NTR TRUST NEWS BULLETIN (No. 14)

We are happy to share with you NTR Trust’s e-News Bulletin for the months of July and Aug 2017. We will be

happy to have your feedback.

Smt. Nara Brahmani, Trustee NTR Trust, distributing free medicines at a Medical camp

HIGHLIGHTS

1. NTR Trust is proud to have signed an MoU with Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) one of

the premier CSIR institutions in India. IICT and NTR Trust will collaborate to develop, popularize and

scale-up technologies to make CSIR-IICT research work reach the larger public, especially in rural

areas.

2. NTR Trust and IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance signed an MoU. IFFCO TOKIO under its CSR Initiative

will support NTR Trust to establish NTR Sujala Cluster Plant (a large scale community safe drinking

water project) in Chilakaluripet Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. This plant will provide safe

drinking water access 79,000 rural population. Mr. T. Vishnu Vardhan, CEO of NTR Trust and Vice

President, Sri Ramesh Kumar signed the MoU in the presence of Sri Warendra Sinha, Managing

Director & CEO, IFFCO TOKIO.

3. NTR Trust was invited by FACEBOOK to be part of a round-table on Blood Banks. CEO Mr. T. Vishnu

Vardhan, Mr. Rahmanuddin Shaik & Mr. Raju Madana took part in the round-table and gave inputs on

how Facebook could be an efficient platform to promote volunteer blood donation and contribute to

providing sustainable access to safe blood.

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4. NTR Trust signed an MoU with Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru towards collaboratively

working to bring and strengthen Indian & English language content in the digital domains.

5. NTR Sujala Cluster Remote Dispensation Units (RDUs) in CRDA region were launched by Shri Shravan

Kumar, MLA along with local leaders, senior citizens & the villagers at Harishchandrapuram,

Ananthavaram, Vaddamanu, Borupalem, Dondapadu, Tallayapalem, Inavolu, Pedda Parimi,

Shakamuru & Nekkallu. These RDUs will provide safe drinking water at Rs.2/-20 liters round the clock.

6. Mr. Y. Mohan Rao, COO-Education of NTR Trust, donated Rs. 1 lakh to educate an Orphan Child -

Sravani at NTR Junior College, Gandipet.

7. 71st Indian Independence Day celebrations were held in a pompous way at NTR Trust Head Office,

Hyderabad, NTR Model Schools in Gandipet in Hyd, Challapalli in Krishna dist. & Geesugonda in

Warangal dist.

EDUCATION

Sri. Y. Mohan Rao handing over donation cheque to Sri Nara Lokesh

Key Activities:

1. A half day workshop at school level on “ Easy ways to learn Mathematics” was conducted at NTR

Model School, Gandipet by Mr. P. Vikram Kumar - M.S (Signal Processing) IIT, Chennai. The workshop

enabled the students to think logically. Students were attentive and quick in grasping the various

techniques. This workshop enabled the students to reason in different levels. All the students showed

their earnest interest for a new style of learning. It is sincerely believed that the outcome of this

workshop would be felt by teachers during their classroom transactions by transforming their

enthusiasm into the realization of goals of education.

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NTR Model School Students proudly carry our National Flag Measles-Rubella vaccination camp at NTR Model School

2. NTR Trust celebrated 71st Independence day of India at NTR Model Schools in Gandipet - Hyderabad,

Challapalli - Krishna District & Geesugonda - Warangal. At NTR Model Schools, teachers revered the

importance of the Independence Day and supreme sacrifice by freedom fighters and urged the

students to become responsible citizens and prepare themselves to serve the Nation.

3. Mr. Krieator - Personality Development Mentor & Author of the book “Nenu” addressed the students

of NTR Model School, Challapalli. The topic was “ The need of Education and its importance, to the

connectivity of every individual”. He also mentioned about the role of teachers and parents with the

students and vice versa.

4. Measles-Rubella vaccination camp was organized at NTR Model School, Challapalli. A team comprising

of 2 doctors and 7 nurses from Government Hospital administered the vaccinations. 300 children

were vaccinated. The objective of this camp was to build up immunity of children against measles and

congenital rubella syndrome.

