Our Foundation is a year old now. While we are still
crawling, and not on our feet yet, we have covered some distance -
§ We had to unlearn many myths to learn basic
truths about running an NGO. We know it is far easier to click ourselves teaching
poor children in sheds, visible in social circuits, corporate reach, spam
social media sites to create awareness and the numbers will do good to our
reports- we opted to stay in our shell preparing ourselves to be part of
something different - to make everyone have a desire for social change that is
in their capacity, in whatever way possible – true to our motto – blend and
transform lives.
§ Our blog was the only channel
to reach out to our well wishers. We did not want our blog to be influenced by
a social media strategist. We are people oriented so we reached out to Film stars,
writers, professional be it senior leaders or entry level resources, NRI etc to
share their views about Ramosara, its objectives, motto, Dementia, financial support
system for proposed old age home while we guided them with an outline regarding
what we want to say the world.
§ Our Ambassador: Deepti Naval, Actress and Author trusted us
even before we started our work and that little support gave us huge momentum.
§ An Open Library Model in
residential complex with no infrastructure cost, no reading charges, just a
nominal fee to add book collection and create Tagore’s Santiniketan in every
residential park to inculcate reading habit and take care of their cyber well
being.
§
Our
Volunteers: Our website is up now and the volunteer is a web
designer who did not charge us a rupee. Other volunteers write blog, share an
article on Dementia, and ring us with an idea to raise funds or connect with
people. Our volunteers are our support system who back up our belief – we will
not let this effort die – even when things are slow.
§ Our Membership drive, have connected
people across geography who believe in the cause and want to make a difference,
who shared their personal trials on our blogs. It is our members who have
merged their vision with ours and could see what is still blurred and that
faith means a lot.
§ Our Tie ups were either to
promote “Sale for a Cause” or “Celebrate with a larger family” is just the
beginning.
§ Our Free Services Life skills
and Career Counselling, Spoken English is available for free and will soon be a
structured offering
§ Revenue Generating Models: Corporate
Leaders are being encouraged to develop revenue generating models with support from
governing body members to generate funds to promote RSF objectives. An outcome
based learning program will soon have all stakeholders contribute 10% of their
fees to RSF.
Every time someone asks us how our project is doing, we want
to thank that person. We want to be asked more frequently so that we have more
to say. And we will have a lot to say in years to come.
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