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This is in continuation with my earlier posts about development and working towards social responsibility. The exercise that I am thinking of working on this time around is going to be about creating a task-force of individuals who are keen on making a difference in whatever little possible ways.

The previous initiatives were successful mostly because of the people involved, in addition to the cause they were aligned to. And its the people who can and would make all the difference in the times to come as well. From how I see it, everyone who is willing to contribute would fall under one of the three areas. Please let me know of some more that you see, and I failed to document. I’d like to capture those, and then start building the database and classifying the people who have responded so far as per their interest areas!

Sustained initiatives would make a better impact

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The progress so far…

  • My first fund raiser involved sale of paintings by kids which had won a prize in the competition organized by myself and a few friends in Moradabad, UP. We managed to raise about Rs. 13000 in a short duration of time and give that money to Sankalp, a unit of ASK India.
  • My second fund raiser was called 30on30…. It was about raising Rs. 30000 by selling 30 of my photographs.. and it went on to raise Rs. 79000 in about a month’s time. This money was donated to Sankalp again.
  • My third fund raiser was called 1ka100. It involved a drive from New Delhi to Mumbai, and involved donations which would support every km of that drive. More than Rs. 70000 were raised and divided in two for two NGOs that the core team personally selected.

Time to do something substantial again, and this time around it has to be bigger than ever!

A question that I ask is: If I was able to raise about Rs. 200,000 by taking up a cause and with some outstanding support from a core team.. What could we do with more people leading from the front, and a core team formed which would sustain these initiatives… Reach out to more people, get more people involved, get more speakers, be more active..

The idea this time around would not be to do a one off drive, but build a model that would sustain itself…

Next post, I hope to write about a few ideas that I have, and understand your perspective on those…

In addition to all of these things that I intend to do, taking photographs for NGOs has been and would always be a core of my social responsibility…

Not being romantic about it…

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The first response that I get from people when I talk about underprivileged kids, or the areas in the country which are less fortunate than the betters, is of Sympathy..

Mind you, most of the issues cannot be taken care of by sympathy only or by being only emotional…

What we need is a step to be taken.. a small but firm step…

So if you have been thinking about doing something… do it.. do not feel too sympathetic or keep thinking about doing something for your society for long.. do it.. give it a shape…