Divya garu, Firstly, I too was moved by the e-mail detailing about the condition of Papa Rao garu, If I would have been personally before him, I would have kept some money in his hand asking him to buy what he want and forgot about him. I know that is not a wise decision. I do agree that a wise decision is to help him to gain strength until he stand and then ask him to do the rest of the walking on his own.
Your idea of starting a small scale industry is an awesome example to help these kind of people. I can join you in setting up one of this kind with what ever small share I can put in for capital investment. But, l dont know whether it is part of TMAD philosophy. Before we start a initiative what you are proposing, I have the following points to be noted and discussed - Effort involved will be enoromous. I can say it will be more than what our Hyderabad team is doing now and we need to have people dedicated to oversee this which will be a big drain on our team with everyone already busy with their own jobs. - Finances might not be a problem for capital investment as long as we are not taking something RISKY and not aiming commercially and deviating from our goals of accommodating only needy people who are deprived. - The aim of this is to teach them how to do fishing(living) instead of giving them the fish(take help to live). Here the question is, are they ready to do that and how well their health will co-ordinate(taking paparao garu as example)? - Is engaging these people to do some sort of business, deviating from our goals of just helping the needy and moving on(correct me if I am wrong and I wrongly interpreted our objective)? - I feel we need to start this as a seperate chapter where we can start a no-loss no-profit organization instead of a non-profit organization(there is a diff between these two where the former will involve human effort which is treated as cost to organization that need to be paid unlike now where people are spending their personal time for following up on cases etc etc). - Most important of all starting a small scale society for helping all these people involves TRUST and COMMITMENT. How far we can TRUST anyone and How can we win the COMMITMENT? Coming to the ideas, I have the following(low investment, low risk ideas) - Printing press - Buying paper and then binding that into books ( back in Guntur during our intermediate days, we used to buy scrap books made of newsprint paper for almost 1/4th rate of the normal books) - Candle making - Making "pooja" items ( camphor, agarbatti, vattulu etc etc) Uday Bhaskar Pratti, Bellevue, WA 98007 Reach me: (Home)@ 425-818-0881, (Cell)@ 425-802-8567 http://pratti.wordpress.com, http://ubpratti.blogspot.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Smiling Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 1:41:59 AM Subject: Re: [tomakeadifference] <Important> About Paparao garu If members wud like to discuss more on ideas such as these, pls cut paste this into a new thread with an appropriate header. Thnks. Divya
