A walk down the memory lane!!

Today went through few dreams pictures.

 

 All the fun we had,
All the things we did &
All the times we spent
are amazing.

I can count every smile which came our way and proud to know that few dreams is the reason behind few. Its an amazing journey, truly an incredible journey. I really want to get into that again.

A lot of energy in all the kids and the wonderful friends who are always there to support. I could not believe that my entire work force supported me in different events. Its happy to see all the old faces, who volunteered for us. 

Not just for a time pass, everyone was so serious and genuinely interested in the cause. We have become busy with our lives and circumstances, but we never stopped thinking about few dreams. Our heart always tells us to get back to those activities which gave us immense satisfaction.

Hope to see all of us in action soon.

Welcome to Book Distribution Drive 2012

We are back with the book distribution drive for 2012. Please contact us for more details.

June - Search of schools in rural Bangalore

Its time for book distribution in the schools. We started different activities like Visiting schools, Collecting information, shortlisting the schools based on the need of the kids, budget discussions. Finally our volunteers did a wonderful job on collecting the information about 25 schools, out of which 23 schools are in need of books. We collected the class wise information and the number of note books that are necessary for each kid.

  Out of these 23, only 5 of them are old schools which we have visited before.18 new schools have been identified and this year the plan is to cover 1200+ kids. We are crossing the magical number of 1000 kids which we have been dreaming from the last couple of years. Now we have the target before us. We started searching for books. When we are trying to take the quotes from different dealers about the note books as we need 5000+ note books, we met few folks from Class mate(ITC) who really helped us in finalizing things. We dont want to compromise on the quality of books & stationary which we want to give the kids.So this year we are planning to get 80% of the books and stationary from Class mate. Even though its an extra bit of burden in terms of funding, we decided not to compromise and give them the best quality.


Thanks to the volunteers for all your efforts in doing the back ground work.

Few Dreams @ 4 years - May 1st 2012

Few Dreams is 4 years young now.

Could not celebrate any event as all the schools are having holidays during May. But happy to say that few of our volunteers started volunteering for Make a wish foundation celebrating the 4th anniversary of few dreams and we are helping them in the areas of Wish Identification, Wish fulfillment and contributions to fulfill the wishes. We wanted to continue the help which we are doing to Make a wish and at the same time want to expand our relation with Make a wish.

Congrats to all the wonderful people who supported us in this beautiful journey of 4 years.

62 Republic Day Celebrations

Few Dreams cordially invites you to the 62nd Republic day celebrations 
@ Hulimangala and Vaabasandra Govt Schools near electronic city, Bangalore. 


Please join us and spend some time with the kids.

-Few Dreams

Happy New Year 2012

Hello all,

Few Dreams was started with a Vision of bringing basic educational needs to the deserving and under privileged children.

Since then, over the years, with the support from few close friends, enthusiasts and well wishers, the cause and the drive to support the society has just got bigger. This year passing by has been very special for Few Dreams and yet there is so much to do and look forward to. Here is a quick snapshot of how the year has been for us

We are on FaceBook : Mid Year on 16th of July at 10.42am, Few Dreams was on Facebook. This was in line with the plan of getting more visibility, support and building awareness on the on the inspiration and theme behind Few Dreams. We already have over a 50 fan followers since then and counting. Going ahead, there is a lot planned so keep following us on FB !

http://www.facebook.com/FewDreams

We are 100k today : It has always been a dream for Few Dreams to reach 100K milestone in total contributions from sponsorships and contributions. The day was July 2nd, 2011. A big thanks for all those who make this a reality for us. We shortly plan to publish your account books online and get more transparency in the process.

http://fewdreams-activities.blogspot.com/

Adopt a child (Education) : In our continuous effort to support the educational needs for children who are in need, we sponsored the complete educational cost of 3 girls for their two years of higher secondary education. Our aim is to helping children learn and education which will help them lead to a better and sustainable life.

Supported the Learning Process (Books sponsored for 150+ students) - Poverty we believe is not much related to hunger but its a consequence of being uneducated thus making the children in capable of coping up with problems in the life related to their social or financial status. In an effort of help the underprivileged kids in understanding the value of the learning process, Few dreams visited a couple of schools this year. Lessons and guided classes were conducted by Few Dream members and volunteers. We sponsored books and educational needs for over 150+ children in 2 Government schools.

