Computer for Kalloor School

In response to a request from Kalloor school, Trivandrum, the Table donated a computer for the use of the students of the school. The required funds for this project (Rs. 16,900/-) was given to the table by Mr. Abdul Latheef, an NRI and alumni of the school.

The computer was installed at the school on 12th December, 2005.

RTI Week 2005

The extended RTI Week celebrations of TRT66 were held from the 11th to the 20th of November 2005. A total sum of Rs. 72,466/- was spent for the charity activities. The details of the entire activities during these days are given below.


Day-1. 11/11/2005
Table Meeting and official visit of RTI President Tr. Ravi Khanna, in the presence of Area Chairman Tr. Venugopal, guests from TBRT126, Manoj Baker Fenn of KRTT121 and Tr. Srini Iyer of RTBI. The afternoon meeting was held at Hotel Horizon

Day-2. 12/11/2005
We had established a the computer facility in Jayamatha boys’ home, Nalamchira, last year. In addition to the three computer given then, we donated one more computer today. The formal handing over was done at their venue where the annual sports day for all the orphanages was being hosted

Day-3. 13/11/2005
Donated Donated 50 bed sheets, 15 of ½ kg tins of Lactogen-1 and 2. of emergency lights to the Missionaries of charity, Kunnukuzhi, Trivandrum. Trivandrum Ladies circle donated some provisions, note books and baby powder.

Day-4. 13/11/2005
a) Kaloor School - Donated 40 plastic chairs and toys for pre-primary children at the Kaloor School.

b) Veiloor School - From there, we proceeded to Veiloor school where in addition to the class rooms, science laboratory, library and park created by us earlier, the new gate we setup was inaugurated. The inauguration was done by the Area Publicity convenor, Tr. Manoj Chacko.

Day-5. 13/11/2005
Visited Marion Play Home and spent time with the staff and children. Along with TLC22, we donated food packets there.

Day-6. 13/11/2005
Donated over 250 new books to the Chalai school library, which we setup last year. Also donated some garden schools to maintain the garden, which was also set up by the Table earlier.

Day-7. 13/11/2005
Visited Pettah Govt. G.H.S. to take stock of the condition of the toilet block constructed by us three years back and to study if any deserving requirements currently exist.

The tablers, circlers and twinklers got together later for a night movie social – A Mammooty super hit film - “Rajamanikkam”

Day-8. 13/11/2005
The Tablers, Circlers and twinklers got together for a dinner social at hotel Arya Nivas.

Day-9. 13/11/2005
A full day HRD program conducted at RM ESI, Technopark, Trivandrum. This soft skills training program was conducted for the project managers at RM ESI.

Day-10. 13/11/2005
A few of the Tablers participated in a day social at Kottayam.

Brief Note on 1st Quarter

Trivandrum Ladies Circle 22.

For the period 1st July 2005 to 30th September 2005
Trivandrum Round Table 66, actively supported by Trivandrum Ladies Circle 22, continues to be extremely active across all facets of Tabling. The highlights of first quarter of this tabling year is as follows –

FELLOWSHIP

• Themes Socials – Punjabi Night, Guns and Roses, Patriotism, Onam, Shorts & Skirts
• Several informal get togeher – Dinner Socials and Birthday Celebrations
• 4 tablers attend the Area AGM at Munnar.
• New format proposed for fellowship basket where one tabler takes the ‘birthday tabler’ out.
• Joint Social with TBRT 126 for Area 1 Mass tour participants on 1st October
• AEX hosted at Trivandrum on 2nd October

PROJECTS

• Projects worth Rs 1.4 lakhs done during the quarter.
• Children’s park at Veiloor High School costing Rs 95000/- inaugurated by RTI President Tr. Ravi Khanna on 29th July.
• Constructed a gate at Veiloor High School at a cost of Rs 16900/-.
• Distributed ITC notebooks worth Rs 16000/- to 700 children of Kalloor school on 29th August..
• Sanctioned Rs 9,000/- through Project Helping Hands for four persons.
• Detailed application form for project helping hands adopted

RULES & EXTENSION
The following rules proposed & circulated earlier by Tr. Satish Prabhu were approved by the Table, for inclusion in the Table Bye-Laws –

• Members are not to maintain a debit balance in excess of Rs. 1,000/-
• A member, who fails to pay his annual dues by 30th September of a particular year, will be issued a reminder letter. In the event that the payment is not realized by 15th October of that year, he is disqualified from the membership of the table.
• An additional Sergeant fine of Rs. 100 will be levied on tablers not wearing a table pin at the meeting
• Smoking is banned during meetings happening indoors

PUBLICITY

• Tr Manoj sponsored a hoarding at Vellayambalam, bringing enormous publicity for the Movement. This was inaugurated by Area Chairman Tr.Venugopal on 2nd October 2005.
• 7 road sign boards maintained in the city.

