<Important Announcement>Success Stories of BosF

[Prasanthi Uppalapati]

Hi Birds,

 

Need help in this regard.

 

Please share the help you offered so far for other groups and also you received from other groups through BosF.

 

Please do not hesitate or think, whether a help is small or big. There is nothing as such. Every help, act of sharing is very crucial and without which the activity would not be as successful as it was.

 

Harshith,

 

Request you to collect all this data and compile in a Word document. Later we can categorize and share both on Web site and on facebook.

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Thank you.

 

with regards,

PRASANTHI.

tmad.org

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[Prasanthi Uppalapati]

I am deeply disappointed to see no single response to this thread.

 

As mentioned, this is to update Web site and let others know in what way they can be of help to others and they can seek help from others.

 

Even if no one thinks that they get anything from BosF, I hope many feel there is a significant contribution from them. So would be happy if you can share them at least. This is for others, specially new members and people who do not know about BosF but accidentally browse the site, to understand that any help can have greater impact depending on the context.

[Prasanthi Uppalapati]

Hi Friends,

It seems that this mail did not reach your inbox. Please come up with
success stories to be posted on BosF Web site. Looking forward for a
good response.


Thank you.

with regards,
Prasanthi.

[Kutti Krishnan]

Prasanthi, 

I acknowledge all three emails from your side

Cheers

Krishnan

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[harish chinthi]

Hi Prashanthi,

Good idea, will respond soon..

Regards,
Harish
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[Prasanthi Uppalapati]

Many thanks to Usha garu for sharing her feelings and views about BosF. She is the first one to respond.

 

From Usha Sharma Charya of JJ Metta Foundation

 

"Being in USA I was not aware of the many many issues that would not have come to light without the BoSF group. We hear and read of many bigger organizations , the ones that have finances that enable them to advertise widely. However BoSF has helped me to  an opportunity to do something locally in Hyderabad, my home before I left for US over 30 years ago!

BoSF has informed and enlightened me about the many issues that exist and problems that need addressing. BoSF has also inspired by shedding light on all the good charitable organizations out there , generously trying to help those in need. Thanks to BoSF I am now aware of the many good things being done, whether is eco agriculture, farmers issues; womens issues; children and differently abled people;helping flood victims, people needing personal assistance, schools and kids needing extra support.

I am very happy that BoSF helped connect our US based non profit organization JJ Metta Memorial Foundation based in the Washington DC Metro Area with Sphoorti Childrens Home based in Hyderabad and which is managed by an excellent person, Mr Srivyal. . We have formed a successful partnership, and have been working together for several years now, very successfully.

All thanks to BoSF!! Thanks to Prasanthi for bringing us all together!

I just want to add that BoSF helps us think Globally but act Locally! Because it has inspired me to do some more interconnected work here in the US- locally!

I am planning something to connect children from here in DC metro area to children in Hyd, so that the kids who have so much here have a perspective of life on the other side of the globe for children who are less fortunate."

[Anand T]

 

Hi all,

 

 

BOSF is a excellent initiative...though we have the zeal to respond to many situations, being in media, it wouldnt be possible for us to act on many things but for BOSF.....I thank BOSF, and am proud to be a member of this wonderful group..I could feel the sense of ownership in everyone in this group..

 

PRASANTHI GARU, congratulations for such a great initiative..we are all with u in this movement,rather i would call this as....we are  commiment towards this group and wish to look forward to do many thing in future..

 

Being part of this group we are really happy to inform that we are supporting   180  poor kids who are good  in school education in and around machilipatnam, headquarters of krishnadist..We are equally happy to let every one know that we have started a school for special kids(mental retardation) which has 30 kids to date and 8 staff in machilipatnam..So,can proudly say BOSF has a very strong presence in krishna district, which happens to be our native place

 

God's wish, many such initiatives to follow in near future...

 

I personally thank prasanthigaru and everyone in the group,specially sai of intergraph  and ramakrishna of infosys,,who have introduced me to this group for providing this platform to share my thoughts ....and do my very little bit ...

 

wishing every one a very good luck..

 

 

regards,

 

anand.

 

 

[sriram rahi]

NICE PLATFORM, We are able to meet so many kind persons with good intentions of supporting others. Because of this platform, i met some wonderful people and started a project called "UDDARANA", which is giving us a lot of happiness for doing some service to our MOTHERLAND.


Sriram Rahi

 

 

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[Rk]

BoSF is the one point source for the info
for a small organization like MCA.Repalle.

