Dear friends.
I hope this
post finds u in the best of your health and mood. I hope you all are enjoying
the festive season these
days.
I take this
opportunity to introduce to you a group of motivated youngsters who are working
towards the education and upliftment of destitute children living in shelter
homes. They do so under the name ' Make
A Difference (MAD) '.I have been a part of this group
since Aug'13 as a teaching intern and I have loved it since then.
It is a
registered organization which started its operations in 2006 from one city
and today we stand with our footprints in 23 cities.
What makes it
different from the conventional NGOs is that the people associated with it are
either students or professionals who have decided to work for a cause along
with their study or job. The Bhopal team majorly comprises of motivated
students from MANIT, IIFM, BSSS, Law University and other engineering colleges.
In Bhopal we
operate at 3 centers.
1. SOS
Village, Piplani
2. NSS,
Railway Station
3. NSS,
Gandhinagar
The vision
is to ensure every vulnerable child in society is able to learn and achieve
their true potential.MAD volunteers empower children in orphanages and street shelters
with skills that ensure a better future, role models they can relate to and
exposure that gets them to dream big.
There are 4
dimensions of our work :
1. English
Project, in association with Cambridge University Press, where we deliver
Cambridge english curriculum to the kids at these centres for 2 hrs each on
saturday and sunday every week, round the year.
2. Placement
Project, where we expose these kids to livelihood earning activities such
as bakery workshop, photography workshop, cooking workshop etc. so that they
can become self supporting in future.
3. Center
Upliftment, where we help these shelter homes with basic facilities which we
can afford.
4. The Dream
Camp, which is organized once a year for these kids so that they can
feel the world out of their shelter homes. It acts as platform for the kids to
showcase their talent which might never have been noticed by anybody. It is an
attempt to empower these kids to make them believe that they too can dream.
At this
moment I would like to bring into your notice that Make A Difference is not the
CSR initiative of any company or firm. We are rather a group bound by passion.
We work hard to earn a smile for our kids. Our fund raising activities include
T-shirt sale, Few workshops for city people which are chargeable, Raddi
campaign where we go door to door asking for old newspapers and raddi,
Individual contributions etc.
Now, when the
world is welcoming the new year with all zest and zeal, we at MAD are also busy
making preparations so that our kids can enter into the new year with a smile,
as we bring the most awaited DREAM CAMP for them. It would be a 2 day outbound
camp probably in the last week of January'13 in the outskirts of Bhopal
where we will try to make these two days full of love, learning, excitement,
dreams, smiles and life changing experiences for our 175 kids from these 3
centres, and you know that every smile comes at some cost.
We are in the
process of arranging funds from all possible and respectable means. It is
a humble request to all of you that please let me know if you can be of any
help for us and our kids. An immaterial contribution from you might be an out of the world experience for the kids. (The reason I could say this to all of you is because
I feel that we share a comfort level which enabled me to utter all this to U
people).
Feel the
bliss of being the reason for somebody else's smile.
This new year
be the difference you wish you wish to see. ...... Make A Difference.
Do visit www.makeadiff.in
(If you wish, you may revert back on my cell no. or my mail
or this post.)
(You mail avail tax exemption receipts under 80G for it )
Wishing you all a wonderful, blessed and life turning year
2014.
Abhishek (SRIJAN)
+91-8461027920
abhishek.srijan@gmail.com
MAD Bhopal
