Director’s Message

I feel great pleasure to share our first e-newsletter with you all. Your help to our initiatives has meant a lot to us, a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you for this great support. We are successfully running the residential care home which presently accommodates 11 orphan children having HIV/AIDS. This brief news-letter brings an update about the happenings at Satyakam Care Home we are running at Meerut. We are happy to achieve constant success in bringing smiles to our children, but not without consistent and over-whelming support and encouragement from our sponsors. I, on behalf of Satyakam family thank all our donors and sponsors. We look forward to receive your positive response in our future endeavors too.

- Ajay Sharma

Birthdays!!!!!!

We celebrated three birthdays with cakes, candles and many best wishes. Many of the local dignitaries joined the parties and blessed the children.

October 2012

E-Update @ Satyakam CARE HOME

Ashish

Satyakam

Ankur

Satyakam

Golu

Satyakam

Independence Day Cele-bration at Care Home

Celebrating the day, children presented patriotic songs, a cultural dance followed by National Anthem.

These children were motivate to lead a life of truth, honesty and selfless service. They were also inspired to realize their love for motherland.

Our children invited as ‘SPECIAL GUESTS’ September 29th

J.P. Management College invited all the children of Satyakam Care Home as special guests at a programme organ-ized at their college. Children gave a dance performance at the programme which was much appreciated by the participants.

Birthday Celebrations with our children September 28th September 7th

Dr. Gunjan Kapoor, Dr. Usha Kiran,

Sr. Cardiologist, Meerut Pro, Meerut College, Meerut

September 25th

Anuradha Sharma,

Student of J.P.Institute

HANDMADE HUT by

PRINCE SATYAKAM

SATYAKAM CARE HOME FAMILY - Ajay Sharma (Founder Direc-tor), Deepak Kumar (Programme Manager), Vinay Kumar

(Counselor), Sonakshi Nitin Yadav (Consultant) and the children living at the home are: Balwant Satyakam, Ashish Satyakam, Golu Satyakam, Prakash Satyakam, Arvind Satyakam, Ankur Satyakam, Gufram Satyakam (King), Samrat Satyakam, Ali

Mehndi Satyakam, Santosh Satyakam and Shubhankar Satya-kam.

Dr. Yudhveer Singh

Pro, Meerut College and

Secretary, Meerut Cricket Association

Dr. Usha Kiran

Pro, Meerut College

Celebrated her son’s birthday with our children

Vaishali Tyagi

D/o Dr. Seema Tyagi, Meerut

Students of J.P. Institute

Meerut

Dr. Vishwajeet Bembi

Physician, MD

(Internal Medicine)

Visitors at the Care Home

Lunch at RIMS College

Children were invited for a lunch at RIMS College, Roor-kee by Mr. Pradeep Batra (MLA, Roorkee) and were presented gifts.

Workshop on ‘Care and Support for HIV Infected Children’ A workshop on the subject was organized at Chamber of Com-merce, Bombay Bazaar, Meerut on 22nd April, 2012. The work-shop was inaugurated by Prof. Y. Vimla and had a participation of local doctors, lecturers, NGOs, social activists and other community members. During the programme, a medical van was donated to Satyakam Care Home as a contribution from several local dignitaries.

KIDS CORNER

CONTACT DETAILS

H-99, Ganga Nagar, Meerut – 250001 (U.P.) India 0121-3244293 +91-9410814135 satyakamorg@yahoo.com satyakamcarehome@gmail.com www.satyakamindia.org Main Contact Person : Ajay Sharma (Founder Director)

ABOUT THE CARE HOME

UP’s first residential care home of orphan children living with HIV/AIDS

Satyakam Care Home has been established for HIV/AIDS affected who have lost one or both of their parents due to this illness. These children are often neglected and ostracized by society and abandoned by their relatives too. Presently, there are 11 children, 2 to 14 years age are living at the care home. The foundation aims at bringing a positive transformation in the life of these children by providing them education, nutrition, psychological support, health and recreational support. The children have been enrolled in schools to provide them with mainstream education. A few of them have also been awarded for their excellent performance. Meals are cooked at the centre wherein well-balanced nutrition meals are provided to these children. For their overall development, yoga classes are organised three times per week, sports are encouraged and other develop-ment programmes are organised time to time. Doctors, teachers, students and others have shown a keen interest to volunteer their time with these children. The residential care home provides:

24 hour care and protection.

Medical help facilities

Access to school education and support after school

Nutritious meals with a proper diet chart for each day

Celebration of the birthdays, and other events that create a family environment for each of the children under Satya-kam’s protection

Counselling support for the children

Recreational and cultural activities

Life skills training

Occasional excursions

ABOUT SATYAKAM

Satyakam, a Meerut based civil society organization, since its inception in January 2004 has been working towards the development of the community and for the protection and holistic develop-ment of vulnerable children in the areas of education, health and HIV/AIDS, women’s empower-ment, livelihoods and peace-building. The organization provides shelter, nutritional diets, education, medical care, health care benefits, counseling & recreation, rehabilitation and care to the orphan children living with HIV/AIDS. It is also working to end the negative discrimination of these children from the mainstream society by bringing about a behavioral change in the community through awareness. Satyakam is also working for the development of women through a “need based and participa-tory approach”. It runs livelihood based programmes and provides skill development training for marginalized women and facilitates their participation in decision making for their own benefit. All the work of the organization is achieved through societies support and local as well as national partnerships with different government and non-government agencies. Vision Our vision is to develop a society with no disparity towards the children belonging to marginalised sections and those living with HIV/AIDS. We also strive to work towards secured livelihoods and ensured right for the women.

Mission Our mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of children belonging to marginalised sec-tions and those infected with HIV as well as affected by AIDS by helping to meet their diverse needs, advocating and educating on their behalf, and bringing joy and fun into their lives. The organisation also endeavours to create and provide all possible opportunities to the women empowered through awareness, education, income to be "enhanced by learning various work skills" and right attitudes confidence.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US! Satyakam Care Home is supported primarily through donations. We en-courage you to become a part of our donor community and support our children with your financial and in-kind donations:

Ice Cream Party

Children were thrown an Ice Cream party at Mc Donand’s, PVS Mall, Meerut by Sonia Ahlawat.

What an enjoyment it was for the children!!

Earth Day Celebration

Marking the occasion, chil-dren made a remarkable step by reusing the empty bottles of cold drinks and exhibiting the same to the local commu-nity of Meerut.

DONATION FOR AMOUNT PER CHILD FOR

ONE MONTH (INR)

AMOUNT (RS. *

NO.)

Education 500

Medical Check Ups 600

Diet 900

Medicines 800

Recreation 100

Hygiene 200

Total Amount

(Monthly)

3100

Total Amount (Annual) 37200

Name Address Occupation

Organization Phone Email

Amount of donation_________________________

In kind donation_____________________________

Please return this form along with your cheque or in-kind donation to office ad-

dress. Cheques/DDs should be made in name of SATYAKAM MANAV SEVA SA-

MITI payable at MEERUT. For other donation options (wire transfers, cash, etc.)

and general inquiries, please feel free to contact us. All donations are exempt un-

der Section 80G of the Income Tax Act of 1961.

You can also donate online through our website www.satyakamindia.org

For other queries related to do-nations, please contact :

Deepak Kumar

Programme Manager

Mob:9359996493

satyakamcarehome@gmail.com