Introduction:
Team Everest started it’s journey in 2006 when Karthee Vidya, founder of Team Everest finished his engineering and joined the corporate world. He donated from his first month salary and also collected donations from 3 of his friends. With Rs 4000 in hand, he visited a rural school in Tamilnadu where 70% of the children were child labourers. He paid them school fees, donated uniforms, notebooks and other stationaries.
Karthee's First Salary:
Karthee working in Cognizant company and got his first salary on Aug 30, 2006.
He decided to give part of his salary to educate children. He also reached out to 3 of his friends and raised Rs 4000. They went to a village called 'Sirumoor' in Tamil Nadu. There they identified children and gave them uniforms, notebooks, and dictionaries. This was the first activity of Team Everest.