Introduction to Seva Mela 2013

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Seva Mela – 2013 An event Connecting People with Social Causes

5th and 6th October, 2013

Hitex Exhibition Center, Hyderabad

http://www.yousee.in/events/1/seva-mela

Organised by

Volunteers and United Care Development Services

www.yousee.in

Promoted by

United Way of Hyderabad

www.unitedwayhyderabad.org

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Table of Contents

Introduction to Seva Mela 2013 .................................................................................. 3

History ...................................................................................................................... 3

How it happened ..................................................................................................... 4

Introduction to United Way Hyderabad & YouSee ......................................... 8

Outcomes of Seva Mela ................................................................................................ 9

Number of Participants ......................................................................................... 9

Awareness Creation and Collaborations ........................................................... 9

Giving to NPOs ....................................................................................................... 9

Resources for the Event .............................................................................................. 10

Volunteering........................................................................................................... 10

In Kind .................................................................................................................... 10

Financials ....................................................................................................................... 12

Annexures ...................................................................................................................... 13

Participant NonProfit Organisations (NPOs) ................................................. 13

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Introduction to Seva Mela 2013

Seva Mela is a two day event being organized at Hyderabad since the year 2010, during the Joy of

Giving Week celebrated during the week from 2nd to 8th of October, to provide an interface

between Non Profit Organisations (NPOs) and Public. The event gives an opportunity for NPOs to

share information about several activities taken up by them to serve the under privileged. It also

gives an opportunity for people to see the good work being done by NPOs, appreciate their work

and support their work by making charitable contributions and also tie up with them for volunteer

activities. The event connects NPOs working for Education, Health, Environment, Old Age,

Disabled and Shelterless, Women and Child Welfare, and Social Work Enablers and Resource

Providers.

The evolution and growth of Seva Mela is captured in the following table:

Year NPO Participants Venue at Hyderabad Dates

2010 21 Kowtha Kalyan Mandap, Padmarao

Nagar 1st & 2nd, October

2011 57 Zoarastrian Club, Secunderabad 7th & 8th, October

2012 65 Zoarastrian Club, Secunderabad 6th & 7th, October

2013 103 HITEX Exhibition Center 5th and 6th

, October

History

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Pre Seva Mela preparation:

Awareness Creation – lots of ways have been explored to reach out to

the maximum crowd for the Seva Mela.

Auto Ads – Nearly 500 Autorikshaws carried information about the

Seva Mela 2013 in concentrated areas to reach the targeted segment

of audience.

Posters were printed reaching out to the

colleges and corporates.

Press meet was held on 3-Oct-13 at Novatel, Hitech City, Press

releases; interviews were add-on in getting the message across to the larger

crowd. The print and electronic media has also lent their support in covering

the pre and post event.

Posters were also shared among various social media platforms like

facebook, twitter by event organisers and also various participant NPOs.

Volunteers and Donors visiting the Seva Mela were invited to look up the event link

http://www.yousee.in/events/1/seva-mela to view the list of the participating NPOs and commit

and contribute to the volunteer opportunities and in-kind donation requests posted by them.

The Inaugural ceremony has begun by cutting the ribbon and was made open to the

General public by the chief guest Mr AK Khan at 10:00 AM on the 5th October. The program has

started by Ganesh Vandana and followed by a group dance performed by the visually impaired

children from Arpan Trust. The Guests for the day addressed the gathering by giving some

inspiring notes on the Joy of Giving. The Mela was kept open for the public from 10 am to 8 pm

on both the days.

Inaugural Ceremony

How it happened

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NPOs were allotted stalls and standees to display their material and showcase their work to

the visitors coming on both the days. The layout banner displayed at different junctions helped the

visitors to plan their visit in an easy way. Below is the layout of the allotment done for the NGOs

in Seva Mela.

Food stalls were also arranged by the NGOs for visitors to serve wide platter comprising

of traditional, organic and also regular food options.

NPO Stalls

Food Stalls

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A variety of entertainment programs such as music programs, small skits, plays, dance

programs were performed by beneficiaries of NPOs and volunteers.

The Closing was also the bridge to the future in terms of collaborations among the NGOs. It has

also marked to show appreciation for the quality contributions and commitments made by the

volunteers. The mela came to the culmination with an enthralling dance performance by the

children of Aim for Seva, followed by the guests addressing the gathering.

Cultural Events

Closing Ceremony

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Seva Mela had been a unique experience for Volunteers, as well as participant NGOs. Here

are a few testimonials received sharing their experience about Seva Mela 2013.

