Hi All, Setting a Children home is a very good initiative.. But I don't know how far it is feasible.. I don't know about others but I am at mid of my career. As far as social service is concerned its good to do but if the dosage is more we will forget our responsibilities in our life.. I am doing this as I can spend some time now. But once if I am engaged with my routine life which are very top priorities in my life i have to reduce the time I spent on these activities. I do this social service as hobby, gives some satisfaction to my life and it's not entire part and parcel of life. I can just support in terms of money to the extent I can support from my pocket. More than this I am helpless. This is just my view don't mistake me. I wanted to make my stand clear on this point please don't get offended.
Thanks and regards, Shyam. On 6/20/08, Chaitanya Ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My views on this are a bit different from the ones already expressed. > Its great to hear that its a dream project for many out here. > > I am not sure in which HAT my views fit in I guess its mostly the Red Hat. > The following are my questions for all of us. I gave my explainations and my > observations on these below but for those who do not have time want you to > think on these questions. > > 1. By setting up an orphanage how many are we going to help and reach? > 2. Arent we re-inventing the wheel as there have been many who have already > made such efforts and working along? More over we have always said that we > do not like re-inventing the wheels but to support the existing ones. > 3. Old Age home has its own set of problems totally different from > orphanges.. so have to channelise on both of them separately to do justice > to the idea. > 4. Would the model solve the root cause of it or are we just being > intermediary to help those affected? Shouldnt we target the root cause then? > 5. What is it that we want to acheive through this project? Be one more > model helping the destitute people or be one to show solutions to the most > people and kids for a better tomorrow? > > Let me elaborate on my views for the above points: > 1. By setting up an orphanage how many are we going to help and reach? > I would like to explain this with some numbers, these numbers are just my > assumptions and intuiton only. > If we take a sample of 100 rural children the number of orphans would be > lets say about 15. I feel its much less than that. Our idea is to take care > of just the 15% of the needy kids. Arent we restricting ourselves or the > solution we are putting efforts is so limited. Cant we not put efforts to > reach the rest as well and think in such lines. > > 2. Arent we re-inventing the wheel as there have been many who have > already made such efforts and working along? More over we have always said > that we do not like re-inventing the wheels but to support the existing > ones. > There have been many such organisations which started off but couldnt > sustain due to many issues and others are moving forward but with many > obstacles, why do we have to reinvent the cycle again. Why not help these > lingering ones and provide them the support to reach more people. There are > many which need more support and are doing their best in improving and > sustaining. > > 3. Old Age home has its own set of problems totally different from > orphanges.. so have to channelise on both of them separately to do justice > to the idea. > Administration of this is very hectic and challenging. Need to have > dedicated employees as the labour in bed sick people is very high and > medically it would be challenging making sure there is no spread of > infections. And more over food has to be taken care based on the > individual's medical state and the most important thing is there will be > very less gratitude from the people we are helping as thats their state of > mind where they only crave for their own people. > > 4. Would the model solve the root cause of it or are we just being > intermediary to help those affected? Shouldnt we target the root cause then? > What is our aim with this project? Is it providing a role model place for a > kid's development? or is it to help the orphans (sorry for the term but just > helps me out making my point more clear)? If its for reaching out the kids > development to make them better citizens and not just for a few of them then > i feel working on making the govt schools more productive and inspiring is > the best way to reach the grass roots and impact many kids to become good > citizens. > > 5. What is it that we want to acheive through this project? Be one more > model helping the destitute people or be one to show solutions to the most > people and kids for a better tomorrow? > My views on this is already answered in the above points. Point is > self-sustaining models can still be build with the help of govt-schools and > make these models reach deeper into the villages. > > Best Regards > Chaitanya > > > > > -- C Neela Megha Shyam Anantapur.
