Charity At Home

Overall trip was very productive with around 5000KM train travel, 500KM cycling, 12KM trucking and several kilometers walking and with lot learning. In this one month trip there were number of Manavata activities organized, also meeting with great leaders, many like minded volunteers and youth. Cycle route and the train route are as shown in India map below:


21th Dec 2008: Reached Hyderabad through a direct flight from London Heathrow. Our newly started Manavata ashram in Bandlaguda is just 10 KM away from airport. Prakash and Paddaraju picked me from airport and took me to ashram by 5:30AM and happy to meet all the children and volunteers who have prepared to perform puja. We together did Ayyappa puja and reached Manavata office in Masabtank. Discussed with volunteers about action plan for the CTG and cycling events. We all then met in Sri Venkateswara temple and performed Ayyappa puja. This is the first exercise for volunteers in working together to organize food and all puja items. It was a nice team work and we completed puja with the help of Sriram swami and team. After lunch we had a short meeting and discussed about CTG further actions. Several people came forward to take responsibilities and I then briefed them about charity together and desperate need of working together. I was discussing with several teams in different meetings until 7PM after when I started my travel to Lolla by Goutami express. Today’s meetings made many volunteers to take part in CTG actions.

22nd Dec: Reached Dwarapudi and visited Ayypappa temple after taking bath in Godavari water on side canal. We have invited swamis from Anaparthy Ayyappa temple for evening’s Padipuja at home. Subbaraju took me to Lolla on his vehicle. It was nice to see my parents and children every one working for evening Padipuja. Lunch was organized for around 150 people at home as annadanam during padipuja. Around 80 swamis came for puja in the evening and we all performed padipuja well along with father, Subbaraju and Paturi Rambabu swamis. 11:30PM all swami’s had vadi

23rd Dec: Early hours at 4am we have performed puja at ashram and got ready for Irumudi. Many friends and relatives including our ashram children attended this Irumudi festival. Everyone enjoyed this. We had lunch at 11:30AM in temple and started our journey to Sabarimala at 12:30 PM. From Anaparthy we took Bokoro express train and reached Ernakulam at 6PM on 24th

24th Dec: took a cab and went to Erumeli, after Vavar swami darshan in masjid and cultural play by kanneswamis we started our journey and reached Pamba at 3AM 25th Dec.

25th Dec: took bath in Pamba river and then started climbing Sabarimala hill at 4am; reached sannidhanam at 7am; done with darshan and irumudi by 9am. Walked back to Pamba and reached Ernakulam at 5PM. Stayed in Ernakulam that night.

26th Dec: started our journey at 1:30PM and reached Tirupati at 3AM on 27th

27th Dec: collected our donor passes from Tirupati office and went to Tirumala at 6am. Done with Darshan by 2PM and had lunch (temple Prasad). Purchased couple of things for children and reached tirupati train station at 6PM to catch Narayanadri.

28th Dec: Reached Hyderabad at 7:30am and organized a Manavata team meeting to plan charity together tasks and cycling event. We all have distributed several work streams and started working on those. Until 3rd of Jan some of the team members worked full time to complete different works. We used to work more than 16 hours a day. Manavata UK and Manavata US teams have given good support for both CTG and cycling event organization.

1st Jan: Clothes distribution team of Srinivas, Prakash, Amar, Mallikarjun and other volunteers started at 4AM and loaded clothes into two cars; distributed them in slum areas near Miyapur in Hyderabad.


4th Jan 09: International Charity together Conference was held at Tagore Auditorium, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Around 80 organizations participated and many youths too participated there and got inspired after hearing. Sriram invited guests onto the dais for inauguration. Followed by inauguration ceremony and prayer Srinivas gave a welcome note and briefed about Charity Together program.
White paper presentations were given by following organizations:
• LeadIndia2020, Hyderabad – (case study on youth empowerment) Mr. Sudharshanachary
• Deepalaya, New Delhi – (Case study on child education) Mr. Peter
• CharityAtHome – (Healthy life style) Srinivas, Mahesh & Shiva
• HARD / Vitharana – (case study on child relief) - Gopikrishna
• Vridhi foundation – (global warming)