Celebrated Life with Kids ! - The timing could not have been any better to celebrate with Children - The day was Nov - 14th Children's Day and Jan 26th - Republic Day. The Few Dreams team visited government schools across electronic city. The Team conducted drawing competitions for kids across different age categories and also awarded prizes to the the most outstanding in each category. To have it fair, the team distributed chocolates, cakes, goodies and stationary to almost all the kids across these schools. To bring about a smile and a change in someones's life always feels special. If every you want to experience life at its best, just join us and spend a day with the Kids. You will know when we mean.

New Members joined the Wave - This year, we have added a lot more members and supporters who share the common cause.Please come and join us if you want to make a difference.

Lastly, all this would not have been possible without the extended support, contributions and well wishes from each one of you who are a part of the Few Dreams Family. Thanks for being there and helping us make a change and build a better future, a better India !

Have a wonderful year Ahead and thanks for all the support !

Regards,

Few Dreams Team

Few Dreams @ 1,00,000

Few Dreams @ 'ONE LAKH' .

Yes this is true. Reached one more land mark in the journey of few dreams.

Total amount of contributions we have collected till now has reached the 1 lakh land mark in this month.

Thanks to each and everyone of you who made this happen.

Next step is to publish all the contributions collected and spent till now and we would be updating monthly transactions online.

Shortly, we will have a meeting to discuss these and we want to give you all a picture on where do we stand today in terms of contributions and what should we do to increase these funds.

-Few Dreams

Book Distriubtion drive - Hulimangala and Vaabasandra - July 2nd 2011

First book distribution drive for the year 2011.This year we started the book distribution drive in Hulimangala and Vaabasandra schools near electronic city.

130+ students are covered in both the schools together. We distributed note books and other stationery. This is our 3rd book distribution drive in these schools. Most of the children were able to recognize us with our names which made all of us happy.

We gave chocolates to all the children in the school and the event came to an end with a group photo.

Our next target in this year is to cover 750+ students in diff schools under these book distribution drives.

Sashank, Guha, Sunil, Ravi, Vinay, Chaitanya sagar, Naresh, Praveen, Geeta, Srivalli are the volunteers for the event.

3 years @ Few dreams May 2011

Feeling very happy to write this blog today as we have completed 3 successful years for FEW DREAMS.

We started this group in May 1st 2008 with no idea on how to go ahead or what to do or where to start?Only thing we have in mind is to start a group and start doing good things.

As the time moved on, many helping hands and thinking minds came together as one, making the group big in terms of members and contributions.

Now we are in a stage where we are planning many events across the year in different schools.

Thank you all for your support.

- Few Dreams

Jan 26th Celebrations - Hulimangala Govt School - 2011

Starting this blog for the year wishing you all a happy new year.

All things were set ready and all of us assembled morning a silk board junction, bangalore at 7.15 AM. From there all of us headed to the school. Weather was good and all us enjoyed the ride going away from the city into a small village with full greenery around us. Reached the school by sharp 8 AM in the morning. We were able to see only a few kids in the school as we were early than the scheduled time. By 8.30 all the kids were in and the toughest problem we had there is arranging the flag post and the flag tied to it. Finally we put in all our efforts to arrange the flag post and the guest for the day was our friends mother and it was a wonderful oppurtunity for her to hoist the flag.

She hoisted the flag and still the flag was not waving in the sky as it had one other knot which need to be released. At last, it was a 5th class guy who climbed onto the flag post and released the knot. Every one saluted the flag and sang National Anthem. There were some traditional perfomances like Kolatam by the girls in the school.We also had the village level heads in the function. Sashank and Nikhil gave a nice speech to the kids in the school giving the message to them - Study well and we are there to support them. Village level heads distributed the sweets to kids and left the school.

We made all the kids quickly assemble in the class rooms and started the drawing competition. Most of them drew a village/house sideby a mountain and river. It was a nice participation from all the kids drawing different things. Collected all the sheets from them and our volunteers are the panel to decide the first and second prizes. In the mean , we were interacting with the kids asking them what they want to become in future. Many of them wanted to become doctors, engineers, police, heroes, dancers.

