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T.R.Residential School for Poor Children in the news
Below you will find a sample of the media coverage which the school has received in various papers across the world. For complete articles, please contact founder President Tad Venkateswarlu.
2009
- Humanitarian Award of Canada, Windsor-St.Clair Rotary, January 21, 2010
- DTA Excellence Award in the field of Global Resident Industry as Vishala Bharathi Gaurav Satkar Award, Delhi Telugu Academy, 2009
2007
Retired Prof Honoured: Tad Venkateswarlu received his honorary doctorate degree at the University of Windsor Covocation.
The message he delivered to future teachers was to instruct the country's youth about compassion and caring along with
other job skills.
The Windsor humanitarian, who started a school for orphans and the disabled in Southern India in 1992, knew at the age
of 9 that he was going to help the needy. Due to his undaunted efforts, 25 students have earned high school diplomas. A
couple are in college seeking Engineering or technology degrees but many have gone on to get jobs as clerks and receptionists.
2004
VIP Spotlight: Tad Venkateswarlu - Recognizing Tad Venkateswarlu as winner of VIP Employer Award for his contribution to the Volunteer Internship Program at the University of Windsor.
2003
- Windsor Star - October 6, 2003 page 2
Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service - Tad Venkateswarlu receives Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Award from Governor General of Canada recognizing his contributions to the welfare of the poor children in Tenali, India.
2002
- Deccan Chronicle - July 28, 2002
NRI Professor Shapes Destitutes' Future - When Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu, a native of Tenali, migrated to Canada in 1965 to pursue higher studies, he had a mission in mind -- to promote the welfare of disadvantaged or abandoned children of Tenali and its surrounding areas. The local Indian newspaper goes on to describe the EOOHC and a parallel institution opened in Canada under Federal Charter in 1994. It also mentions Tad's work in organizing an online medical clinic. - Windsor Star - April 2, 2002 page 3
U of W PROF LAUDED FOR HELPING CHILDREN - A professor at the University of Windsor has been given a humanitarian award by the south Indian community in Michigan. Tad Venkateswarlu received the award for the work he has done with poor children in India, particularly his work taking young girls off the street and educating them .
2001
- Vartha - Aug 16, 2001, page 11.
NRI HELPING THE MOTHER LAND. - The local newspaper in India gave the progress of the school from July 23, 1992 to July 23, 2001, highlighting the important events in the school’s history. An interview with the founder, Tad Venkateswarlu, was also included in this article on the eve of 9th anniversary school celebrations.
VARTHA, Aug 16, 2001, page 11.
2000
- Windsor Star November 3, 2000
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN HELPS INDIAN ORPHANS - The children, most of whom had lost at least one parent, were saved from lives of devastating poverty. They were sleeping on railway platforms and on sidewalks. They were preyed on by gangs for begging, prostitution in the case of girls and child labour.
Windsor Star By Veronique Mandal, Friday November 3, 2000 - Indian Express - July 15, 2000
TAD’S THE WAY, OR HOW EXPATS CAN HELP MOTHER INDIA - “In India 20 per cent of the population consume 80 per cent of the resources, and 80 per cent of the population uses 20 per cent of the resources. To impose deregulation in such society increases the already widened gap between the rich and the poor.
INDIAN EXPRESS, July 15, 2000
- Tallahassee Democrat - November 18, 1999
NEEDY CHILDREN HAVE A CHAMPION - “Education is the main hurdle to bringing these children out of poverty,” he said. “If the children are given literacy, then they can achieve economic independence.” The school’s curriculum is designed to empower the individual….
Tallahassee Democrat by Mike Pope, November 18, 1999 - Fsview & Florida Flambeau - November 1999
FIGHTING POVERTY ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME - Over the past eight years, Tad Venkateswarlu, visiting scholar to Florida State University, has run a charity school for the impoverished, illiterate children of Tenali India.
Operating the program on a volunteer basis, Venkateswarlu offers the students at FSU a chance to give to children who need help and see a different part of the world at the same time.
Students interested in volunteering will be given room and board, food and a chance to learn a second and valuable language for the business world.
Fsview & Florida Flambeau Nov. 18 – Nov. 22, 1999 - Windsor Star - Oct 24, 1999
HIS ORPHANAGE IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE - Doing business in India, especially when it’s not for profit, can be a humiliating experience. Faced with a massive bureaucracy and corruption in the civil service, he said some people just laughed at his efforts and asked, “What’s in it for you?”…
Windsor Star by Mark Crane, Oct 24, 1999, Pg B3.
1998
CHILD SLAVE- LABOUR – ONE WINDSORITE’S SOLUTION. - Starting 6 years ago with only 5 children, the Tenali School is now providing for 100 children in Grade 1 to 4. The curriculum provides training in tailoring, dressmaking, carpentry, pottery, sculpture, agriculture, meditation, yoga, physical education. Training in English language starts at Grade 5.
Labour Council Newsletter by Les Dickirso, 1998.
1997
- Windsor Star - Friday December 19, 1997
WAGING WAR ON POVERTY - It was an interview published by Marty Gervais when the founder, Tad Venkateswarlu returned from India in 1997.
He saw families huddling in doorways of shops at night, or begging down in open streets. “I was 10, and thought, ‘I’d like to help them.’ I didn’t’ know how.” Tad never forgot that promise. He left India in 1965 for Canada, studied at both the University of Alberta and the University of Western Ontario, then started at the University of Windsor as a teacher. Now 55, Tad still has never lost sight of his childhood promise. That’s why for the last 10 years he started putting dinners also in Windsor at the Down-town Mission. “I always believed in sharing. I’m happy when someone eats.” In India the situation is far worst…
Windsor Star by Marty Gervais, A – 3, Friday December 19, 1997. - Windsor Star - March 31, 1997
GIVING FAR-AWAY CHILDREN A CHANCE TO HAVE BIG DREAMS - Most of the children, prior to joining the school, had been sleeping on railway platforms, at bus stations and on sidewalks; the children had become targets for gangs who used them for bonded labor and sold them to foreign countries.
The Windsor Star by Victoria Cross, March 31, 1997
1994
- Newsline - November 7, 1994.
NEW SCHOOL OFFERS HOPE TO SICK, POOR. - The education Organization for Orphaned and Handicapped Children opened with 30 students and a $25,000 annual budget that Venkateswarlu provided to purchase supplies, clothing, food and to pay the salaries of its two teachers…
NEWS LINE, November 7, 1994. - PROBE March 1994 No. 10.
SCHOOL FOR POOR ORPHANS OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS. - The school offers the opportunity to measure the social impact of the education and training the students receive by comparing changes in patterns of behaviour, such as rates of violence, juvenile delinquency, employment, and social service…
PROBE, March 1994 No. 10.
