There is a growing number of students volunteering to work in the Child Aid Foundation center during their summer vacation holidays. Recently Ananya Mandava and Asha Priya Atluri worked as "C.A.F. Volunteers" for a few weeks. Presently, Monica Bodd is working as a volunteer. Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks all its volunteers for their services.

Mr. J. Satynarayana of Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh has donated the outdoor tiles for resurfacing the west side campus paths in the Child Aid Foundation center. The paths not only look very attractive, but are much easier to maintain and keep clean. We sincerely thank Mr. Satyanarayana for his very kind and generous donation. The east sides paths of the center still need resurfacing. Interested donors are requested to contact Child Aid Foundation by phone or email. Thank you.

Child Aid Foundation's own "Shri Vijaya Bharati High School" is improving its S.S.C. Public Exam results ever year! This year our 10th standard student Sai Dharanesh achieved 555 marks on the exam. Sai Dharanesh will now be admitted into a Junior Intermediate course. Child Aid Foundation will continue to sponsor his education to as high a level as he desires and is capable of achieving. We congratulate Sai Dharanesh and wish him all the very best success in his academic career!

On June 1st, 2010, Child Aid Foundation celebrated the 17th anniversary of its founding! The event was marked by a very nice function in C.A.F.’s center attended by all of the children, trustees, staff, chief guests, prominent guests, and members of the public. The event was also given very good coverage by the local media. Child Aid Foundation was founded on the same day as "International Children's Day"! With you very kind support, Child Aid Foundation will celebrate many more of such anniversaries!

The "Citi Group" (Citi Bank, Citi Financial, etc.) selected Child Aid Foundation for conducting its "Community Day" program on August 9th. Several activities for the benefit of the children in Child Aid Foundation were conducted by the "Citi Group" that day. These activities included the renovation of the children's kitchen, and a sponsored meal for all the school and hostel children. The event received extensive coverage by both the electronic and print media. Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks the Citi Group for the selection.

The very popular Indian TV channel "NTV" aired a special program about Child Aid Foundation. After the program, Child Aid Foundation received a very large number of congratulatory emails and phone calls. Many of the emails and calls also expressed the intent to support Child Aid Foundation and its projects. C.A.F. sincerely thanks "NTV" for the coverage and publicity, and all those who wrote and called for their encouragement and offers of support!

The very famous, American mural artist, Ms. Augustina Droze, visited the Child Aid Foundation center on a exculsive, 9-day, murals painting project. During her visit, she received very good media coverage in various newspapers, television channels, and radio stations. Many of the resident and non-resident boys and girls under C.A.F.'s care assisted her in her works. For more information about Augustina Droze, please visit her website at: www.admuralstudio.com.

The Europe based "LiveForChildren" (www.liveforchildren.org) organization has selected the Child Aid Foundation as a "Partner Organization", and will be supporting Child Aid Foundation's center, projects, and activities. We sincerely thank "LiveForChildren" for their trust in and support to our organization.

The very prestigious and international, New York City, U.S.A. based "Asha for Education" (www.ashanet.org) has formally adopted Child Aid Foundation as one of their supported projects. One June 3rd, Asha senior office bearer Sandeep Kulkarni officially notified Child Aid Foundation about the decision as well as that a substantial grant is being sent to Child Aid Foundation immediately.
The trustees, staff, and children express their sincere gratitude to "Asha For Education" for their very philanthropic assistance and support. C.A.F. looks forward to a long and mutally rewarding relationship with Asha.

Child Aid Foundation's 10th class graduates have been admitted into various colleges (Intermediate) throughout the city.
The Narayana Group and Sri Chaitanya Group of Colleges has very kindly and generously donated free admissions into their Junior Intermediate Colleges for these S.S.C. graduates. Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks the Narayana Group and Sri Chaitanya Group of Colleges managements for their very philanthropic gesture.
Child Aid Foundation sincerely wishes the S.S.C. graduates all of the very best in the rest of their academic careers.