Distributed prizes to the winners in the drawing competition and also a special prize for Akash, a ahandicapped. All of them were happy receiving the prizes. All of us enjoyed the clap show by kids making different sounds from claps and this was the special attraction for the day. Distributed chocolates and biscuits for them and concluded the event. Took a group photo with all the kids and left the school.

Special thanks to all the people who were present for the day. Sunil, Ravi, Swaroop, Sashank, Sravan, Guha, Nikhil, Lakshmi, Geeta, Santosh, Kriti, keerthi, dhana laskhmi, Radha Krishna, Vinay, Tanisha, Ullas are some of our members for the day.

Annual Day Function - SECA - Jayanagar - Bangalore- Nov 21st 2010

This was the last activity of the year 2010.Its from 2 years we have been seeing these kids and sponsoring education for some of them. We were all happy to be with the kids for 2 years watching them closely, going for outings with them, taking them for games mornings, attending some of their bday celebrations.

We assembled near the function hall on time and soon the function started at 6.30PM. Kids came up with amazing dance performances and nice skits in english which made the evening lively and entertaining.Highlight of the day was the performance by the kids for a patriotic song exhibiting different cultures in India. Also the song by the SECA volunteers made the audience enjoy the evening.It was very nice to see the happiness in the parents when their kid was performing on the stage.

Followed by these SECA team gave their annual report and thanked all the teams which helped them throughout the year. Also they gave a certificate "a small thank you for spending time with the kids". To our surprise, we were the first team on the stage that night to receive the certificate. It was a memorable moment for all our members on the stage to hear a big thank you from the kids ."Dear Few Dreams Team - We thank you for spending your time with us, helping us learn and letting us have the fun" was the message on it.Few other groups which helped them in conducting "Theatre and art classes" also received these certificates.

Coming to the last part of the day, Pragati group, a set of girls from the Swagath community had prepared some Hand made gifts which were kept there for a sale. Most of us bought a few gifts to encourage the kids.The event came to an end by distributing snacks to all the people. All the SECA and few dreams volunteers together had a snap and thats all for the day.,

Sunil, Ravi, Santosh,Bhageerath,Siva, Chenduri, Devaki,Praveen varma, Subhash, Sanshank, Sravan were some of the members who attended this annual day.

Thanks for reading all these and catch you with the updates for next activity.

Independence Day Celebrations @ Vaabasandra school Aug 15th 2010

Our plan was to celebrate Independence day along with the kids at Vaabasandra school. All of us were very excited about being a part of the celebrations with children on an Independence day. Most of the people responded well to our invitation and made their time for the kids. The school staff were also very happy to see so many of us actively participating. By the time we reached the school, it was 8 AM and all the kids were waiting for us. It was a very nice gathering of 20+ volunteers, 4-5 teachers, 20+ local people, 70-80 kids.

The program started with the flag hoisting by the Head master of the school and the village president followed by Vandemataram and later speeches of the head master and all the local heads of the village. The kids performed dances and songs for some patriotic songs. Even though most of us could not understand kannada, it was nice to be a part of the celebrations. All the small girls in sarees really performed well and everyone liked Krishna between all these girls.

Some of our volunteers (sashank and girish) gave their message to the children in kannada. Sashank was garlanded by the head master of the school on the stage along with the village president. It was the sign of respect that we got from the school. All the people mentioned about the volunteers and our help to the school in the last couple of years, which made all of us happy.

Prizes were distributed for the winners in all the sports events conducted in the school. Village heads distributed 2 note books per head to all the students in the school. Sweets are distributed to all the people and the kids went back to the class rooms.

As soon as they assembled in the class rooms, the drawing competition started.
We distributed all the chocolates and biscuits which we got to all the children. We also had an afternoon meal in the school. We left the kids for their lunch and our volunteer panel selected the winners for drawing. All of them were again arranged in the ground for the final prize distribution of the day after the lunch. We distributed the prizes for all the winners and the drawings made us to give some consolation prizes too for the young kids for their creativity.

We took group photos with all the kids and the teachers in the school. Finally we said them bye and also dropped some of the kids at their home on our way back.