“Seva Mela, a unique stage that gathered about 103 NGOs working for a

cause to make some difference to the lives of deprived, challenged and

unfortunate citizens. Being a part of this Mela provided an opportunity to

interact with various NGOs and also help in volunteering, the soul of joy of

giving. Sharing my personnel experience I would like to put it few simple points.

1. Managing of multiple things: Being volunteer implies that you are the person who wears

multiple caps. Help in managing various in-kind donations, help facilitating NGOs, attending

for the requirements mentioned by the NGOs

2. Knowing about various NGOs: An interactive session with various NGOs has been good

refreshing experience. Well direct interaction with people is far too better than just goggling on

net. I suppose it’s a better way to spend weekends.

3. Event Coordination: Certainly reminded me of my fresher year at college where I had being

event coordinator. A deja-vu feeling of happy days.

In a nutshell, it’s been a bracing experience and I’m humbled to be part of the event. I would like

to thank YouSee for this organizing this event.”

“Valmiki Foundation participated for the first time in SEVA-MELA

2013 organized by YouSee and United way hyderabad. It was

pleasures to meet different NGO’s and understand the social cause for which they are working

for. The second day helped each NGO to interact with each other forming a network for future

reference. It was a learning experience indeed.

We were impressed with the excellent services provided on both the days. Really appreciate if this

event is repeated every year so that it givens an opportunity for different NGO’s to showcase their

work and achievements.”

Krishna Teja, Volunteer

Valmiki Foundation

Testimonials

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Event Promoter

United Way of Hyderabad (UWH) is a premium volunteer led, non –

profit organization that endeavours to leverage corporate, employee and

leadership talent for community development.

Vision: Create a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through

education, income stability and healthy lives.

Mission: Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities and advance towards

common good.

Motto: GIVE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER- LIVE UNITED

Event Organizer

United Care Development Services (UC) is a Philanthropy Exchange which

provides a wider giving platform through the Four Donations For

Development (Chaar Daan, Chaar Dhaam) initiative, which invites

contributions in the form of

1. Volunteering(Shram Daan)

2. In Kind Donations(Vastu Daan)

3. Waste Donations (Kachra Daan)

4. Financial(PostPay) Donations(Dhan Daan)

UC's objective is to generate Resources for Result oriented social work, in the areas of Education,

Health and Environment.

Introduction to United Way Hyderabad & YouSee

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Outcomes of Seva Mela

Registrations for the mela were invited from NGOs working on different causes. 103 NPOs,

working for Education, Health, Environment, Old Age, Disabled and Shelterless, Women and

Child Welfare, and Social Work Enablers and Resource Providers had participated in Seva Mela

2013.

This mela had provided an interface between Non Profit Organizations (NPOs) and Public. The

event gave an opportunity for NPOs to share information about several activities taken up by them

to serve the under privileged. It also helped showcase the good work being done by NPOs,

appreciate their work and support their work by making charitable contributions and also tie up

with them for volunteer activities. 103 NPOs, working for Education, Health, Environment, Old

Age, Disabled and Shelterless, Women and Child Welfare, and Social Work Enablers and

Resource Providers participated in Seva Mela. it has been a very good place to interact with other

NGOs and collaborate with them in working for the upliftment of underserved communities

Visitors may wish to give ANYTHING to the NGO of their choice - Groceries, Clothes, Books,

Money, Papers, Utensils, electronic waste etc, which can be used by the under privileged.

Corporate executives also visited to get an understanding of different services being offered and

may choose to support it through their CSR activities. UC collected the requirements of NGOs and

published in the website and requested people to donate for these requirements. All the donations

made by the visitors were documented for the records. All the in kind donations received at the

mela were distributed to the NGOs who requested. The total contributions received by all the

NPOs was captured live on UC website and the information regarding the InKind donations

received by the participant NPOs is available at http://www.yousee.in/events/1/seva-mela.

Awareness Creation and Collaborations

Number of Participants

Giving to NPOs

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Below snapshort gives a note on the in-kind donations received and distributed to the NGOs

during Seva Mela.

Resources for the Event

Volunteers from various groups like students from Aurora Business School and Aurora Degree

College, Employees from various companies and voluntary groups like NArmy have joined Seva

Mela and made the event a grand success.

Awareness Creation

The event was managed with very limited financial resources and this was possible on account of

generous InKind contributions made by several Individual and Corporate donors, some of whom

are mentioned here.

Press Meet was hosted with the support from Novatel, Hitech city and Perfet Relations on 3rd

October to spread awareness about the event.

