Vishnu Maheswari

Hi everyone,

With the generous support of many XMECians, we could collect up to 1.2 Laksh for Vishnu. We have decided to hand over the amount to Vishnu's mother in three portions and the first cheque of 40k is already issued.

Vishnu was admitted to Amritha hospital two weeks back since the pain increased. After a few days treatment, she got discharged and is now at her home in Alwaye. With the help of another XMECian, they are also consulting a reputed Ayurvedic doctor in Ernakulam.

Once again, thanks to everyone who contributed. Let us pray for her recovery.

Regards,

Sanish

CS 99 - 03

XMEC Scholarship 2012

Dear Friends


Greetings from the XSA team. It is the time of the year for the alumni to come together to raise funds for the scholarships for current year. Last year, we gave scholarship of Rs. 20,000/- each to eleven students. This year, we wish to extend the scholarship to 5 more students from the current 3rd semester students. Three of the erstwhile scholarship holders have passed out last year and hence in total, we would be giving 13 scholarships this year. This would require a sum of at least Rs 2,60,000/- to be raised. I am sure given the alumni strength and the positions many of us are at; this can be raised very easily



To repeat, the salient points on the scholarship are:


- The students who were offered scholarship last year would continue to get the same in the current year


- The new students would be selected among the 2nd year 


- The quantum of the scholarship is Rs 20,000/- per student


- The scholarship would be given annually till completion of course


- The guidelines for student selection would be determined between XSA and the college



We request you to send your contribution to the following account: 


Account No.: 67101191210 (current account)


Name of Account: XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST


Bank:              State Bank of Travancore 


Branch:            Cochin University Campus Branch


IFSC No.: SBTR0000235



Please inform Nirmal U (Treasurer) and me on the funds transferred to the account. Our contact details are: 


Nirmal U: nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com   
+1-26752-17166

George C Kuriakose: georgeckuriakose@gmail.com  +91-97408-24900



It would be great if any of you individually / as a group / as a batch would want to sponsor full or partial scholarships. If you are interested, please drop me a mail (george.c.kuriakose@gmail.com) and we can take it forward. Last year, we had the 1993, 1994 and 2009 batches sponsoring single scholarship each. We also had a few individuals and groups donating full scholarship each. Would like to see at least another 5 batches to come forward to sponsor single scholarships. So we would like to call upon the batches of at least 1995 – 1999 batches to come forward this year

You could also contacts Sanish and Nitin if you need further details

Sanish N S: ns.sanish@gmail.com +91-98800-42310

Nitin J Chittilappilly: chittsnitin@gmail.com +91-95380-03624

Looking forward to your support in this great step forward from XMEC


Regards


for XMEC Social Assist Team


George C Kuriakose


EE 90 - 94

PS: You could also transfer through paypal to my account georgeckuriakose@gmail.com. Please copy Nirmal on all paypal transfers

Help for Vishnu Maheswari, suffering from multiple sclerosis.

XSA has been referred with a new case for help for a plus two student Vishnu Maheswari who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. 

 

Details :

Her mother, Sumathi is an Anganwadi teacher (Alwaye) , her father is retired and this is for their youngest child. The elder two are married off. 

Multiple sclerosis, affects the spine. Vishnu Maheswari is a trained classical dancer and is extremely passionate about it, but now she can barely walk. The treatment is four injections a month, which comes to 30K. As of now , they are done with what they had kept aside for her(around 1 lakh) and really struggling to gather money for next month's injection. Dr. Jacob George (Kottayam Medical College), says that the treatment might have to continue for up to 4 years.

 XSA would make a decision on continued support or one time support based on the contributions received. 

 

Financial Requirement: 30 K per month for 4 years.

Requesting your kind and generous donations for this case. 

 

For more details on the case, you could contact Navin (navin.babu@gmail.com) or Sanish(ns.sanish@...)

 

 

Those of you would like to help may transfer the contribution to XSA's account mentioned below and send a mail to our treasurer, nirmal.unnikrishnan@....

 

Account No.              : 67101191210 (current account)

Name of Account    : XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST

Bank                              : State Bank of Travancore.

Branch                         : Cochin University Campus Branch, 

IFSC No.                      : SBTR0000235

2011 Update

2011 has been a hectic and challenging year for XSA. We have gone social, increased the number of scholarships and helped more people than last year.

