• To inspect and monitor each project we undertake

• To support charities/activities with a good track record or from references only

• To adhere to the highest standards of integrity and transparency in managing and accounting the funds raised

• To work as volunteers to keep the overheads to a bare minimum

our commitment

KSHK Initiatives

Vidyanidhi - Scholarships for deserving students

KSHK launched the Vidya Nidhi scholarship scheme to enable meritorious students, coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, to continue education beyond 10th standard. Under this scheme, students are provided scholarships to complete two years of pre-university studies. Vidya Nidhi has been launched in partnership with ELCIA (Electronic City Industrial Association), Bengaluru, India (www.elcia.in) and Vidyaposhak (www.vidyaposhak.org), two trusted names in India furthering the cause of needy children. Students are selected through a "merit cum means" assessment program. They receive financial assistance over a period of two years along with integrated support that includes scholarships to cover pre-university college fees, books, education support costs and training programs that focus on overall personality development and presentation skills. Currently, 56 students are receiving scholarships under this program at various locations in Karnataka, India.

KSHK plans to extend the Vidya Nidhi scholarship to 100 students.

Education of the visually challenged

KSHK is working with 'Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled' (www.snehadeep.org) which is a non-profit, charitable organization based in Bengaluru, India. Snehadeep is working towards the betterment of the differently-abled in the areas of education, computer training and soft skills to make them employable, thus bringing them to the mainstream and helping them to become economically independent and lead their lives with dignity. They also assist students to gain employment.

Snehadeep runs a free residential computer training programme for the visually and physically challenged, currently training more than 50 students. Under this programme, the students are taught computer skills, use of Microsoft Office programs and Internet. Students are also provided with Scanners for independent reading of their study books.

Several students, trained at Snehadeep, have been employed by reputed Public and Private sector organizations in India.

KSHK will continue to support Snehadeep by contributing towards the cost of computer skills training.

Education of the indigent

KSHK is working with Socare which is based in Bengaluru, India. Socare (www.socare.ngo) is a registered trust functioning since July 1999. Started with just 2 kids, Socare today cares for over 170 children of prisoners serving life terms and those under trials in the prisons of Karnataka. Socareis the only facility of its kind in India.

With emphasis on education, discipline and vocational training, Socare is committed to providing the children with a better childhood and the opportunity to become respected members of society.

Socare has two residential units at bengaluru, one for girls' and one for boys'. Socare also runs a residential care facilityingulbarga, karnataka.

KSHK aims to support Socare further, by contributing towards the education and residential cost of 10 children.

Here is the video link to the Audio Visual from the partner organizations:

NGO's we support in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Blind Union

It is the first self-help organization founded and managed by people with visual impairment in Hong Kong. It aims at promoting the spirit of self-help and mutual- help as well as striving for equality, opportunities and independence for them.

Scope of Work

• organising activities for visually impaired persons to foster their personal development and to enlarge their social circles;

• helping newly visually impaired persons and their family to overcome the obstacle arising from visual impairment;

• promoting various kinds of services to support people with visual impairment to lead an independent community life.

For more information visit www.hkbu.org.hk

S.K.H. Lok Man Alice Kwok Integrated Service Center

It is one of the direct service centres under the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council. The Centre is type of community support services located at Kowloon City over 35 years, which serve as district level to enable elders to remain in the community and to lead a healthy, respectful and dignified life. Also, Centre collaborates with other service units in the district and cooperates so as to build a caring community with better use of community resources.

The centre provides a range of preventive, supportive and remedial Services which include, health education, volunteer and developmental services, canteen, bathroom and laundry services, carers' support service, counseling service, community education projects, support and networking service etc. Elders are encouraged to participate more in community affairs and adopt a healthy and positive lifestyle so as to live out their days in a meaningful and enriched manner.

Crossroads Foundation

A Hong Kong based, non-profit organisation serving global need. The Foundation links those who are in need with those who can provide help by providing an intersection, literally a crossroads, to bring both together.

Their Global distribution service distributes Hong Kong's quality excess goods as needed, internationally and locally. It provides a crossroads between need and supply. For more information, please visit www.crossroads.org.hk

How you can help?

Vidyanidhi - Scholarships for deserving children - 100 students

Each student scholarship costs HK$2,000 and is utilized towards the following:

• Financial Assistance: To cover college fees and exam fees.

• Books: Free Text books are lent to students through libraries and book bank located in rural places. Student will get academic text books to use for 1-year and then the same books are put in circulation.

• Training through Residential Bridge Camps: Various skill and need based training for through residential bridge camps to enhance communication/life skills and employment opportunities.

