Need your support for a noble cause

XSA has been referred with a new case for help: Money to build house and Raise money for marriage for a young poor girl 

Referred by: Kavya Gopi 1999-03 batch.        

Details:  The girl is from a village in near Cochin,whose situation is very bad. Her mother is blind and father is mentally ill and is literally locked up in a room when he goes into his mood swings. With the support from various families in the neighbourhood she studied till M.Com. Currently she is working in an office but gets only a meagre salary of is.3000/-. With that she has to manage her bus fare, medicines for her parents and other household expenses. The plight of the young girl is really sad. She has to support the family and ensure her safety. 

They are living in a small house which was built nearly 70yrs before when they got the land as kudikidappu right (The Govt Act which gives the land to the tenant if they have been staying there for N years and are below poverty line). Now the house is crumbling down. We would like to help them to rebuild their house and get her married. 

Financials: 3L to build a 1BHK home

Requesting your kind and generous donations for this case. For more details on the case, you could contact Sanish (ns.sanish@gmail.com) or Kavya (kavyagopi@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.

XSA: Fund Raising for Scholarshi​p for Students of MEC

Dear Friends
A new semester begins in July and time 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 six students from the then 3rd and 5th semesters. This year, we wish to extend the scholarship to 5 more students from the current 3rd Sem students. So in total, we would be giving 11 scholarships. This would require a sum of at least Rs 2,20,000/- 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 keep Nirmal U (Treasurer) and Jobil Louis on the funds transferred to the account. Their contact details are:
Nirmal U: nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com   +91-94465-75475
Jobil Louis: jobillouisjoseph@gmail.com  +91-99953-36658

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@sc.com) and we can take it forward.
Looking forward to your support in this great step forward from XMEC
Regards
for XMEC Social Assist Team
George C Kuriakose
EE 90 - 94

XSA goes "Social" and a fun campaign

Hi All

XMEC Social Assist goes “Social”.

Now XSA has a page of its own on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/XMECSocialAssist  and also a blog page http://xmecsocialassist.blogspot.com/.

All future endeavours and updates would be posted at both the blog and the facebook page. Currently the facebook page is close to having 100 fans. The page will give a good forum for interaction with you on the various activities and to have your feedbacks and suggestion to enhance XSA’s activities. There are over 2000 XMECians out in the world with more than 50% accessing facebook. We would like to have most of the XMECians to be fans of XSA and thus spread the good word across

For all past XSA activities, please go through the blog: http://xmecsocialassist.blogspot.com

Fun Campaign for facebook page:

We are trying to get as many XMECians as possible to be Fans of the XSA page on facebook and would be working on that during the month of May and June. To make this interesting there are a couple of challenges

1)      Predict the “Number of Fans”: All you have to do is to go to XSA page on facebook and click on the “Like” button and give your prediction for number of Fans that we would reach by midnight of 30^th June, 2011 (IST). Predictions are to be made by 15^th May. (Existing fans can also predict the number by posting it on the page)

The best predictor would win cash prize (amount to be declared later). So go ahead and make your predictions

2)      Contribute to XSA: To make this campaign interesting, need volunteers to donate to XSA based on the number of fans reached by midnight of 30^th June, 2011 (IST). So you can commit to donate Re x/- per fan and keep a cap on it. We have a volunteer ready to donate Rs 1/- per fan subject to a cap of Rs 1000/-. You can decide on the amount per fan and the cap for the maximum donation.

Calling for volunteers to make the campaign more interesting

Thanks and Regards

George C Kuriakose

XMEC Initiatives - 2011

Dear XMECians,

Over the past one year there has been few initiatives taking shape, mostly initiated by smaller groups of XMECians. We thought that it would be a good time to let everyone know what has been going on and make some of these initiatives more broad based.

XMEC Social Assist - XSA has already been doing a great job with limited resources they have for the past many years. Last year we had raised funds for five patients and had a fund raising effort aimed at providing scholarship for MEC students. Thanks to all the XMECians who responded enthusiastically to their call, the scholarship is operational now. Please visit and be fans of the XSA group on facebook to appreciate the team’s efforts. The ground work for this year’s scholarship has already started.

XSA would be approaching us soon with more details and please make sure that we make the scholarship scheme a great success. The programme can be sustained only if we can continue to raise funds, or better still, raise enough money to setup a corpus fund to keep it going.
Great job team XSA - Ashley Jose , George C Kuriakose, Nirmal Unnikrishnan, Pramod P G, Rajesh M V, Roshni Firoz, Sanish N S, Shabana Musthafa

XMECian newsletter - I am sure all of you have been receiving XMECian (previously Bangalore Gazette), the newsletter published by the Bangalore based 2K9 batch of XMECians, which is informative as well as entertaining. Looking at its success, we had requested them to increase the coverage to all the regions and they agreed to do that. This however would require a lot of coordination, and we would be needing volunteers in each regional chapter to ensure that we have enough content to keep it going. We welcome any content that is relevant to this group and could be on topics on technical, management, fiction, humour etc., and encourage those who have a flair for writing (or even lack of it) to generously contribute to make this a bigger success.

