I request all members to be there.

Regards
Rishi Modi

On spending an entire day with slum kids from Powai Slum, I realized that it couldn’t have been better way to celebrate Friendship’s Day than this. A picnic with the Powai children of night schools was truly fulfilling and fairly adventurous for all of us. Through this post, I’ll share with you why it was a fulfilling and adventurous picnic.

For this picnic, we thought that there would be around 60-70 kids. According to this expected count, we did the necessary preparation like booking of two buses, purchasing 200 samosas as well 200 water bottles with 100 food packets. We had around 15 volunteers to take care of each factor to organize the picnic.

However, a day prior to the picnic was a big surprise for us as we found out that the number of children has shot up to approx. 130. We had to modify our preparation accordingly. We had to increase the number of samosas, water bottles and food packets by 50%. The concern at that time was that we couldn’t add more than 5 volunteers, which made the strength of volunteers to 20
only.

Somehow everything was ready before time. And when the D day arrived, we were all ready to face all the challenges that were quite expected. The challenging tasks were arranging tickets and taking care of children while they enter and exit the bus or when they go to the rest room. It was very important for us to take utmost care of snacks and food when they were being served to the kids. In order to manage these challenges, we came up with the plan of allocating 10 children to one volunteer. We gave the full responsibility of those children to that volunteer, and this decision really worked for us.

So, on the day of picnic, we started our task at 8 am in the morning. Bhupendra, PK, Amit, Swati and I were at Powai center, whereas Siddhesh, Abhijeet and the entire team was at Andheri. We were preparing name tags for all kids, and were also allotting them to respective volunteer.

Children in que for name tags.

We took off from Powai at 9:05 am with 40 children, and we reached our other destination at around 9:20 am. On reaching Andheri, we found out that other 80 children were waiting to get boarded. As we knew that it is going to be a difficult work, all the volunteers were prepared to take the challenge. We call for a small meeting to create that we’ll fulfill the intention of Picnic
without compromising on any aspect.

Our last minute meeting.

The journey started at 9:40 from Andheri. The first thing that we did in the bus was distributing Samosa and Fruiti to all the kids. We went via sea link so that the children can see The Sea Link. Later, we moved ahead for Gateway of India. We reached the first destination at 10:45 am. During the bus travel, it was raining. So, we were hoping for rain to stop when we reach Gateway. And luck was in our favor. It wasn’t pouring when we reached Gateway. When we got down, around 100 children requested that they want to use the rest room. CAN YOU IMAGINE!!! 100 children want to use restroom. And, our volunteer again did a good job of taking care of each child’s concern.

Once they were freshened up, we spend around 30 minutes at Gateway.

A Group Photo at Gateway.

At around 11:30am, we left for Aquarium, where we spent around 30 minutes. By then, Siddhesh and Abhijeet arranged for Nehru Planetarium tickets. Soon, we headed to Nehru Planetarium. We reached there at round 1:15 pm. Children were amazed by their experience in Nehru Planetarium.

At Nehru Planetarium

Then, we planned to distribute food to the kids once the show gets completed by 2:30 pm. As decided, we began serving the packet food to children. But, we discovered that the food was stinking (may be because of rain or it could be because they were packed in a foil since morning. We had no clue why that happened). We knew children were hungry and we wanted a solution
to make sure that all of them are served without any delay. So, one of the thoughts that came to me was why not go to McDonalds! We immediately went to McDonalds at Cross Road and got a burger and an ice-cream for every one in 30 minutes flat. I must say; for the first time, I realized how effective these guys are in serving large volumes (McDonalds has not paid me to advertise). Bottom line is that by 3:45 pm, each and every child was served.

My self and Volunteers are at McDonalds

I and everyone were happy to see all the kids enjoying their meal. Children were very happy and full of joy. Some of them also said it was the best day for them.

A child with his ice cream

Mission Accomplished !!!

Regards

Rishi Modi

To see the entire photo album of our Picnic please click below -

Picnic Tarang with Powai Slum Kids and Nigh School Children on 1st Aug 2010210 picturesAug 1, 2010

Challenge for us is we want to know how we go about with he meeting.  We want to make it educational picnic.   We want to children to have fun and also get educated.

We are not clear about how to go about with this Picnic.  If you’ve suggestion please get back to us.

We are welcoming you to participate in this Picnic in terms of suggestion as well as participation.

Its inside our committment to impact the result of night school, our stand is to have 100% result in 10th Standard.

Team will be headed by Siddhesh and team.  They’ll do a kind of crash course where all the subjects will be covered in 7 days time.  They’l also train children in writing effectively in 1oth exam.

We think this effort will surely increase pass out percentage of 10th results.

