Diwali 2017 – Soulful and Soundless Volunteering.

Salesforce QTC India arm celebrated their Diwali ’17 with a blast minus the noise & air pollution. Motivated team of Salesforce QTC engaged themselves by volunteering @ our wonderful place called Anjana Vidya Kendra, which is tucked away from hustle and bustle of the “Namma” Bengaluru. A picture speaks 1000 words, hence, I put down the pen and draw your attention to the pictures below:

Plantation the Organic way: Shovel Earth, lay dry composite, fill Earth again to make a bed (imagine composite is sandwiched between earth) , choose symbiotic veggies and sow the seeds.

 

Home made Pharma: Treating plants with organic pesticides by spraying organic insect repellent called  AA (Agni Astra, its a secret recipe and if you want to know, come join us)

 

Grass cutting with crass (fodder for cows): Mother cow has been serving us since our childhood and it was a golden opportunity to serve her once. It was not easy to cut simple looking long grass. There is a technique which our expert Mr. Amresh taught the Salesforce team.

 

Website development: Talentend QTC team spent good amount of time to bring our school/organization website up-to speed. They ensured to updated the blogs and also revamped the website with latest templates to give our official website a boost. As on going process Salesforce QTC team is going to enhance the website by adding more features. Stay tuned.

 

Feeding Calf: Salesforce QTC team had heartfelt experience while feeding the motherless calf. I urge all the readers to rethink and go VEGAN to save these motherless calf ending up here, being fed by humans, instead being fed by their mother cow.

 

Master Chef – Village Guttahalli: Cooked delicious food using organically grown veggies from Brahmi organic farm +  lot of salesforce spices brought the best of cooking. At the end it was finger licking cuisines that was served to all.

 

All-in-all it was soulful & amazing experience where in Salesforce and Brahmi have engaged and learnt each other organizations culture & values. Salesforce QTC team had first hand experience in organic farming that they have learnt various steps involved in organic farming. It also helped them to understand how various species in our environment help to sustain the growth of flora & fauna, local issues related to child educations and how Brahmi is making an impact in many children’s lives.

Seeding

Making way to plant Tomatoes

Organic Way of Life

Engaging the kids

Awesome

Digging Side Pits

Cabbage Saplings

Mixing carrot seeds with soil

Seeding Carrots

Capturing Kids Curiosity

Sowing Onions

Kids in Action

Preparing Organic Bed

Sowing Saplings

Farm Fresh Tomatoes

 

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August-October: Joyful quarter for Anjana

Simply “Joyful” is how one would  describe the months of August and September at Anjana. It is a wonder how children switched from one program to the other and how teachers were able to train them.  In addition, each event was special and celebrated in a unique fashion in several locations of the school (playground, Prayer Hall or Amphitheater), some times in more than one place; chants for Varalakshmi Festival, Dances and singing for Krihsna Janmastami, Drills and Skits during Independence Day and making and worshipping Eco frindly idol of Ganesha during Ganesha Chaturthi (August festivals) AND entire campus filled with Pookolams and dances for Onam , sports and fun games for the staff during Teacher’s Day , children presenting Hindi Day, Homa and Chants for the 9 Days of Durga Pooja (all in September). This is not all – Our primary and high school children participated in District level sports meets with two of them finding a place to compete at state level, Primary children coming up with monthly cultural events coinciding with Dussera celebrations and a ToT program for the teachers conducted by Salesforce Team prior to Durgapooja celebrations and visit of Sri. Srinivas Palepu, Yoga Teacher and Parvrajak monk from Sivananda group.  Teachers and students tell me I have (unfortunately) missed several interesting talks and weekend personality development programs by Sri. Shiva and Prayas team from Delphi conducted on Saturdays. Too much for a visitor/parent/patron to participate in all these events but for children and staff all these events have helped to showcase their talents and express their joy and hapiness celebrating India’s diversity!

October has kicked in starting with Gandhi & Shastri Jayanthi. Children would get to celebrate Jayanthi’s of Valmiki,  Kannada Poets DVG and Karanth and the same time would write their half -yearly exams.  As a grand finale to the successful completion of the  first half of the academic year,  team Anjana would adjourn for a  10-day Mid-term vacation from 12th October.  They will arrive on 23rd October to celebrate Gratitude Day to mark the birthday of our patron late Sri. K.T. Narayan (Premanjali Trust).  The week will be celebrated as Food-Week with several events and workshops highlighting importance of food and nutrition to children and parents.  We look forward to the visits of our food-partners Team Premanjali and Team Manish & Volunteers from Intel and other groups to make these events meaningful.

It may be noted, all these celebrations have taken place amidst regular school days, without majorly disturbing the academic programs.  Kudos to the team of teachers headed by young and energetic Sujay and the ever-ready-to-help and ever-smiling kitchen, support team and the team of volunteers. All visitors to the school and parents participating in any of these events have enjoyed our food and hospitality. 

Enjoy scrolling down to view some of these events in pictures and videos.