Team XMECian would be getting back to us requesting for volunteers and for content.

Thank you team XMECian for agreeing to make it a global news letter - Cijo George, Cyriac, Harisankar, Nitin Jose, Nubin Stanley, Rahul Pisharody, Ravi, Roshan Roy, Thejus Krishna, Mathew Manavalan, Scaria, Vishnu sugadhan, Vyas

xmec4mec – This is a new initiative from Nandana Dutt and Saju Sivaji that is being piloted now. The students have formed a cell by name Alumni Interactive Cell (AIC), which is going be our primary interface with college. xmec4mec has been working closely with the AIC to chart out various activities that could be taken up as part of this initiative (mentoring, guest lectures, mock interviews, resume reviews etc. to name a few).

Team xmec4mec would be contacting us soon regarding their activities and hoping that many of us would be signing up for various activities

AIC team presently consists of Ann Maria Jose, Cinash P, Nithin A Valentine, Sebin Kuriakose, Toby Babu (all placement committee members), Manu Sreenivasan and Vyas

XMEC website - One of the key items on our plate was getting the XMEC website up and running again, and that work is in progress. The present effort has been carried out with effort from students as well as some alumni members during their spare time. Based on the functionalities we manage to build, we may move of some or all of the forums above to our website.

Those who have ideas/suggestions on the XMEC website or are willing to help out with it, please contact Vyas

XMEC/AAMEC meeting – While meeting of the regional chapters have been going for many years now, it is high time that we met officially (For those who are not aware, we have an official alumni association called AAMEC – Alumni Association of MEC – which has been defunct for many years now). Principal (Dr. Sureshkumar P) has agreed to host the meeting at MEC in December 2011 (tentative).

We shall be confirming the event soon and hope that many of us can make it to the event.

Please feel free to email us at xmec with comments and suggestions.

Thanks,
On behalf of XMEC alumni executive committee,
Manu Sreenivasan
EE 89-93-execom@yahoogroups.com

P.S. Hope that I have not missed out acknowledging anyone who is part of the initiatives mentioned in the mail

Financial help for a student suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (blood cancer)

Hello everyone,
We could collect 25,000/- for Ashish. The amount was handed over to
Ashish's family last week. His health is getting better. The
medication will continue for another 2 years.
Thanks to everyone for the support.
Regards,
Sanish
CS 99 - 03

Help required for Cochlea Transplantation for a 10 month old baby

Hi all,

XSA has been referred with a new case for help: 10 month old baby who was born deaf

Treatment: Cochlea Transplantation
Referred by: Faseela K of 2006-10 batch.        

Details:  The child's father Rathnesh is working as a clerk in a firm. The family will not able to afford this surgery of their own and are looking for help. Now they would need to make the rest. The surgery if delayed too much, might cause the child to develop mental retardness as per doctors. Right now the child is undergoing speech therapy for a month, which will be over by April end or so. So within May, they are planning to get the operation done.
Doctors Consulted: Dr. Manoj in Calicut and Dr. Mohammad Noushad in Ernakulam.

Financials: The estimated cost of the surgery is Rs. 15 lakhs. The family has got Rs. 6 lakhs as a bank loan. They are looking for donations to raise rest of the money

Requesting your kind and generous donations for this case. For more details on the case, you could contact me (chittsnitin@gmail.com) or Faseela (k.faseela@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

Regards
Nitin

Financial help for a student suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (blood cancer)

Hi All

Over the years XSA has been able to help out a number of individuals during their times of pain, especially on medical requirements. This has all been possible based on the donations from the alumni of MEC.

We have been able to consolidate the efforts over the last couple of years in a temporary blog site: http://xmecsocialassist.blogspot.com/.

Let us pitch in our bit to help out the less unfortunate in our society. Please be assured that one of the XSA committee members verifies the genuineness of each case presented across to the alumni

Please refer below for details of the person we are helping out currently. Looking forward to all your support for the initiatives of XSA.

Regards

George

EE 90-94

From: xmec@yahoogroups.com [mailto:xmec@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of san
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:26 AM
To: xmec@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xmec] Financial help for a student suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (blood cancer)

 

Hi all,

A +2 student of Bharathiya Vidhya Bhavan Thrissur, Ashish G. Nair has
been diagnosed with blood cancer. His case was referred to XSA by
Navin Babu of 99-03 batch. Anish's family consists of his dad (who is
70+ - just undergone a surgery) , mom and elder sister. The parents
had two other children before who were drowned to death in a tragic
accident.

After the medical examinations, doctors of Lakeshore hospital
Ernakulam, have suggested a treatment which would cost the family 10
lakhs. The financial situation of the family is not good enough to
manage such a big amount now.

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

Regards,
Sanish
CS 99 - 03

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