Have you ever wondered how NGOs work? Have you ever wondered what makes people devote their lives for others? What is the source of their inspiration? Are you ready to face the ground reality? Then Seva Darshan is the right platform for you to reach out and work closely with NGOs.
What is Seva Darshan? "Seva" means service and our Indian scriptures describe "Darshan" as illuminating and enlightening. Seva Darshan gives you the opportunity to find that fleeting moment which can change your life forever. Meet those people who work selflessly for the society.
The objectives of Seva Darshan are
- Develop a database of NGO’s to enable you to identify NGO’s which match your CSR objectives.
- Sustained & gratifying engagement of volunteers in Seva work.
- Document their profile & the visit reports.
- Identification of the voluntary & monetary requirements & problems of the NGOs.
- Drafting plan to resolve the problems & develop effective proposals
- Execution of the plan of solutions in the second phase
Visit to Ushatai Lokhande Trust, Kamshet From: Parul Gupta- The visit experience to Ushatai Lokhande Trust , Kamshet was good and sad as well Good because we went to distribute the food packets and it was pleasure to see happiness on children’s face while receiving them and spending some good time with them , understanding there life style , listen them singing and also good to see their achievements on studies and sports as well The Hard work students are putting in should always encouraged & appreciated when I compare our life with them , it’s like we don’t have any reasons or right to complains and should always thank GOD for blessing us with Family , friends education and good life to cheer up It was Sad to see the poor condition of children where basic necessities are also a dream for them We can take initiative to at least provide Basic necessities which can bring smile in their face and can add value to their education We can run an campaign in our company asking employees to provide help in the way they can with clothes , books , toys , first aid medicines and any other thing of requirement Also find attached the snaps which I had taken there and would like to thank you for encouraging to participate.
Visit to Ushatai Lokhande Trust, Kamshet From: Anand Dhole - First of all I would like to share short info about the Ushatai Lokhande Trust. This trust works for orphan children in providing them education, food, shelter and other basic necessities related to them. They also help them to set their future by helping them to choose their profession. They try to give basic education along with the professional education. They are operating a school named Dev Vijay School where 130 students are part of it. Also they have one hostel where 30 orphan or single parent children are accommodated. They are availed with the facilities of break fast, lunch and dinner. Trust is doing great job even though they are facing with lot of difficulties. Students come from nearby villages to take the education. As this trust is not granted by the government, teachers who teach students are highly qualified [M.A. B ED/ B.SC B.ED], work on very less salary called “Maandhan” and travel around 60 Kms both the way. Their commitment towards this trust is really praiseworthy. I have mixed feelings about the experience. I felt happy & content for being there & getting an opportunity to interact with them & I felt sad as I got to know how thorny life, children are living and blessed with energy to fight for difficulties. I would like to do something for them. Again, I am being selfish because I am doing this for the satisfaction I will get from it. But another thing I learnt was, it’s very difficult for them to get even basic necessities yet when it comes to educational achievement, they are achieving the best when what is available is so less. The farthest distance traveled by some children daily is 15 to 20 Kms. They have to walk by an old railway track through fields even to come to the pick up point of the school bus. This shows how high their spirit is towards education. They have to work in the fields & at home after school hours to get their food. Can’t we help them to get their primary education and basic necessities like food? There is no comparison between our life and their life. A small but serious thing, we take 5 to 10 min. to take one good apple from the basket but they don’t have fruits to eat. They are deprived from Milk which the most basic requirement for children because they don’t have budget to bare the cost of it. It was very nice to see the happiness when we distributed food packets. It was like Diwali for them. It was feeling after so many days they were getting something good to eat. They also welcomed us by giving ‘SRIFAL’ and Rosé. It was a great experience for me. Now emotions are overcoming my words so I am stopping here. We need to take initiative to get them their basic necessities I would like to appeal all the BMC employees to take a part of such holy thing and make proud our self.
This was my first visit to a NGO. I was surprised to see a 5 floor building at the location. And it belonged to the NGO. These NGO is working from 1979. Huge amount of experience. Every suggestion we have was tried out by these experienced folks. They had made a difference to the lives of thousands of people. There are innumerable success stories. We found one major future project that be undertaken: Documentation of how to create a new branch and get it up and running was not up to the mark. This is the reason why this model cannot be replicated in many other remote areas very quickly. If we can create 10 Swaroopwadhini's within a given number of months with X budget per branch, then it would be a replicable model that can be forecasted for other villages/towns/slums. Overall - I was impressed with the maturity of the site and the people whom they have led. In a small annual expense budget of 27 lakhs, these folks can change so many lives. More than 4000 kids benefit per year. and many ladies (mothers of these kids) become self sufficient. Overall, an excellent and efficient NGO.
