This is what can be called as a power of the 'group'. There was a vacumme in my work for a couple of weeks and then i happened to be online and Anshul told me this.
There was a blood donation camp organized in indore at his collage in which 200 donations were done. Its too good and let me congratulate Anshul once again. Great work Anshul. I dont have other details of this (like planning, preparations and actual activity) once i get them from him i would update here soon.
If we see only engineering collages in Indore there are more that of 20 for sure. And many are in such a close hands of ours. Few old friends, students and student's students are present there. And only need is to 'just do it'.
See you soon with more...
Take care...
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Give India : A dream come true
I was reading one of the recent best seller book called 'Stay Hungry Stay foolish' (I already gifted that book to 3 persons). There are 25 stories of IIM - Ahmadabad pass out students who went ahead with their own business ideas and are very successful in their area of work. One story is on Venkat. Before reading that i was having similar solution in my mind and i am glad that Venkat is having it on ground.
Imagine an Internet application that give us ability to donate money to multiple NGO across india (for other countries there are other sites too).
Q : Weather the NGO is true to its work ?
A : Good question , there is a comprehensive procedure after which the NGO is included in the portal.Hence the 'true' NGO is present only here.
Q: Any tracking of the money donated ?
A: Give india not only provide a secure interface to donate money to a NGO , they also give option to choose the work area, state of india, NGO name, actual scheme in which donation is desired and the full report (with pics) of the actual work. In simple words they professionally act as a medium between the Donner and NGO to give clean,accountable and easy donation solution.
Q: Hmm...looking ok. Any thing more ?
A: Yes, they are also having the feature of payroll donation that means, an organization register with them and let their employees do a donation through it. And one can gift a donation too.
Q: Aha...so ...
A: Here is the web site : www.giveindia.org
Experience yourself.
By the way my next major project is this , to implement it in my organization. Even a 100 Ru per month donation of 7500 people is 7,50,000 per month, right. And a big positive feeling in so many...
Imagine an Internet application that give us ability to donate money to multiple NGO across india (for other countries there are other sites too).
Q : Weather the NGO is true to its work ?
A : Good question , there is a comprehensive procedure after which the NGO is included in the portal.Hence the 'true' NGO is present only here.
Q: Any tracking of the money donated ?
A: Give india not only provide a secure interface to donate money to a NGO , they also give option to choose the work area, state of india, NGO name, actual scheme in which donation is desired and the full report (with pics) of the actual work. In simple words they professionally act as a medium between the Donner and NGO to give clean,accountable and easy donation solution.
Q: Hmm...looking ok. Any thing more ?
A: Yes, they are also having the feature of payroll donation that means, an organization register with them and let their employees do a donation through it. And one can gift a donation too.
Q: Aha...so ...
A: Here is the web site : www.giveindia.org
Experience yourself.
By the way my next major project is this , to implement it in my organization. Even a 100 Ru per month donation of 7500 people is 7,50,000 per month, right. And a big positive feeling in so many...
The Bicycle Project
Note : I got this project information through a chain mail in office and i called the person. He gave me the information and told me that as of now its started in mumbai and soon it would start in pune too. I decided to join this and this is my first project outside my organization. Today (21st June 09) i had a meeting with Mr Kiran (See details below) and planned the work for this. For any direct enquiry you can contact me or Kiran. Here are the details of the project.
In villages located a around big cities, there are several children aged 6-16 years, walking an average of 2-7 kms a day, one way, to get an education. This is the generation that will bring about a change for the better – for their families, their villages, and who knows, maybe even their country and some day, the world!
Going to school is the most important thing for these kids – and they know that.
Which is why no distance is too long – and walking for hours is normal because missing school is not an option. These children’s families can’t even afford to send them by the local bus yet, whether rain or shine, blistering heat or freezing cold, these children do their best to get to school on time, every day.
What is The Bicycle Project?
We’re collecting your old bicycles, which are probably of little use to their owners and lie rusting on a terrace, or in a stairwell or garage. After
giving these bikes a new lease of life, we deliver them to tribal / village kids in and around Mumbai / Pune, in Maharashtra.
For Phase I of this project in Mumbai, we have identified 137 students from Sri Binoi Gharde Vidhalaya in Alone, Vikramgarh Taluka, District Thane, Mumbai. We have already delivered 68 bicycles to the students of this school. Once the target of 137 bicycles is over, we will move to the next village and its school.
For Phase I of this project in Pune, we have identified few schools around Pune District and plan to replicate Phase I in Mumbai.
How can you be a part of this project?
a) Open up a Collection Center – If you have space for storing 10-15 bicycles for a period of 4-6 weeks, you can open up the Collection Center of the bicycles where the donors can drop their bicycles.
You will have to ensure that each donor fills out a form to accompany every bicycle, for our records.
b) Donate Bicycles – You can donate your old bicycles for this cause by dropping them at a conveniently located Collection Centre.
c) Donate Money – You can pay to fix up the old bicycles (1 or more, each costs Rs 500 to fix on an average )
d) Talk about The Bicycle Project – tell everyone you know about this project, put up the posters in your building society, school, office and in your friend’s buildings, talk to society secretaries and get permission to clear their old bikes, ask people if they have space to set up Collection Centres, offer to help us repair the bikes, etc.
