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SUMMARY:Reaching out – the novel way
DESCRIPTION:Jupiter Academy of Lucknow devised an ingenious way of mobilizing resources by sensitizing privileged masses about the status of education and linking it up to poverty. A series of interesting activities were planned to accomplish the desired objectives. \nIt all started with a mass rally on 10th Aug’08 in Lucknow involving 3000 children from 50 local schools to create awareness about status of education in the state of UP. The rally passed through all the major crossings and points in the city and was covered extensively by both the print as well as electronic media. Video clippings of rally were then relayed in leading cinema halls of city for a period of 1 week with appeals for donation to the cause. \nAwareness was also spread about the direct link between illiteracy and poverty. Powerful messages on the subject were relayed on radio channels like Radio city\, Radio FM and Radio Mirchi and advertisements put on local newspapers.The activities finally concluded on 17th October – World’s Poverty Day with the organization of a mass awareness rally on the subject in Lucknow. Booths were set up at all happening places of the city like Sahara Ganj Mall\, Waves Mall\, Fun Republic Mall\, Riverside Mall\, Charbagh Railway Station\, Arambagh Inter State Bus Terminus. \nDonation boxes and appeal letters were placed at all the booths with trained volunteers to educate people visiting booths about the cause. This local action comprising of a series of activities was unique in its style and approach and helped to create mass awareness on the subject of education and poverty and made people ‘ACT’ by contributing to the cause.
URL:https://www.smilefoundationindia.org/workshops-events/reaching-out-the-novel-way-2/
LOCATION:Lucknow
CATEGORIES:Educational activities & happenings for underprivileged children
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SUMMARY:An Action with Nagpur Citizens
DESCRIPTION:The world has shrunk as a result of globalization. Technological advancement in the field of communications and transport has brought people of the world closer. Cultural differences that alienated people from each other are disappearing fast as a result of improved communication. Yet\, surprisingly there is a segment in our country that is leading an isolated life oblivious to the growth and development happening around them. The daily struggle for survival and failure to make their ends meet\, takes so much out of this group of people that they are not able to mainstream in the activities of our society and lead a pitiable life of an outcast. Commercial sex workers and daily wage labourers working in risky industries like stone quarries constitute a large chunk of this segment. Pushed to the wall by inexorable destiny and circumstances\, these poor people cannot come out of their miseries on their own. They require a helping hand from outside to pull them up. \nAmrapali Utkarsh Sangha\, a Nagpur based NGO supported by Smile Foundation\, is providing helping hand to commercial sex workers and their children in Ganga Jamuna red light area\, Nagpur and daily wage labourers working in stone quarries of Nagpur for last several years. The organisation under its initiative\, Naveen Bhai Desai Residential School\, provides education\, healthcare\, nutrition\, boarding and lodging to children of sex workers and daily wage labourers. \nTaking the development issue to local masses\, Amrapali Utkarsh Sangha organized an event in the evening hours of 14th of August 2008 at MLA grounds in the Civil Lines area of Nagpur city\, Maharsahtra. Around 100 eminent people of city from various walks of life including the top businessmen\, local politicians\, important government functionaries graced the occasion with their presence. Amrapali Utkarsh Sangha effectively used the platform to showcase the good work being done by them to the gathered audience through a documentary depicting the organization’s journey\, successes and challenges. It was an emotionally stirring experience for the audience watching the documentary and can best be summed up in the words of one of the guests\, Mr. Sunil N. Thombre\, an advocate by profession\, who commented\, “Amrapali Utkarsh Sangha is doing a commendable job for often ignored but important segment of our society. Imagine operating a stone quarry without the support of labourers\, these silent workers and their children must be helped to come up in life and it is the duty of us all present here to join hands with Sangha to enhance the scope of its work.” Adding further he said\, “I also appreciate the support that Smile Foundation is providing to Amrapali Utkarsh Sangha. \nIndia requires more such efforts to transform the fabric of our society”. An appeal for support was placed before the gathered audience after the documentary show. Stalls of artificial jewellery and stone artefacts made by the children of organisation’s initiative ‘Naveen Bhai Desai Residential School’ were put up to raise funds. The documentary show was followed by the dinner for the guests. \nThe funds raised through this event are being matched by Smile Foundation to strengthen the project\, with an objective of achieving sustainability and scalability of the initiative.
URL:https://www.smilefoundationindia.org/workshops-events/an-action-with-nagpur-citizens-2/
LOCATION:Nagpur
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