In a continuing series of various organizations recognizing Child Aid Foundation and its social work, the very prestigious, international, Charities Aid Foundation (www.cafonline.org) has validated Child Aid Foundation as a very genuine, reputable, and credible charitable organization. In an official letter to Child Aid Foundation, Priya Viswanath - Chief Executive, Charities Aid Foundation writes: "Child Aid Foundation has been found eligible to receive validation status as a Charities Aid Foundation validated charity." Child Aid Foundation is now an official "Charity Partner" of Charities Aid Foundation.
Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks Charities Aid Foundation for the validation and partnership. We look forward to a mutually rewarding interaction and experience.

Since Child Aid Foundation became an official "Supported Project" of the T.A.N.A. Foundation, the number of N.R.I. visitors to the Child Aid Foundation center has increased dramatically! Individuals, groups of individuals, and families are visiting C.A.F. regularly both in their personal and formal capacity as their Associations' office bearers.
We thank all the persons who have already visited and we invite everyone who comes to our area to personally visit us. Thank you very much!

Many of the Child Aid Foundation "Members" (those who donate on a regular basis) started out as first-time and/or one-time donors and/or sponsors. After personally observing and interacting with Child Aid Foundation, they were both very satisfied and impressed with the Child Aid Foundation organization, center, projects, and activities. This inspired them to become "Members" and support Child Aid Foundation on a regular basis. The following are just a few persons who recently donated to Child Aid Foundation:

Mahesh Ghugare, Sandeep Doma, Vijay Padmanabhan, Sarathkumar Katakam, Sunil Madhav, Gowri Dara, Chandrasekhar Chellaboyina, Vishwanath Seshadri, Naveen Singh, Vandana Viswanathan, Arun Kumar D.P., Ridesh K., Gopalakrishnan Vaidyanathan, Ambar Sengupta, Amosh Varma, Jayanti Palan, Pankaj Vaghela, Manu Garg, Vipin Sequeira, Manu Mehra, Ramendra Verma, Preeti Goyal, Vimit Kapoor, Karthika Krishna, Sree Veerapalli, Sreekanth Angumamidi, Sanjay Chaudhari, Shanti Mesala, Jyotsna Narayanswamy, Ramakrishna Vuppala, Sunita Mudidani, Justin Flagg, Viraj K. Shah, and Roland Smith,

The prestigious organisation, Indian NGOs, has selected Child Aid Foundation as a "Credible NGO". To see the article, please visit the "NGO Credibility Forum" page of their website: www.indianngos.com. To qualify as a credible NGO, an organisation must comply with an extensive list of credibility norms. Child Aid Foundation is proud to be recognized as a genuine, reputable, and credible non-profit organisation. We sincerely thank Indian NGOs very much for the honor.

August 15th, India "Independence Day", is a very important day for all Indians including the children and staff of C.A.F.!
On that morning at 9 o'clock, the Indian national flag was hoisted, followed by the singing of the National Anthem and other patriotic songs.
The Chief Guest of the function was Dr. M. Rajesh. Dr. Rajesh hoisted the national flag and spoke to the children about the importance of the day.
Finally, food was served, and sweets and fruits were distributed to all of the children. Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks Dr. M. Rajesh, as well as students, teachers, staff, guests, and visitors for making the program a grand success!

The teachers and children of C.A.F.'s own "Shri Vijaya Bharati High School" have always wanted to implement a school uniform dress code in our school. Doing so, however, was very difficult for most of the children due to their critical financial situations.
Child Aid Foundation launched a special appeal for school uniform sponsors and the response was very good! Many of the school children now own at least one school uniform. Consequently, the discipline and morale in the school has improved a lot!
There are still many children, however, that do not have even one uniform and the remainder require at least one more uniform set. If you are interested in sponsoring a child's, or several children's, school uniform(s), please contact us right away. Thank you very much.

