To enroll more members in CCFA, increase the scope of social activities, identify and create opportunity for young person who have passion in sports encourage them to excel and promote sports and to build a friendly environment for the members so as relieve stress from monotonous official and domestic work by sparing little time with our CCFA for social and sports activities.

“Vaishnavi Friends Club” is a Social and Charitable Organisation incorporated under section 10 of the Tamilnadu Society Registration Act 1975 (Tamilnadu Act 27 of 1975). The club was founded by Mr.K.V.V.Giri a renowned person in Shipping Industry having high social responsibility with an intention to serve needy people of our society and to promote sports and cultural activities among shipping fraternity. Inspired by his noble thought many friends joined with him voluntarily to strengthen the club so as to provide more charitable activities in Chennai and suburbs.

Since the formation of the club in the year 2005, many charitable activities like providing food to the orphanages, financial assistance to students of the underprivileged section of our society, free medical camps etc., were done frequently. Further the club organized many sports activities like Chess, Badminton, Cricket tournaments for the shipping and allied agencies members, staffs and wards. Also, Vaishnavi Friends Club conducted free mega medical camp in the Custom House, Chennai in the year 2015 benefiting more than 1500 persons of Custom Brokers, Shipping agents, Freight forwarders, Custom officials & staffs, Port Trust Officials and staffs for screening for eye, ENT, blood pressure, sugar, ECG etc,.

Mr.K.Venkattu took over charge as President of the club in the year 2015 along with newly selected office bearers and Executive committee members.

“Vaishnavi Friends Club” fondly called as “VFC” has spread its wings to infuse more members from other fraternities like Freight forwarders, Transport operators, Port Trust employees, CITPL/CCPL employees, Advocates and many more and now the strength of “VFC” surpassed 150 members most of them are active.

After the new Executive Committee took charge, various sub-committees were formed like Orphanage, Education, EDI, Sports sub-Committees etc,. selecting members who voluntarily wished to take part in the activities of VFC for providing more service to needy people effectively. As suggested by the founder President Shri.K.V.V.Giri, drop boxes were placed in many office complexes to donate used clothes for distribution to orphanages. Overwhelmed response from members and general public welcomed by the club. More than the expected used clothes were received, segregated by our members and distributed to various orphanages in and around Chennai City.

By enrolling and joining in VFC, every member feels their social responsibility and also VFC is creating an opportunity get more friends from various sections of our trade so as to exchange ideas to promote their business and to lookout for more venue for doing social service in a collective manner.

Name Change :

To make “Vaishnavi Friends Club”(VFC) among the top 10 social & Charitable organizations in Tamilnadu by bringing more members into the club so as to promote more social activities and to create a platform for promoting sports for the younger generation for which there is a need of NAME CHANGE as it has to spread its various other wings in the business line as per the new bye-law. Hence VFC is now transformed as “The Chennai Cargo Friends Association”

• The Association shall encourage among the members towards presentation of their trade grievances and understanding among each other.
• The Association shall enable the members to flourish their knowledge and to spend their valuable time on the development of EXIM trade.
• The Association will also represent its member’s grievances to the appropriate central/state government authorities, boards, trade bodies etc., subject to our own member’s request.
• The Association shall inculcate the importance of sports and also find the hidden talented sportspersons.
• To encourage students and sport development.
• This Association shall provide necessary assistance to conduct indoor as well as outdoor games such as Carom, Chess, Table Tennis, Foot Ball, Volley Ball, Basket Ball, Tennis, Cricket, Badminton etc.,
• The Association will involve in social and charity activities of the public in general on a non-profit basis.
• The Association will also involve in business outlook for its members on profit share basis.
• The Association will organize Training & Employability to its members & non-members trade wise.
• The Association will organize Education assistance in general.

To attain the above Bye-Law of our Association, we have formed the below Wings for the benefit of our Members:

1. Orphanage Wing – This wing is responsible for visiting various orphanages in & around Chennai and to celebrate our Members’ Birthday in an Orphanages during 2nd Saturday of every month. Further, this wing involves in collecting Old cloth from various sources including our Members’ places and to distribute it to many orphanages.
2. Education Wing – This wing will scrutinize the appeals being received from needy people for Education Assistance and distribution of School/College books/stationery etc.,
3. Subscription Wing – Follow up of collecting subscriptions from the Members for renewal of the Membership on annual basis
4. I.T. Wing – Website designing/Identity Card/E-Mail to members
5. Membership Orientation Wing – Responsible for introducing New Members on its own and through other sources
6. Employability Wing – Creating a cell for collecting CV’s/Interviewing people/keeping selected candidates on the loop to enable this wing to recommend to our own Members’ requirement
7. Retention Wing – Counseling/consultation with our own Members’ for their grievances with our Association