Nice Initiative... God Bless. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Sreekrishnan R <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > http://www.joyofgivingweek.org/celebrities.html > > > The Joy of Giving Week during Sep 27-Oct 3 organized by NGO GiveIndia will > begin in schools and colleges next month. > > 'If the whole country was bound by this spirit to give back as much as they > can to society and the less privileged, lives would change,' actress Nandita > Das, who is acting as a catalyst for the project, told IANS here. > > The Joy of Giving Week is being billed as the largest charity event in the > country. > > It could be a kind word to someone who does not expect it, an hour of > coaching or training to poor kids, auctioning personal belongings to raise > money for the poor, feed the hungry, donate either in cash or in kind or > even attend a charity event to boost morale. But the act has to be voluntary > and free of cost, explained Das. > > GiveIndia is a non-profit group that liaises between donors and more than > 200 charity missions to raise funds for poor children. It is also the brain > behind the Delhi and Mumbai Marathons, two of the country's biggest charity > runs. > > Venkat Krishnan N., the director of GiveIndia, said the Joy of Giving Week > is a 'national movement aimed at taking the focus away from one's own self, > instilling the spirit of philanthropy in all'. > > 'We as a nation must learn to believe that we can change things,' Krishnan, > an Indian Institute of Management alumnus, who set up GiveIndia nine years > ago after returning from the US, told IANS. > 'Whether you are a paanwallah in Lucknow, a traffic cop in Mumbai, an idli > vendor in Madurai or a millionaire in Delhi, you can reach out to someone > less privileged - by donating money, volunteering time, providing your > skills and even just saying a kind word to someone who may not have expected > it from you.' > > Krishnan said the campaign has enlisted the support of more than 100 > corporate houses, 80 NGOs, 35,000 schools and 3,000 colleges across the > country. It will be partnered by media channels like MTV and supported by > sites like Google and Ebay on the internet. > > 'The Joy of Giving Week campaign will start in schools and colleges in > mid-August,' Krishnan said. > > Each school will have to think of a solution to a pan-Indian problem and > implement it during the Joy of Giving Week and colleges will have to host a > cultural festival jointly with an NGO. > > The campaign has roped in Indian movie celebrities like Anurag Kashyap, A.R. > Rahman, Ayesha Takia, Farah Khan, Imtiaz Ali, Mini Mathur and Mani Ratnam > and cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. > > It has Gopal Gandhi, the governor of West Bengal and the grandson of > Mahatma Gandhi, as an ambassador. > > According to the GiveIndia team, at the end of the campaign, 'one million > poor children in India will never go hungry and five million people would be > clothed and protected'. > > 'It will be a sustained movement and an annual charity event,' Krishnan > said. > * > * > *http://india-forums.com/news/article.asp?id=189382 > ** > > http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/feature/payback-time-india-to-celebrate-joy-of-giving-feature_100224949.html > * > > Rahman fever > His Music ~ My Mother Tongue > <http://%20www.orkut.com/AlbumList.aspx?uid=7295035299513517297> > > ------------------------------ > Looking for local information? Find it on Yahoo! > Local<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_local_1/*http://in.local.yahoo.com/> > > > -- regards, Vithur
