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REDINGTON CSR – CONNECT

May 2019

May – being the academic results month of

every year, the General Election 2019 results

has also become an added anticipation of this

year. Once again people have reposed their

confidence in BJP and Modi in a big way. The

trends indicate unambiguously that grammar

of politics is under transformation.

Class X and XII results were announced

during May’19 and I am glad to receive the

delightful communication from all our

associated schools that the success percentage

is 100 / 100, including Shanthi School students

(Differently Abled Students). It really gives us

a meaningful satisfaction on our

EXCELLENCEproject’s contribution.

Admissions in Colleges, New Class Rooms and

New Environment with New Hopes have

began. We wish all the very best to the

student for their next milestone.

We are happy to share that three XII students

of the Shanthi School are getting admitted in

Rani Anna College, Tirunelveli upon our

request. We take this opportunity to thank the

Principal of Rani Anna College for considering

our request and supporting the children.

We are also delighted to mention that the

“MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE”,

the new concept for bringing HR to home town

is ready and the 2019 graduates from

our associated colleges in Tirunelveli district

will find a suitable job soon.

In May’19, Dr K. Kasturirangan Committee

submitted the Draft National Education Policy

to the Union HRD Minister. The Government

of India had initiated the process of

formulating a New Education Policy to meet

the changing dynamics of the requirements of

the population with regard to quality

education, innovation and research, aiming to

make India a knowledge superpower by

equipping its students with the necessary

skills and knowledge and to eliminate the

shortage of manpower in science, technology,

academics and industry.

The path breaking reforms recommended will

bring about a paradigm shift by equipping our

students, teachers and educational institutions

with the right competencies and capabilities

and also create an enabling and reinvigorated

educational eco-system for a vibrant new

India.

With a progressive vision, Redington

Foundation initiatives of employability skills

training is committed to meet our social

responsibilities while setting high standards

for all our stakeholders; so as to create a

community which is vibrant and provides

lifelong learning experience and professional

development.

100 % PASS RESULT OF X AND XII

EXAMINATIONS IN OUR EXCELLENCE

SCHOOLS

CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME

A RURAL KID’S SUMMER TIME

WE PREPARE THE ASPIRERS

HEALTHY EMPLOYEE HEALTHY BUSINESS

PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE CAMP FOR SCAVENGERS

PEARLS ON THE CROWN

GLIMPSES OF THANJAVUR ZONE

NEW REDINGTONIANS

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We organized a Capacity Building

Programme in association with

Gandhigram Trust - Avvai Ashram

for the teachers in and around

Sivasailam on the topic

“Understanding The Approaches

And Strategies For Teaching The

Slow Learners” from 7th to 9th May

2019. 20 participants from five

schools participated in the program.

Ms. Umamaheswari, Vertical Head -

Education of Gandhigarm Trust

facilitated the three days

programme.

The objective of the programme is

to make the teachers understand

the approaches and strategies that

can be used towards the slow

learners in order to improve their

academic performances. The

trainer elaborately discussed about

the Importance of Team Work, Role

Play, Method of Teaching, Bonding

with Students, Maintaining

Student's Records, Worksheet

Preparation for Slow Learners,

Time Management, etc.,

The programme also included many

activities based modules, wherein

the participants acquired the

knowledge about Understanding the

Students Mind Set, Psychological

Approach Toward the Slow

Learners, Motivational Techniques,

Creating Interest within the

Students on the subjects he / she is

weak, etc.,

The participants and the

management of Avvai Ashram found

the Capacity Building Program very

useful and important. Mr.

Balamurugan, Deputy

Correspondent of Avvai Ashram

expressed his gratitude for

conducting such a professional

development program for the welfare

of the children who are economically

and socially backward.

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In the summer, the children belong to the cities participate in various summer

camps like Art and Craft, Swimming Classes and much more recreational

activities. The parents of those children are also capable enough to pay the

fees of the camps and keep them engaged in the holidays.

The students of the rural areas also have the same interest and eager to

participate in the summer camps, but they neither get the opportunity in their

place nor their parents are able to pay for the camps.

Our foundation is always keen in to transform the longing to happening. Thus

a Summer Camp Program was conducted by our foundation for the students of

Gandigram Trust from 02nd to 08th May 2019. 54 students from Avvai Ashram

and Athri School participated in the program. The students participated in

the camp with full of energy and enthusiasm. The trainers of Pinnacle

Services as usual made the program a remarkable one.

