Weekend I Opener

Last week 190 students of Hire high school were provided with sweaters. This became possible through the generous donations from people like you. Here are a few snaps from the distribution event...



R to L in below snap = one of the schools teachers who has undergone the part 1 course, sunil poddar our south zone coordinator teacher, school principal who has also undergone part 1 course, and the other school teachers...



Thanks to Kavika madam who coordinated the whole activity right from the inception of the idea to finding the wholesale dealer, identifying the needy students, finally executing the distribution event at the school and not to forget for taking the snaps for us!!!

Wish you season's greetings and happy new year 2011!!

Dear Ones!

M sure u had a blast at the last nites concert with the one & only AOL star guitarist Vikram Hazra! What a night it was full of energy & devotion!!

This mail is to request your support for a service project undertaken by the Art of Living volunteers at a secondary school in Pune...

A bunch of us are donating a large number of sweaters to the students of a high school in Pune on a charitable basis. The students come from low income group families living in the slums in & around Parvati hills in Pune. We are looking for boys' n girls' sweaters of good quality in bulk quantity. Therefore we are looking for vendors who can supply these cloths in discounted prices. Let me know if you have any vendors contacts that may help us in this. Also, if you feel that you have received a lot in your life and would like to help these less fortunate ones this winter season, your are most welcome to contribute at the earliest :-) Just pick up the phone n call me on 9423076562 NOW!!

To give a little more background, myself and a group of Art of Living volunteers have taken up commitment for the upliftment of students of Hire High school since more than a year now.



I had myself conducted a Balchetana Shivir for around 250 of these kids earlier this year in Feb when I was on a sabbatical (See snaps). A few of their teachers have undergone the Art of Living course and one of them became a Part-1 teacher in the last batch of TTC. Recently our team of volunteers also conducted Nava Chetana Shivirs for the adult members in the slums where these students reside, This was done to facilitate a more complete transformation at the family level to make our efforts more sustainable.



If we are able to perceive good results in the school (reduction in number of dropouts, exam-copying cases, etc), then we can use this project as a trend setter for the rest of secondary schools in Pune. I believe the feedback received from the school teachers so far is quite encouraging. And as many of you are aware, we are planning to conduct the free Bal Chetana Shivirs for the students of all government schools in PMC (the permission letter has arrived); after we did it successfully on a very large scale in the PCMC schools earlier this year (See Report).

Hoping for the contributions to pour in soon as always:-) Thanks in advance.

Best,
Sandesh

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