Stalls Organized by:
1. Ramakrishna Math – Books
2. CharityAtHome – Manavata – books, healthy food items, bags & t-shirts made by women empowerment group.
3. AIESEC – brochures
4. Vridhi Foundation – Environment soil, plantation modal etc
5. Prerana

Lunch break at 1 :30PM
Cultural events: Mr. Srinivas (mimicry), Kumari Sarvani (Bharathanatyam)

Chief guest program:
The great speech of Sri Cheekala Suryanarayana, Chairman and MD of Hi-Tech Engg. (P) Ltd., Kakinada/Yanam, E.G.Dt. AP. No doubt he has inspired the youth with the eloquent speech, with lot of Vivekananda’s quotations, and has given solutions to the youth on how to overcome from all the problems. He said if you study Swamy Vivekananda you are sure to imbibe the wonderful spirit of his man making and character building message. He rightly said the great Monk Vivekananda, the teacher and authoritative spokesperson of the great Indian Culture. His religion is to respect the religion of others the feelings and sentiments of others. He has recollected many incidents taken place at USA, in 1893 where Vivekananda addressed the Conference of World Religions. He congratulated the Manavata Team and other organizations who are doing great service to the society. He also released a book on this occasion which was authored by him “Great utterances of swami Vivekanada” and dedicated this to youth.

Sri Sudarsan (Lead India) inspired the youth with the glorious quotations of Dr. Abdul Kalam, Formerly President of India, and explained about the vision 2020. He advised the younger generation to be the real citizens of India and follow the teachings of Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Kalam for better results. He has congratulated the founder of the Manavata, Alluri Srinivasa Chowdary for his laudable service in many fields.
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi,Centre for Social Service expressed her satisfaction over the charity together meet, and she has given few pieces of advice to the team and youth to come forward in the years to come, and she has given full support to the team.

Dr.SudarshanReddy, Yogacharya explained about how yoga can help people and organizations to create healthy environment. He emphasized the need of Yoga practice. He advised all the participants to observe high principles, integrity and patriotism for better results.

Founder, Manavata and members of other organizations have expressed their ideas before the learned participants, and promised to do service to the society as usual.

Finally, Srinivas Chowdary Alluri advised the youth to follow the teachings of Swamy Vivekananda which alone can provide the inspiration, and remain the guiding force for the present day youth. Every youth should follow the teachings and follow the ideals for ensuring universal peace and brotherhood.

Srinivas requested leaders of different organizations to come forward and take leadership roles in charitytogether forum. Around 15 people formed as a committee of hyd ctg and had a 30 minutes meeting with new committee members. All committee members have written their introductions and strengths and handover to Anil kumar. We all then decided to meet on 18th Jan 2009 for further actions.

Manavata Chaitanya Yatra: (Humanitarian Enlightenment camp)

Manavata Chaitanya Yatra was a 500KM cycling camp along with self-less service activities which is aimed to promote awareness among youth and to inspire them in taking social responsibility. This 6 days long camp demonstrated a successful team work.
Manavata has taken this initiative as a proactive approach to prevent social problems. “Before people getting into problems and before experiencing any worsening climate changes we thought we should make people enlightened to act on it and every one should realize their responsibility on this earth”. So every activity in this program is focused on empowerment and sustainability whilst inspiring people.

A great effort from around 500 volunteers who helped 2000 patients in medical camps, 20,000 poor people through clothes distribution, planting 6000 saplings, touched around 25,000 youth and inspired them through personality development, health awareness sessions. Overall it was a great success. Along with Manavata many other organizations like Prakrithi Jeevana Vidhanam, Vivekananda Seva Samithi, Jana Vijnana vedika, All friends foundation, Ramananada Theerdha institute, Forest department (Hyderabad and Khammam) and many more have participated. It was a great learning in this camp. People have given us warm welcome everywhere, encouraged us and many youth have got inspired by this event. Some people have questioned us.. it is like a common question “Why are you doing this? are you getting any benefit or money from government?” when volunteers said it is a self-less service and they donate some money from their income and serve people through these camps, it was a kind of surprise for them. Coming to cycle route, Choutuppal to Suryapet high way is bit dangerous, as it is just a double road with no dividers. But fortunately lorry owners were in strike at same period (5th until 10th), so we had very less traffic on the road. Khammam to Rajahmundry road is very good and not much traffic as well. We have learned several things in different aspects like social, cultural, nature, agricultural, behavioral and spiritual. We have seen several types of lands, crops, lifestyles, natural resources etc. Rice, sugar cane, maze, papaya, guava, banana, coconut, palm, mango, cashew nut, red gram like lintels, ground nut, chilly, tobacco and many more cultivated in areas in this route. Different kind of soils red, black, mixed, sandy, rocky etc. We have also found suffering people from illness like arthritis, diabetic, BP etc, a puppy crying due to a small bike accident to her leg where bike fellow went off from there without taking care of puppy, but some local kind lady took care of it.

