TANA Foundaton targets to set up 100 libraries
Author(s): City Air NewsSreenivasa Gogineni, Chairman of TANA Foundation. Hyderabad, January 6, 2016: TANA Foundation, a charity wing of TANA—Telugu Association of North America has been doing Yeoman Service year after year. It has been...
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Sreenivasa Gogineni, Chairman of TANA Foundation.
Hyderabad, January 6, 2016: TANA Foundation, a charity wing of TANA—Telugu Association of North America has been doing Yeoman Service year after year. It has been implementing service projects worth One Million American Dollars on an average every year consistently for over three decades. Ever since it’s establishment till date, projects worth Rs 250 crore and above are taken up by TANA Foundation informed, Sreenivasa Gogineni, Chairman of the Foundation, while addressing a press conference here in city today.
Speaking further, he listed out the service projects currently underway in various places of both Telugu States.
We are planning to do 100 CleftLip and Cleft Palate Surgeries at Durga Hospitals, and Smile Care Foundation in Vishakhapatnam on 7thJanuary 2016. A Cataract Eye Camp will be held at Pithapuram Municipal School in East Godavari District on 8th January. Where a School Library will also be inaugurated, he informed.
Another Mega Health Camp with Cancer Screening and Cataract Surgeries is planned at Tanuku Town Hall on 10th Junuary, informed Sreenivasa Gogineni.
TANA does various other service activities in USA all around the year such as helping students and other people on emergency situations under a program called TANA TEAM Square and various awareness camps such as Bone marrow matching, legal, under a program called TANA Cares. TANA also responds to various catastrophic incidents such cyclone; floods etc with large financial support, he added.
The mission of the Foundation is to improve the quality of life of all needy people in North America and Andhra Pradesh with a motto “To Share, To care and To Serve the needy”.
TANA Foundation inspires and has been encouraging NRIs to donate under “ManaVooriKosam” to donate for development of their own villages. The response has been very encouraging, informed Sreenivasa Gogineni.
We have recently inaugurated a ZP School library, Cataract Surgeries and Cardiac Health Camps in Krishna District. 30 Zilla Parishad School Libraries were installed t Mahboobnagar District and surrounding areas. Various infrastructure projects such as Connecting roads, funeral shelters, water schemes, Community centers etc are going on at various villages of donors choices under the banner of “ManaVooriKosam”.
160+ professional student scholarships(MBBS and Engineering) were distributed in December 2015. 563 poor, orphan and semi-orphan students are being sent to High Schools in EG and Vizag Districts through Project Vaaradhi.
The Foundation has been supporting several identified charity organizations such as Child Aid Foundation(CAF), Center for Social Services Hyderabad(CSS), Balavikas Educational Society, Hyderabad, Needy Illiterate Children Education(NICE), Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre, Sai Oral Health Foundation Hyderabad etc
For $250 you can change the face of a child forever and put a beautiful smile. This project has been just taken up and 250 surgeries have been sponsored till date.
Knowledge is Power, this concept drives the setting of Libraries in Govt and Aided schools. Reading habits of govt. school students are confined traditionally to the text books. With a view to inculcating reading habit among them, TANA with support from its partner BREAD Society is setting up Children’s Libraries in govt. high schools. 100 Libraries are targeted in the 6 months of which 30 are already in the process. These libraries are ensuring that books are accessible to students, encouraging students to run and manage the libraries, motivating students to read the books of their choice, motivating teachers who encourage reading habits in students and in honoring students and teachers who effectively use the libraries.
We see funeral homes, cemeteries in this part of the world in a pleasant environment as sending of a loved one in a most respectful manner is considered very important. Unfortunately in many parts of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana the cemeteries/graveyards are used for every other purpose, other than for cremation Building a funeral shelter with basic amenities costs a minimum of $10,000. TANA Foundation is supporting and guidingthe donors for executing these in their villages informed Sreenivas Gogineni.
Date:
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
