Bangalore Community Service

[CATAMANIAC]

Boy!! I love the activity on this thread..
Okie How about Priam,shraddha, others and myself calling up em one by one and finding about those NGOs.We can collate the ideas on Sat and get started on Sunday.I will pick up the first two ones.Any other suggestions ??
Please keep visiting this thread bangy junta!!

[arboreal_tarantula]

way to go bangy junta. u might want to have a dekko at PG's post on payback thread a cuppla days back .. he goes into length about some of the most important issues

http://www.pagalguy.com/cat/viewtopi...c&start=80

[CATAMANIAC]

Hey everyone for Nammu Bangaluru Comunity Service!
So are we meeting this Saturday to kick things off?
I am tentatively putting forward 4 pm on May 1st as an option .Please suggest an alternative if this is not feasible .
Calling pixie,psychodementia,topgun,govar ,anastasia ,priamrules and false face and everyone else in B'lore for further options.

[sim]

hey every1

me in for this too......but this weekend might not b possible. n fact till may 15 i m tied up.
still...pplz plz keep me informed coz me joinin in with full enthu!
well.....at college we had this club affiliated to CRY. we also tied up with a social service club of a nearby govt hospital's med college.
we spent few of our best weekends at the paediatric ward of that govt hospital at mumbai. it was awesome ........to see the glow of all those underprivildged and ill kids.....i felt as if they r doin charity to me..mah soul/....got carried away with the senti stuff!hehe

we used to basically go for say 1-2 hr every sunday.....celebrate festivals with them.crafts,painting....give them hygiene tips liek brushin teeth etc.....sing around......basically have soem fun.

its just 1 idea...and there is sooooooo much more we cud do!

c ya
simba

[pixie#22]

oh boy
nice to c that ppl are getting interested...
i had mailed quite a few of the interested ppl ...we were thinking lets start by helping out some of the orphanages in and arnd the city and topgun had suggested one ashram which really needs help...i've been trying to call the place but cant get thro...

lets meet dayafter either in MG or Koramangala..
i think a few days back we had a link which gave a list of NGos..lets try and conact those also..whether they need any manpower or resources.....

wat say ppl?

cheers
pix

[anastasia]

hi all
i dont believe i missed this thread!
but better late than never....
count me in people....
when and where r we meeting this weekend???
did u people meet last week and if so what was the outcome???


see ya all

[pixie#22]

hey anastasia sim and priamrules
plz PM me ur mailk ids.....
we didnt meet last weekend but hopefully we can manage to do something constructive this weekend

[pagalguy]

pixie#22 , you seem to heading the bangalore initiative. Catch me on Y!. Need to discuss certain issues/plans.

[pixie#22]

hi
i just had a chat with PG/pagalguy/allwin(which one i forgot to ask )
lets have a Y! conference tom..so remember to send me ur Y! ids(i seem to be forever collecting ids )and log on tom arnd 6:00pm......we can discuss our plan of axn...with PG....

Originally Posted by pagalguy

But again, the issue is the identification of the cause we all people intend to support. Since we all are a part of India's largest educational forum, it would make a lot of sense to start with education. There is a reason behind that -

1) All of us are educated.
2) Teaching would not be too difficult.
3) Focus - If all of us pick up a common cause, we can make a difference sooner than later.
4) We all can go back @ night to a Barista and talk about our own educational situation

At first, I did think it would be right to allow each city to do its own thing. But the varied responses here have got me thinking again. The options are too varied and we may end up stretching ourselves too thin. We also need to be a part of a common identity. We don't have much leverage, but when do get a chance to do something big , we all should be aligned as to what we stand for.


If serving the community is the primary objective, we do have a secondary objective! That would be to ensure more and more people join us in this work we do. Stretching too thin and not having a common identity is a sure shot recipe of not being sure who is heading where. We all won't be here forever. Some of you will be off to a trip abroad, some will goto bschools et all .. What we all need to do is build a legacy. Something which we can be proud of and something we can come back to at a later point of time. A common identity would allow the group to survive even if the main people did leave due to any circumstance.


>4. broadly speaking volunteer activities typically fall under one of the following >categories :

a) city programs ( make hyd clean types )
b) literacy
c) tutoring and mentoring
d) blood banks/ hospitals
e) environment
f) senior citizens
g) children
h) food/shelter

Of the above, b and c are of interest and are something which I feel can be sustained over the years. Sure, food - shelter - we can go into them once a while if and when the proper cause arises. Even blood banks , if a group member collates proper information, we guys may actually donate blood once a month. Rather than calling it community service, I would prefer it fall under a regular occurance. Just 30 mins of your time.

What say Junta ?

to make this effort sustainable we need to pan something on a more regular and continuous basis and not something we do once in a while and forget abt.....

Also there is an organization called Pratham which is spread nationwide...i have mailed the B'lore head...so as soon as i get a reply i will post on the thread.....
and since we r meeting on Saturday... till this thing with pratham gets sorted out we can go ahead with the orphanage plan also....

So mail/PM me ur yahoo ids...

cheers
Shradha

[CATAMANIAC]

Originally Posted by pixie#22

hey anastasia sim and priamrules
plz PM me ur mailk ids.....
we didnt meet last weekend but hopefully we can manage to do something constructive this weekend

Good going Shraddha ! We sure will
I have mailed two more people from the original Payback thread who said they want to join us.I guess being newbies they are not too familiar with this thread.Am keeping those newbies informed about the activity on this thread.
So we really should be meeting this weekend.Follow the PoA with PG.I work in a call center and my shift begins at 7 pm.So I wont be able to join you guys on weekdays for the Y! conference. However I will keep an eye on this thread and I have already posted 4 pm on Saturday as the meeting date.
Venue:How about Cubbon Park?