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[Rammohan N]

Guys,
This is Rammohan.
Let me explain myself thru URLs!
A small intro here http://santhlavvi.googlepages.com/santhoshfriends
a more insight here http://www.life2blog.blogspot.com/
and photos http://picasaweb.google.com/n.rammohan2
and i am currently work and stay here! http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/lsir-people.htm

Btw, when i was working at Qualcomm- Hyd, i sent a big mail to colleagues which reads as follows. Hope it comes true thru Happy India Foundation.

Hi all,

 

Everybody tries to be in their comfort zone. It takes tremendous courage and enlightening to come out of it and embrace so called "charity". Unfortunately such a group is huge. At the same time, being a social animal, man has some kind of tendency to help others, given that he is dependent on others for every damn thing. Can we tap huge potential of such a vast crowd? The answer is YES.  We need a tool to bring such people into charity zone without leaving their comfort zones.

 

1. Let us ask them small (very small) contributions. If everybody contributes 10/- a month (which is 1/10^th of what they spend for a movie at PVR), which is very much doable for everyone, we can collect > 20k per month. This is really a huge amount for any charity activities. Some highly motivated people (like all in hyd.volunteer and ME!!) can contribute more and we can easily make it close to 50k per month.
1. With 20k, we can relieve  a child labour for 20 months.
2. It means one year Engineering fee to a poor merit student.
3. It means a life for an ill-fated hospitalized poor fellow.
4. …….
2. We can invite proposals regarding people who need help, throught the month. At the end of month or whenever we feel appropriate, we can take a decision regd. whom to help for that particular month. We can handle it on priority or first-cum-first served basis.
3. We can form policies and principles regd how to spend that money. We should maintain 200% transparency in spending the money. Whenever we feel that there are some problems and issues with such setup we can abandon the program at any time.

 

As I feel this program is tremendously powerful.  

1. Nobody has to leave their comfort zone to participate.
2. I am sure all will certainly contribute such low amounts on a regular basis.  
3. People start looking for people in need so as to send a proposal to the group. This is also a very good positive sign.
4. Even people who never spend money for charity start thinking of sending some proposal (because it is not their money that is spent!!).

Fyi, recently I am deeply touched at one IITK->UIUC student's mail regd. poverty and child labour in India. See here for more info (http://nramblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/soul-weeps-for-child-labor-and-poverty.html ). As Gandhijee said,

 

               The world has everything to satisfy everyone's need but not everyone's greed. --Mahatma Gandhi

 

we can definitely erase poverty with accumulated small contributions from big people. After all, *Poverty* is the main concern for 90% of the issues hyd.volunteers is looking at.

 

Let us make our honest and dedicated effort to help the poor and needy. Money is the only way majority of the times, and we being software engineers has that in abundance.

 

Please feel free to send your comments/suggestions/critics about the proposal. I request the people who were so much active so far in our group as the driving force for the program, if they feel it makes sense.

 

Regards,

Rammohan

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