ATMA CHARITY WING

LADIES CLUB
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
CHENNAI-600 036
18th December 2009
Dear Sir/Madam,

As in the previous years, the Atma Charity Wing of IIT Madras, Ladies Club is organizing a light music show. This
musical extravaganza “Light up a Life” is the sixth annual fundraiser and will be held on 8th January 2010 featuring
“Krish Live in Concert”. We invite your participation by sponsoring this event held for a very noble cause.

This year’s show will be held in the Open Air Theatre (OAT) of IIT Madras. The OAT is a large auditorium with a
seating capacity of about 5000. It is the most popular venue for student programmes especially Saarang, the annual
IITM cultural festival. It has a central bowl open to the sky and in the evening has a unique ambience created by the
starlit sky and the surrounding tall trees.

The audience is expected to consist of the residents of IIT campus including the Director, Deans, Registrar, faculty,
staff, students and Alumni. Our tickets are sold for the most part only inside campus. Some of the city’s industrialists
and executives from the major companies in Chennai have always helped us with our efforts and we expect them to
be present in the audience.

For Jan 2010, funds are being raised for the following :

• AVVAI HOME AND ORPHANAGE IN ADYAR: It shelters and educates orphan girls. This is another of the
homes to which IIT Madras sends the monthly contribution of dal, oil and sugar. There are about 180 girls in
the home, some of them from very poor single parent families. They receive a government grant but need
help in the form of sponsorship for children's education or cash for the proposed new buildings.
• SRI MATHA TRUST: The trust caters to the patients coming for treatment to the Adyar Cancer Institute and
gives them free boarding and lodging for the duration of their treatment.

• GNANA DEEPAM OF PAMMAL: A special school for mentally challenged children.

• SEVA SAMAJAM CHILDREN’S HOME, SRIRAM NAGAR, PALLIPATTU : It has 192 children as boarders
and the school run by this Institution caters to another 400 destitute children in the neighbourhood, offering
them free education upto class XII. This home is mainly run by donations from the public.

The IITM Alumni have agreed to receive cheques on behalf of ACW, so that donors will be eligible for the tax benefit
under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act. Cheques intended for ACW may therefore be made payable to the ‘IIT
Madras Alumni Charitable Trust’ and sent along with the attached donor letter to ‘Superintendent, Ladies Club, IIT
Madras, Chennai 600 036.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,

( Mrs. Chithra Rajan )

Ecnl.: Donor form and details about the Atma Charity Wing are attached
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 IIT Madras Atma Charity Wing

The Atma Charity Wing (ACW) of IIT Madras was started in April 2003 by the Ladies Club.
Membership was subsequently offered to the entire campus community and ACW now includes
faculty, staff and students of IIT Madras. The committee members serve in honorary capacity
and are drawn from the IIT Madras Ladies Club and the IIT Madras Staff Club. ACW aims to
bring together all like-minded people on campus and to unite them into a powerful instrument of
service to society. The motto of the ACW is ‘seva hi paramo dharma’ (service to others is the
highest religion).

 Each month, ACW collects dal, oil and sugar and rice from residents in the community
for distribution through the Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani Trust‘s Vinay DOS
scheme to various charitable institutions. The NSS volunteers of the IITM student
community have linked up with ACW and have helped in the collection drives.
 ACW collects old clothes, school books and medicines to be donated to specific
charities. School books are sent to a special school for tribal children of Sittilingi in the
Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu. Cotton clothes are donated to cancer patients
undergoing radiation therapy in the Cancer hospital.
 Every Deepavalli, ACW members donate their time, labour and money to make over
3000 nutritious laddus for distribution through the DOS scheme to charitable homes in
Chennai.
 Volunteers from the Ladies Club and IITM Faculty and Staff also run an adult literacy
programme for Self-Help Group workers on campus.