The Atlanta Foundation provided their Standees for display of NPO material at the Venue and to

also display outdoor publicity posters at the venue

Volunteering

In Kind

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Hitex Exhibition Center offered the place along with

all their spacious common facilities at a very low and

nominal price, details of which are shared in the financial

section of this report, making it possible to hold such a large

event of this kind with a very small budget.

Namdhari Exhibit Systems provided the entire infrastructure for stalls and stage at a very

reasonable cost in the spirit of joy of giving.

Krishnamurthy Institute of Technology and

Engineering (KITE) provided their college

minibus for transport for volunteers and some of

the participating NPO members from different

parts of the city to the venue, on the second of the

event on the 6th of October.

Venue Support

Transport Support

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Financials

The following expenses were incurred by United Care Development Services in Organising the

Seva Mela 2013. All the Vendors and Services providers volunteered to charge nominal amounts

for providing services in organising the event. This, coupled with a lot of in Kind Contributions

has enabled such a large event as Seva Mela to be organised on a very small budget. The

organising team and volunteer’s appreciate the gesture made by all the service providers:

S No Item Vendor Cheque Number Cheque Date Amount (INR)

1 Stalls Namdhari Exhibit

Systems

000108(Rs100,000),

000128(Rs.1,20,225 ),

000129(Rs 4,495)

03-Oct-13,

11-Nov-13,

11-Nov-13

2,24,720

2 Venue

Hyderabad

International Trade

Expositions Ltd

000099 25-Sep-2013 51,826

3 Auto Ads AD Solutions 000093 (Rs 27,600),

000106 (Rs. 6,900)

20-Sep-13,

30-Sep-13 34,500

4 Posters K Suresh 000097 24 Sep 2013 4,000

5 Flexes for Venue +

Volunteer Certificates K Suresh 000111 5 Oct 2013 4,360

6 Press Meet and Event

Backdrops and Standees

Reimbursed to

Vardhaman ,

Vedor-RatanRaj

000115 12 Oct 2013 26,054

7 Sound System

Reimbursed to

Vardhaman ,

Vedor-Hottracks

000115 12 Oct 2013 12,000

8 Water Supply

Reimbursed to

Vardhaman ,

Vedor-Royal

Spring

000115 12 Oct 2013 2,810

9 Police Permission Fee Reimbursed to

Nagesh Babu NM 000123 30 Oct 2013 1,300

Total

3,60,270

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Annexures

Participant NonProfit Organisations (NPOs)

S.No NGO Name Website Contact Person Email ID

1 Aarohi Blood Bank www.aarohibloodbank.com Aditi Kishore aarohibloodbank@gmail.com

2 Aashray home for

destitute and poor www.aashraysociety.org K. Madhavi latha madhavi10573@gmail.com

3 Aashyam parents

Association Aruna arunathandrangi@gmail.com

4 Abhaya Foundation www.abhayafoundation.org

CS Balachandra

Sunku balachandra.cs@nccinfra.com

5 Abhaya Kshethram

Charitable Trust www.abhayakshethram.org Thasleem Sultana sthasleem@yahoo.com

6 ADHYA EDUCATION

SOCIETY www.adhya.org Madhulika madhu@adhya.org

7 AIM FOR SEVA www.aimforseva.org Krishna Reddy krishnaaims@gmail.com

8 AITIA www.aitia.in Akshara Kulkarni aksharakulkarni21@gmail.co

m

9 Amma Nanna Anadha

Ashram

10 AMMA Social Welfare

Association (ASWA)