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Every individual has the right to dream about their success and every fellow being

has the responsibility to help the dreamer. We at Redington Foundation, always

strive hard to make someone thrive in their life. Today’s aspirer is tomorrow’s

inspirer. We motivate and support such medical aspirers to make their career dream

come true. All the rural medical aspirers are highly ambitious, but their parents are

not able to afford for the required coaching, to crack the NEET entrance examination.

Our foundation identified such aspirers and conducted the NEET Preparatory Course

training for them in the last academic year. 28 trainees underwent the free NEET

Preparatory Course and had also appeared for the NEET examination which was

conducted on 05th May 2019.

PREPARATORY COURSE

These 28 students who underwent the

preparatory course were issued with the books

and study materials as soon as the course was

started. The students were prepared for the

examination by our tutors not only on the

syllabus but also on the strategies that to be

followed to crack the examination. The students

were given frequent model examinations so as to

train them to complete the examination within

the stipulated time.

WE WISH BEST TO ALL OUR STUDENTS

WHO APPEARED FOR THE NEET

EXAMINATION

As per the NEET results declared on 05th June 2019, out of our 28 students, 4 have

scored above 300 marks, 6 have scored above 200 and 8 have scored above 100. The

cut off mark declared by the government is 134 – 107 according to the category. After

the counselling conducted by the government the allotment of seats will be done in

different Medical fields.

We hope the students will get the seats in the expected field and

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S. NoHospital /

DoctorCheck-up

1 Dr. Roja General Counselling

2Dr. Kumar’s

Speciality Hospital

Orthopaedics

Blood check up

Blood pressure check up

Bone density check up

3Dr. Kamakshi

Memorial Mospital

ECG

Cardiology

4 Sri Kumaran Hospital

Gynaecology

Diabetology

5Agarwal’s Eye

HospitalOphthalmology

6 Apollo Hospital Dental

7 Kavuery hospital Gastrology

As good health plays a key role for the efficiency in working environment,

Foundation for CSR organised a health check-up camp for the employees of

Ensure Services on 25th May 2019 at Ensure Services office located at Guindy,

Chennai.

The health check-up was offered to the employees at free of cost for their

welfare. Our foundation roped in some of the renowned hospitals to conduct

the health check-up. Around 85 employees availed the free medical health

check-up through this camp. The following is the list of Hospitals and the

check-ups done my their doctors.

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Article By Mr. Jerome Maria Dsouza, Project Coordinator

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The benefits to the employee are as follows

Free health check up

Different types of check-up is done at one point

Improved health and wellbeing

Enhanced personal and professional relationships

Reduced personal healthcare costs

Follow-up programme

Health Awareness Program is planned to be conducted at Ensure

Services every month.

The main aim of conducting

such medical camp is to

create awareness among the

young work force about the

importance of wellbeing and

about the primary medical

check-ups to be done on a

regular basis.

We also requested them to propagandize our services to the needy

who they come across.

We wish to thank all the

hospitals, doctors and

Ensure Services

Management for their

association and support. We

look forward to help more

needy through their

associations.

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Our 5th Healthcare Camp at Tuticorin

was successfully conducted on 31st May

2019 with the great support of the

Tuticorin District Administration.

Our Foundation had happily organized

this Healthcare Camp for the scavengers

of Tuticorin district. It was organised

and well managed by our team with the

support of corporation members who also

joined hands in conducting the camp.

More than 100 sanitary workers

participated and got benefited through

the health checkup. Two Chest specialist

and one helper from Dr. Kumars

Speciality Hospital, Chennai

attended the camp and conducted the

respiratory disease examination for the

sanitary workers. Their reports were

generated and kept in their files for

future references.

We wish to continue rendering the

healthcare services to the sanitary

workers who are selfless in their service

which they render to this society.

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Breaks All The Records Of The Previous Years !

Bagged The Highest Salaried Jobs This Year !!

While we are entering the academic year of 2019 - 2020, the trainees of the

academic year 2018 - 2019 were hunting for the best jobs with the Employer’s

expected knowledge and skills, resulting in placements with highest salaries.