The plan is to extend the Vidya Nidhi scholarships to 100 students.

Snehadeep - Education for the visually challenged

Computer skills training has enabled many of the Snehadeep students to find employment in Banks, IT companies and other organisations.

The urgent requirement at the moment is for:

• Braille embossing machine to provide Braille text books to the blind students. The cost is HK$35,000.

• Lexcam scanning machine and the software to convert text to speech which would help in producing Braille books. The Lexcam machine and the Duxbury software to run it costs approximately HK$10,000.

• Salary of the Instructor for training the students in computer skills. Approximately HK$28,000 per annum.

Socare - Society's care for the Indigent

Residential care and school fees for a student at Socare cost HK$3,000 per year.
KSHK plans to contribute to the cost of educating 10 children through Socare.

Payment Information

• Bank :HSBC Hong Kong

• Account Name :Kannada Sangha Hong Kong

• Account Number :808-068977-002

Upon payment, please mail the copy of the receipt along with the receipt/reference no to nammakshk@gmail.com

Past Fund Raising Events

Kathakitathom - The Rhythm of Nirvana on 4th May 2013

A scintillating performanceby the Abhinava Dance Company (www.abhinavadancecompany.com ) was presented on 4th may 2013 at the jockey club auditorium, hung hom.
Rooted in the Indian dance tradition of Kathak and Bharathanatyam, the troupe is constantly exploring creative ways of bringing out the true essence of Indian dance. It has evolved its distinct style of presentation by fusing ethnic and modern genres of dancing.
KSHK was pleased to welcome the Consul General of India, Hong Kong as well as officials from the Hong Kong Government to this event. An audience of around 1000 people enjoyed the show and contributed generously towards the cause
To get a feel of the magnitude of this mesmerizing event, click on the below link to view the pictures on our facebook page: Click Here

OJAS - A Rare brilliance" - on 17th December 2011

Nirupama, Rajendra and the dancers from the Abhinava Dance Company presented OJAS - a Rare Brilliance at the KITEC Auditorium in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong on 17th Dec 2011.
Dance and music transcended language barriers as Indians as well as non Indians were captured by the magic and energy in the air.
Introductions to each piece in English by Nirupama and in Cantonese by Teresa Chung, helped the audience appreciate the context of the sequences.
This 2 hour show featured immaculate synchronization, unique choreography and colorful costumes adorned by a creative blend of Indian Classical, Jazz, Spanish and World music.
Well attended by over 600 people from various communities in Hong Kong, this event helped to raise a significant amount for disadvantaged children.
Those of you who attended the event can recollect those colorful moments and those of who couldn't attend can get a taste of this wonderful programme - click the link below for the photos:
Click Here

SCREENING OF THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED FILM "MUKHAPUTA" ON SUNDAY, 28th NOVEMBER 2010

To mark World Aids day on 1st December 2010, and to draw attention and support for the challenges faced by HIV affected people in India, Kannada Sangha Hong Kong (KSHK), arranged for the screening of the International award winning film Mukhaputa in Hong Kong. Accomplished dancer, actress and director, Roopa Iyer, who has directed and also acted in the film was the celebrity guest for the evening.

Mukhaputa (The Cover Page)

This is an inspiring film about a young woman who adopts a baby girl and later finds out that the child had HIV at birth. It brings to light the preconceived notions of society and the courage shown by the family in coping with the challenges.

Given below are just some of the awards the film has won internationally:

1. Winner - Best Feature film - International Film Festival, Ireland 2009

2. Winner - Best Feature film - International Film Festival, South Africa 2009

Community Services Report

SOCARE IND, BANGALORE

JOIN US IN OUR JOURNEY SOCARE IND,is a unique Social Organisation functioning as a Public Trust since 1999. The founder Trustees were the late Shri. Venkataraghavachari Mani ( a retired AGM of the Reserve Bank of India) and his wife Smt. Saroji Mani. The main object of the Organisation, which runs purely on secular lines, is to give comprehensive care ( food, shelter and education and health care) to the children of life term convicts serving sentences in various jails across Karnataka. These innocent and unfortunate children, who apart from being mostly from the lowest economic and social strata, also face the ignominy of 'stigma' attached to them in the society. They are, therefore, needed to be sheltered and looked after with special sense of social responsibility and sensitivity. SOCARE IND , as an unique HOME for such special category of children has taken up this social cause as a challenge and rendering service successfully ,thanks to the awareness and positive response from individual as well as institutional donors, like minded people and well wishers like you.

The responsibility of perpetuating the cause of SOCARE IND, in the true spirit and tradition of its noble founders, is now being shouldered by a team of dedicated Trustees, who are all retired senior citizens working on honorary basis. A retired Director General of Police ( Karnataka) is also actively contributing to our cause as an Advisor.