Route map: is as shown in following picture, which covers places Hyderabad, L.B.Nagar, Choutuppal, Chityal, Narketpalli, Nakirekal, Suryapet, Potlapahad, Khammam, Vyra, Kallur, Sattupalli, Aswaraopeta, Jangareddygudem, Dharmaraopet, Koyalguda, Kovvur, Rajahmundry, Dawaleswaram, Kadiyam, Dwarapudi, Anaparthi, Polamuru, Rayavaram and Lolla.

Volunteers organized themselves into four different teams:: 1. Cycling 2. Cloth distribution & plantation 3. Health and Medical camps 4. Personality Development. The respective teams played their respective roles very well.

Whole program was planed well in advance by Manavata team. Local volunteers for plantation, institutions for PDP, villages to organize health camps and stop over for night halt were identified, in advance, through a route survey by a set Manavata volunteers in order to organize different programs smoothly.

A great team work from different manavata chapters mainly Manavata Hyderabad, Manavata Ashram and Manavata UK chapters have done a great work. A brief update on day-to-day activity of the camp is as follows:

Day 1: (Hyderabad – Pochampalli – Chityal) – 80KM (5th Jan 2009)

The day started with a prayer and then rally was flagged off at Astalakshmi Temple, Dilsukhnagar. Team 2 had started their activity before night at 10PM. They loaded the truck with clothes at share-a-service office in Hyderabad and collected saplings from the forest department at 2am. Srinivas and Prakash have prepared breakfast (crushed wheat upma) for all the teams. Program started with an initial strength of 25 volunteers including all the teams, which includes 9 for cycling.

While the cyclists were making progress km by km, the other teams in parallel were advancing in their respective planned activities.

Health: A team of volunteers under the leadership of Dr.Rudresh, reached Pochampalli and conducted a Ayurvedic medical camp at 11 A.M and another one in Koyyalagudem in the afternoon. Around 600 patients were benefited through these camps.

Environment: Saplings & clothes were distributed in multiple villages, which were pre-identified in our route survey.

Education: A team of volunteers under the leadership of great orator Sri Cheekala Suryanarayana have visited Swami Ramananada Theerdha rural institute. He has given one excellent lecture before the learned audience at this institute in Pochampalli. This area is the place of weavers who are having dexterity in making Sarees. CS has taught about personality development for the 350 students and Mr.Srinivas Chowdary Alluri, founder of Manavata and the head of Chaitanya Yatra team taught ethics and purpose of human life - on this glorious day after completing first 50KM of his cycling. Dr.Hanumantha Rao, Director of the Institution has extended his full support to the team. His hospitality is laudable and happy augury to all the members on the first day. He has arranged lunch for all the teams. Cycling team reached to Chityala at 7 PM after completing 80KM. Panchayat president, local eenadu reporter and other villagers have enquired about the camp and showed their hospitality. Teams took rest in a dormitory.


Day 2: (Chityal – Suryapet – Potlapahad) – 70KM

The day started at 5am, and arranged plants and clothes for local panchayat in Chityal with the support of local volunteers. We had a brief meeting in village Panchayat along with village president and explained them about the program. We all did 10 minutes of meditation after the meeting. President and the villagers have felt very happy after seeing the teams’ enthusiasm, to teach about environment and health. We started cycling around 7:30AM.