S.No. Name of the Trainee Company Job PositionMonthly

Salary

1 S.Dhanalakshmi Worldwide Solution, Madurai Data Entry Operator 6000

2 M.Paulraj Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

3 M.Rajasekar Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

4 R.Ramakrishnan Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

5 S.Sarathkumar Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing 9500

6 M.Shanmugapriya Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

7 R.Thenmozhi Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

8 S.Venkatesh Prasad Reliance Fresh, Uthangudi, Madurai Billing & Packing 9500

9 A.C.Vishnu Ram Prodesigna Consultants, Madurai Autocad Designer 6000

Remarkable Placements of Montessori Teacher Trainees:

As the academic year was about to start, prior to June, requirement of

teachers rises. Therefore, Redington training was planned to complete in April

and made the trainees appear for the interviews at schools during April &

May. Every News Paper Ad cutting was displayed and Montessori Trainees

were oriented on concurrent basis to appear for interviews. Out of 28 trainees,

21 trainees have bagged the appropriate jobs in a short duration with

appreciable salaries. As the proverb says “Make Hay While The Sun Shines”

the trainees had grabbed the suitable jobs in various schools at the right time.

100 % placement in the Differently Abled group. (batch 2)

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Articled By Ms. Sabina Seelan, Project Coordinator

Placement of IT Training batch in Gandhigram is nearing 100%

Considering majority of the unemployed engineering graduates, Redington

Foundation is offering IT programming skill training from the year 2017. Our

second batch trainees were provided with 3 months of Core Skill training in

Java programming and completed the program in March 2019. Totally 19

Engineering and Computer Science graduates underwent the training in

Gandhigram SLC out of which, 17 graduates are successfully placed in various

IT corporates with good packages. The following is the list of employed

students.

S.NO TRAINEES NAME COMPANY NAME SALARY

1 Anto Clement.ASRIV Testing Consultants Hub Pvt Ltd,

Chennai8000

2 Antony Amalraj.P Qantler Technologies, Namakkal 10000

3 Arun Kumar.M Reliance SMSL LIMITED, Chennai 8800

4 Arunkumar.S IT Galax Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai 12304

5 Azmal.B IT Galax Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai 12304

6 Eswaramoorthi.M Zyde Soft Solutions, Chennai 10000

7 Muthukumar.K IT Galax Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai 12304

8 Sasikumar.M IT Galax Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai 12304

9 Vijay Prabaharan.G MVI Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai 14000

10 Anu Sri Kiruthiga.R Minuscule Technologies Pvt Ltd., Chennai 7500

11 Dharani.J MVI Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai 14000

12 Indurani.J Karur Vysya Bank Ltd 8000

13 Janani.K Orion India Systems India Pvt Ltd, Chennai 29167

14 Josephine Infenta.X Zonsig Technologies, Chennai 7000

15 Mohana Devi.P Zonsig Technologies, Chennai 7000

16 Sharanya.M Orion India Systems India Pvt Ltd, Chennai 24033

17 Vaishnavi.P Minuscule Technologies Pvt Ltd., Chennai 7500

In Madurai SLC - 1 nearly 26 company’s job opportunities, both local and

outstation, were referred to the trainees and they have attended the interviews

according to their graduation stream. Few of the companies like, Winways

Systems, HDB Finance, TVS Logistics and Thanga Mayil Jewellery had

conducted Placement drive in SLC - 1 and recruited the suitable candidates. 50

out of 72 trainees are placed and others are yet to get placed.

Placement Summary of Madurai, SLC - 1

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Ms. Janani, Trainee Software Engineer,

Orion, Chennai

Ms. Sheeba, KG Class Teacher, The Indian

Public School, Madurai

Ms. Sharanya, Associate Project Engineer – Level 1,

Orion, Chennai

Some Pearls For Display

Ms. Shakthi Priya, Teacher,

St Joseph Matriculation

School, Madurai

Mr. Karthick, (Differently Abled)Billing Executive in

Reliance Mart,Uthangudi,

Madurai

Ms. Thenmozhi, (Differently Abled)Billing Executive in

Reliance Mart,Uthangudi,

Madurai

We are able to achieve this

remarkable success through our

continuous improvement of

Professionalism, showing the way

of more and more opportunities

towards our trainees’ career

progress.

The continuous effort, motivation,

high sense of commitment by the

team would surely bring

remarkable record in future as

well.

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Evaluation Meeting

An Evaluation Meeting, headed by Mr.