Members from both the teams Few Dreams and Drishtikon actively participated in the celebrations. Ravi,Sunil, Sashank, Vinay, Samrat, Swaroop, Teja, Sravanth, Shubho, Rama Krishna, Santosh, Shiva, Satish, Vamsi, Girish, Naresh, Sagar, Kavya, Radha Krishna were the volunteers for the day.

Our next event would be the drawing competition at Hulimangala School in September last week.

Blog- http://fewdreams-activities.blogspot.com/
Photos- picasaweb.google.co.in/projectfewdreams?showall=true

-Few Dreams

Book Distribution Drive -Phase 2 & Drawing Competition @ Tumkur - July 24th 2010

All the things were set and we got ready to start our 2nd book distribution drive of the year in Tumkur which is 90 KM from Bangalore. We started at 7AM on 3 bikes and a car with all the books and stationery and reached tumkur by 9AM. It was a splendid drive for all of us and we were enough lucky that it didn’t rain on that day.

They were two govt primary schools which were located in Mysore Army Reserve police academy in Tumkur. The strength of both the schools together is around 130 kids.We interacted with the kids as most of them understood Telugu and conducted the drawing competition. They have come up with some amazing drawing in no time and now its turn to be the panel and decide the first and second prizes. It was a tough call for us to decide the winners as most of them deserve a prize

In the mean time some of us started distributing books and this time we gave them all the stationery they need including the graph books and geometry sets for the higher classes. Finally the list of winners for drawing was decided and we gave them prizes. After that we played some time with the kids and some of us had lunch with them in the afternoon meal program.

The second school which we covered in this phase is an Urdu medium school. It was a nice interaction with them in the classroom, knowing their names and all of them even remembered our names as well. Pradeep, a native of tumkur helped us by guiding us about the routes, restaurants and places to visit in and around Tumkur.

We took a group photo with all the kids and finally said bye to them .It was a heartfelt moment for all the volunteers , with the Kids standing and waving there hands in good bye. All the volunteers were satisfied and all of us went to our school days for some time.
On our way back, we visited DD hills, Namara chilume and some other ancient temples which are 1000 years old. It was a nice road leading us through all the small villages on the way filled with greenery.

Special thanks to Sashank and his group Drishitkon for making all these events a great success. Ravi, sunil, swaroop, samrat, sravan, bhanu, pradeep, sashank. Teja, shubho were the volunteers for the day.

Our next event was Independence Day Celebrations at Vaabasandra school

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Book Distribution Drive- -phase 1 – Hulimangala and Vaabasandra schools-July 17th 2010

This is our first book distribution drive. Drishtikon is our partner group for all the book distribution activities of the year. The plan is to distribute books and other necessary stationery for the children in the government schools of Vaabasandra, Hulimangala.

First we went to Vaabasandra school. This school is 3KM away from Electronic city and 1KM from Treamis International school. The strength of this school is around 95. It has classes from 1st-7th. We reached the school around 8 AM in the morning and by the time we went there all the kids are waiting for us. We just had an introduction with all the kids in the school and started the distribution of books and chocolates. Finished the distribution from 1st class to 4th class in no time and then we moved on to the higher classes. Class by class we completed the distribution soon and spent some time with the kids.

This time it’s a good attendance from our volunteer’s side. Around 15 of us were present on the day. All of us had a nice time in the school remembering our school days.
Kids came up with different activities like singing songs, Mimicry etc which were really good and all of us enjoyed. Finally said bye to the kids and moved on to our next school around 9.45 AM.

Hulimangala School- This school is about 3Km from Electronic city. The strength of this school is around 60. It has classes from 1st-7th. We included another small school – Nanjapura govt primary school where the strength is around 15. We did the same things done in the previous school.

They had a nice class room filled with the art work of the kids. The mimicry done by all the kids together making different sounds was really amazing. Finally we took a group photo with the entire school and concluded the event.