A part of the "C.A.F. Education Project" is our own "Shri Vijaya Bharati High School". There are about 350 children, boys and girls, presently enrolled in the school from the 1st to the 10th standard. This year, the school celebrated its "Annual Day"! All the children and teachers had been very busy, enthusiastically practicing for the many various programs that were presented to the guests and public on that day. The programs started punctually at 6:00 p.m. and lasted until 10 p.m.!
The Chief Guests at the function were Mr. D. Pitchayya, a senior and prominent advocate, and Mr. J. Radhakrishna, a senior and prominent educationalist and author. Both guests spoke very highly of Child Aid Foundation and congratulated the children and teachers on the success of the "Annual Day" funcation.
The function was a grand success! Everyone that attended the event stated that it was very well planned, organised, managed, and presented. Our C.A.F. center was literally packed with many guests, parents, chidren, and visitors! The print media was also invited and covered the event very nicely with articles including photos.
Our school's "Annual Day" is a yearly event and we plan to make it even better for the 2008-2009 academic year!

The Microsoft (India) employees and Microsoft (India) have made their annual donations and grant to Child Aid Foundation. This support to C.A.F. has become a yearly event at Microsoft. As the donated amounts are substantial, it enables Child Aid to improve both the quality as well as quantity of our aid and care to undereprivileged children. All the trustees, staff, and especially children sincerely thank the Microsoft employees, and Microsoft company, very much.

It was a very busy and even hectic three days in the Child Aid Foundation center when Mr. John Kuranz and his Apex Foundation Work Group of about twenty foreign and Indian volunteers worked with great enthusiasm to complete the repainting of the entire C.A.F. center, the entire cost of which was sponsored by the A.F.W.G.

The Group arrived by plane at the Vijayawada airport, checked into their hotel, and started the project early next morning. They worked very hard from early morning until evening stopping only briefly for lunch, which was arranged for them in the C.A.F. center.

On the first day, they were assisted by all of the C.A.F. staff members as well as older children. On the second day and third days, the Group was assisted by C.A.F. staff, trustees, and volunteers from the local area.

Both the electronic and print media covered the event very well. As soon as the public saw the news on the "Siti Channel" TV channel, the C.A.F. office was flooded with congratulatory phone calls as well as offers to volunteer for the ongoing work!

Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks the Apex Foundation Work Group very much for the sincere and selfless service.

Child Aid Foundation has been invited, and has gratefully accepted, to become an official "Supported Project" of the Telugu Association of North America (T.A.N.A.) Foundation. It is a pleasure, privilege, and honor for C.A.F. to be selected as a partner N.G.O. by such a large and prestigious organization as T.A.N.A.
Child Aid Foundation sincerely thanks Mr. Ramakrishna Kancherla, the Past-Secretary of TANA Foundation, for his very sincere interest, enthusiasm, and efforts in arranging the partnership.

Child Aid Foundation has received the very prestigious "Dr. Pinnamaneni & Smt. Seethadevi Foundation" grant. The grant was given to Child Aid Foundation in recognition of its outstanding social service for the poor and needy children of India and Andhra Pradesh. Many prominent persons attended the function and it was also very well covered by all the newspapers and TV channels. Child Aid Foundation expresses its sincere gratitude to the P.S.Foundation for its support of our social service activities for the poor and needy children of India and Andhra Pradesh. Thank you very much.

Child Aid Foundation is a fully accredited member N.G.O. of the national "Credibility Alliance". Members of the C.A. must strictly comply with a very comprehensive list of credibility norms. Please visit the Credibility Alliance website, www.credall.org.in, for complete details of the organization.
This year, the Credibility Alliance "State Level Meeting" for Andhra Pradesh based N.G.O.s was held in Hyderabad. Child Aid Foundation was one of the prominent participants in the meeting.

Child Aid Foundation wishes to thank Mr. B. Srinivas Rao of Hyderabad for donating the system for our center. Since the installation of the system, both the hostel and school divisions schedule and timings have been running very punctually. During the day, twenty-four audible sound reminders are automatically activated by the system at various pre-set times. Thanks to Srinivas Rao and the system, our C.A.F. center is running like clockwork!