MCA has got lot of info & support from Ms.Prasanthi / BoSF
We were able to use the info/utlize teh services of various people
in organizing different programs in Repalle.

RTI,
Personality development programs.
Grant of 2 computers.
Placing a child in CBR academy


Thanks BoSF.

Dr.R.Krishna
for MCA,Repalle

[HYTICOS]

Hi

BOSF has done a lot in bringing like minded people together. Tough the members (core group of BOSF) could not participate in many of the events but their initiative of connecting people has always boosted up the results. This in turn has motivated the actual participants/ activists to take up more initiatives.

We should also remember that  there are some initiatives which were taken up but left behind in the mid way because of some reasons. Even such initiatives must be reminded on a time to time basis so that the  new members will get an idea. Coz Who knows they may take up such things and do some things.

Thanks and All the Best

Keep going ahead.


Sorry for the delayed reply. As usual i am In the Forest & Out of Contact.

[harish chinthi]

For me Bosf is an Institution for society development.Institution where knowledge sharing take place. Institution where we meet new people and become friends. Formulate and process our views I have benefited a lot from our forum. Orientation towards positive thinking, working with various people. I could meet various people through this forum, which helped me identify my strength identify weakness. Opportunities to work with others.

To serve others first we need to respect each other. Bosf always reminds me the same.

This is not a small thing which is happening, what ever happening is a good thing.

We can make it great thing by doing our part.

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Harish
sahasra-foundation.blogspot.com

[AMMA Srinivas@ BOSF]

HI all

 

BOSF is the “SOURCE OF RESOURCES”.

 

It brings many like minded individuals and groups together as a unit.

 

BOSF is the only reason for today AMMA’s rapid growth. Every thing we learned from BOSF.

Without BOSF our my every step might become difficult.

 

BOSF is like a JOINT FAMILY of all Serving Organization. I got many friends, relations, knowledge, information and many such

 

We have benefited in many ways from this Platform, which will be shared shortly.

 

Sorry for the much delayed reply.

 

Love all-Serve all

AMMA Srinivas

 

సందేహిస్తుంటే అతిగా సంకల్పం నెరవేరదుగా-ఆలోచన కన్నా త్వరగా అడుగేద్దాం ఆరంభంగా...

 

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:28 PM, HYTICOS <teamh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Prasanthi Uppalapati]

 

Thank you one and all for coming up with your experiences and views about BosF.
 
The main intention of this thread is to generate content to post on our Web site specially for the people who do not know how a small act can make a big difference.
 
Getting to Know
 
Not merely getting to know but which help establish a partnership or working together.
 
Ex: JJ Metta Foundation came to know about Sphoorthi through BosF, visited the organization, established a dialogue, initiated a process and at last entered into partnership.
 
This example highlights the importance of following mails of interest and acting on them.

 

Another example, Srivyal of Sphoorthi introduced me to Kameswara Rao garu and this has made a big difference to TMAD. We decided to take a big step of setting up a livelihood center at his place.  We also got good support from BosF. Thiagarajan garu gave 10k for the first month's expenses. Athmeeya Foundation came forward to contribute 1k every month.
 
Sharing Requests
 
1. Suma gave a call to me requesting for volunteers to take care of a lady who had no other option than to get stranded over at bus stand. Thanks to BosF volunteers who went out of their way and provided shelter for her. They took the responsibility in such  a way that when her family members came, they spoke with them and later visited her home to make sure that she is being looked after properly.
 
2. Suresh Deepala went to Tirumala and found that a baby has been abandoned. He gave a call to me and I made a call to Lakshmi garu and she to child welfare officials and at last the baby went into the safe hands, handed over to an ashram by officials.
 
These are the examples of people acting with responsibility though they cannot act on field on particular situations.
 
Suresh has two more examples:
 
3. He shared the details of an old lady who needs treatment for a rare disease. Initially he was hesitant to share the mail in the group as there were many no. of medical cases being forwarded. But then he shared based on my suggestion and to our surprise, there was a good response. He could raise 70% of the funds from BosF.
 
4. For support to displaced tribals, some of our volunteers responded - Giri Kolanupaka and Suhasini.
 
5. AMMA Sreekanth took up a case of a young girl and he could generate good amount of fund for the operation
 
6. TMAD received a request from a friend for the operation of a baby girl and when 70k was the amount required for the surgery to be conducted, we got one single donor, Praveen, who contributed the required amount, entire 70k.