Press & Media Coverage: 1. Mr. Y. Mohan Rao donated Rs. 1.00 Lac to NTR Trust

2. A Workshop conducted at NTR Model School, Gandipet

3. Independence Day celebrations at NTR Model Schools

4. Personality Development Program at NTR Model School, Challapalli

5. Measles - Rubella Vaccination Camp organized at NTR Model School, Challapalli

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HEALTH

Key Activities:

1. NTR Trust was invited by FACEBOOK to be part of a round-table discussion on Blood Banks. CEO Mr. T.

Vishnu Vardhan, Mr. Rahmanuddin Shaik & Mr. Raju Madana took part in the round-table and gave

inputs on how Facebook could be an efficient platform to promote volunteer blood donation and

contribute to providing sustainable access to safe blood. CEO Mr. T. Vishnu Vardhan briefed the

Facebook Partnerships Team on how the Blood Banks function and about various myths associated

with Blood Donation in India. He also gave a detailed presentation on how NTR Trust Blood Banks are

functioning 24/7 in service of public and how they are able to get 100% voluntary blood donations. He

made a presentation on how simple features or tools on Facebook like “like button”, “status

messages”, “enrolling as donor”, “blood donation event”, etc. can result in effective blood donor

creation recognition and subsequently donor retention. The Facebook Product development team

visiting from USA expressed keen interest in partnering with NTR Trust Blood Banks to develop, test

and publish tools that would help make the volunteer blood donation seamless and transparent.

2. During July and Aug 2017, NTR Trust organized free Medical Camps across Andhra Pradesh and

Telangana, wherein people were given free health checkup and medicines. These Healthcare camps

aim at promoting health-seeking behaviour in the long term and these camps majorly work on

building awareness regarding common ailments, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation. These camps

provide comprehensive health services free of cost.

3. NTR Trust Blood Banks have organized numerous Volunteer Blood Donation Camps across the state of

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Live stock status of availability of Blood Units at NTR Trust Blood

Banks in Hyderabad, Guntur and Visakhapatnam are published daily on Twitter through our official

account https://twitter.com/ntrtrust

Press & Media Coverage:

1. A Blood Donation Camp was organized by NTR Trust Blood Bank

2. Free Medical Camp at Gudlavalleru, Krishna District

3. Free Medical Camp at Nellore District

4. A Blood Donation Camp was organized by NTR Trust Blood Bank

5. A Free Medical Camp at Khammam

6. A free health check up camp & blood donation camp at Bayyavaram

7. A Blood Donation Camp at Vignan’s Institute of Information & Technology

8. A Free Medical Camp at Yanamalakuduru, Kankipadu, Kanuru village

9. A Free Health & Blood Donation camp at Pamarru

10. A Blood Donation Camp at Visakhapatnam

11. A Blood Donation Camp at NTR Trust Blood Bank, Hyderabad

12. A Free Health Camp at Kasipentla, Chittoor

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13. Blood Donation camp at KL University, Guntur

14. NTR Trust organized a free health camp at Penamaluru, Krishna District

15. A Free health camp at Bonakal, Khammam District

16. Blood Donation Camp at Visakhapatnam

SUJALA

Key Activities:

CEO NTR Trust exchanging MoU with IFFCO TOKIO Vice-President Sri. Ramesh Kumar Sahajwani in the presence of Sri.

Warendra Sinha, MD & CEO of IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance Company Ltd.

1. NTR Trust signed an MoU with IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance to establish Large Scale Community

Safe Drinking Water Project at Chilakaluripet Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. IFFCO TOKIO

General Insurance have come forward to support the cause as part of their CSR Initiative. The

establishment of this project will benefit 79,000 population on day to day basis. This project will

become a boon for all these beneficiaries in safe guarding their health against all water borne

diseases. IFFCO TOKIO Vice President, Sri Ramesh Kumar Sahajwani and NTR Trust CEO, Mr.T.Vishnu

Vardhan have signed MoU on 22 Aug, 2017 in presence of Sri Warendra Sinha, Managing Director &

CEO, IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance Company Limited.

