**Announcement of Logo Contest for V Treat **

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[V TREAT Logo Competition Guidelines and Contest Rules]

Overview:

V Treat announces a competition to design a logo to be used throughout 2017-18. The new logo may be used on the V Treat website, social media sites, business cards, letterhead, posters, souvenir trinkets and gifts, or anywhere else the V Treat chooses. This document describes the official requirements and rules of the competition.

By entering, participants agree to be bound by these contest rules. Violating any rule or not following instructions may eliminate participants’ eligibility. V Treat has the right to disqualify any entrant at any time at its sole discretion.

Eligibility:

1. The contest is open for all.
2. There is no age bar for the competition
3. The contest is open to amateurs, students, professional design agencies or their employees may submit entries.
4. The contest is not open to employees of the V Treat Foundation or their immediate family members.
5. Contestants are permitted to work in groups; however, only one (1) cash, 1 (one) certificate & 1( one)T shirt will be awarded regardless of group size.

Submission Guidelines and How to Enter:

1. The contest is open from 12:01 a.m. December 25, 2016 Indian Standard Time (IST) and closes at 11:59 p.m. January 5, 2017(IST). Late submissions will not be considered. The winner will be selected and notified by 15th of January 2017.

2. All entries must be submitted electronically to the V Treat email id at (askvtreat@gmail.com) Submissions must include the full name(s) of the person(s) who designed the logo, name of school or other affiliation, email address, postal address, and telephone number.

3. One or more submissions per person is acceptable. Each submission must be sent in a separate email.

4. There is no fee to enter the contest.

Logo Design Guidelines and Parameters:

The purpose of this contest is to design a logo to be used by the V Treat Foundation.

The logo’s design should reflect the vision, mission & core values of V Treat. Following is the details for the same.

[ V Treat Foundation ]

Tag Line : Spreading Joy & happiness all the way.

Core Values: Integrity, Teamwork, Respect for people, Entrepreneurship, Social responsibility

Vision:

"To build a healthier society where everyone will have access to education & livelihood"

Mission:

• To identify & facilitate people with an affordable treatment options.

• To nurture the young minds & inculcate the value of social responsibility.

• To form self help groups & support them to earn their livelihood.

To know more about V Treat foundation & its activities please visit us at (www.vtreat.org).

The logo must be appropriate for a professional business setting. Entries must be submitted as JPEG files. For quality reproduction purposes, the winning entry must later be submitted in scalable vector graphic format (EPS). Color must be CMYK, though the logo may also be produced in black and white. Contestants are advised to avoid gradients and half-tones. The logo must be easy to use, handle, resize, and manipulate for all reproduction purposes. It should be visually appealing on both small (as small as 2 cm x 2 cm) and large scales.

Intellectual Property

1. Entrants affirm their submissions are their own original work, have not been copied from others or from previous designs, including their own, and do not violate the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.

2. Submissions become the sole property of the V Treat and may be used for any V Treat purposes, including, but not limited to, display on websites, business cards, letterhead, posters, and other materials.

3. V Treat shall have the right to adapt, edit, modify, or otherwise use the winning submission in part or in its entirety in whatever manner it deems appropriate.

4. V Treat reserves the right to choose not to use the winning entry as described in these contest guidelines.

5. V Treat reserves the right to use any other entry for promotional or business purposes in the future.

6. If the winner is determined to have violated any rules, he/she will be required to forfeit or return the prize, even if the determination is made after the prize has been awarded.

Determination of Winner and Prize

1. The winning entry will be selected by a panel comprised of officials of the V Treat. Their decision will be final and no further correspondence shall be entered into.

2. Entries will be judged on their visual appeal, adherence to the concept prompting the contest, quality of design, and ease of reproduction for the purposes stated above.

3. The prize for the winning entry is Rs.1100 ( Eleven Hundred) cash, Certificate of appreciation & a T Shirt. 2. This prize remains the same regardless of the size of the team submitting the winning entry.

4. The winner will be notified via email and announced on the V Treat Foundation Face book page (https://www.facebook.com/Vtreatfoundation/) and possibly through other media.

Disclaimer:

1. V Treat is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, or otherwise unusable entries, including entries that are lost or unusable due to computer, internet, or electronic problems.

2. V Treat reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest and award the prize by alternate means if fraud or technical failure is determined at any time by the V Treat, including after the submission window has closed.

3. V Treat is not liable, for the purpose of winner and prize notification and delivery, in the event the contest winner has provided incorrect, outd

ated, or otherwise invalid contact information.

For further details please call us @ 9515116585 or write to us askvtreat@gmail.com or post your comment below.

***Love them back with a Sense of Responsibility ***

I realized the importance of my mother, when post schooling I left my house & headed to pursue my intermediate studies in a place nearby, I was missing my home, my mother her care, affection, food etc.  

I realized the importance of my sister when one fine day she was not in home & I came to know that she has gone for a holiday at my grandma's place in our  village The house was literally void without her. She was that time 8 or 9yr old kid & we used to play after returning from school.

I realized the importance of my wife when she has relocated to a different town for her office project & left me for a year in our so called home. The home was gradually converted in to a bachelor room & I felt more lonely when came back home from work.

Well you must be wondering, Why am I sharing all these with you, It's because, these are the three most lovable woman in everyone's life, who stand behind us at every steps of our life. The warmth, care, nurture that we used to get from these three is supposed to be unparalleled.

