Vande Maataram Youth Front (VMYF): October 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A Visit to Kalashramam - Adilabad - A trip down the real Education lane.

As a part of VMYF's Aarsha Vignana Shodhana activity, a 2 - Member team of VMYF visited Kalashramam located at Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a one of its kind of place where a plethora of designs and the models of Traditional Indian Craftsmanship are show-cased and also demonstrated by 'Guruji', who is the one man army, solely making and show-casing the Traditional Indian Crafts for the benefit of the rest of Humanity to know, learn and profit from the lofty and natural way of life which has innumerable benefits and lessons for the modern age of Nature Exploitation.

Guruji demonstrating for us making of an artifact of pottery

explaining to us about his own passion about various Crafts

Tirupati posing in front of a few beautiful show pieces

enthusiastic as ever Srikar...

Few samples of Cane Crafts...

This Ashram building is constructed by Guruji all by himself

without using even an iota of Iron or Steel, looks quite robust

Eco friendly Ganashas....

A unique pot stand... creativity in everything

Srikar in a 'thanks giving' pose....

a usual concrete slab where Guruji receives guests...

showing some moves....

Mataji, the better-half of Guruji... served us food with love

Thanks for showcasing an inspiring life-style!...Guruji

bidding good bye to Adilabad too....

Exquisite Nature, lets keep it that way...

Vande Prakruti Mataram

VMYF arranged the Lunch at an Orphanage in Uppal, Hyderabad on 16th Oct 2010

Narotham serving food to the children

Annam Parabrahma Swaroopam....

children relishing the food...

VMYF Volunteers partaking of the food along with the children

a 'Sweet' present to sweet children...

VMYF members with the children and the caretaker of Orphanage

Good bye for now Bro....

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

VISIT TO VAIDEHI ASHRAM BY VMYF MEMBERS

ON 10TH OCT' 2010 VMYF GIRL VOLUNTEERS VISITED THE VAIDEHI ASHRAM RUN FOR THE ORPHAN GIRLS IN HYDERABAD.IT WAS A REALLY HUMBLING EXPERIENCE TO MOST OF THEM. IN THEIR OWN WORDS: -

" Today we had a chance to visit an orphanage-- ‘VIDEHI ASHRAM’ at Saidabad. A team of 11 members visited it and all of us were astonished by the children's discipline. There are around 100 orphan girls within the age group of 4 years to 15 years and elderly girls are transferred to other wing of the same group. The students are very sharp and talented. They are also good at extracurricular activities like karate, music, dance and many other activities. But the students are poor in English and Hindi. Such sharp students’ lagging in areas like these is a matter to think about. We can help them by volunteering to teach them the subjects. The way values are inculcated in the students is appreciable and we too need to learn from them. Every small matter is considered for their growth and development. "

" There’s also another work done by the orphanage which involves training students on different aspects like moral values, school and college studies, knowledge about earning a livelihood, fitness and health issues etc,. These students in turn train children from different slums. This is done on a regular basis. Each trainer is required to teach at least 20 children. This way they are trying to provide some scope to the children in slums."

" In total it was a wonderful experience for everyone who visited and we look forward for such activities to be taken up by us and get involvement from all our members."