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| Academic year 2012 - 13 |
| Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Walk |
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Multiple Sclerosis or MS is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord, resulting in loss of muscle control, vision, balance, and sensation (such as numbness). With MS, the nerves of the brain and spinal cord are damaged by one's own immune system. MS is two to three times as common in females as in males and its occurrence is unusual before adolescence. A person has an increased risk of developing the disease from the teen years to age 50, with the risk gradually declining thereafter. |
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MS Awareness drive was organized in collaboration with Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI) Mumbai Chapter on 12th December 2012.? Awareness-raising is one of the keystones of MSSI Projects.? |
| Ms. Sundari Raju, from the Department?of Chemistry & Hon Secretary of MSSI, Mumbai Chapter took?the charge of organizing a MS Walk with the students in raising awareness for MS cause. Prior permission from local police was sought to arrange for the walk. |
| At 10 a.m. sharp, large number of students gathered in the quadrangle of the campus & actively geared up for MS Awareness drive. ?Mrs. Raju welcomed all. She was joined by?Ms. Sheela? Chitnis - MSSI Chairperson & Ms. Anita Vesuvala - Vice Chairperson. ?Ms. Raju spoke briefly on MS & highlighted the activities of MSSI.? |
| Principal Dr. Harsha Mehta graced the event. She appreciated the work of MSSI? & promised to extend all the support for MS cause. Ms. Chitnis, thanked the Principal & faculty members for joining hands together with MS Society in spreading awareness about MS. She acknowledged the efforts taken by students & professors.? |
| The rally was then flagged off by the Principal. MSSI provided M.S. caps to most of the participants. Groups of students carried placards bearing MS slogans, MS banners etc.? Along with the students, MS persons Jigna, Shankar, Sangeeta, Meghana & few MS families also joined the Walk enthusiastically. |
| ?The route opened into the lanes, Residential complexes, super markets & also crowded city roads of Mumbai. MS leaflets were distributed to the public. The rally attracted a lot of attention & queries from the passerby. Volunteers were specifically stopped and questioned by people in private vehicles. Around 300?enthusiastic?students participated in the rally, sporting placards & banners. |
| After the three hour event, the students were given snacks & biscuits sponsored by Ms. Sarita Sakroo, Department of Chemistry & Mr. Vasantbhai Kanakiya. |
| Mr. Pushparaj Shetty - NSS Programme coordinator, helped in coordinating with the NSS students & encouraging maximum number of students to join this walk. The MSSI Team extended its heartfelt thanks to the faculty of SIES College, to all the students, to dear MS patients & caregivers, & volunteers who had taken great efforts to be present.? |
| The college is very fortunate to receive support from all the people who made a difference by their presence at the Walk. |
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| Academic year 2010 - 11 |
| Collaborations and Extension Activities |
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Haath Mein Sehat (HMS) ? An ongoing project on Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation in collaboration with Engineers for Sustainable Development, Centre for Safe Drinking Water & Sanitation, University of California, Berkley was carried on in the Bombay Municipal School at Lower Parel (adopted by the NGO Muktangan). Sachita, Yoshita, Praneeta, Amar, Varun, Larissa, Felix, Yashvi, Rushabh coordinated the programme. Same programme was also continued at Ganesh Vidya Mandir, Dharavi by Radha S, Barkha N, Pooja Shah, Puja Iyer and others.
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Hygiene Awareness Day ? was celebrated in collaboration with Barclays Bank as a part of ?Make a Difference? Project under the Corporate Social Responsibility Programme of Barclays Bank on 23rd October, 2010. Special demonstrations with the help of charts and action song made the programme interesting for the children of the Bombay Municipal School in collaboration with the intervention of the NGO Muktangan. Mr Gururaj Rao & Ms Henna from Barclays Bank coordinated the programme. The College received an appreciation letter from Muktangan.
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Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) ? Mr Joel Gibbs & Mr Abdul Karim were conferred their Youth Research Fellowship & completed an inter-college group research project on ?The lives of rickshawalas in Mumbai? which received financial assistance of Rs 60000/-. Asha Gala conducted an orientation for the new aspirants of the College, who wish to apply for PUKAR Youth Research Fellowship on 21st February, 2011.
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An Exhibition and Social Marketing of the products made by the KK Vocational Rehabilitation Centre of the V D Indian Society for the Mentally retarded, Malad in August, 2010.
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Sale of Flags made by the mentally challenged children on the occasion of Independence Day. The project was sponsored by Hi Tech Family Enrichment Foundation; Economics Association received the Appreciation Certificate from the foundation.
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Child Adoption Meet:? A child adoption meet was organized in collaboration with People?s Group For Child Adoption in India(CGPAI), a voluntary organization working for the cause of Child Adoption, on Saturday 30th April,2011 under the guidance of Prof. Asha Gala. The participants of the Meet were adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents, volunteers, NGO?s like Catalyst to Social Action(CSA), adoption specialists etc.
The Meet focused on discussing key hurdles related to the process of adoption and strategies to overcome the same. The issues specially related to parenting, legal procedures, foster care, single parent adoption, turn around timeliness were also discussed. A support group for awareness was created. Sharing of experiences by Prof. Shama Iyer (Adoptive mother), Dr. Priyansh, Mrs. Brinda (A professional social worker) and CSA official were eye openers to participants. The Meet was co-ordinated ?by Ms. Megha Gupta, a meritorious ex- student of Economics (2000-2001 batch). The Meet was listed in the EVENTS, Mumbai Mirror 30th April 2011.
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