Minutes of Meeting held on 31st March '09

A summary of today's meeting:

• Saturday's programme - to be held on April 4th, 2009. It will follow last week's agenda.
• Meetings with the Community Medicine HOD
• We are going to compile the statistical data collected thus far so we can analyze it and use it to see the progress we have made. Apoorvaa and Lalitha volunteered for this task.
• Pediatrician - We were advised to bring a pediatrician to survey the children there, as, when Dr. Thinesh visited to the slum 2 weeks ago, a large number of protein energy malnutrition cases were found. Bhavya and Lalitha would inquire into this.
• Vocational training - we are trying to find some programs in this area. Vasundhra has been doing research in this as well.
• Meeting - we are thinking of having a general body meeting early next week.
  
• Collecting data from the municipality - regarding the population demographics.
  
• Protein Packets - Dr. Thinesh to research the feasibility, cost, and contents of locally available protein supplements.
• Bridge - a large number of members have requested an easier way to cross the stream. Apoorvaa is now in charge of finding and acquiring a plank that can be used for this purpose.
• Legal - Thinesh to do some research on this front. In addition, Navyatha and Shilpa are to continue research comparing American and Indian NGOs and to give a summary of this information at the next meeting.