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ATMA CHARITY WINGLADIES CLUB

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRASCHENNAI-600 036

18th December 2009

Dear Sir/Madam,As in the previous years, the Atma Charity Wing of IIT Madras, Ladies Club is organizing a light music show. This

musical extravaganza Light up a Life is the sixth annual fundraiser and will be held on 8 th January 2010 featuring

Krish Live in Concert. We invite your participation by sponsoring this event held for a very noble cause.

This years show will be held in the Open Air Theatre (OAT) of IIT Madras. The OAT is a large auditorium with a

seating capacity of about 5000. It is the most popular venue for student programmes especially Saarang, the annual

IITM cultural festival. It has a central bowl open to the sky and in the evening has a unique ambience created by the

starlit sky and the surrounding tall trees.

The audience is expected to consist of the residents of IIT campus including the Director, Deans, Registrar, faculty,

staff, students and Alumni. Our tickets are sold for the most part only inside campus. Some of the citys industrialists

and executives from the major companies in Chennai have always helped us with our efforts and we expect them to

be present in the audience.

For Jan 2010, funds are being raised for the following :

AVVAI HOME AND ORPHANAGE IN ADYAR: It shelters and educates orphan girls. This is another of the

homes to which IIT Madras sends the monthly contribution of dal, oil and sugar. There are about 180 girls in

the home, some of them from very poor single parent families. They receive a government grant but need

help in the form of sponsorship for children's education or cash for the proposed new buildings.

SRI MATHA TRUST: The trust caters to the patients coming for treatment to the Adyar Cancer Institute and

gives them free boarding and lodging for the duration of their treatment.

GNANA DEEPAM OF PAMMAL: A special school for mentally challenged children.

SEVA SAMAJAM CHILDRENS HOME, SRIRAM NAGAR, PALLIPATTU : It has 192 children as boarders

and the school run by this Institution caters to another 400 destitute children in the neighbourhood, offering

them free education upto class XII. This home is mainly run by donations from the public.

The IITM Alumni have agreed to receive cheques on behalf of ACW, so that donors will be eligible for the tax benefit

under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act. Cheques intended for ACW may therefore be made payable to the IIT

Madras Alumni Charitable Trust and sent along with the attached donor letter to Superintendent, Ladies Club, IIT

Madras, Chennai 600 036.

Thanking you,Yours sincerely,

( Mrs. Chithra Rajan )

Ecnl.: Donor form and details about the Atma Charity Wing are attached


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ToIIT Madras Alumni Charitable Trust,IIT Campus,Chennai 600 036.

Sub: Donation.

We are pleased to donate a sum of Rs..to your organization. You may kindly use it

for supporting the activities of Atma Charity Wing.

Donors signature


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IIT Madras Atma Charity Wing

The Atma Charity Wing (ACW) of IIT Madras was started in April 2003 by the Ladies Club.

Membership was subsequently offered to the entire campus community and ACW now includes

faculty, staff and students of IIT Madras. The committee members serve in honorary capacity

and are drawn from the IIT Madras Ladies Club and the IIT Madras Staff Club. ACW aims to

bring together all like-minded people on campus and to unite them into a powerful instrument of

service to society. The motto of the ACW is seva hi paramo dharma (service to others is the

highest religion).

Each month, ACW collects dal, oil and sugar and rice from residents in the community

for distribution through the Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani Trusts Vinay DOS

scheme to various charitable institutions. The NSS volunteers of the IITM student

community have linked up with ACW and have helped in the collection drives.

ACW collects old clothes, school books and medicines to be donated to specific

charities. School books are sent to a special school for tribal children of Sittilingi in the

Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu. Cotton clothes are donated to cancer patients

undergoing radiation therapy in the Cancer hospital.

Every Deepavalli, ACW members donate their time, labour and money to make over

3000 nutritious laddus for distribution through the DOS scheme to charitable homes in

Chennai.

Volunteers from the Ladies Club and IITM Faculty and Staff also run an adult literacy

programme for Self-Help Group workers on campus.

