organizations..

• Yurt on the wheels
• Jwala home for the special children.
• Juvenile observation home.
• Pushpa-Gandhi home for the old age people
• Baby sarah's home

A Big thank you for all the donors and volunteers for making this event a great success!!
And a Happy Diwali ! !

For more photographs of the event check out our Gallery page

International day of the girl child

On 11th October 2015, we had sucessfully conducted an Awareness Initiative “International Day of the Girl Child" with the theme of "The Power of the Adolescent Girls- Vision 2030" where, 112 children from Government Higher Secondary School, Thiruvandarkoil village has participated in the event .

"international Day of the Girl Child" event started with a motivation Presentation by our Volunteer Praveen kumar. The session covered globally about the Vulnerable status of the Children and exclusively about the Girl children. Following this sessio Session , we had a Essay writing and Elocution competitions to the children.

Of Course Mr. Anandraji sir without you we wont be reached this heights for this day . A Big Gratitude to Mrs. Usha Vassou , our Chief Guests- A women of simplicity,Mr.Sathyanaraya sir - Vice Principal , Mr.Ravi Issac we were honoured because of your presence. Thank you all for the Crispy words..

A special Gratitude to Baby sarahs home's Inspiring Buds Ruth, Karupannan, Ranjani, Visali vasan and Mary priya who are our students of Mission Bodhi , they did a great job. Kudos to you all!!!

Deshna Foundation expresses our sincere gratitude to all the dedicated Volunteers and the Donors who actively involved and contributed for the event and for making this event a grand success!!!

Naveen - The one man army for the Photography - kudos buddy!!!

Pic credit  : Crazy Adorner Photography

For more images check out Gallery page

“A Girl is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild