Could you please explore this?

[T V Satyapriyan]

I am forwarding a mail. I will ask Krpa to contact you if you are willing to assess the requirements there.

 

Best wishes.

Satyapriyan

 

 

Nirmal Seva Ashram is a small voluntary organisation of which I happen to be the President. It is working in about 60 villages around Hoskote, Bangalore Rural District. Its main work is with disabled persons establishing self-help groups and getting disabled children admitted to schools etc. In the last few years we have also taken up some rain water conservation work.

The Government schools around there have some of the poorest children coming to school with almost nothing- not even their own clothing. The teachers asked if we could help by giving them some note books, pens, pencils, slates etc. So, for the past 6-7 years we have been doing this. Basically, I have been raising the funds through my contacts for this. It seems every year I have to approach new persons.

I asked some of the posh schools to collect unused notebooks and/or parts thereof so that we can have them bound into new books - this is because we never have enough money to meet all the demand and also because I thought it is a good idea to save paper. It has again worked once with each school. They are not enthusiastic about it the second time.

What we give is something like this: Slates to Anganwadi children; slates and alphabet books to Class 1. One or two 200P and 100P note books, a pencil and an eraser to class 2; a pen added  to  classes 3, 4 and 5; an added 'instruments box' to Class 6. This is kind of bare minimum. We have also asked children to share erasers in a class and the sharpner is kept with the teacher!

This is a much appreciated contribution and the number of children identified by the teachers is steadily growing every year although these children are those left out from lists of all other handouts by the Government. Some 10-20 children are selected from each of the 60-70 schools in the area in our contact.

This year the number of children is 3562 and we need around Rs. 1 lakh. I would be very happy if you and/or any of your friends could contribute towards this.

Thanks and with kind regards,

Krpa

Note: Donations to Nirmal Seva Ashram are tax exempt u/s80G.

[shiva shekar]

Dear satya sir,

Actually i am not able to contact u bcoz right now am out of bangalore.....i wil come to bang on jul5/6....office work had to go outside....so my number is also not reachable....i hav nt cntbuted this time  to belaku....wil do it immediatly once i am back....now had sme time....thought of checkin mail.....will meet u ///call uvery very soon...then we will assesss the requirements mentioned above....i think we shd contribute to the same...

rgds,
shiva