But wait....are we also sensible enough for these women & taking care of their health & wellness, so that they will live a healthy & beautiful life. Well there are little things that we all can do, which can give us & them a bit satisfaction. Probably they may not find time or ignore their health because of their daily mundane work life. However being a son, brother or a husband,   if we can take this responsibility towards them by educating ourselves & them it will be like rewarding their effort.  

Being woman is one of the toughest challenge, because of the variety of responsibility vested on them which many a time we ignore. Moreover getting older invites a lot of complication in terms of health & wellness. Especially when we do have a family history of  diabetes, cancer etc thing should be taken care more seriously.

Here we have highlighted few precautions, that the women should take care & follow religiously, to have a healthy & cancer free life. These are very basic things, which if we insist  to every woman who are in our surrounding then probably we can avoid one of the most deadly disease (cancer) of society.

Well the statistics says Breast followed by Cervical cancer is the most common types of cancer in India. Hence the by practising the following things regularly will definitely help to  have a healthy & disease free life.

Adult women of all ages are encouraged to perform breast self-exams at least once a month.  Forty percent of diagnosed breast cancers are detected by women who feel a lump, so establishing a regular breast self-exam is very important. (source: http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-self-exam)

·       As per the American clinical association If you have a family history of breast cancer—especially in a close relative like a parent or sibling & you are 30 or more then do a Clinical breast exam every three years.

·        If you are 40 or more then do a Clinical breast exam every year but you should add the Mammogram once in every two years.

·        If you are 50 or more then do a Clinical breast exam & Mammogram every year.

The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is also a good tool to evaluate the risk of getting cancer in life time. It's an interactive tool designed by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) to estimate a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer. (https://www.cancer.gov/bcrisktool/).

More ever we at Vtreat foundation take it as our one of the mission to help people to diagnose cancer early so that they can get the best ever treatment available & live a disease free life. Project V.I.B.E (V treat Initiated Breast Examination)  is our initiative towards propagating the importance of cancer screening & conducting free cancer screening camps in association with the oncology fraternity of the city. You can get more details about V.I.B.E by visiting the link (https://www.facebook.com/events/212023552586109/).

So we should take charge of our family by educating the special woman in our lives who make us smile all the ways of our life. 

Project VR1 ( Spreading joy in million faces)

Have you ever encountered a situation when you have thought of something & the outcome is entirely opposite???  Well some time it happens to us also, if something good happens we generally tell it as blessing in disguise or else we just curse ourselves.......

Well once we were doing a brainstorming, where we were deciding the objective behind  association with V Treat & the work we would like to do here, everybody was suggesting some or other things. I was quite clear to make it a cancer foundation as I am from the pharmaceutical industry & the daily suffering of cancer patients in the hospitals was a good enough reason for me to convince other members. However there was an instant proposal came from Niharica one of our team member who was being associated with an orphanage for last 8 yrs. When she explained her association with the orphanage & the way she was trying to extend a helping hand towards that orphanage made us think in that direction. W thought of maybe it's a blessing in disguise

The idea with which she came to the board was, lets visit them & understand their needs & requirement. So the next weekend we just planned our trip to the orphanage with our fellow members & trust me the experience was amazing!!

We were a group of 8 members who had visited the place near Hayathnagar ( Hyderabad), I had never seen an orphanage before. I was getting a mix response, in one way I was happy because we got a new mission for our foundation, but the other side was quite gloomy. I was just trying to answer a question within myself why this discrimination of nature, what's wrong these kids had done??

Any way there were around 80 Kids in the premises of CSS ( Centre for Social service)  from 2.6 yrs to 20 yrs all were living happily under one roof. You won't feel like they have some pain which they have masked behind their grin. But when you go dip in to their eyes you can realize they want to ask you 1000 questions, but they are not sure whether you are the right person to answer, you will be there to answer all their queries tomorrow also. People used to come for a day or two spend some time with them, give them some objects, go away & never come back. So how they can trust us, how they are going to give us the rightful consideration.

We just interacted with them for few minutes, got their names, class & discovered their difficulties for few of the complex subjects like physics, chemistry, maths etc. Luckily we were blessed with guys like pawan, Nani, Dipti, Anamika, Vijay & Varaprasad who extended their hep & are the subject matter expert. So we took up their help.

What we realised, despite of growing in an adverse situation like improper parenting, they  demonstrate a great degree of learning agility, their grasping power is way ahead than our expectation. The best part was the mentoring of senior students to their fellow junior was quite commendable.

They are very small & unaware of the  adversities that the external world is having, but they seems to be competent enough to overcome the struggle. They have sky full of dreams in their eyes & agility to achieve them.

What they were looking from us was to get a brother, sister, friend who can love them, who can share joy & sorrows with them, who can talk to them irrespective of their high & lows as a friend & philosopher. They  don't expect money from us they need our attention, love & affection.

"Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names, they are easier to ignore before you see their face, but once you do everything changes "  

The above instance is quite true, they were unfamiliar to us till the time we were seeing them for the very first time, the lunch we share with them, the premises we share with them, & the time we shared with them make them very close to our heart. Now we discern our family has expanded, we have Sanghvi, Saipriya, Navyasri ......& many more sisters. Its true, I can't help to fulfil every one's wish but if all of us want then everyone can fulfil someone's wish. Project VR1 is an initiative towards that goal where, with everyone's effort we are going to achieve someone's objective.