As the famous saying goes that the journey to thousand miles start with the first step, SOCARE IND started with just two children in the year 1999, by the old couple in their residence has now a compliment of 171 children, ( 110 boys and 61 girls), mostly in the age group of 7 to 17 years of age. The total strength is expected to cross 200 during the current year including in Gulbarga where SOCARE IND commissioned a branch in June,2011.

A new hostel building is under construction in Laggare, Peenya, Bangalore with the active support of Sri SharadaPeetam, Sringeri . It is a matter of satisfaction that most of the children are excelling well in their studies and extra curricular activities. Last year two of our girls acquired B.Com degrees with first class marks. They are now pursuing the CA course with some outside support. Similarly, some other children passed SSC and PUC exams with distinctions and have been continuing their degree courses including Diploma in Engineering with the active support of SOCARE IND. Some of our boys are doing well in sports and Korean Martial Arts. Four of them are National and Asian Champions in martial arts. It is our experience that given a total break and proper directions these underprivileged children are capable of excelling well in life no matter what their background is.

We invite you to JOIN US IN OUR JOURNEY by contributing generously ,both financially and materially to ensure that these children join the mainstream of our Society . Let us together illuminate the lives of these innocent children who are pushed into the epicenter of darkness for no fault of theirs.

STATUS REPORT AS ON 4th JULY,2013

TOTAL STRENGTH 171 children : Bangalore: Boys 93, Girls 61 and Gulbarga : Boys 17.*

Total number of children admitted to Gulbarga Centre is 25 of which 17 have joined and the remaining are in the process of joining. During the year one girl was sent back to her parents and three girls were restored to their guardians at the request of the parents. Two girls were admitted by us in Abhayashram, DVG Road, BasavanagudiBangalore for further care.++ Both the girls have passed SSLC this year. One girl has been admitted for the 5 year Bachelor of Visual Arts course in a college in Hanumanth Nagar, Bangalore . Since our hostel is very far away from the college the girl under reference has been admitted to Abhayashram which is close to her college.

Another girl will undergo some vocational training provided by Abhayashram.

The construction work of our new hostel in Laggare is almost complete. VastuHoma and SudarshanaHoma were performes on the 19th June,2013 evening followed by GanapathyHoma and formal inauguration on the 20th June,2013 morning.

The Homas and the Function went off well. Pending Work in the new hostel building.

Final Painting, Installation of SOLAR WATER HEATER, SOLAR BACK UP POWER,STEAM COOKING RANGE, and RAIN HARVESTING facilities.

BUNKER BEDS and STORAGE BINS, FURNISHING THE LIBRARY AND OFFICE with BOOK RACKS, READING TABLES, CHAIRS, COMPUTERS FOR COMPUTER LAB etc.

All these are expected to cost around 25 lakhs of rupees. We are negotiating with various vendors for the supply of the above other than the Computers.

All the Trustees are working hard to generate revenue for the successful completion of the New Hostel Building and making SOCARE IND a model NGO that provides best facilities to the children.

We also propose to build a hostel for both boys and girls in Gulbarga where a land has already been allotted by the GULBARGA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES for which payments were made by us last year. We are confident that our building in Gulbarga will be ready by June/July 2014.

R.VENKATANATHAN

SECRETARY

Update from Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled on 22nd June 13

All that 8 students from Snehadeep who underwent the computer training in Snehadeep last batch got employment in Pink Lotus Technologies Bangalore and are undergoing the initial training period.

Another 4 students are awaiting for placement in the Health department of Karnataka after successfully passing the exams.All this is made possible through the kind support and patronage from you and your families.

Our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all who made this initiative possible.We request your good selves to continue your blessings to many more children who need your services and hope that you would light a candle in the lives of our special children in the coming months.

Residential Bridge Camp - 10th May to 18th May 2013 Brief report

Background:

VidyaPoshak, an NGO has been empowering the needy and meritorious student community from 2001.

Need for the Camps: Many VidyaPoshak students, despite being academically bright in college, have difficulties upon graduation. The camp environment provides them a platform for overall development which is essential for students to be gainfully employed and contributing leaders and citizens of tomorrow.

Venue of the Camp:The camp was held at Shishuvinal, Haveri District.

Profile of the students:In this camp there were 56 students supported by ELCIA, ASHAKIRAN, Ganesh Kadaba and different individual donors

55% of them were from rural areas and 50% of Kannada medium. The students have completed their Class XI and Class XII exams.

