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Youth of Kodaganallur Endeavour (YOKE) has been
registered as a Society under Tamilnadu Societies Act. The
registration number is 265/05.
YOKE has a youthful name to reflect its energy, spirit and
dynamism. Members therefore may be young in mind or age, or both!
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Object of YOKE
Donors for
Project Hyacinth
Donors on recent
projects
Minutes
of first AGM held on 4 June
YOKE
Express - newsletter
Summer
camp in pictures
Yoke's Current projects
Object
The main object of the society is to make Kodaganallur Village panchayat
and other similarly placed villages self-sufficient in their
requirements, and to work towards improving the income and living
standards of the inhabitants.
In
fulfilling the main Object, the Society shall:
1. Work for synergy between the residents belonging to the village and
the non-residents in the development process.
2. Jointly assess the infra-structural and other developmental needs of
the area and take appropriate steps to improve the same.
3. Create a resource pool of technocrats, academics, administrators,
and other specialists from the non-resident community, to work on the
various developmental projects.
4. Conserve all the existing strengths of the Community, including
natural resources and manpower skills and abilities.
5. Provide supplementary education and training to children and young
adults using creative, practical and simple demonstrative methods.
6. Organize creative events and programmes to bring about awareness as
regards the advantages of a united community, irrespective of the
diversity in religion or caste.
7. Empower the local community, particularly the youth, to be aware of
their constitutional rights and the modalities of enforcing the same.
8. Ensure the dignity and the well-being of women, marginalized groups
and persons with disability.
9. Create employment opportunities for the residents of the village
through self-help Groups and Co-operative ventures with other
Organizations and the Corporate sector.
10. Work towards enlisting the services of non-resident communities to
adopt and develop the native land by sharing the knowledge and skills
acquired.
11. Co-operate with the Government, Voluntary agencies and Individuals
in India and abroad in achieving the above.
Write to [email protected] for the Bye-laws of the Society.
Would you like to become a member of YOKE? Click here for
Membership form and more details.
YOKE's current projects
Click here for a
list of donors on current/recent projects. If you have donated money, and do not
find your name, please write to [email protected].
Click here for a collage on the clearance.
More pictures to be uploaded into Yahoo Photos, shortly.
Read Dinamalar (26 June 2006) report on the project "Agandra Baraniyaana Tamirabarani--yoke
amaippaal kodaganallurukku yOgam" (soon to be scanned and uploaded).
Click here for a report of the Summer
camp by the children.
Click
here for a photo-feature on the camp.
There are two
batches of students now pursuing the Science stream. It is
estimated that the cost of equipping the lab for the rest of the
current academic year is Rs. 40,000. YOKE solicited donations
towards this cause, and presented Rs. 25000 towards this in January
2006.
Pictures of the school and students are available
here.
It was suggested by our Panchayat President that some standard news and
children's magazines such as India Today (Tamil), Gokulam, Chutti
Vikatan, Ambulimama, Tinkle comics, Wisdom, could be subscribed
to. Subscriptions have been made using YOKE reserve funds
(savings from Summer Camp collections) and have started from 1 Sept
2006.
An IT
stream has been started since last year, and there are 20+ students
pursuing Computer Science as a subject in Higher Secondary.
However, there are only two PCs available at present in the school;
more are to be provided over the next year or two by the
Government. If you are upgrading your PC and are trading in your
old one for a new one at throwaway deals, won't you rather send them
where they are more useful? Write in if you can help in this--to
Chitra Vasudevan (Executive Committee member co-ordinating this
project) at [email protected].
There are now new kacha roads laid parallel to the West Street--to
enable the Ther festival
to happen. It is proposed that Pongamania saplings will be planted on either side of the
roads on an experimental basis. Pongam
fruits (the saplings will grow into trees in two-three years' time and
bear fruit thereafter) can be crushed and the oil extracted primarily
as an alternative source of fuel. With the Government pushing for
wider use of alternative fuel, the potential for pongam oil is enormous. This project is to
be undertaken in a phased manner.
First phase: Planting of about 100 saplings on sides of newly laid roads
Second phase: Setting up of simple extraction plant
Third phase: Developing larger plantations of Pongam in tarisal land-- tie-up of marketing; commissioning of
large-scale extraction plant.
For more information on Pongam project, and for any assistance you can
offer with information/contacts/ideas, write to Mrs. Padma Sampath
(President, YOKE) at [email protected].
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