‘Light Up a Life’

Since 2003, the ACW Committee has made periodic visits to various charitable
organisations for orphans, senior citizens, AIDS patients, leprosy patients, etc. Members
then prepare a list of organizations that need specific assistance. ACW’s annual fundraiser,
called ‘Light up a Life’ is generally a light music concert held to generate the funds needed
to help the institutions on the list. The entire proceeds of each fundraiser are distributed in
the form of crossed cheques given away by the Director, IIT Madras at a special function
held for the beneficiaries.
For Jan 2010, funds are being raised for the following :

• AVVAI HOME AND ORPHANAGE IN ADYAR: It shelters and educates orphan girls. This is
another of the homes to which IIT Madras sends the monthly contribution of dal, oil and sugar.
There are about 180 girls in the home, some of them from very poor single parent families. They
receive a government grant but need help in the form of sponsorship for children's education or
cash for the proposed new buildings.
• SRI MATHA TRUST: The trust caters to the patients coming for treatment to the Adyar Cancer
Institute and gives them free boarding and lodging for the duration of their treatment.

• GNANA DEEPAM OF PAMMAL: A special school for mentally challenged children.

• SEVA SAMAJAM CHILDREN’S HOME, SRIRAM NAGAR, PALLIPATTU : It has 192 children as
boarders and the school run by this Institution caters to another 400 destitute children in the
neighbourhood, offering them free education upto class XII. This home is mainly run by donations
from the public.

The following institutions have received assistance from us since 2003:

2003
• Gnana Deepam of Pammal, a school for special children
• Seva Chakkara Choolai, childrens’ home
• Sri Matha Trust catering to the Cancer Institute, Adyar
• Vishranti Home for Destitute Aged Women
• Sri Kamakshi Anandashram in Nanganallur, a home for the aged

2004
• Anbu Thondu Nilayam, Chengalpet, for leprosy patients
• Oxford Charitable Trust, Oorapakkam, home for the aged and mentally disturbed
• Udhavum Ullangal, Adambakkam for orphans and the elderly
• Kakkum Karangal Tiruvanmiyur for destitute children and old people
• Gnana Deepam in Pammal , special school for mentally challenged children
• Avvai Home and Orphanage for orphan girls.
2005
• Seva Samajam in Sriramnagar - Physics, Chemistry and Biology laboratory
• Kalaiselvi Karunalaya Social Welfare Society, Mogappair - cots, lockers and sterilisers for cradle baby
girls sent from the government abandoned baby scheme.
• Kakkum Karangal in Tiruvanmiyur - a deep freezer
• Karunai Illam in Selaiyur - large wet grinder.
• Sevalaya in Tiruninravur - books for orphan students.
• Viswanathan Education and Rehabilitation Trust in Kunrathur
• Anbu Thondu Nilayam, leprosy home in Chengalpet - cots for the inmates.

2006
• ‘Milk for the Kids’ scheme for about 100 children of construction workers (coolies) employed in projects
in our campus

• ‘Sponsor a child’ scheme for education of children of SHG workers

• VHS hospital in Taramani- juvenile diabetics from economically backward families

• Saranalayam in Avadi for orphan children – school fees and books.
• Freedom Foundation, Kolathur for AIDS patients
• SEED, Sriperumbudur, - care and vocational/education of children of people sentenced to life
imprisonment.
2007

• Living expenses for cancer patients in the Sri Matha Trust.

• Insulin for the juvenile diabetics at the VHS hospital.

• Avvai Home and Orphanage in Adyar for orphan girls.

• Udhavum Ullangal in Adambakkam, Chennai, and Maraimalainagar - new clothes for Deepavalli for the
orphans and senior citizens.

• ‘Sponsor a child’ scheme - school fees, uniforms and books for about 100 children of daily-wage
workers belonging to the Self Help Groups on campus.

2008
• Avvai Home and Orphanage, Adyar
• Sri Matha Trust for free boarding and lodging for patients of the Cancer Institute

• Udhavum Ullangal in Adambakkam and Maraimalainagar, new clothes for Deepavalli for the orphans
and senior citizens

• School fees and college scholarships for children of the Self Help Groups on campus

• Annadhana on campus scheduled for April 2009

The IITM Alumni Charitable Trust have kindly offered to receive cheques on behalf of ACW so that donors will be
eligible for the tax benefit under Section 80-G of the Income Tax Act. Cheques intended for ACW may therefore
be made payable to the ‘IIT Madras Alumni Charitable Trust’ and sent along with the attached donor letter to
the ‘The Superintendent, Ladies Club, IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036.