Boys: 18 Girls: 38

REPORT ON BASELINE EVALUATION:

Baseline Evaluation is the test which is conducted on the first day in each of the camp. It is an assessment to gain information about students to test their regularity in reading newspaper, listening to radio news in Kannada as well as in English, study related memory, their leadership participation, their computer knowledge, their reading habits other than their text books and newspaper and it also test their career awareness and how well they are prepared for achieving their goals.

• 66% of the students read English newspaper regularly.

• 34% of the students read English newspaper rarely.

• 72% of the students read Kannada newspaper regularly.

• 28% of the students read Kannada newspaper rarely.

• 38% of the students listen to radio news in Kannada as well as in English.

• 62% of the students watch Kannada and English news on television

• Majority of the students have good computer skills.

• Majority of the students have good knowledge about career awareness and about career readiness.

BRIEF ACTIVITIES OF 9 DAYS:

The students everyday spend 12 hours in camp.

The day starts at morning 6:00 AM with a Yoga session for about 1 hour where they learn different yoga types which keeps them fresh and give more energy to concentrate on studies.

All the sessions are more interactive than a lecture. Every day from 8:45 AM - 10:15 a small student presentation / skit in English was conducted.

Every evening between 7PM - 8PM the students utilized open library facility to prepare for the next day presentation. Between 9:00PM to 10:00PM the students sit in small groups and discuss regarding what they learnt from the sessions happened during the day.

10-05-2013:Students arrived around 4:00 PM. The initial evaluation and registration was done by camp team and totally 56 students were gathered. The students were made in smaller groups and given a leadership and responsibility like food service, cleaning, time management etc.

11-05-2013:The whole day sessions was conducted by Mr Ravish on Physics and Technology. The session were more practically oriented. The students enjoyed lot and after lunch students participated in some activities like calculating diameter and distance of the sun etc after the session students went for Sharma Dana for one hour.

12-05-2013:On this day students learnt about how to get good marks, how to concentrate on study, how to set our short term goals and how to achieve them and all about study power taught by Mr.Amarnath it's a very interesting topic to all of them.

13-05-2013:On this whole day students learnt about Group discussion by MsKshama and Arala after lunch students went through mock GD its nice experience to all students. Some of the interesting topics discussed by the students are "Role of Media" , "Impact of Foreign Culture on Youth"

14-05-2013:We had one of the inspirational and motivational speaker Major Anand taking session about Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking. During the course of the sessions the students got to see and hear lot of motivational stories and Videos.

15-05-2013:Mr Mohan Deshpande spoke to the students about the social responsibilities. In the student got a chance to interact with personalities from different fields like Education, Social, History etc.

16-05-2013:All the students attending the camp are in Class XI and Class XII. They all have to make an important career decision and accordingly choose their college education. A session on Higher Education and Career opportunities was conducted by MrVenkatesan.

17-05-2013:In this day a one to one counseling session was done by Mr R.N. Tikot. and students got ready for closing ceremony and cultural show.

18-05-2013:After Tiffin students travelled to their homes with lot of knowledge.

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FEEDBACK OF THE STUDENTS ABOUT THE CAMP

Following are some feedback as told by the participants and to get reliable feedback students were not mentioned their names it\92s from VidyaPoshak guideline.

• Anand sir given very good information about Creative thinking and critical thinking.

• I m very much thankful for the Staff for giving such an interesting sessions in every day.

• For this camp I decided my goal and I will promise definitely I will reach my goal thanks for Tikot sir for giving such a session.

• I learnt how to speech English without any mistake, And I did skits and dramas in English and I got stage courage.

• I really loved the Chart Writing part more in this camp. Our team supported me a lot in expelling out my creativity in a group.

• Yoga is a wonderful gift of this camp, which led me to at mental peace, concentration and happiness all the time.

• No words to explain about the facilities provided and the sessions arranged. Thank you for inviting me for this camp.

PHOTO GALLERY:

Update from Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled on 26th Feb 2012

We are happy to share our good news with you and the team upon our blind trained students getting jobs in State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of India and Canara Bank and one candidate getting job in Karnataka government.
Mr. Manjunath and Jeevaraj got jobs in State Bank of Mysore, miss roopa who took guidance from us got into Canara Bank mysore, Mr. Anand got job in State Bank of India while Lakshmi got job in Karnataka State government.

The call centre is progressing well with Thippeswamy and Sadik Pasha supported by Airtel.
All the achievements and success is made possible through your kind support to our institution.

Thank you for keeping Snehadeep in your hearts and extending good wishes to Snehadeep.

Students were in Dining hall

Students were taking Oath

Students were doing Shrama Dana

Donor wise photos

KSHK supported students