My thoughts about the list & not to add to the list: All this will practically be accomplished without burden on one or two individuals....if we frame to ourselves certain guidelines. I personally feel many of us donot put these to work all the time:
To start with: I think one needs to ask himself...how much time he can spend in a week for this groups' work - both in field & at desk. Based on how many hrs....he can categorise his work against groups' need and priority at that point. We all are sure busy with our own lives. Inspite of our willingness and wish to pull some time out....we simply give up to fatigue n tiredness many times. Here is where we need to boost ourselves more and try to judge/justify if hitting the bed or relaxing immediately and signing off for the day, enjoying a movie/go shopping is important ...or going thru the group mails...giving a thought on the present cases the group is dealing with & drop quick couple of lines/thoughts into the inbox can be squeezed in. (Iam doing it right now - it is 12:54pm, have just put my baby to bed...and wanted to read all the mails n reply back so that I dont have a backlog tomorrow.) Realise that donating money is actually not the key in these cases. It is means to barter (exchange) the key(services - be it of a doctor/teacher,etc) which is important ofcourse - but it is the efforts that do the real majic. So - make sure you contribute in real terms - both money and efforts as much as possible. Helping eachother all the time to make sure we help others. He can take care of it...she can take of it will not work. I can always help him take care of it whenever he needs my help - should be the attitude. -Divya I focussed more on how to aim at this checklist...since there is already best of the list prepared by master minds :)--- In [email protected], "suresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What Next ? > We all have one thing common : TO HELP THOSE WHO NEED HELP > > We all are ready to help by donating * Our Time > * Our Skills > * Our Efforts > * Our Money > > To help somebody with money we need to be financially sound and > thatmeans there should be a constant source of income. Our current > sourceof income as of today > > * Monthly Contributions > * Contributions to a specific need > We also need to start looking at * Fund raising events : > * Increase the volunteer base and their by add to the monthly > contributions: > We could also consider working with Vonumu.com and other credible > organisations and helping them financially and voluntarily. > Since we've volunteers spread across hyd , banagalore and US, the kindof > activities each one would involve, slightly differs. I would onlyspeak > for US , as HYD and Banagalore have been doing the bulk ofvolunteer > activity ( kudos to all ). * Volunteer Recruiting: Thisis not to > recruit volunteers for M.A.D, but in general, awareness hasto be created > about the problems in india. > * Monthly Contributions > * Fund Raisers > * DollarA Get Together: Everytime we have a get-together, we can > collect adollar. Its important to also tell the reason for collecting > this dollar > * Accountcoordination: Its importantthat we track every paise that > comes in and goes out. To ease thepressure from our friends in hyd its > better they outsource this to us:-). Assuming that all the activity is > being recorded in yahoogroups. > * Website coordination: TO record our activities, our accounts, > anyother ... > * Anything else that could ease the pressure of our friends in > hyd.please dont mistake this as a to do list. this is just a rough draft > ofwhat we can do. Obviously comments , suggestions, criticims will > makethis better. > > * cheers >