 

7. Manikanth shared about the NGOs visit with HIV children to Hyderabad and we all know how most of us contributed our bit for this activity.
 
8. Livelihood center in VJA is supported by 4 groups last year and 3 groups this year.

 

Giving References
 
For all Green activities, references played a major role. Coming to flood relief activities, references helped a lot specially about where we can buy in bulk for a competitive price and all.
 

Corporate Help
 
TMAD got benefitted from Oracle and CapitalIQ GVD (Global Volunteer Day) programmes. With Oracle GVD, we have taken Mehdipatnam school children to Warangal and high school students from a village near Mehbub Nagar (Harinath gari native place) to Hyderabad.
 
With the help of CapitalIQ GVD programme, we renovated the school in Borabanda. Ramakrishna garu of ITMD referred his friend who donated fund for benches. Giri Kolanupaka coordinated with the vendor of the benches.

 

Ramakrishna garu of ITMD guides us in many cases related to RTI. Earlier it was Rakesh who gave many sessions in the meetings organized by different groups in BosF.

Through our company (DST Worldwide Services) CSR, we contributed for the LeadIndia 2020 School Kits project as part of flood relief activities. In a way, our (DSTWS) visit to Alampur made us take Alampur as the area to help. Though it was a TMAD initiative, we got major help from BosF. Giri garu has helped us raise substantial fund for contribution in specific streets, Hope for the Needy volunteers, Kiran garu of Asha and Kanthi (Kiran's wife) participated in the distribution. That was the first time I spoke with Usha garu (Turaga Revalli) and she guided us.

 

Responding for Cases
 
BHUMIkA's contribution has been great with respect to sharing information, offering support and providing guidance.
 
We could help a girl in Maharashtra who wanted protection from her own parents. Similarly we mediated in a case (of course later found that the girl was lying), a minor mother who got jailed and separated from her baby.
 
Kappaladoddi info. is forwarded to us by BHUMIKA and they were with us all through to the extent required and for the first set of distribution we got funds from BosF members who did not directly take part in the initiative and groups like Serve the Needy are continuing their support.

 

Srujanavani wanted to organize medical camp for an unknown disease. TMAD and other groups helped them.

 

Attending Events

 

Attended Saayam Cheddam's Anniversary and there I came to know about Vikalangula Vivaha Vedika. From then on I have been in touch with them and they are the regular invitees in our Company whenever we organize a mela. Similarly many BosF volunteers attended VKV's anniversary and offered help to organize the programmes. I met Giri Kolanupaka for the first time there.

 

If I am not mistaken, Pavan, Susmitha and Sai came to know about Srividya Home for Mentally Handicapped, at Karmayog Seva Mela and then they decided to raise funds for them.

 

Though I haven't attended WHAT's anniversary programme, it influenced me in a way. Uday Bhaskar of Lending Hands told me about JP's message who attended the event as Chief Guest. It is about working on medical cases and raising funds for surgeries.

 

Organizing Events

 

Pavan, Susmitha and Sai took the responsibility of fund raising for SVMH and it is in this event that they met Anand garu and it is Sai who shared about BosF with him.
 
Extending Help for the Causes/Projects shared by Others
 
Dr. Khadeer Ahmed of BKothapalli is doing remarkable service to the poor patients and TMAD Blr Chapter has been supporting 10 families. Harish of Sahasra visited the place and decided to help two patients. Similarly he met and discussed with Gangisetty garu about Green Initiatives and Activities.
 
Serve the Needy team has been helping KGNM Trust and we, TMAD, visited and we also extended our support.
 
In addition to these examples, there were many with respect to education cases. Recent example is of Ranjith's. Rohiya, a student, has raised 15,000 rs. and she came to know about him through BosF. MV Rao of Helping Hands for the Needy has helped education cases proposed in the forum.
 
AMMA and TMAD work together wherever possible. Similarly AMMA, Serve the Needy and Helping Hands (of BHEL) work together.
 
Eversince Anand garu joined the group, he is helping us with respect to case verification from remote villages and also for extending support through his reporter network.
 
This mail might seem big but there are many such examples. This is the kind of tip of an iceberg. Let us start compiling them and let us start sharing so that it would help others understand how they can be of help to others without having to spend much energy or to say, with their constraints.
 
