www.UpliftaChild.org 2014 Uplift a Child International Annual Report December 15 th USA India Nepal Philippines Dear Friends, Sponsor’s & well-wishers, We thank God for His blessings and guidance as we approach to the end of our 14 th year of service to the less fortunate children since its inception in 2000. We cannot forget the encouragement and the support that we received from 580 sponsors (USA, UK, India, Ukraine, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, & South America), 80 volunteers from east to west, and friends from all over along with the help of our administrative teams and Board of Directors from USA, Nepal, India & Philippines. We had a fantastic year with lot of activities and celebrations which include Annual Award ceremonies, Sponsor’s Meets, Independence Day Celebrations, Fundraisers, Walkathon and Seminars. We could sense the team spirit which led to the success of every event. Three Dance Academies have conducted programs exclusively for raising funds for the benefit of our children. We are promoted through walkathon program. Some kids donated all their birthday celebrations’ money to Uplift a Child and also did fundraising program on Children’s day. I am happy to inform you about our successful launching of Uplift a Child in the Philippines. Ms. Jocelyn Soriano has come forward to take this mission to Philippines and she is the Director for Philippines. This year we have extended our help to the children at Chitwan in Nepal. We were able to sponsor 300 more children who have been waiting for help. We are much delighted to experience this success through the support of our Sponsors, Volunteers, well- wishers, Schools and Business vendors. We express our sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude to all of you. We are proud to say that we have achieved beyond our expectations which has become possible just because of you all. We recommit ourselves to serve the underprivileged by giving them quality education. Wish you Happy holidays and a have a great New Year 2015! Thank you, Sam & Rena Vonumu Founders – Uplift a Child International
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2014 Uplift a Child International Annual Report December 15
th
USA India Nepal Philippines
Dear Friends, Sponsor’s & well-wishers,
We thank God for His blessings and guidance as we approach to the end of our 14th
year of service to the
less fortunate children since its inception in 2000. We cannot forget the encouragement and the support that
we received from 580 sponsors (USA, UK, India, Ukraine, UAE, Oman, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany,
Switzerland, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, & South America), 80 volunteers from east to west, and friends from all
over along with the help of our administrative teams and Board of Directors from USA, Nepal, India &
Philippines.
We had a fantastic year with lot of activities and celebrations which include Annual Award ceremonies,
Sponsor’s Meets, Independence Day Celebrations, Fundraisers, Walkathon and Seminars. We could sense
the team spirit which led to the success of every event. Three Dance Academies have conducted programs
exclusively for raising funds for the benefit of our children. We are promoted through walkathon program.
Some kids donated all their birthday celebrations’ money to Uplift a Child and also did fundraising program
on Children’s day. I am happy to inform you about our successful launching of Uplift a Child in the
Philippines. Ms. Jocelyn Soriano has come forward to take this mission to Philippines and she is the
Director for Philippines. This year we have extended our help to the children at Chitwan in Nepal. We were
able to sponsor 300 more children who have been waiting for help.
We are much delighted to experience this success through the support of our Sponsors, Volunteers, well-
wishers, Schools and Business vendors. We express our sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude to all of you.
We are proud to say that we have achieved beyond our expectations which has become possible just
because of you all. We recommit ourselves to serve the underprivileged by giving them quality education.
Wish you Happy holidays and a have a great New Year 2015!