There was lot of wind in opposite direction and bit of uphill, which made cyclists work hard. Srinivas has reached Suryapet prior to other cyclists to attend the PDP program.

Harif from All-friends-foundation in Suryapet helped us to organizing a PDP session in SV College. Session started at 10:30am with Sri Suryanarayana’s lecture to the young aspirants. By the time he was closing his talk, Srinivas has joined this program and gave a brief talk on youth’s responsibility for their own development and social development. While Srinivas was addressing in the PDP, rest of the cyclists were nearing to Suriapet and managed to reach at 1PM. We all had lunch together. SV college staff & all-friends-foundation gave a warm welcome to the team and arranged refreshments.

All-friends-foundation volunteers took responsibility to do plantation and clothe distribution locally as per plan.


Mobile office for co-ordination:
There were several things in pending state for next day’s program. Srinivas managed to find an internet center to sort out pending issues. It was a busy spot in that area and there was hardly any place in side the i-cafe. Then Prakash requested a shop owner who was kind enough to plug in a power extension box. Team have found some space on corridor and did a quick office setup at roadside with Prakash’s laptop and GPRS / Bluetooth connection. Srinivas, Prakash & Sudheer quickly made a few calls to project managers of different teams, doctors, local IMA and mandal PHC for more doctor volunteers. As there were more than 300 patients expected in next day’s camp in Potlapahad team was trying to arrange more doctors. Since it was a working day doctors were bit buy with their day to day duties. Prem’s mother managed to convince two of the local doctors to attend this camp. The next challenge was to sort out the plants for next day in Khammam. Srinivas has prepared a letter for forest department as requisition from Manavata and emailed to Naveen. Then Naveen Gurram went to Khammam forest department and managed to get the approval with the help of this letter. Md. Shahanwaz took list of medicines required for the camp from Dr. Veerappa and emailed, which was downloaded quickly onto laptop and ordered medicines. In an hour time team could manage to sort out all pending issue.

Potlapahad: 18KM away from Suryapet, it is an interior village. We have reached there by 8PM. Prem’s parents welcomed volunteers and made them to relax in open air peaceful weather in their house. They have arranged dinner for all the volunteers. Due to power cut for a while it was a bit dark that night.

Day 3: (Potlapahad – Suryapet – Khammam – M. Venkatayapalem) – 75KM

The day started at 4:30AM. Team did a prayer (Vishnu sahasranam) in Prem’s house and had breakfast at 6:30am. Then some clothes and plants were dispatched in the village, which local volunteers agreed to distribute locally.

Team reached Suriapet and picked up Dr. Veerappa Kenche who had come all the way from Mahaboob Nagar to conduct Medical camp in Potlapahad. Team gathered at one place in Suriapet at 9AM. As roads were not proper for potlapahad some cycles had to be repaired. Volunteers finished repairs etc by 9:30am and started cycling. Plantation team went straight to Khammam to collect plants on to a lorry. Medical camps team (Dr. Veerappa, Prakash, Raja, Krishna, Sudheer etc) went to potlapahad along with medicines and doctors. Camp went on very well, Dr. Veerappa had spent lot of time with each patient and motivated them to follow healthy habits before giving any medicine to them. Camp went on until evening, many patients were benefited through this camp.

Medical camp in potlapahad, Nalgonda Dt, AP:

Cycling team reached Khammam at 2:30PM and had lunch there. Naveen Gurram received teams and gave directions to M. Venkatayapalem village where night stay and local activities were planned.

Mr.Naveen Gurram has also organized personality development programs in two different colleges in khammam. We have organized speaker from Hyderabad in co-ordination with RK math. Naveen has gave an introduction about Manavata and importance of social responsibility in youth in both sessions.

Mr. Gause Saheb from Hyderabad took two different sessions on Personality development in Swarna bharathi institute of technology (SBIT) and Khammam Institute of technology and sciences. Around 350 students were benefited from these sessions.

It was a nice 9KM cycling from Khammam. The village and people were very nice. Village President Gurram Achayya welcomed the team and gave accommodation in Panchayat. After volunteers relaxed a bit, many youth started approaching them including local media.

