It's better for Sat 5th July .... but again we have some programs on World Blood donor's day.....
KSRao On 6/29/08, ulprasanthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Chaitanya, > > You provided a very good perspective, view points from a different > angle. > > Let me answer to the questions. > > 1. By setting up an orphanage how many are we going to help and reach? > > Until and unless we are complete with our study/ground work, may be > we cannot come to a conclusion on how many we can 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. > > Yes. We definitely do not want to reinvent the wheel. But there lies > a difference. One single organization cannot fetch its wings to the > entire breadth of the city. We might have seen Restaurant Chains and > Movie Chains, Retail Outlets etc., spreading over different cities. > Did we see any orphanage and old age home setting the same in > different cities with the same name? (I do not have any idea. I am > asking this question. Not an argument). What I mean to say is that we > can study everyone, learn from their mistakes, implement all the good > ways that people follow and try to set up the home to our > expectations. > > To learn from others, to study is the basic idea behind the ground > work. This is not about re-inventing the wheel but an effort to > optimize by accepting all the good approach and shunning the not so > good or a failure model. > > 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. > > I think I would have explained it clearly in the first mail. Old Age > Home in the sense not for the ones like we saw in Prema Nilayam. The > purpose of old age home beside a children's home is to provide a > truly homely environment to the kids and to the old people (who are > good and healthy enough to be grand parents to the children and who > are living away from their children for various reasons). The ratio > of Kids and Old people would be something like 15:2. > > 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? > > :) For the second part of the question, my answer would be the title > of our group and the story behind it. I will give answer to the first > question in the answer to the subsequent questions. > > There would be no single root cause for any problem. Most of our > problems are interlinked and it is a viscious circle. Aiming at a > bigger goal of understanding the root cause (if any one or many) and > willing to solve it doesn't mean we do not experiment or we shouldn't > try. > > Coming to trying with the other organizations or people who are half > way in their journey. Yes. We have to. But there are many many > problems if we want to involve with them. As long as we are outsiders > things would be fine. But once we try to be the decision makers or > want to experiment with new ideas, we will face problems. > > Manavatha group was inspired by the efforts of Sri Raghunath of > Shirdi Sai Anathasramam and wanted to support him. He said he > identified many children (orphans, semi-orphans etc.,) and he wants > to somehow provide to all of them. But at present, it is really > difficult for him to manage. He is a completely spiritual person and > leaves everything on Baba. Manavata group wants to support those > children by setting up a home and looking after the children that he > identified. But this didn't happen. Why? Ideological differences. > Raghunath garu insists to be in his own way and Manavata group has > its own ideals. As such both are genuine groups. > > Leave alone this example. Why did we come up with TMAD group and why > didn't we be active volunteers in some other groups which are doing > very well and which follow principles strictly? We wanted to be > different and we, as a group, are likeminded in more ways than one. > The more we differ ideologically, the closer we are and grow fonder > of each other and the mutual respect too grows. May be it is the way > that we approach the problems, discuss an idea and work together on a > consensus. Ultimately it is the uniqueness. Uniqueness not for > uniqueness sake but for the purpose that we feel. > > 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? > > Achievement in the sense, yes, we want to achieve. We want to achieve > a change in the mindset of people about orphan homes and about > education, about growth and development. Whatever change we want to > perceive, we want to experiment with a select set of people and then > replicate. Through children home we didn't mean another shelter home. > > If this is a success, we can be an example to the orphanages (or any > such homes) to be self-sustainable and do not depend on external > donations. In this way, we not only provide employment to few people, > we also creates a sense of family in all the members who are > associated with the children home. The employees are the care takers > of the children and they should earn as if they earn for their own > family members. > > Coming to your idea of developing government schools and reaching out > to villages, they are very good in spirit. Again what about in > action? We have to do a similar exercise here. BHUMI adopted 4 govt. > schools in Mehboob Nagar and they tried in Rasoolpura too. They did a > lot for Rasoolpura school. What they decided is to set up their own > school instead of relying on the existing school. We can talk and > discuss with Rakesh more on this topic. Success in govt. schools > depend on the attitude of the teachers and the internal politics in > the school. If everything is fine, we can definitely help the school > to reach to next level. How sure are we? How best we can keep up the > efforts? How many of us are interested? > > Coming to reaching out to villages, we have to take time and listen > to Dr. Giri and should attend his proposed session. He is already > working and as he mentioned in the mail he is half way through. He > also met many eminent people from all walks of life, he attends many > meetings, he meets many groups like us. In fact, he joined our group > to know more about us and to guide us wherever necessary and to > explain us his ideas and efforts in that direction. > > I request everyone of us to reply to Chaitanya's questions. In > answering them we give answers to ourselves and we can understand > where we are. > > Also when do we plan for a session of Dr. Giri? Are we interested to > spend two more hours on our monthly meeting day? Can we ABVP for a > lunch and continue the session? I actually wanted to propose the July > month meeting on a Saturday (5gh). Murthy garu of Muscat already > booked tickets to Tirupati as he is also coming on a short trip. > Actually Prasad Charasala garu has to leave on 6th evening itself. So > how about arranging our monthly meeting on Saturday, 5th of July? > > > -- With warm regards, KSRao Satyam Foundation 9866158015.
