Posted on September 2, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
After much delay from my end, and several reminder SMSs and calls from Col Rama, I’m finally uploading some pictures from the Independence Day celebrations at the Community Hall in Sector A, Vasant Kunj.
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Posted on March 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
On 22 March 2007, Srijan Foundation Trust was formally registered. The government functioning was extremely efficient, the people behind the counter to advise on how to fill the form were a little impatient yet helpful, the final signing authority seemed like a person of integrity. It took all of 4 hours to complete the process, [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
The school we fund in Puri, Orrisa, has been named “Sri Jagannath Pathshala”. It is now getting firmly established in the region with nearly 3 months of running, and more and more children enrolling.
Our prayers and gratitude to
Bhima Paredaji, a very respected person in the Nada-Khand village, for giving us a portion of his house [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
A story from today’s Indian Express: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/24797.html talks about a man Ramesh Arnalkar, a trader from Pune, who is giving out a brand new tractor to small land-owners in Maharashtra’s suicide belt, free of cost to help them till their land, and thus start earning from it. While returning with his wife, Shalini, from a [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
This beautiful article written by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, appeared in the Hindustan Times: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1930245,00120001.htm. Key points in the article with my notes:
Every morning the Puja in Tirupati temple is first offered by the Scheduled Caste Banjara community
Dalits have to assert their rights rather than turning their back on Hinduism; It isn’t solving anything otherwise
Dalits [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
The domestic help at my mother’s home, and somewhat of a younger brother to me, Puran Chand Swain, went home to his village near Puri in Orrisa in December 2006. The state of the government run school was as pathetic as ever.
Puran explored the idea of running a school with one of his friends, a [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
On 31 October, 2006, we started another school for the underprivileged children in Nehru Place - right outside the office of our funding software services company - Srijan Technologies.
Pics coming up soon.
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Posted on February 24, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
We financially support a non-formal school for underprivileged children at Vasant Kunj, which is run by several volunteers from the upmarket residential colony, under the untiring and highly committed efforts and leadership of Col. (Retd.) Ramakrishna. In the running of the school, Mr. Prasad, a retired Railways officer, is no less motivated than Col. Rama.
Some [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
After months of waiting and conceptualising ideas for implementation of Srijan Foundation’s website, it finally occurred to me to take a baby-step forward and setup this Blog.
For months on end this project has been getting pushed aside, as the bread-and-butter projects of our software services company - Srijan Technologies - which funds Srijan Foundation, always [...]
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