Channa Raju

Varalakshmi Pooja

Krishna Janmastami Celebrations

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS- 2017

Ganesha Festival

ONAM CELEBRATIONS

TEACHERS DAY

 

 

 

 

CSR Activity by Medtronic IT Team

A motivated team of Volunteers from Medtronic IT center engaged our children in several activities on 26th July.  It was an exciting time for both students and the volunteers.

Guru Purnima Celebrations 2017

Guru Purnima or Vyasa Purnima was celebrated with zeal and traditional fervour on Saturday,  8th June (instead of 9th Sunday).  Guided by our music Teacher  Anantaraman, Children chanted Adi Shankara’s Gurupaduka Stotram and a chant known as a stress releiver – toTakAShTakam (8 verses in praise of Adi Shankara).  Children showcased a skit to highligh gurukul system of education (directed by our Hindi Teacher Amritaraj).

 

Rains bring Joy

Samvastaro Va Apamayatanam…..Rainy season is the source of water… says the vedic chant Mantrapushpam.  Rain is also the source of joy and happiness.  Come to Anjana to experience.

Medtronic team visits Anjana

3/06/2017

Soumya lead a team of 50 volunteers from Medtronic to Anjana. What  an exciting way to commence the week! Our middle school children got to interact and spend a day with medical technology leaders.  Visits and interactions such as these provide alternate learning platforms for our children.  Thank you Soumya for your efforts and thank you TEAM MEDTRONIC – we hope to see you all often at our school.

EXCITING WEEK FOR STUDENTS OF ANJANA : VISITS,WORKSHOPS & YOGA

Reuse Plastics workshop for Middle-School Students

 

Discarded Plastic Bottles converted into Hanging Flower Holders

DOCC (Development of Corporate Citizenship) Students of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai conducted a session on  “Leadership Building” and “Add Color to Life” Painting session.

Pushan Sengupta and Shyamala Pai with 10th Grade Students

Sri. Bhaskar Nagaraja,  Sri. Samuel Dorairaj and Smt. Greeshma G.R of Intel visited the school to review Intel Projects ““Creating leaders of tomorrow public speaking workshops for high school students “ and  “Developing Eco-friendly pesticides  “. The day was also coincided with visit of Sri. Ajay and Sri. Vignesh from Sales Force and Soumya Bhat from Medtronics.  The group engaged our high school children in our amphitheater in useful discussions.

Development of Corporate Citizenship program concluded on Tuesday, 20th June.  The team gave final presentations on their projects and also useful suggestions to sustain the school.   Karthik & Renu Dey presented Fund Raising plans, Anitesh and Aditi gave a plan for starting a student home at Anjana and the third team Pushan and Shyamala presented their work on the organic farming (a user guide to Organic Farming and Economics of Organic Farming). 

World Yoga Day was celebrated at Anjana.  Day long Yoga Sessions included discussions, demonstrations, practice sessions in types of Yoga, Psychic Physiology of Yoga, Introduction to Astaga Yoga, “Sit with Straight-Back  to become intelligent”, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra.  Obviously, the most enjoyable session was Yoga Nidra!

 

Team of 7th grade boys were excited that their science demonstration had worked – thanks to wind-free weather after several days.  We had seen them trying out this activity for several days.  Amazing and highly motivated team!

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-18 STARTS

NEWS LETTER : Antaranga June 2017

Whats in a Computer? Workshop by Dad & Dude

Children love computers; they love it more when they are told to rip it open!  That’s exactly what Mahendran and Raghavan of Dad & Dude did on Saturday,  4th March 2017.  Students of 7th grade had a field day learning through a practical approach. There was music too. Raghavan’s wife sang and also played the violin solo to entertain our children. A good way to introduce children to the world of computers, isn’t it?

STAR PARTY

Friday, 3rd March 2017 was a very special day. Nearly 75 Children of Anjana Vidya Kendra and an equal number of adults were taken on a new journey by Keerthi and his group! It was good to see a few parents as well.  Most of them arrived on the campus prior to sunset. Several volunteers had gathered at Anjana.  Mr. Mahendran and Glory with their children Kavin and Thalir had traveled from Attibele for the event. The event started with an introductory talk by Keerthi introducing celestial sphere to the audience and how to use sky charts. Children got to learn about the commonly observed objects in the sky and the difference between eclipse and

The event started with an introductory talk by Keerthi introducing celestial sphere to the audience and how to use sky charts. Children got to learn about the commonly observed objects in the sky and the difference between eclipse and moon-days. He also explained how a telescope works and the difference between refraction and reflective types. Team PRAYAS  who organized the event had also arranged chocolates as prizes for those giving correct answers.

While children got busy viewing 3-D sky objects Keerthi and his team set up his telescope to view Venus before its descent.  It was a sight to watch the crescent Venus through the telescope. A group of children were kept engaged with binoculars.   Everyone enjoyed viewing Mars and the craters on the crescent moon. The Tamarind Rice Dinner provided by Mr. Anantharaman added to the joy of the occasion.