Last year we gave scholarships to additional 5 students, thus taking the total number to 11 scholarships in the current year. With scholarships in 2012, we would reach the full spectrum of sponsoring students from the 2^nd to the 4^th year. The total amount paid out in 2011 is Rs 2,20,000/-

XSA has also gone social with a page on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/XMECSocialAssist) and a blog page (http://xmecsocialassist.blogspot.com)

We have been able to support five people in their time of need apart from the scholarship. They are:

-          Shyamdas, a student of standard 9 at Model Technical Higher Secondary School met with a serious accident on the playing ground. He was in a critical state and operated on at the Ernakulam Medical Centre. We have been to collect and donate Rs 1,50,000/- for his operation and treatment

-          Ashish G. Nair, +2 student of Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan Thrissur was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (blood cancer). We collected Rs 25,000/- for him. His health is getting better. The medication is to continue for another 2 years.

-          Shiji, a young girl from a poor background needed money to build her house and her marriage. We were able to collect Rs 40,000/- for her.

-          Lenin C B, suffering from single vessel coronary artery disease and was treated at Lissie Heart Institute, Cochin. We were able to donate Rs 25,000/- for him

-          Cochlea Transplantation for a 10 month old baby who was born deaf. We were able to collect Rs 20,000/-

We have been getting more and more help requests. We are sure that with the help of XMECians we would be able to help out more people during this year. Thanks for the support of all XMECians. Once again calling for volunteers to help out XSA!!!

Help for Athira Miss

As many of you would have already heard, one of the staff member from MEC has been admitted to hospital seriously. Miss Athira, guest Lecturer in MEC, CS dept. She was affected by severe Jaundice and was detected very late. Her Liver got completely damaged. She is admitted in Amrita Hospital, Cochin in the Surgical ICU and Transplantation Unit [Tower 4, floor 1]. She would need operation and further treatment at Hospital.

5 lakh is somehow paid by the Staff and her relatives. She is basically from an economically weak family. Jaimon Sir has gone to hospital and informed us that the total cost of treatment would be above 15 lakhs and that has to be paid at the earliest. 

For more details our alumni members Thejus Krishna(thejuskrishna@gmail.com) or Anoop Jose(anoopcjose@gmail.com) could be contacted. Or any Staff from MEC

Financials :  Total cost is expected to above 15 lakhs

Please help who ever can , even with your smallest contibution.

How to Contribute. You can transfer the money to either of the accounts mentioned below

Account 1 : XSA account.

Those of you would like to help may transfer the contribution to XSA's account mentioned below and send a mail to our treasurer, nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com.

Account No.: 67101191210 (current account)

Name of Account: XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST

Bank: State Bank of Travancore

Branch: Cochin University Campus Branch

IFSC No.: SBTR0000235

Account 2 : The account mentioned below is jointly held by one of staff of MEC(Jaimon Sir) and Anoop Jose of 2010 batch. This account was used for collecting funds for Praveen Das’s family(Of 2010 batch who expired last year in a water accident). Due to the urgency of the situation this account is reused

Please put a mail to Thejus Krishna(thejuskrishna@gmail.com)  and Anoop Jose(anoopcjose@gmail.com) when you transfer the money. Thanks

Account Name: Anoop Jose & Jaimon Jacob
Account Number: 31990872053
Branch code: 10559
IFSC Code: SBIN0010559
Address:
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Ernakulam
Cochin University P O 682022
City : Kochi
District : Ernakulam
State : Kerala 

Raise money for marriage for a young poor girl

XSA has been referred with a new case for help: Raise money for marriage for a young poor girl 

Referred by: Roshan Roy 2004-2008 Batch

Details:  

The house maid at roshan’s home , who has been coming there for more than 6 years is really going through a tough situation as the time of her second daughter's marriage is fast approaching on this Jan end. She is coming from a poor family, where the only income to this family is the money earned by this lady by taking care of the house works at different houses a day. Her husband who had been going for construction work has not been able to continue the work for the last 10 years as he is affected with Asthma. She has 3 children, 2 daughter and 1 son. This lady had somehow was able to conduct the marriage of her elder daughter after seeking many peoples help. Now it is becoming very difficult for her to find the money to conduct marriage of her second child.

Please help who ever can, even with your smallest contibution.

Details of the Lady given below

Name : Suseela L

Adress : Arivalan Parambil House

             Pottan Street

             North Paravur

             Paravur P.O

             Pin : 683513

Financials:  80K -1L by 20^th of this month

Requesting your kind and generous donations for this case. For more details on the case, you could contact Nitin(chittsnitin@gmail.com) or Roshan Roy(roshanroym@gmail.com)

Those of you would like to help may transfer the contribution to XSA's account mentioned below and send a mail to our treasurer,

nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com.

Account No.: 67101191210 (current account)

Name of Account: XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST

Bank: State Bank of Travancore

Branch: Cochin University Campus Branch

IFSC No.: SBTR0000235