www.ammasocialwelfareassocia

tion.blogspot.in

Sreenivasa Prasad ammasocialwelfareassociation

@gmail.com

11 Ananda Charitable Trust

Ramana Chari

12 Ananda Foundation www.anandafoundation.in Seetha Anand seethaanand@yahoo.com

13 Angeerasa Charitable

Trust Suren k poruri sporuri@hotmail.com

14 AP Balahakula

Sangham AchyutaRao

apbalalahakkulasangham@gm

ail.com

15

Aparna Novel Society

for Welfare and

Research

www.aparnaanswer.org MVR Kumar answersociety@gmail.com

16 ARRPAN TRUST

Sridhar arrpan.ram@gmail.com

17

AMAN VEDIKA

,AMAN BIRADARI

TRUST

Neelesh amanvedika@yahoo.com

18 Asha Hyderabad www.ashanet.org Giri Kolanupaka kolanupaka@gmail.com

19

Asha Jyothi

Handicapped Welfare

Society

www.ashajyothiindia.org

M. Madhavi

Latha Mallavalli79@gmail.com

20 ASHRAY AKRUTI www.ashrayakruti.org

DEVAKI

KUMAR ashrayakruti@yahoo.com

21 ASRITHA

S. Nagaraja Asritha.ap@gmail.com

22 Atlanta Foundation www.atlantafoundation.org Manju manju.navalagi@atlantafounda

tion.org

23 Babul Films www.babulfilms.in

GANGADHAR

PANDAY gangadhar@babulfilms.in

24 Banjara Development

Society

www.banjaradevelopmentsociet

y.org

Sambha Shiva

Rao msraobds@yahoo.co.in

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25 BREAK THE SILENCE

Georgina Kumar scanindia2013@gmail.com

26 Caring Hands for

Animals www.chfanimals.webs.com Padmaja chfanimals@gmail.com

27

Center For social

Initiative and

Management

www.csim.in K.L.Srivastava klsrivat@yahoo.com

28 Centre for Education

Innovations www.educationinnovations.org Shailaja shailaja@cms-india.org

29 Centre for Social

Service www.cssvision.org V. Vijayalakshmi vemuri.vl2012@gmail.com

30 Cherish www.cherish-foundation.org Neelima Simhadri neel914@yahoo.co.in

31 Chetana Foundation

A.TAGOOR Chetana.ngohyderabad2004@

gmail.com

32 CHEYUTHA

K.L.Priya cheyutha@leprahealthinaction.

in

33 CHORD www.chordindia.org

SUMAN C.

MALLADI sumanmalladi@yahoo.com

34 Council For Green

Revolution www.cgrindia.org Srinidhi greenrevolutionap@gmail.com

35 DESIRE Society www.desiresociety.org NEELIMA ATA

L MOHANTY mohanty_desire@yahoo.com

36 Don Bosco Navajeevan www.dbnjhyd.org A.M. Raja Reddy amrajareddy@yahoo.com

37 Freedom Foundation www.thefreedomfoundation.org Radha diyachildcare.freedom@gmail.

com

38 Glow tide

Mustafa Hashmi mmalihashmi@yahoo.com

39 Grameen Mall

Foundation www.grameenmall.blogspot.in

Sitaram

Komaragiri sitaram@grameenmall.in

40 Happy to Serve

Nagesh happytoserve@outlook.com

41 HCHW

Praveen hchwap@gmail.com

42 Heal A Child

Foundation www.heal-a-child.org Sridevi help@heal-a-child.org

43 Hematology Foundation www.thfh.org Dr. Gayatri gaya3k2002@yahoo.co.in

44

Hyderabad Round Table

8 Charitable Trust-

Project 511

www.project511.org

Mr. Sunil V

Linga Reddy sunilvlingareddy@gmail.com

45 Hyderabad Zilla Mahila

Mandalula Samakhya PVS Prakasamma hzmms.ashreyae@gmail.com

46 I&Eye - Sharing Vision http://iandeye-

sharingvision.blogspot.in/

P.V. Kiran

Kumar Kiran.Pamidimarry@adp.com

47 Indian Federation of

Road Safety www.ifros.org Vinod kanumala.vinod@ifros.org'

48 Integrated Welfare

Society Venkat Reddy kvreddyiws@gmail.com

49 ISHA Education www.ishaeducation.org

Prabhu

Loganathan

prabhu.loganathan@ishavidhy

a.org

50 Isha Shoppe www.ishashoppe.com Ravi kumar ravi.namana@gmail .com

51 JCI HYDERABAD

SYNERGY www.jcihydsynergy.org Rohit Kabra rohit_kabra04@yahoo.com

52 KGNM Trust www.kgnmthyd.org Padhmavathi srkespadma@yahoo.co.in

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53 Kriti Social Initiatives www.kriti.org.in Himani Gupta himani@kriti.org.in

54 LEPRA Society www.leprasociety.org

Noel Robinson

Michael robin@leprahealthinaction.in

55 LIGHT

P. Syamala Devi syamaladevip@gmail.com

56 LORD WELFARE

ORGANISATION k. Suresh kumar

suriione@gmail.com ;

