MIGROS kids school in Tirupur

Migros is Switzerland's largest retailing company, its largest supermarket chain and largest employer. It co-founded Turkey's largest retailer, Migros Türk, which became independent of Migros Switzerland in 1975.

We have one of the MIGROS outlet near our home in vevey. It has most of our daily needs and some electronic stuffs too. 75% of our shopping ends at MIGROS.

Recently I have purchased gym T-Shirt for my kid. It is high quality Bio cotton, While checking the label, we found that it is made in India. Source of textile is Tirupur. Further the label claims that migros has school in Tirupur as its social responsibility. 

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In 2009, the Migros Kids School in Tirupur, Southern India, celebrated its tenth anniversary. A happy day for over 1,300 children and a success story for Migros development aid.

A classroom equipped with computers is not exactly headline news, at least not in our part of the world. In Tirupur, though, it is a sensation. The biggest challenge was not acquiring the computers and bringing them here. It was getting them up and running in the first place, because there is no stable supply of electricity in the region.
Thanks to Migros, this problem, too, has been solved. In 2009, the school was given a solar installation for its tenth anniversary, so in future it will have its own power supply.
With the computers working, the children are learning – and beaming with pleasure. That would be a rare sight in our part of the world, where most children are less than enthusiastic about school.

In Southern India, the grim reality of everyday life for children is not going to school, but going to work. Changing the situation is the declared aim of the Kids School project in Tirupur, set up in 1999 by Migros and the German foundation KIDS e.V. in Cologne. “School not work” is the motto, and the objective is to offer a better future to children whose parents are on low incomes, and most of whom work in the local textile factories. The Migros aid fund provided CHF 400,000 to finance building land, buildings and school buses. In December 2009, the Federation of Migros Cooperatives committed a further CHF 150,000 for the expansion of the school.

Lessons began in 1999, with just 29 children in the palm-leaf-covered provisional school. At first it was difficult to convince the parents that going to school would improve their children's lives in the long run. But attitudes quickly changed. In December 2000, the new school building, with 14 classrooms, was opened and the number of schoolchildren rose to 43. A further school building was added in 2005. Meanwhile, a kindergarten and health clinic had also been built.

In the 2009/2010 school year, ten years after it began, there are 1,321 children at the school. Each day, six school buses pick up the schoolchildren and their 48 teachers from the surrounding villages.

The Migros Kids School is a private school that only admits children whose parents earn no more than the equivalent of CHF 100. For just CHF 190, one child can receive education there for a whole year. The school relies on funding and donations to keep it going. For instance, the Southern Indian producers of Migros textiles pay three centimes for each of the Kids School labels that they attach to the clothing they make. This pays for around 50% of the school’s running costs. Other Migros suppliers also help with the funding: instead of sending promotional gifts, they donate the money to the school in India. These two ideas help more than a thousand children.
Migros has always had a particular interest in the abolition of child labour. The Migros Kids School project is a great institution for protecting children from exploitation and offering them a better future.

I too feel some social responsibility, we should do something for the community.

21 Great Ways to stop procrastinating

Here is a summary of the 21 Great Ways to stop procrastinating and get more things done faster. Review these rules and principles regularly until they become firmly ingrained in your thinking and actions and your future will be guaranteed.

1. Set the table: Decide exactly what you want. Clarity is essential. Write out your goals and objectives before you begin;
2. Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution;
3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for eighty percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top twenty percent;
4. Consider the consequences: Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all else;
5. Practice the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities:
6. Focus on key result areas: Identify and determine those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long;
7. The Law of Forced Efficiency: There is never enough time to do everything but there is always enough time to do the most important things. What are they?
8. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: Proper prior preparation prevents poor performance;
9. Do your homework: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done;
10. Leverage your special talents: Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well:
11. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or chokepoints, internally or externally, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals and focus on alleviating them;
12. Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time;
13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month and work as if you had to get all your major tasks completed before you left;
14. Maximize your personal powers: Identify your periods of highest mental and physical energy each day and structure your most important and demanding tasks around these times. Get lots of rest so you can perform at your best;
15. Motivate yourself into action: Be your own cheerleader. Look for the good in every situation. Focus on the solution rather than the problem. Always be optimistic and constructive;
16. Practice creative procrastination: Since you can’t do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count;
17. Do the most difficult task first: Begin each day with your most difficult task, the one task that can make the greatest contribution to yourself and your work, and resolve to stay at it until it is complete:
18. Slice and dice the task: Break large, complex tasks down into bite sized pieces and then just do one small part of the task to get started;
19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time where you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks;
20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well;
21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task and then work without stopping until the job is 100% complete. This is the real key to high performance and

An excerpt from Eat That Frog!

An excerpt from Eat That Frog!
by Brian Tracy

There's an old saying that says..."If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"

Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things to do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...and let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the "Pareto Principle" after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the "vital few", the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the "trivial many", the bottom 80 percent.

He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.

Number of Tasks versus Importance of Tasks
Here is an interesting discovery. Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others.

Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first.

Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?"

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually.

Motivate Yourself
Just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is having control over what you do next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well.

मैने पूछा चाँद से के देखा हैं कही मेरे यार सा हसीं

I still hear my best friend voice singing this song ...

Maine Poocha Chand Se Ke Dekha Hai Kahin
Mere Yaar Sa Haseen Chand Ne Kaha
Chandni Ki Kasam Nahin Nahin Nahin
Maine Poocha Chand Se

Maine Yeh Hijab Tera Dhunda
Har Jageh Sahbad Tera Dhunda
Kaliyon Se Misaal Teri Phoochi
Phoolon Se Sabaab Tera Dhunda
Maine Poocha Bagh Se Falak Ho Ya Zameen
Aisa Phool Hai Kahin Bagh Ne Kaha
Har Kali Ki Kasam Nahin Nahin Nahin
Maine Poocha Chand Se

Chaal Hai Ke Mauj Ki Rawani Julf Hai Ke Raat Ki Nishani
Hoth Hai Ke Aainey Kamal Ke
Ankh Hai Ke Maikason Ki Rani
Maine Poocha Jaam Se Falak Ho Ya Zameen
Aisi Mehn Bhi Hai Kahin, Jaam Ne Kaha
Mehkashi Ki Kasam Nahin Nahin Nahin
Maine Poocha Chand Se

Khubsoorati Jo Tuney Pahi Loot Gai
Loot Gai Khuda Ki Bas Khudai
Mir Ke Ghazal Kahon Tujhey Main
Ye Kahon Khayyam Ki Rubai
Amine Poocha Shaironse Aise Sher Hai Kahin
Shayar Kahen Shaiyri Ki Kasam Nahin Nahin Nahin
Maine Poocha Chand Se