This Sunday, May 13th, 2007, we visited ' Home for mentally retarded men ' , one of the many stay homes at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS) campus, Bangalore. Aashayein had sketched plans for breakfast and distribution of clothes for over 100 inmates at the institution.
We started off at 8.30am with the special breakfast comprising dosa, sagoo, chatni and son papdi. The institute also housed few women, all around the age of 60. Men were basically between 18 and 60 years old. After the break fast, we distributed clothes, collected throughout the week by all of us. We had over 120 sets.
We distributed the remaining clothes at 'Home for mentally retarted boys'.
People here have huge appetites, coz they don't realise that they have eaten enough to fill their stomach. They are 'mentally' not capable of it. The care we take here is to serve them only 3-4 dosas, even though they keep asking for more.
9 new people visited us at NIMHANS to get the feel of our work. I request everyone of you to spare 2 hrs on the coming sunday to come have a look at what we do here, at Aashayein. Please post in your email id at ruthvika16@rediffmail.com. I will intimate you the place and time of our coming visit, latest by thursday.
'LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE'
We started off at 8.30am with the special breakfast comprising dosa, sagoo, chatni and son papdi. The institute also housed few women, all around the age of 60. Men were basically between 18 and 60 years old. After the break fast, we distributed clothes, collected throughout the week by all of us. We had over 120 sets.
We distributed the remaining clothes at 'Home for mentally retarted boys'.
People here have huge appetites, coz they don't realise that they have eaten enough to fill their stomach. They are 'mentally' not capable of it. The care we take here is to serve them only 3-4 dosas, even though they keep asking for more.
9 new people visited us at NIMHANS to get the feel of our work. I request everyone of you to spare 2 hrs on the coming sunday to come have a look at what we do here, at Aashayein. Please post in your email id at ruthvika16@rediffmail.com. I will intimate you the place and time of our coming visit, latest by thursday.
12 comments:
cool guys... i wud surely be part of ur team had i not been in pune,,
all the best to u guys,
and abt supporting there is only one way i cud help,, give in ur account details once its done
Great work!! Well many of us can't get directly involved with the work but can definitely associate ourselves with the work. I would like you to give an insight of the organization. How is the work managed? How do you manage funds for it? Have you already registered AAshayein? How can we contribute to it - do you have an account to which we can directly transfer money?
Anyways enough of queries from my end. Hope your replies would bring an end to all apprehension that we have.
Aashayein will be registered in another couple of weeks.
A bank account will be opened in the name of Aashayein Foundation where in you can transfer the money. The treasurer will be incharge of the monitoring the money that goes into and out of this bank account.
A website will be launched simultaneously which will answer questions like how we work, where was the money invested, what are our shory term and long term goals.
till date for the morning breakfast we are using the money collected on the 1st sunday of every month by people who are willing to contribute.
All procedures will be more organised once we register as an NGO. We have already identified a treasurer and trustees.
my friends uncle has been serving breakfast for 3 years now on every sunday.
we took his help initially.
we also contacted akshara foundation, which is run by mrs nandan nilekani and other ngos.
we visit them every week and learn from them we get feed back from people who've been doing it for long but on a small scale
hey guys u truly rock!! wish ya all d best in ur future accomplishments...and ya lemme knw the account numbers and other details soon so that i can be of some help :)
Well, it is a great gesture... keep me up and posted on the news with aashayein...
great work ruth... you have very well depicted today's work.....
Good work. It's heartening to know that you're devoting time and efforts amidst your hectic schedules for a very noble cause. Best wishes to your team.
You have a big heart .. Its a very good step :)
Hope you get recognized and get sponsored or something for this noble act !
Very heartening indeed. Go ahead and achieve what you have in mind. Would be glad to be any help. Will also blog about it soon. Keep going!
Way to go Sharath & other members in the team. I am inspired. Wish I had more time. But will definitely participate and pass a word around about your NGO!
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