Personality Development Program(PDP) in Khammam:

Team went to a centre of a colony to arrange a health awareness session. Local volunteers got actively involved and went to each house and invited people for this session. It was amazing to see that 70 to 80 people turned out in 15 minutes before starting of the session. Srinivas gave a brief introduction about Manavata and it’s humanitarian work and encouraged people to involve in such social initiatives. Then he gave a 20 minutes session on healthy food habits. He emphasized upon using whole foods as natural as possible. He encouraged people to adopt eating brown rice than polished white rice. Similarly he has given several tips on children health, hygiene and malnutrition, which can be easily adopted by poor families with a cost effective approach. He also raised concerns over alcoholism and smoking. The villagers followed the talk very carefully and silently. Mr. Surynarayana also gave a brief talk on healthy habits.

Then the village president & Naveen Gurram hosted dinner for the teams. At about 10:30PM teams called off the day and went to take some rest.

Day 4: (M. Venkatayapalem – Khammam – Sathupalli - Bhadrachalam) – 80KM

The day started at 5AM. Team has dispatched some plants and cloths for local people. Team had papaya for breakfast, which our plantation team got from forest department.

At 8AM team had food in Khammam and then team started cycling. As per plan the other teams went to visit villages and distributing clothes and plants with the help of local volunteers.

Near Gangaram village one of the local social worker stopped his car and took interest to enquired about the program, he took some pictures of our cycling volunteers and requested team to stop for breakfast in next 2 kilometers. By that time team reached covered next 2 km, he was ready with nice breakfast for the team. His name is Kishore kumar reddy who runs a social service organization for environment. He was quite impressed with Manavata’s work and showed lot of interest to work together. Srinivas has given him some suggestions to improve his service activities and encouraged him to inspire more people through his work.

After this brief break team started cycling again from Gangaram. At 2PM cycling team took a break and had lunch in Kallur. On the way we had several fruits and coconut water too. The team covered 80 KM and reached Sathupally by 4.30 PM. Then team kept their cycles at Sathupalli bus stop and went to Bhadrachalam by bus which is 2.5 hours journey. At 8:30PM team reached Bhadrachalam temple accommodation for night stay.

Plantation team has reached their destination (Lolla, EG Dt.)after distributing the saplings & clothes at various villages.

Day 5: (Bhadrachalam – Sathupalli – Jangareddy gudem – Dharamarao pet) – 70KM

The team took bath at the secret River Godavari at 3AM, and visited Lord Sri Rama Temple. After prayers, team started at 4:30am for Sathupalli by bus. Team started cycling from Sathupalli at 8AM and reached Jangareddy gudem and had lunch there at 2:30PM.

Other side our medical team was conducting homeopathic medical camp in Dharmaraopet which was started at 8AM. Due to good response from the villagers, camp went on until 8:30PM. Cycling team has reached Dharmaraopet at 6PM and accompanied medical team. Village President Mr. Krishnam Raju arranged accommodation to all the volunteers in their house and treated us with great hospitality. At 8PM team organized a health awareness program for villagers in a temple. Several villagers gathered at venue and temple authorities organized mic and speakers which helped the message to reach large audience in entire village. Srinivas has given a brief talk on healthy food habits. Since he came to know from medical team that many people in the village are suffering from BP, diabetic and joint pains, he covered natural food remedies for those deceases. This village is related to two of our volunteers Mr. Subbaraju & Mrs. Poornima, every one was quite impressed with the arrangements made. Volunteers took rest very well at this place.

The village president has arranged for the team. The team expressed their gratitude to the president for his hospitality and warm treatment. Plants and clothes were also distributed in this village.

Day 6: (Dharmaraopet – Kovvuru – Rajahmundry – Lolla) – 120KM

The day started at 5AM. After completion of a prayer (Vishnusahasranamam) the team had a breakfast and started cycling at 5.45 AM. Team started cycling early today as they need to cover 120 KM on the same day.

In the morning glow, the team reached Gopalapuram and entered into the Sarvani School as one of the volunteer Chakradhar Adabala had requested to visit this school. Team met the teachers and explained about health, personality development and environment programs. Srinivas requested them to pass on the inspiration to their students in order to involve them building healthy society. The authorities were inspired after hearing the activities of Manavata and promised to participate in the Manavata activities. The team reached Rajahmundry quite early at 10.30am. Team was very happy when they were cycling on the river Godavari bridge as team knew that they were very close to their destination. Team relaxed briefly and had lunch there.