Thank you,
Sam & Rena Vonumu
Founders – Uplift a Child International
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A special thanks to all from our Board of Directors in USA, INDIA, NEPAL & PHILIPPINES
Our USA Board
Susan Carson Ramakrishna Grandhi Patricia Djiwatampu Dr. Navin Boggavarapu Pearl Welch
President Vice President/Secretary Treasurer Board Member Board Member
Our INDIA Board
Dr. Satya Jnaneshwari Sudhakar Kaligithi Sudhakar Akurathi Krishna Kishore Roy Prakash Thanukula
Boggavarapu Vice President Secretary Parvathaneni Joint-Secretary
President Treasurer
Our NEPAL Board Our Philippines Director
Ms. Yeso Kanti Bhattachan - Vice President
Mr. Nirjhar Man Sherchan – Secretary
Ms. Kalpana Tiwari - Treasurer
Mr. Kumar Pradhan - Member
Ms. Usha Sherchan - President
Ms. Anita Gauchan - Member
Ms. Sabitra Bhujel (Chepang) – Member
Mr. D.B. Sherchan – Advisor
Mr. Loknath Tiwari Ms. Joy Soriano-Moy Country Director Country Director
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OUR RESULTS 2000-2004 Supported 45 children – None got any ranks during that time 2005 Supported 164 children. Out of them, 21 students got ranks in their respective grades 2006 Supported 275 children. Out of them, 42 students got ranks in their respective grades 2007 Supported 496 children. Out of them, 83 students got ranks in their respective grades 2008 Supported 600 children. Out of them, 130 students got ranks in their respective grades 2009 Supported 1000 children. Out of them, 150 students got ranks in their respective grades 2010 Supported 1010 children. Out of them, 178 students got ranks in their respective grades 2011 Supported 1200 children. Out of them, 163 students got ranks in their respective grades 2012 Supported 1500 children. Out of them, 218 students got ranks in their respective grades 2013 Supported 2000 children. Out of them, 347 students got ranks in their respective grades 2014 Supported 2300 children. Results will come in May, 2015.
OUR GROWTH - Below chart explains our chronological growth on how we have grown from 4 children
in the year 2000 to 2300 children by 2014.
The following chart explains our chronological growth of our sponsors, financial contributions, our
children, and the places we operate.
Uplift a Child International Inc Growth from 2000 to 2014
Year # of
Sponsors Sponsors
Donations Children
Supported Locations where our children studied or currently going to
schools since 2000-2014
2000-2004 2 $14,000 45 Tamilnadu, India – Hosur (till 2009)
2005 32 $15,230 164 West Bengal, India - Naxalbari
Rachanas team, students of Sindhura Dance School did a bake sale by baking 600 different varieties of
goodies and raised money for this cause. We appreciate their commitment by going that extra mile for a
great cause. They have donated every dollar they have risen to Uplift a Child.
BIRTHDAY DONATIONS
Romir & Myra Paulus, the twin boy and girl of Piya & Robby
Paulus have celebrated their 10th
birthday and have donated all
their birthday gift money to Uplift a Child to support a child for
12 years of education.
We are amazed at the spirit of the little children who came
forward to do something like this. They are leading by example
from a young age. All of us at Uplift a Child are thankful to
them and proud of them.
Vyshnavi Kolli, She is the daughter of one of our sponsors Mr. & Mrs. Shiva &
Sushmitha Kolli. She did not celebrate her birthday in a big way
as they usually do all the time.
This time, Vyshnavi have seen her parents talking about how
they are helping children for education in India and why they are
doing it. At her little tender age, she felt and told her parents to
donate the expense money towards Uplift a Child so that another
child can go to School.
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OUR SPONSORS VISIT
We are thankful to 7 of our sponsors and their families who have taken a day off from their personal
vacation time to visit the children. Three families conducted our children annual programs at three
locations, Mr. Ramesh Vudathu ( from Seattle, WA, USA) at Machilipatnam, Mr. & Mrs. Raj & Vijaya
Suddamalla( Silver Spring, MD, USA) at Chirala and Mr. & Mrs. Srinivas & Satya Yerraganti ( from
Wayne, NJ ,USA) at Rajahmundry. Two sponsor families have attended our Annual Programs in 2014
along with Mr. Sam Vonumu and India Team. We thank Dr.& Mrs. Heather Holliday ( from UK) for
attending and sponsoring our Nizampatnam event and Mr. Sudhakar Majety ( from Phoenixville, PA,
USA) for attending Visakapatnam Event. We also thank Kusumlatha Rossman (from Hawai, USA) and
Mr. Vikram Bhimarasetty from California, USA) for meeting his children in Vizag.