To give an example, TMAD has been doing good work but never focused on compiling them. Now when my team has taken initiative and started posting the activities, I am surprised. I too didn't have a clue about the number of activities that we took up. I simply lost track. Realized that the same mistake is being repeated here and considering it is better late than never, sought content from you directly.
 
All said and done, we need volunteers to update the Web site and preference will be given to the volunteers who live outside Hyderabad. This is because Hyd volunteers mostly spend time on field work and I do not want to rub additional responsibility on any of them.

[gouri shankar]

As much we are birds of same feathers , also we are feathers of same bird. every feather has its contribution to make the bird fly high countless may be the effort but will remain till reach the sky  new birds will join the way  knowing us in the same way Gouri Shankar

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Prasanthi Uppalapati <prasant...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am deeply disappointed to see no single response to this thread.   As mentioned, this is to update Web site and let others know in what way they can be of help to others and they can seek help from others.   Even if no one thinks that they get anything from BosF, I hope many feel there is a significant contribution from them. So would be happy if you can share them at least. This is for others, specially new members and people who do not know about BosF but accidentally browse the site, to understand that any help can have greater impact depending on the context.

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[Archana Tambe]

Hari Om,

 

Prashanthi,

 

Its a long back that with u some members visited vivek vardhini society Jambagh .

 

From this academic year I am voluntaring to teach Maths for high school .

 

Radhabai palnitkar school of vivek vardhini we esblished coputer laboratotry & noe

 

students are learning but this kanyashala where i am voluntaring there is no

 

computer & school runs  English & marathi medium from  1st to 10th .

 

It is very tough for management without taking fees from girls student to

 

prepare computer laboratory .

 

Is it possible for any organisation --to donate at least five computers strength of the

 

school is 500

 

It is very essential to teach at least MS Office to the students I feel

 

regards & thank U

 

archana tambe

 

09885262751

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[Anil Kumar]

Dear Prasanthi,Friends,


                    Wish You Good Day! Hope you are fine.

Wish You All Wonderful 'Ganesh Chaturthi', use Clay Idols, Carry Cloth Bags to buy the necessary things...


Are you asking Testimonials? or let every Organization give brief details, like -- Name of the Org, Working for the Cause or has Experience in..., What it likes Share or Contribute or Collaborate.

Eg:

Name of the Org:OISCA Hyderabad.

Working for: Environment Protection with Schools, Plantation, RWH Pits.

Yes, OISCA is ready to Collaborate with other NGOs.

Individual(Anil Kumar): Social Worker, Counselor, having more than 18yrs experience, especially working with children. 

With Warm Regards,

Anil Kumar
Secretary, 

OISCA International - Hyderabad Chapter 

& Coordinator of Andhra Pradesh Chapter.

(a Voluntary Organization)

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Website:www.oiscaindia.org (South India)

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, gouri shankar <gs_m...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

[chandra kanth]

MADAM I  TRain disables in art from which they build career  i want talk to u but ididnt got ur  number  futher i waqnt show platfrom 

 – Sri Shirdi Saibaba

[suma mranikrinda]

 

At time, when I have not much exposure to the world,

At the moments, when I received a call from my friend one fine evening,  mentioning about a lady, with her kid holding her hand..and came out from her cage to entirely new world, with the reason being harrassment from her husband...and no idea of where to go, as she knew none in this great city..

I was seriously wandering what can i do for them????

what to do

where to take them

how to guide them

how to help them

how to save them from all kinds of unfortunate things...

 

With these things in my mind...me and my friend..were not able to get right decision which needs to be taken as early as possible...

Then..suddenly, the ultimate platform for all the NGO's..BOSF came to my mind....

called up my friend...

took prashanthi's contact...

 

and within matter of minutes...

everything was calmed down..

the lady and her child were taken care;

they were given shelter and food within no time;

 

and with BOSF support...

the problem was solved permanently-as few volunteers went to their village, spoke with their family members, counselled her husband, even the lady, assured her that BOSF is with her-no matter whatever the issue, at any point of time in her life.

 

THE FIRST and BEST opportunity for me to know the strength of BOSF personally

that when GOOD HANDS ARE JOING TOGETHER - CAN TRANSFORM THE WORLD

 

CHEERS TO BOSF

 

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:59 PM, chandra kanth <kant...@gmail.com> wrote:

MADAM I  TRain disables in art from which they build career  i want talk to u but ididnt got ur  number  futher i waqnt show platfrom 

 – Sri Shirdi Saibaba

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Of late, there are no mails.

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