The very famous and prestigious GIVE Foundation lists and promotes over 100 partner N.G.O.s on its website. GIVE Foundation receives and accepts donations from many public and private sources on behalf of these partner organisations. Every month, in its monthly newsletter, GIVE Foundation publishes the top five recipient organisations for the previous month. Last month, Child Aid Foundation achieved the first position in the top five! This means that an ever-increasing number of donors and sponsors, from throughout India and the world, are actively selecting C.A.F. as the preferred organisation to donate to. The reason is that they have very thoroughly inquired and determined that Child Aid Foundation is a truly genuine, reputable, credible, and transparently managed social service organisation. We sincerely thank all of our sponsors and donors very much for their very kind and generous continuing, as well as growing, support of our social service activities for the poor and needy children of India.

Child Aid Foundation sincerely welcomes, and thanks, the following persons who have recently become one of the many, and ever-growing number, of Child Aid Foundation esteemed and beloved members. Child Aid Foundation "Members" donate to C.A.F. on a regular basis. For a complete list of members, please see the "Members List" page of our website.

* Maheem Gummadi, Australia
* N. Dhanunjaya Sitaram, Hyderabad
* Subba Rao Gamini, Vishakhapatnam
* Sravana Kumar Karnati, U.S.A.
* Murali and Madhuri Kaduru, U.S.A.
* Chandrashekar and Jyothi Poojari, U.S.A.
* Raju and Sameera Kalidindi, U.S.A.
* Prasad C. Kakarala, U.S.A.
* Srinivas and Praveena Kuniki, U.S.A.
* Ratnasri Vemuri and Sampath Nadella, U.S.A.

All our trustees, staff, and children sincerely thank Mr. Shashikant Gupta and the Apex Foundation, U.S.A. for their annual grant to Child Aid Foundation! Such a very generous and charitable donation empowers and enables Child Aid Foundation to continue to literally save the lives of the many unfortunate and underprivileged children under our organization's care. It also provides us with the absolutely vital resources required to increase the quantity and quality of our services and activities.

An ever-growing number of charitable-minded persons are sponsoring the residential children's breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, as well as the school children's midday meals. They are selecting special days/dates such as various anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, holidays, holydays, functions, and programs on which to donate the meals. The following are just some of the persons who sponsored the children's meals recently:

Hari Rachkonda, Sandeep Doma, Arun Kumar D.P., Gopalakrishnan Vaidyanathan, Jayanti Palan, Manu Garg, Vipin Sequeira, Manu Mehra, Vimit Kapoor, Karthika Krishna, Sree Veerapalli, Jyotsna Narayanswamy, Ramakrishna Vuppala, Sunita Mudidani, and Varahalaraju Kalidindi.

If you also would like to sponsor the children's meals, please see the "Donation Schemes" page of our website: www.childaidfoundation.org. Therein, please select the type(s) of meal(s) you would like to sponsor from the "Children's Home Meals Schemes" or the "School Children's Midday Meal Scheme" sections. Thank you very much.

The Child Aid Foundation's "Svagriha Girls Division" project is slowly, but very surely, developing! We are gradually enrolling an ever-increasing number of girls into this non-residential division. In response to this wonderful project, many persons are contacting us and then enrolling themselves as new sponsors for the girls in this project. Please contact us if you would like to sponsor a girl child specifically.

There are presently over 400 children, boys and girls, of various ages and academic levels in this project. Many of the children are attending our own "Shri Vijaya Bharati High School" wherein they receive free: transportation to and from school, education, textbooks, notebooks, school supplies, midday lunch, school uniforms, clothing, and medical care up to the 10th standard.
The children above tenth class have been admitted by us into various high schools, intermediates, polytechnics, I.T.I.s, and colleges throughout the city. All of their educational expenses are paid for by Child Aid Foundation. If you would like to sponsor one of the children in this division, please contact us.

There are about 50 children presently enrolled in this project. They are provided with comprehensive aid and care on a full-time, residential basis. Such aid and care includes food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, vocational training, and job placement. If you would like to sponsor one of the children in this division, please contact us.

We again thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter. Please get back to the newsletter periodically for regular news updates. We want, need, and request your feedback on our "The Child's Voice" newsletter. Please tell us what you like about it, and also how we can improve it. Thank you very much for your very kind support of our social service activities for the poor and needy children of India. We hope that this newsletter finds you, and your family, in the very best of health and happiness. Please keep in contact with us. Have a very good day! Bye for now. Namaste.