2. NTR Trust’s NTR Sujala potable water dispensing Units in CRDA region were launched by Shri Shravan

Kumar, MLA. Local leaders, senior citizens & the villagers at Harishchandrapuram, Ananthavaram,

Vaddamanu, Borupalem, Dondapadu, Tallayapalem, Inavolu, Pedda Parimi, Shakamuru &

Nekkallu.Purified water will be provided at Rs.2/-20 liters round the clock at these locations.This NTR

Sujala Project covers 29 villages and 1.5 lakh people in the capital region of Amaravathi in Andhra

Pradesh.

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3. NTR Trust to partner with CSIR-IICT to bring out their research to masses. NTR Trust team lead by Mr.

T.Vishnu Vardhan, CEO of NTR Trust met Mr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Director IICT, and his team of

senior scientists at IICT institute in Hyderabad. This meeting was to discuss on the possibilities of both

parties to work towards possible collaboration on water technologies for the benefit of society at

large. NTR Trust team explained their unique Sujala Cluster Model of safe drinking water to the

members of IICT team and in turn learnt about the technologies and research carried out by IICT

team. Scientists at IICT appreciated the way NTR Trust is providing safe drinking water to 3 lakh

people at Rs.2/- for 20 litres. It was agreed in-principle to enter into an MoU with the objective of NTR

Trust working as a catalyst to make the IICT research technologies to reach larger public.

CEO & NTR Trust Sujala Team meeting with Dr. Srivari Chandrasekhar, Director CSIR-IICT & other scientists on NTR

Sujala Cluster Model

Press & Media Coverage:

1. NTR Trust’s NTR Sujala launches Dispensing Units in CRDA Region

2. NTR Trust to partner with CSIR-IICT

EMPOWERMENT AND LIVELIHOODS Key Activities:

1. Freedom Refined Sunflower Oil in association with NTR Trust conducted a “Freedom Self-

Employment Cookery Workshop”. This workshop will be free of cost for a duration of 6 weeks and the

participants will be supported in setting up their own venture post the course completion. Mr. P.

Chandra Shekar Reddy, Vice President - Sales & Marketing, Freedom Refined Sunflower Oil & Mr.

T.Vishnu Vardhan, CEO of NTR Trust had participated in the press meet. NTR Trust thanked Freedom

Sunflower Oil and said “ It is our mission to help and equip the people from all strata of the society to

be self- reliant and be capable of providing employment to others”. Over the next one year, “Freedom

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Self-Employment Cookery Workshop is planned at different districts across the twin states of Andhra

Pradesh & Telangana.

2. First Batch of Assistant Cook Programme of NTR Trust was successfully completed. Course Completion

Certificates were distributed to the candidates who successfully completed 6 weeks of free training by

NTR Trust under its Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP). Mr. T. Vishnu Vardhan, CEO of

NTR Trust addressed the aspiring food entrepreneurs about the opportunities in Catering Retail

Marketing, Food and Beverage Industries. This course is designed to help participants with a great

foundation in Breakfast menu, Bakery items, Chinese Food, Indian Meal & Sweets preparation,

Marketing food products and setting up their own business. We focus more on hands - on training in

our state-of-art Kitchen. Chef Ramana - an internationally experienced trainer,has designed the

Assistant Cook Course as a perfect introduction where participants will learn, taste and be creative

with food.

Sri P. Chandra Shekar Reddy (Vice-President of Freedom Refined Sunflower Oil & GEF) and CEO NTR Trust with

participants of Freedom Self - Employment Cookery Workshop conducted by NTR Trust

3. Ms. Komal Agarwal, Director of RoyBlu

Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad distributed course

completion certificates to candidates who

successfully completed their 4 weeks of Free

Training at NTRT Skill Development Centre,

Hyderabad. This lecture increased confidence

levels of trainees and they got crispy interview skill

tips.