suriione@lordwelfare.org

57 Lupus Foundation of

INDIA www.lupusindia.org

jyotshna@lupusindia.org

58 Magic Bus India

Foundation www.magicbus.org

Dhimant

Chovatia dhimant@magicbusindia.org

59 Mahila Dakshatha

Samiti Dr Saroj Bajaj

rajarajeswaribank@yahoo.co.i

n

60 Mahila Sanatkar

Imran mahilasanatkar@gmail.com

61 Make a Difference

Foundation www.makeadiff.in Nikitha

dreamtee.hyderabad@makeadi

ff.in

62 Manchikalalu

Organization www.manchikalalu.org.in Sarath Kumar P

daddy_manchikalalu@yahoo.c

o.in

63 Medha Parents

Association Meena Y medha.regd.598@gmail.com

64

MEENAKSHI

VENKATRAMAN

FOUNDATION

Sethuraman gvsethu@yahoo.co.in

65 MESH www.mesh.org.in Rani Mary ranig_thota@yahoo.co.in

66 Naandi Foundation www.naandi.org K Chandrika chandrika.k@naandi.org

67 NIRMAAN

ORGANIZATION www.nirmaan.org

Rajesh

Tamadapally

rajesh.tamadapally@gmail.co

m

68

PAIN RELIEF AND

PALLIATIVE CARE

Society

www.palliativecarepartners.in PRIYAKUMARI priya_chandran70@yahoo.co.i

n

69 Peaceful Earth

Foundation Monish Dhawan

peacefulearthfoundation@gma

il.com

70 PEOPLE FOR

ANIMALS(PFA) www.peopleforanimals.org Dattaya Joshi pfahyderabad@gmail.com

71 Priyadarshini Seva

Mandali www.psmngo.org Vamshi Krishna psmkmm@gmail.com

72 Roshni www.roshnihyd.org Balajie balaji_abi@yahoo.com

73 Rotaract Club of

Hyderabad East Suboth Kumar subothkumar14@gmail.com

74

ROTARY CLUB OF

SECUNDERABAD

WEST

ANIL KUMAR desai3150@gmail.com

75 Rural Development

Foundation www.rdfindia.org

76 SAFA SOCIETY www.safaindia.org Rubina Mazhar rubina@safaindia.org

77 SAMSKRITA

BHARATI www.samskritabharati.in Balajie balaji_abi@yahoo.com

78

Samvit Sudha ( A

Division Of Parijnan

Foundation)

www.chitrapurmath.net Vinati vinatiku@gmail.com

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79 Sankalp Women's

Support Alliance www.sankalpforwomen.org

Anita

Narayanasamy anita@sankalpforwomen.org

80 SERUDS www.serudsindia.org Mallikarjuna info@serudsindia.org

81

Seva Free and

Confidential Counseling

Centre

www.sevacounselingcentre.org

Thaigarajan

Arunachalam Seva.hyd@gmail.com

82 Shanmuga Society for

Mentally Challenged

SUKHADA

GIRIDHAR

shanmugaschool@rediffmail.c

om

83 Society to Save Rocks www.saverocks.org Frauke Quader, frauke@saverocks.org

84 Sree Educational

Society Jayashree sreeedusociety@gmail.com

85 Sri Ramakrishna Seva

Samithi Dr KVSR Sarma vsrskota@yahoo.com

86 Sri Vidhyas Centre for

the Special Children www.srividhya.org

V. Shanthi

Venkat shanthi@srividhyaschool.com

87 Teach For India www.teachforindia.org Saahil Sood saahil.sood@teachforindia.org

88 Tharuni blog.tharuni.org Mamatha

Raghuveer amamatha06@gmail.com

89

THE AKSHAYA

PATRA

FOUNDATION

www.akshayapatra.org

Shruthidhara

Dasa srtdasa@gmail.com

90 United Care

Development Services www.yousee.in Gunaranjan, gunaranjan@yousee.in

91 United Way of

Hyderabad www.unitedwayhyderabad.org Rekha S

rekha@unitedwayhyderabad.o

rg

92 Valmiki Foundation www.valmikifoundation.org Prameela service@valmikifoundation.or

g

93 Vanuards www.vanguardz.com Sowmya Deepa sowmya.ganduri@gmail.com

94 Youth for Seva www.youthforseva.org Sesha Aditya seshaditya.kanduri@gmail.co

m

95 Yuva Varadhi www.yuvavaradhi.com Rajesh rajeshvoruganti02@gmail.com

96 Blood Cross Society www.bloodcrosssociety.org Dr Vijay Kumar bloodcrosssociety@gmail.com

97

Alzheimer's and Related

Disorders Society of

India

www.ardsihyd.org Koti Babu ardsihyd@gmail.com;

kotibabu76@gmail.com

98 Lets Vote www.letsvote.in

Prof.

K.Subbarangaiah profksr@gmail.com

99 Aashayein Foundation www.aashayein.org Anjaneyulu Ch chintaanjaneyulu@gmail.com

100 Yuva Seva

101 Lead World Foundation

102 Destiny Foundation www.ammaorphanage Kalpana S Sinha ammaorphanage@gmail.com

103

Center For

Environmental

Protection And Cultural

Exchange

www.cepceindia.org

Vamshidhar

Kalidasu vamsi.k@cepceindia.org