Sudharshan Naidu, Consultant, was held

on 09 May 2019. The evaluation was done

for all the activities under READ,

Excellence and REACH Projects

respectively.

Visit to New ESLC Colleges

3 years of MOU is signed with new

ESLC Colleges and our team had a visit

to the following ESLCs.

Mass College of Arts and Science,

Kumbakonam.

AVC College of Arts and Science,

Mayiladuthurai.

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Mr. Roger Paul

Project

Coordinator -

READ Thanjavur

Zone

Mr. Roges Paul has

worked in Sutherland

Global Services and

Polaris India Pvt Ltd

previously. He also has

experience in Training.

Mr. Jaspher

Soundararaj,

Project

Coordinator –

READ,

Tirunelveli Zone

Mr. Jaspher Soundararaj

has 14 years of experience

in IT Operations worked

with many clients from

IT, Manufacturing, BFSI,

Broadcasting, etc., He has

also worked with HCL

Infosystem and Precision

Techserve previously.

Mr. Lakshminarasimhan,

CSR Lead

Mr. Lakshmi Narasimhan, CSR Lead has

joined our team recently. We are happy to

introduce and share few words about him

in our magazine.

In 1981 he stepped into M/s. Kasturi &

Sons Limited (Props. THE HINDU) in

their Circulation Department as a hard-

core field personnel and steered the path

of growth to the level of Regional General

Manager. During the tenure, Year on year

Sales and best Presentation awards were

won by him. He was identified to take up

the work of launching the first edition of

THE HINDU in Kerala at

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM and he deems

it the greatest success in his career. This

further augmented him as a facilitator to

launch the subsequent editions in Kochi

and Kozhikode.

A good team player, a good learner, a good

listener, hard-working, self-motivated,

dedicated and loyal, and these qualities

blended with required energy has made

him to take up work to support CSR

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Let's all thank the Almighty for all

the good that he has showered on

us. Let's all be contented in what he

has given to us, be it our normal

physical stature, or the

right economic status or a better

Living Condition.

The deprived and the differently

abled are nothing but our fellow

beings and the unfathomable love

and affection they express is beyond

the obvious.

My call is, Hey!! the egoistic human

being do you wish to mellow down,

then please visit our CSR ( Care,

Serve, Reassure, I would like to put

it like that) associated centres like

the Amar Seva Sangam, Ayikudi

and Avvai Ashram, Sivasailam run

by Gandhigram Trust. The sights

that gets implanted in your cornea,

the love that gets etched in your

mind, the right thoughts that gets

engraved in your cranium are all

indelible ones and they just come as

a companion when our morale is at its

lowest ebb and boosts us to a situation

of boom.

The donors in general should feel

elated for serving such institutions

and we must reverently clasp our

hands to the founders and their torch

bearers who continue to run such

great caring centres. I salute the

FOUNDATION FOR CSR @

REDINGTON.

I must reckon here that the team in

Tirunelveli zone has been doing a

great job and I feel good to have

joined the stream to serve the

mankind.

God’s delays are not his denials. The

medical camp for sanitary workers in

Thuthukudi is underway. The

sanitation workers children were

given with school bags at an event

where Sri Sandeep Nanduri, the

District Collector served as the chief

guest. In his address he had all praise

for our foundation.

Article By

T.S. Lakshminarasimhan,

CSR Lead

Redington Foundation

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Enabling and Empowering women in computer knowledge and Tally, seeing

in them a Montessori Teacher are all other areas the RF-CSR is extending in

the region.

We see a lot of potential among the differently abled. They are taught to

do handcrafted materials and even make door mats using manual machines.

The need for appreciation here are the teachers who nurture them to

understand the basic needs of the children to understand, feel and shout out

for their nature calls (biological calls for excretion) and it is for those teachers

the CSR-RF supports. A great service rendered by the teachers and a right

spending too by us.

The yet to gain momentum is the Meaningful Employment Centre (MEC) at

Krishnapuram in Tirunelveli. Exploring the possibilities of placements for the

locals and its surrounding. A sort of an incubation centre, which I feel is sure

to taste success on striking the right unit. A focused approach to this will

bring results.

The team that serves the zone is in the right spirit and track. They have

travelled and come a great distance and are sure to scale new areas as they

are taking the paths that are less travelled.

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