Our next big challenge will be to keep this children involve in the conversation of education after they appear there 10th standard and inspiring them to take of further studies.  In our experience most of these children don’t want to study further as they think making money is more important than studying.

Regards

Rishi Modi

Now it has become easier to get the blood we need.

All you have to do is just type “BLOOD  B+” and send SMS to 96000 97000″ (in India )

** you can replaced “B+”  in text message with any group of your choice.

A BLOOD DONOR WILL CALL YOU!!

Also you can visit a site http://www.incansavelife.com

Information was forwarded by Dinesh Rathod.

Regards

Rishi Modi

In a press release issued on Saturday, a Free Plastic Surgery Camp will be held at Pasam Hospital in Kodaikanal from March 23 to April 4. Internationally acclaimed surgeons from Germany will perform surgeries in the hospital to needy patients. Those with ailments in eyes, ears, nose and lips by birth may register their names with the hospital for free treatment.

Who can register for Free Plastic Surgery?

Anyone who is affected by any kind of burn injuries could register for treatment at the camp. In addition to that, those with ailments in eyes, ears, nose and lips by birth may register for treatment at the camp.

How to register?

You can either contact in person or make a phone call or e-,mail on the below given details

Address:
Pasam Hospital
M.M. Street,
Kodaikanal,

Phone: (04542) 240778 and 240668
e-mail: pasam.vision@gmail.com

Hi Friends,

Let me introduce you to Sandeep Malik.    Sandeep is 9 year old child.  Sandeep is a normal child except for the fact that he is suffering from Bilateral Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss, I know thats too technical so in short Sandeep is suffering hearing loss and is on hearing aid currently but he already have 90% hearing loss and can hardly hear from hearing aid.

As per Dr. Milind Kirtane  from Hinduja Hospital,  he will soon loose his ablility to hear 100% if not operated on time.  According to Doctors he can get cure completely form his hearing disability and can listen like a normal child again if operation is done in next 1 month.  If he looses his hearing power he needs to go to specail school and will also have issue in speaking and if we gets cured he’ll be able to live a normal life – just like you and me.

Total cost of operation is Rs.6, 21,000/- (I’m attaching the complete report given by Doctor along with this post).  As Sandeep Malik is from very very poor family, his family cannot afford to pay for this operation.

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust has agreed to pay Rs. 1,00,000/- as donation if we are able to arrange balance funds (Letter from Tata Trust is attached in pdf file).

I was approached by Charul Abuwala for raising funds for Sandeep and we at Tarang has decided to raise fund for cause.

I want to request a reader of this post to make a donation (any amount ) to save this kids future,  you need to prepare the cheque directly in hospital’s name ” P.D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Center” and send it my office :

Kush Infosystems Pvt. Ltd.

24, Nand Deep Ind. Estate,

Andheri (E), Mumbai 400059.

Once we complete gathering entire amount we’ll give cheques to Hospital.

If you’ve any question about  Sandeep or you want to meet him please call me at +91 9820737739.

I’m also attaching Sandeep’s Ration Card copy, Letter from a Suresh Tea & Cofee where Sandeep works, Letter from Doctor Milind Kirtane & Letter from Tata Trust.  Click on link below to download the PDF file

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmyyzmwommn/Hinduja Hospital.pdf

You can even choose to Pay via Credit Card by clicking on button below :

To Get Latest update about Sandeep Malik Please visit http://sandeep.lovetomakeadifference.com

Regards

Rishi Modi

Today was a Republic day celebration with Powai kids. We celebrated Republic Day with different sports activity. There were around 200 odd kids who participated in the event. It was a beautiful to be part of this event. It was amazing to see how children were participating in the event. The event was well organized by Abhijeet, Prashant, Siddhesh and other members of Tarang, specially I want to extend my thank to all the employees of KIPL. They took care of everything right from cleaning the ground to doing the markup to arranging the medals. The event was well co-ordinated by members of Tarang.

Bhupendra, Vandana, Patrika & Deepa’s presence added different level of enthusiasm to the event.

In the end we distributed medals to children along with Puma shoes. Once again our thanks to Puma specially Pavneet for contributing Shoes for these kids. When we started distributing shoes it was tough for us to manage children as every one wanted the pair for themselves, but in the end everything got managed.

Click the link below to see the pic of the event. You’ll not see me in the pictures as I was behind the camera .

Tarang Republic Day Sports Event 1067 picturesJan 25, 2010

Thank you so much for being there.

Regards
Rishi Modi
I’m Tarang

We intend to distribute it on 26th Jan. 10′ Tarang’s sports day event at Powai.

Pavneet from Puma contacted us regarding donation and we are greatful to her for initiating this cause.

We are once again thankful to Pavneet and Puma for contributing to children life.

Regards
Rishi Modi