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This was an article on the Coimbatore edition of the " INDIAN EXPRESS" dated 17-12-2010, about the service initiative of sponsoring a kid for his education and livelihood, on a regular basis

TYKA supported and jointly sponsored for 'Sadhuranga Savaal 2023' - A chess tournament for the Visually challenged.
About 30 participants played in the tournament for the top three places.
All participants were also appreciated with a gift.

Events like these will provide opportunities and empower the differently abled people to showcase and enhance their skills, leading to better prospects of jobs and livelihood for them.

Dhiya foundation and National Federation for the Blind (NFB) Coimbatore chapter, TYKA jointly organised the event.

Some more photos taken during the Surveying work.

Yesterday, some of the Tykans volunteered for SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan) which strives for Compulsory Education for all.

Ms.Srividya was the person who organized us all for this work.

Our work was to search and identify non-schooling children of age 6-14, take survey notes, encourage them to go to school. We did this work in S.N.Palayam and P.N.Pudhur Areas. We also had to identify differently abled children. We learned a lot in this process.

It was a last minute call, so couldnt inform other TYKAns. We will be doing this work again in the coming days. If anybody else is interested, please inbox me. Believe it or not, this work followed by educating the children is being done for more than 10 years by a government school teacher named Ms.Janaki. Imagine her efforts.

Other tykans who are not in the photos are Sriram Iyer and Gowtham Raj Sampath