Mr. & Mrs. Srinivas & Satya Yerraganti, Rajahmundry Mr. Ramesh Vudathu, Machilipatnam
Mr. Raj & Vijaya Suddamalla, Chirala Mr. Vikram Bhimarasetty at Vizag
Mr. Sudhakar Majety, Vizag Dr. & Mrs. Heather Holliday, Nizampatnam
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OUR SPONSOR’S SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION
We would like to thank many of our sponsor’s families who have done the following
1. Some of our sponsor’s children have donated their birthday gift money to Uplift a Child
2. Some of our sponsor’s families have donated the money from their anniversary programs to
Uplift a Child.
3. Some of them made a commitment to donate 25% of their will to Uplift a Child
4. Some of them are restaurant owners and have donated the tips money to Uplift a Child at the
end of the year.
5. Some of them have actually donated the money they have for God’s gift towards sponsoring
hundreds of meals (food for our children during our annual events)
ADOPT A CHILD FOREVER PROGRAM
We now have started a new program called “Adopt a Child Forever Program”. For US $2,500 we can
support a child forever by depositing the money to a fixed deposit in the bank and the interest is enough to
pay for annual expenses for a child in our program in India. Now many sponsors are considering this
program and sponsoring children in their parent’s name, foundation name or in memory of someone whom
they love so much. With this money, we support a child for 12 years and then pick a new child and support
for 12 more years and the cycle will continue forever.
OUR FINANCIAL REPORT
Our goal for 2014 is $ 245,000. We received a total of US $210,000. We are short by $35,000 as of
12th
December, 2014. We are thankful to the contributions from 580 individual sponsors as well as few
company matching funds. The financial report for 2014 will be available online for anyone once it is ready
on guidestar.org.
Corporate Matching – Below companies are matching charitable contributions by the employees.
Some of them match 100% and some have a limit.
Deutsche Bank Microsoft AOL United Way Silocon Valley IBM Global Impact-Pitney Bowes Verizon BlackRock Bank of America GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Allstate The Giving Campaign ETS JP Morgan NYSE Euronext Foundation Intel Geico Coach New York
Sponsors for Food Donation during Uplift Child Annual Programs in India
Food Donors - Thanks to many of our friends who donated a good meal (from 25 - 100+ meals) during our
Annual Programs in India. It generally costs $2.5 per each meal and we have a need for close to 5000 meals
for our next Uplift a Child Annual Programs in January 2015.
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OUR PLANS FOR 2015
1. Through the inspiration of Walkathon by high school girl Rachana Krishnan, we have a desire to do
Walkathons in at least 3 locations in US next year. We have our website ready where people can register
online for walkathon. We can decide if we will do $ 25 or $ 30 for the registration. This will be either a
5K walk or a 2K walk. We invite anyone who would like to take lead and make a difference.
2. After our three successful dance events, some more dance schools have come forward to do some events
in the name of their Dance school. We invite anyone who would like to be a part of Uplift a Child to do
a fundraiser and we can take care of all the expenses.
3. We are not planning to take too many children in 2015 but we will continue to improve quality in
existing children with the help of our local volunteers. We may take a few children since we have
promised them the previous year.
4. We are inviting our Sponsors to conduct the Annual Children Programs during their visit to India with
the assistance of Uplift a Child India team. We are looking for any of our current sponsors to conduct
2014 programs in Karmatar and Bisunpur in Jharkhand, Naxalbari in West Bengal and Gossaigaon in
Assam.
SOME OF OUR CHILDREN’S PICTURES
Olivet School, Visakhapatnam SDA School, Chittoor
SDA School, Bobbili SDA School, MVP Colony, Vizag
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Trinity School, Visakhapatnam St. Peter’s School, Undi