Several volunteers from Manavata ashram came to Rajahmundry along with their cycles. Around 20 volunteers started cycling at 3PM and reached Anaparthy. Team was campaigning about youth day program, health and environmental awareness during this camp with banners and pamphlets. Team reached the final destination of cycling camp Lolla village where Manavata ashram is located and Srinivas’s birth place. Villagers and volunteers gathered at Ganesh temple in Lolla and had a brief celebration meeting. Srinivas appreciated all the volunteers who have done a great job with lot of dedication and commitment. He has explained local youth how this camp has increased the confidence level of participants and shared some of their experiences. Ashram children and local youth were quite excited to hear about these achievements.


Winning team: There a several volunteers involved directly and indirectly in this cause. Including regional volunteers there were around 500 volunteers participated. Some of the key volunteers listed below:
Name, Role & responsibility, Profile, photo, Organization

11th Jan 2009:
The Manavata RCPM (N Prasad & team) conducted a personality development program for MCA students at Ramachandrapuram on 11th January, 09. Mr. Srinivasa Alluri took a two hours session on character building, career management and healthy living. Mr. Vundavilli Srinivasa Rao had given number of suggestions to youth in his talk and advised every one to practice meditation on regular basis in-order to improve their performance.

After this session Srinivas, Paddaraju, Prasad and team had visited disabled home which manavata has been supporting from last two years. Children at home and management Mr. Alexander and team have felt happy about the visit and explained the recent improvements in children. Team has given them fruits and clothes later on they had food there offered by Mrs. Alexander. Srinivas has given some health tips to the team in-order to maintain good health in children.

PDP Program in Ramachandrapuram and visit to disabled home supported by Manavata:

12th Jan 2009: Youth day
Rajahmundry:10AM to 1PM
On 12th Jan., the Birth day of great Monk Swami Vivekananda.The team arranged Youth day function at Vikram Hall,Rajamundry. Many youths were participated.Sri Suryanarayana garu,and Mrs.Lalithadevi garu,Reader, Botany
Dept.,Womens College, and Dr.Ramanayya garu, Retired Commerce Head Govt.Arts College,Sri Srinivas,Sri Gandhiji,and other friends and the youth were participated. Sri Suryanarayana garu in his thrilling speech taught several things to the youth and he particularly told about VKs visit to USA in 1893. According to Swamy VK Religion was the tool to transform the animal nature in man to the human level, and human nature to the divine level. The Youth on that day after hearing the words of Speakers felt happy and promised before the PANORAMA of Swamy Vivekananda, to lead disciplined and pure life.

Youth Day meeting in Rajahumandry (12th Jan 10AM to 1PM):

Kakinada:6PM to 8PM
On the same day,in the evening glow, the team reached Kakinada and gathered at Vivekananda Park. Srinivasa Alluri has conducted a Yoga session and inspired the youth and audience. Vundavalli Srinivas, Manavata co-rodinator has made arrangements very well. Engr.Suryanarayana, Sri Sarabhayya garu Retied Gazetted HM and Mr.Rajasekhara Reddy, Social Worker, Secy., Druggists Association, Gandhiji and other Scholars were participated. Sri Suryanarayana garu and Sri Sarabhayya garu inspired the youth with their eloquent speeches. They said: The truly educated person is one who uses his knowledge for the good of others. He is entitled to be called a Gnani ( a man of wisdom) Swamy Vivekananda is the example to the Youth of India and to the entire World.
The speakers impressed the youth with their eloquent flow in the evening glow after garlanding the Vivekananda statue at the holy place. The place and environment is suitable for the meeting before the glorious Statue of Swamy Vivekananda. Mr.Rajasekhara Reddy has interviewed all the Manavata Chaitanya Yatra members. The members informed their experiences to the youth and inspired them and requested the participated youth to protect environment and keep good health and asked them to conserve the nature for better future.