Please find attached the poster with our contact details. You can call me (Kiran) on +91 99207 69666 (before 9 am or after 8 pm on weekdays and anytime on Sunday & holidays ). Alternatively you can send me SMS & will revert back to you.
You can also drop me a mail as to how you want to get associated with this project.
Looking forward to your participation.
Kiran S. Deolalkar/Vaibhav Patil
E mail - kiran@thebicycleproject.in or kiran.deolalkar@gmail.com or
Vaibhav.mukund.patil@gmail.com
Blog - www.thebicycleproject.blogspot.com
Website - www.thebicycleproject.in
In villages located a around big cities, there are several children aged 6-16 years, walking an average of 2-7 kms a day, one way, to get an education. This is the generation that will bring about a change for the better – for their families, their villages, and who knows, maybe even their country and some day, the world!
Going to school is the most important thing for these kids – and they know that.
Which is why no distance is too long – and walking for hours is normal because missing school is not an option. These children’s families can’t even afford to send them by the local bus yet, whether rain or shine, blistering heat or freezing cold, these children do their best to get to school on time, every day.
What is The Bicycle Project?
We’re collecting your old bicycles, which are probably of little use to their owners and lie rusting on a terrace, or in a stairwell or garage. After
giving these bikes a new lease of life, we deliver them to tribal / village kids in and around Mumbai / Pune, in Maharashtra.
For Phase I of this project in Mumbai, we have identified 137 students from Sri Binoi Gharde Vidhalaya in Alone, Vikramgarh Taluka, District Thane, Mumbai. We have already delivered 68 bicycles to the students of this school. Once the target of 137 bicycles is over, we will move to the next village and its school.
For Phase I of this project in Pune, we have identified few schools around Pune District and plan to replicate Phase I in Mumbai.
How can you be a part of this project?
a) Open up a Collection Center – If you have space for storing 10-15 bicycles for a period of 4-6 weeks, you can open up the Collection Center of the bicycles where the donors can drop their bicycles.
You will have to ensure that each donor fills out a form to accompany every bicycle, for our records.
b) Donate Bicycles – You can donate your old bicycles for this cause by dropping them at a conveniently located Collection Centre.
c) Donate Money – You can pay to fix up the old bicycles (1 or more, each costs Rs 500 to fix on an average )
d) Talk about The Bicycle Project – tell everyone you know about this project, put up the posters in your building society, school, office and in your friend’s buildings, talk to society secretaries and get permission to clear their old bikes, ask people if they have space to set up Collection Centres, offer to help us repair the bikes, etc.
Please find attached the poster with our contact details. You can call me (Kiran) on +91 99207 69666 (before 9 am or after 8 pm on weekdays and anytime on Sunday & holidays ). Alternatively you can send me SMS & will revert back to you.
You can also drop me a mail as to how you want to get associated with this project.
Looking forward to your participation.
Kiran S. Deolalkar/Vaibhav Patil
E mail - kiran@thebicycleproject.in or kiran.deolalkar@gmail.com or
Vaibhav.mukund.patil@gmail.com
Blog - www.thebicycleproject.blogspot.com
Website - www.thebicycleproject.in
Plantation Drive
In blood donation drive i became we. And 3 more friends from company joined as serious workers. One of them gave the idea of something on 'Plantation'. We planned the plantation drive on the same lines. This time situation was a bit different.
Our idea was to take contribution (money) from employees and plantation to be done in and around the company. But both points were not as easy, as we had in our mind. Company was not ready to take money from employees for any plantation inside company. And also was not very positive to think that there is enough place inside for plantation.By the way we wanted plantation inside company for better maintainance of plants.
We had some push and pulls and finally plan was finalized. Company decided to pay the money involved and place for plants (including big trees and shrubs) was considered. But all was not going very smooth. We had only 2 days with us for registration process because 5th June (World Environment Day) was coming soon. We did our best in the given situation. Here are the results :
Total Registration : Around 250 +
Total Plants : 211
Total Actual Participation : 140
It was great experience in total. I would soon upload few pics of the event.
Blood Donation
It was a normal day in my office around 1.5 years ago. I and my friend started one post in the office internal portal. This was a list of blood donors having details like blood group and contact numbers. In couple of days more that of 100 entries were there. We felt good and after 45 days the post was deleted because all post have that rule set in the company. We also could not feel more interest in the same.Time passed and around 8 months ago this happened...
I got trigger from some where to do something about it again. My company is having around 60,000 (60K) employees and in pune alone we are 7500 (7.5 K) here. I had following idea.
- A registration application on the same portal. Not a post which is deleted in 45 days.
- A blood donation camp once in 4 month (Doctor allow re-donation in 3 months).
- Donation camp in office campus so that more participation can be ensured.
I sent the mail to my company CEO (yes) directly with these ideas. And second day he replied. Soon there were mails flowing from many levels in organization and reached to senior manager of pune office. And i met him. Human Resource (HR) team was already planning something like that. And soon it happened. The first blood donation drive of this series. Details are here :
Date : Feb 2009
Donations : 569
Now its the time for second drive ,We have around 840 registrations on application as of now, and would share what was the actual donation count.
See you soon.Take care.
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