As all of know about disaster that happened due to the tsunami waves. Many have lost their lives and their property. It will be very helpful if we can give them our helping hands.
'The Theosophical Society' in Adyar, Chennai is around 125yrs old & is dedicated to charitable work. Visit this site for more details about the society
http://www.ts-adyar.org/.
I talked with Mr Venkatraman & he said that they are getting a lot of help from various hands and most of them are clothing. So, it will be better if we can provide them with provisions (like rice packets, salt, sugar, milk powder etc.,), blankets, vessels, bedsheets, floormats, etc.
Apart from these things they also need a lot of funds to buy school books, uniforms (we cannot send them as they are child specific & need to b stitched).
What we can do is we can have people from each area of Mumbai who can collect contributions & than later we will collate everything & ship them to the NGO. e.g. Thane people can give it to me, Vashi people can send them to Simba, borivali people can give it to Alwyn.
Whoever is interested to contrbute can PM the corresponding co-ordinator from tht area.
Now we need people who can come from diff parts of mumbai who can act as co-ords. I think PG/simba/wayne can assign this work.
Now how to generate funds?
Most of us here are college going junta & don't earn. But should that stop you from contributing towards this cause. NO way...
You can go & sell old newspapers or "kabad" this weekend & channelise the collections towards relief - ur parents would be more than happy to c u cleaning the house & contributing towards the cause.
You can ask your frnds to do similiar exercise & raise the funds.
There could be other ways to generate funds... think on...
Take care that NO CASH will be accepted. Only Cheques/Drafts in favour of "Theosophical order of service" along with donor’s address are accepted.
People who cannot donate cash can collect clothes & other items of use & send the same to one of the area co-ordinator before 7th Jan 2005 (friday).
We can than collectively ship these contributions to the NGO by 8th Jan (Saturday).
Similiar initiative could be taken by Pune/Delhi/Hyderabad/B'lore people.
Please come forward with your contributions & suggestions.
Regards,
Ashish
In fact, it's hard to be left out of the relief scene in the city at the moment. Every NGO here seems to be involved in some way or the other, mass collection drives are happening on every street, some collecting clothes, some utensils, some money,...every second shop has got a big collection box placed in it for voluntary contributions. The college folks seem to have got into it in full swing too...I was in Coffee Day this afternoon and was swamped with college ppl distributing pamphlets and coming up with initiatives. In short, Chennai is really bustling with activity...quite inspiring, actually! 
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