Young Volunteers affirm bonds of friendship: Welcome, again, SAP! It is heartwarming to have young people show their love and support to the MC children. Students and teachers at Vasant Valley School were actively involved in making Rakhi Cards during Rakhi celebrations. They made 600 cards that enabled us to communicate with our well-wishers and friends. MC is proud to celebrate partners like the Vasant Valley School. MC renewed its ties with yet another friend: SAP LABS has come forward to lend support to the Palm Drive day care center in Gurgaon. This relationship will take MC closer to achieving its mission of a just and caring world for all our children, and SAP its CSR goals. Thank you SAP! Snippets: Meena Day Meena Day, an annual event, was celebrated with children across all our daycare centers from 14th – 21st September, with various activities like movie screening, slogan writing, focus group discussions on education, role play etc. Meena, an imaginary character created by UNICEF epitomizes the girl child who braves the world and tackles the key issues affecting children, particularly, neglect and discrimination faced by girl children. Excursions: Children from the Bestech center (Sector 47 and 67) were taken to Children's Park and the Zoo Festival Time: The Jul-Sep quarter saw a host of festivals and reasons to celebrate Independence Day, Eid, Rakhiand Janmashtami – with our children. The children have fun in the centres, learn something new each time and also go back home to share it with their families. Dream on Wheels: Our old friends, the Japanese Ladies Volunteer Group, have donated Rs. 80000 to buy two motor bikes to ensure timely delivery of goodsto our centres. Dear Friends, We are delighted to inform you that the 100% tax exemption, u/s 35 AC of the IT Act 1961 on donations to the Corpus Fund, has been extended to March 31, 2014! Under this exemption MC has raised Rs.1.24 Crores for its Corpus Fund, to date, including Rs. 3,85,902 in the quarter July to September 2011. We have enclosed a form to receive your feedback as well as references of friends who would want to support the MC Cause. Do take a few minutes to fill the form and help MC to improve its performance and extend its network. And do not forget to use the enclosed bookmarks and pass some along to your friends. Issue 40 July – September 2011 A four-year struggle pays off … Corpus Donors For people at Kirby Place, an unauthorised labour camp in SouthWest district of Delhi, 2nd of August, 2011, was a day of celebration. The reason was the opening of ten 'Anganwadis' in Kirby Place after four long years of evidence building, petitions and follow ups with the Dept. of Women and Child Development for proper child development facilities under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. The Basti Vikas Samiti, a local community group, and Mobile Creches came together to organise this event attended by over 600 people. These Aganwadis will fill the unmet need for nutrition, healthcare and pre-school for young children in the community. Building Credibility and Transparency: MC was accredited by Credibility Alliance (CA),under its “Desirable Norms” set of criteria, in September 2011. CA is a consortium of voluntary organizations committed towards enhancing accountability and transparency in the voluntary sector through good governance. Akin to a professional body CA has developed norms or standards of governance. This recognition, after diligent scrutiny by a team of CA auditors, has been a real boost to our commitment to stay accountable to all stakeholders. On behalf of the entire team, I wish you and yours a Very Happy and Safe Diwali ! Light a lamp for the child and spread the message. Anand Sankararaman, Annie Mathew, Bryan Godwin Noronha, Deepankar Sanwalka, DurgaIndramani Foundation, Jimmy D Souza, Manjula Chandra, Mridula Bajaj, Renu Mathur, S. Anandalakshmy, Smarinita Shetty, Vivek Kadam. *Due to space constraints, we are acknowledging only selective donors. All donations are valuable to us and will be fully acknowledged in the Annual Report. General Donation American India Foundation (Jim Allman), Amit Bhandari, Gerry Rainbird, Govind Lal Charitable Trust, Johnson Controls, Manender Mann, Manjula Agarwal, Martand Prakash Singh, Metores Trust, Om Wadhwa, Sandhya Iyer, Sitaram Jindal Foundation, Usha Pratap Singh Donation in Kind Adya Singhania, Anjali Jain, Anjana Shroff, Boeing International Company, Japanese Students Group, M R Boga, Nivet Pierrette, Orient Exports, Sabina Puri, Shikha Ghosh, Shree Bharat International, SumanAhuja, VikramAdvani Happy Diwali...! Donate today to be a part of our children's tomorrow. Sincerely yours, Anjali Alexander Chairperson Mobile Creches New Volunteers While you celebrate Diwali… please remember our children and pick any of the donation options below: Divya Jain, Eleanor Easton, Kunal Kapur, Raghav Agarwal. Please attach a cheque in favour of 'Mobile Creches' for the Corpus Fund which will enable the long term sustainability of our intervention; Rs. 50,000.00 (Signature of the donor) Please send your cheque to: Rs. 20,000.00 Rs. 10,000.00 Rs……………. (Any other amt.) Please fill in name and address on the flip side