Youth Day meeting in Kakinada (12th Jan 6PM to 8PM):

Lolla:
At Lolla,Rayavaram mandal, E.G.Dt., the birth place of Srinivasa Chowdary, manavata team actively conducted several meetings to the youth and to the farmers. Raja and Suresh, Aravind, Gandhiji and Srinivas have covered various topics in the four hours workshop for the Village Youth. Time management, effective communication, goal setting, social responsibility etc. Paddaraju, Siva, Suresh and Srihari have covered some of the topics for children and conducted competitions separately.

13th Jan 2009: PDP program in Lolla:

Ashram children celebrated Sakranthi with several activities including plantation, games, sports, quiz etc. Srinivas took special yoga sessions for them all the four days and he spent time with them to teach and encourage children to follow right path. Some of the photos are in:

14^th Jan 2009: Pilgrimage
We have visited Annavaram Sri Satynarayana swami temple in the morning and had a nice darshan. As Aravind visited ashram first time he was very keen to visit the famous temples around. We were back by 11am whilst children were involved in sports competitions conducted by volunteers Shiva and team. Afternoon we visited different villages around Tapeswaram, Ramachandrapuram, Dhraksharamam (Bhimeswara swami temple), Kotipalli (Someswaraswami temple), Kota, Gangavaram etc. It was a very quick trip made in 4 hours.

15^th Jan 2009: At Manavata ashram
Clothe distribution and plantation locally organized, sorting out clothes took lot of effort from number of volunteers. Around 20 volunteers spend a day to segregate clothes.

16^th Jan 2009: Srikakulam visit
At 2AM Srinivas, Subbaraju & Sitaramaiah have started their travel to Srikakulam from Lolla. Prakash dropped them in Anaparthy station. Mr. Venkatarao K joined from vizag. We all reached Srikakulam at 10am.

Srinivasa addressed the youth and inspired them to lead disciplined life with pure hearts. He encouraged the youth to acquire character, patience, perseverance to achieve good results in the years to come. The Disabled children at the Ashram were inspired after hearing the words of Srinivasa Alluri. Mrs. Mahalakshmi, commissioner of social welfare, Mrs. Indira (a volunteer), Sumitra mahila welfare society members Sridevi, Dhuryodanudu, Manavata Members Venkatrao, Sitaramaiah, Subbaraju, Durgaprasad from Jemini tv and other local volunteers have joined in this meeting.

Meeting in Srikakulam Ashram:

17^th Jan 2009: At Manavata Ashram
Exiting day for ashram children which is prize distribution ceremony for winners of different events. I have spent good time with children and explained them several tips for better life. I have also set targets for all the children for next year. They seem to be well motivated now with good spirit. We all have done prayer (Vishnu sahasranam) together at 7PM and I have started my journey back to Hyderbad though children were not willing me to go.

18^th Jan 2009: Charity together followup meeting:
Reached Hyderabad around 7am in the morning by train (Goutami express) and we have made arrangements for charitytogether committee meeting. We had a productive meeting with the delegates from different organizations. Srinivas has given a presentation on CTG program and explained about next steps. All the volunteers showed very much interest on ctg workshops. We have planned workshops for next 4 months.

19^th Jan 2009: Design Meeting
Today we have spent time on discussion about improvements in blood donation service with Sandhata team. We have decided to automate the service to serve many more needy people. Team Sudha, Raja and Krishna taken up this project to enhance manavata.org. I have spent some time on administrative tasks of Manavata with the local volunteers. Then I have packed my bag for early hours travel to UK direct BA flight to London.

Conclusion:
Manavata teams’ Chaitanya Yatra brought good results and their noble cause was appreciated by several Philanthropists and intellectuals Men and Women, particularly the Youth. The 500 KMs Yatra was a memorable one in the tablets of team members memories. There are number of follow up actions started taking place followed by this camp by respective Manavata chapters. 44,000 saplings will be planted in the month of June, Homeopathy, Ayurvedic camps will be conducted on regular basis in identified villages, Personality development sessions are scheduled in another 10 colleges and Manavata volunteers targeted to help another 25,000 youth through these sessions in this year. Interested volunteers can contact on info@manavata.org