With these 2 schools this year we have given books to around 170 kids. Our next plan to cover 2 more schools in Tumkur covering another 130 kids and making the count 300.
Thanks to all the volunteers for making the event a success -Ravi, sunil, swaroop, vinay, Sashank, Shubo, santosh, vamsi, bhageerath, shiva, soudamini. Hope we would see more volunteers for our next events.
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Few Dreams @ 2 years

Few Dreams started exactly 2 years back (May 2008).
Now Few Dreams is two years young. Congrats to all the team.
Extremely thankful to each and everyone for being a part of this.
Thanks for all your ideas and thoughts shared.
It’s just like we started our journey in small steps and the real time has come. Let’s transform this into a big one.
On activities front, we are waiting for the schools to restart their academic year so that we can donate books in some of the schools. We are looking forward to do more activities in this year than what we did in the last 2 years.
In terms of volunteers, we have hard working dedicated volunteers, but still we need more active people who can volunteer the activities.
On other hand, we are planning to increase the contributions. As a part of this we have plans to register our group and also start a bank account in the name of Few Dreams for the collection of funds.
Meeting regularly, we have been planning to do this from long time, but still it remained as a challenge for us. Requesting all of you to just give your feedback/inputs/ideas/thoughts etc and participate in most of the activities.
Thanks to all the members from Swagath group and Sashank from Drishtikon for helping us in all the ways they could.
We are stream lining all the plans and activities for this year and will let you know the details shortly.
Once again thank you,
Yours,
Project Few Dreams

New Year with Kids

Starting this post with wishing you Happy New Year.Jan 1st 2010We thought of starting activities from the first day of this year. We planned to visit 2 schools near electronic city and celebrate new year with the children there.All of us started together from WIPRO at 12.00pm to our first school Hulimangala . About 50 Kids were waiting for us to come as they know about our visit, We interacted with all the kids in the school by knowing their names and trying to remember their names.The kids tried to produce different kinds of sounds like starting of a train engine, Bee around a flower , Snake etc. We started giving chocolates and biscuit packets to all the kids and started towards our next place Vaabasandra.Its almost time for lunch by the time we reached the school and about 75 kids are there in the school, Teachers gathered all the kids to a class room. Kumar and sashank gave them a nice speech in kannada to study well . We wished them happy new year, distributed them the snacks and back to office from there.The kids and teachers are very happy about our visit to the schools on the new year.Its a nice gathering of volunteers too on the new year. Its a nice feel for all of us to be there with the children on the new year.More than half of the volunteers came for the first time for an activity like this.Ravi Teja,Sunil,Santosh,Shiva,Bhageerath,Sashank,Jayaraj,Kumar,Ravi,Bindu and Bhavani are some of of the people who participated in the activity.

Project Few Dreams

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Few Dreams and Me

I wanted to tell you abt some people who are working for this dream.In my life friends mean a lot.So this is not my idea which gathered all of us.Its the idea of my friend Praveen Varma and later we turned it into this dream which we are seeing now.You all need to know abt some more names like Ravi who is contributing all these days.Sairam making things easier for me. These two guys made me things easier in hyderabad and me taking care of things in banglore. Swaroop for starting this blog. Ravi teja, Chenduri, Kalyani, Sujana and Eshwari giving me support right from the start of the dream. We also have Arun, Sanoop, Ridhi, Archana, Jahnavi, Udaya, Satwika who are always with me extending their support to the project. This list of friends goes on and on. There are many others who came voluntarily into this. Out motto is to serve, To do good. To make people do better things than what they are doing. Lets start the things. There are many things in life like affections, relations and above all love which is the bond between all of us. Lets start loving people. I am really happy about the team. A team can do things. We believe in this. I would like to mention abt one more guy murali krishnam raju - a good friend of mine, sharing his thoughts and helping me in giving a shape to the future of our dream .

-Sunil

Crossing the First Mile Stone

Few Dreams started as a very small thought, but in a very short time it reached its first Mile Stone. We started gathering every person who had similar thoughts and were willing to be a part in all our endeavours. In a very short time our group has grown to 20+ members. We are also very happy to say that we have crossed the Rs.10,000 mark,Our first Mile Stone,this month. We never anticipated such a huge response. Each brick put together makes a building, each lending hand put together would make a great nation,they say. Thats what we are thriving for and with the response we are getting from our members, we see no obstacles ahead.
A TEAM can do anything, we believe. Our next Mile Stone is not 20,000........its 50,000. We got the confidence that we can achieve it with all the support from our members.

The Few Dreams Instigation

Few Dreams is a thought that struck Sunil.M when he saw an incident.