FUND RAISING

• Committee formed to progress fund raising activities urgently.
• Website being prepared, to support fund raising activities

HRD

• Two guest speakers organized during meetings namely Mr Gopakumar a noted journalist and media personality who shared perspective on charity works realized through the media and Mr..Sarosh who spoke about the activities of Global Kerala Foundation.

SUPPLY HOUSE & GREETINGS CARD

• Received Rs. 510/- from RTI as commission against supply house sales.
• Greeting cards worth Rs. 30,000/- purchases from RTI

IRO

Trivandrum RT 66 had a very active start to the tabling year with the Round Table World 66 meet which was a 5-day gala event hosting 52 heads from seven countries. Of these, 22 foreign delegates attended the pre tour organized by TRT66, which was for the duration of a week.

TABLE ADMINISTRATION

On the administration of the affairs of the table have been progressing well and all communications with the association have been prompt. The average attendance for the year till date is 83 % and meetings have been held as per schedule.

TRT66 Hoarding

Through the initiative of the Area Publicity convenor, our table put up a hoarding in the heart of the city, at Vellayamballam junction. The hoarding which was inaugurated by the Area Chairman Tr. Venugopal on the 2nd of October 2005, will go a long way in giving publicity to Round Table and the cause of ‘Freedom Through Education’.

Seeing this, several other tables in the Area have also expressed interest in putting up hoardings in their cities, and requested for our design to be passed on to them.

Three RTI welcome boards are also being put up at the entry points to the city. These are being sponsored by M/s.Baby Shop belonging to Tr. Aiyappan.

Contribution to Tsunami

Contribution to Tsunami

Trivandrum Round Table 66 had collected approximately 5.5 Lakhs from the World 66 Tablers (Netherlands, England and Belgium). In addition to some monies collected otherwise, the total funds raised for Tsunami was nearly 5.8 Lakhs.

TRT66 executed some immediate relief works in Nagercoil, and the balance of Rs. 4.72 Lakhs was handed over to the RTI President Tr. Ravi Khanna on the 28th of July, 2005. These funds will be used towards rebuilding schools affected by Tsunami.

TRT66 was also actively involved in the initial discussions with HSBC, which eventually led to a realization of over Rs. 90 lakhs to the RTI Trust account.

Kollampics 2005

Kollampics 2005 -- The Olympics between Trivandrum RT66, Kottayam RT79 and Quilon RT85 was hosted by TRT66 on the 29th of May 2005 at the Trivandrum Golf Club. It has been our tradition in 66, that the newest Tabler organises the Kollampics and there is no doubt Ajith Mathew did a very fine job

The visiting participants reached the previous night to attend the social hosted by Ajith and Murali. The evening was fun filled with games (Gayathri taking the lead) and the folks were slowly crawling out by about 2AM.

Predictably, the games the next day started late (towards noon) and the skills and capabilities of the 'sportspersons' were well challenged through the novel games organised and conducted by Nilima. These included the 'Human Tic-Tac-Toe', Obstacle race and Throw ball. In true Olympian style, the game of 'Human Tic Tac Toe' had a casualty in Hema who had a small ligament rupture and will now need to stay of the track for about 3 weeks.

The overall championship was claimed by KRT79. Narayan of RT85 claiming the Best Kollampian title and Mahima of LC48 won the Kollampini title. Outside of the RT66 tablers, the participants included Kunju, Simon & Mahima, Reji & Rani, Nebu, Varkey, Benji, Manoj, Rajiv, Balu, Prakash, Narayan, Kiran, Tony and Manju.

As usual, Kollampics was characterised by the warmth of friendship with all having a great time.

Let's look forward to Kollampics 2006 at Kollam.

Men's Cookout 2005

If the ladies are better at doing community service projects than we are, we did establish a point that there are certainly some things that we are better at. To prove the point, there was mouth watering barbeque chicken, hot and crisp pakkavadas, vegetable kurma (so what if it was completed after most left), Pulav, chicken fry, Ginger Chicken and of course the very exotic concoction of alcohol and fruits served out of buckets.

The cook out at Tr. Nagarajan Udupa's house on the 13th of February had almost complete participation from the Tablers, Circlers and Twinklers, beside the Honorary Tablers and Square Legs.