Light Up a Life

Since 2003, the ACW Committee has made periodic visits to various charitable

organisations for orphans, senior citizens, AIDS patients, leprosy patients, etc. Members

then prepare a list of organizations that need specific assistance. ACWs annual fundraiser,

called Light up a Life is generally a light music concert held to generate the funds needed

to help the institutions on the list. The entire proceeds of each fundraiser are distributed in

the form of crossed cheques given away by the Director, IIT Madras at a special function

held for the beneficiaries.


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For Jan 2010, funds are being raised for the following :

AVVAI HOME AND ORPHANAGE IN ADYAR: It shelters and educates orphan girls. This is

another of the homes to which IIT Madras sends the monthly contribution of dal, oil and sugar.

There are about 180 girls in the home, some of them from very poor single parent families. They

receive a government grant but need help in the form of sponsorship for children's education or

cash for the proposed new buildings.

SRI MATHA TRUST: The trust caters to the patients coming for treatment to the Adyar Cancer

Institute and gives them free boarding and lodging for the duration of their treatment.

GNANA DEEPAM OF PAMMAL: A special school for mentally challenged children.

SEVA SAMAJAM CHILDRENS HOME, SRIRAM NAGAR, PALLIPATTU : It has 192 children as

boarders and the school run by this Institution caters to another 400 destitute children in the

neighbourhood, offering them free education upto class XII. This home is mainly run by donations

from the public.

The following institutions have received assistance from us since 2003:

2003

Gnana Deepam of Pammal, a school for special children

Seva Chakkara Choolai, childrens home

Sri Matha Trust catering to the Cancer Institute, Adyar

Vishranti Home for Destitute Aged Women

Sri Kamakshi Anandashram in Nanganallur, a home for the aged

2004

Anbu Thondu Nilayam, Chengalpet, for leprosy patients

Oxford Charitable Trust, Oorapakkam, home for the aged and mentally disturbed

Udhavum Ullangal, Adambakkam for orphans and the elderly

Kakkum Karangal Tiruvanmiyur for destitute children and old people

Gnana Deepam in Pammal , special school for mentally challenged children

Avvai Home and Orphanage for orphan girls.


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2005

Seva Samajam in Sriramnagar - Physics, Chemistry and Biology laboratory

Kalaiselvi Karunalaya Social Welfare Society, Mogappair - cots, lockers and sterilisers for cradle baby

girls sent from the government abandoned baby scheme. Kakkum Karangal in Tiruvanmiyur - a deep freezer

Karunai Illam in Selaiyur - large wet grinder.

Sevalaya in Tiruninravur - books for orphan students.

Viswanathan Education and Rehabilitation Trust in Kunrathur

Anbu Thondu Nilayam, leprosy home in Chengalpet - cots for the inmates.

2006

Milk for the Kids scheme for about 100 children of construction workers (coolies) employed in projects

in our campus

Sponsor a child scheme for education of children of SHG workers

VHS hospital in Taramani- juvenile diabetics from economically backward families

Saranalayam in Avadi for orphan children school fees and books.

Freedom Foundation, Kolathur for AIDS patients

SEED, Sriperumbudur, - care and vocational/education of children of people sentenced to life

imprisonment.

2007

Living expenses for cancer patients in the Sri Matha Trust.

Insulin for the juvenile diabetics at the VHS hospital.

Avvai Home and Orphanage in Adyar for orphan girls.

Udhavum Ullangal in Adambakkam, Chennai, and Maraimalainagar - new clothes for Deepavalli for the

orphans and senior citizens.

Sponsor a child scheme - school fees, uniforms and books for about 100 children of daily-wage

workers belonging to the Self Help Groups on campus.

2008

Avvai Home and Orphanage, Adyar

Sri Matha Trust for free boarding and lodging for patients of the Cancer Institute

Udhavum Ullangal in Adambakkam and Maraimalainagar, new clothes for Deepavalli for the orphans

and senior citizens

School fees and college scholarships for children of the Self Help Groups on campus

Annadhana on campus scheduled for April 2009


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The IITM Alumni Charitable Trust have kindly offered to receive cheques on behalf of ACW so that donors will be

eligible for the tax benefit under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act. Cheques intended for ACW may therefore

be made payable to the IIT Madras Alumni Charitable Trust and sent along with the attached donor letter to

the The Superintendent, Ladies Club, IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036.

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