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4. NTR Trust conducted its first training for 16 Driver Partners in partnership with APSKWDCL(Andhra

Pradesh State Kapu Welfare and Development Corporation Limited) & OLA at Vijayawada. APSKWDCL

Chairman, Mr. Ramanujaya and Chairman of Mangalagiri Municipality, Mr. Ganji Chiranjeevi

addressed driver partners on various schemes of APSKWDCL. Later they distributed certificates to the

trainees. Mr. Ramanujaya called out for the need for drivers in the country and acknowledged NTR

Trust and OLA’s efforts in providing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities to aspiring

driver partners. Mr. Sripadaram - Head ,EDP (Entrepreneurship Development Program), along with his

team conducted 5 days of exclusive training to Driver Partners focusing mainly on entrepreneurial

concepts of Goal Setting and Goal Stretching, ownership, understanding financial management and

effective customer relationship.

Press & Media Coverage:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WhyzKkuqQ - MVT News

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-y-2fSyDjQ - ABN

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Str3kl7XyHQ - HYBIZ TV

4. Course completion certificate for the first batch of Assistant Cook Programme

5. Course completion certificate distribution at NTRT SDC

6. NTR Trust conducted first dedicated training for Driver Partners

7. A 6-week Self Employment Cookery Workshop

8. Freedom Self - Employment Cookery Workshop

Language Arts & Culture (LAC)

Telugu Wikipedia & Wikisource workshop in progress

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Key Activities:

1. NTR Trust co-organized Telugu Wikisource Workshop in association with Centre for Internet and

Society’s Access to Knowledge programme. The workshop, held at NTR Trust, was attended by both

seasoned Wikipedians & Wikisourcerers and new entrants to wikisource. The process of acquiring

copyright lapsed/free-licensed books, scanning them, creating index pages, typing text, proofreading,

approving and creation of e-publishing was discussed with hands-on activities. A special session on

publishing of books was taken up by Mr. Arjun Rao remotely from Bangalore through skype. NTR Trust

is working towards catalyzing Telugu Digital Corpus Creation online through our “Telugu Koti Maatla

Kota”.

Press & Media Coverage:

1. NTR Trust co-organizes Telugu Wikisource Workshop

General

1. Mr. Srinivas Murthy conducted a session on “Bird’s eye view of NLP” .

He is a new age Personal Excellence Guru who effectively blends

Neuro - Linguistic Programming (NLP) with spirituality and other

Traditional Eastern Systems in his interventions. He mentioned that,

NLP is a simple skillful method for studying what goes on inside a

person. NLP is about how the brain works, how people think, feel,

learn motivate themselves, interact with others, make choices and

achieve realistic goals.

2. NTR Trust celebrated the 71st Independence Day of India with a lot of

fervor and saluted our Indian Flag with pride. NTR Trust CEO, Mr. T. Vishnu Vardhan hoisted flag.

Press & Media Coverage:

1. NTR Trust’s Samalochana Event

2. Team NTR Trust invited for facebook round table

3. Independence Day celebrations at NTR Trust

Vacancies at NTR Trust ➔ Lab Technicians for Hyderabad & Guntur Blood Banks.

➔ Lab Technicians at Blood Bank to do blood grouping, serum grouping, component preparation,

X-matching, maintenance of records, attending camps etc.

To apply please send your resume with a covering letter to hr@ntrtrust.org Internships at NTR Trust: We consider young graduates to intern with us. NTR Trust promises to give rich work

experience across Education, Health, Safe Drinking Water and Empowerment and Livelihoods verticals. Interns

are required to spend a minimum of 30 days with us. If you are interested, please send your resume with a

letter of motivation to ceo@ntrtrust.org

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About NTR TRUST Established in 1997, NTR Trust has been at the forefront of bringing socio-economic change in Andhra Pradesh

and Telangana states. It endeavours to create opportunities for the underprivileged to achieve their full

potential, safeguarding health and safety and reducing poverty and instances of injustice. Our work is guided

by an important principle: that we are guardians of private funds which must be utilized in the public interest.

We are inspired by NTR’s deeply held belief: that sharing and caring are the ultimate goals of human life.

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donations.

Voluntary Blood Donation Camp at NTR Trust Blood Bank, Hyderabad

Thanks and regards Mr T. Vishnu Vardhan Chief Executive Officer, NTR Trust

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