| Projects :
|
| Current
Projects: |
- Service
to
Senior Citizens, Assisting Cancer Patients, Touching lives through
self-improvement oriented, service-related and spiritually elevating
information.
- Establishment of a Hospice
Facility - caring for sick seniors, providing necessary health
care and moral support.
|
Services rendered since 1994:
|
 A
one-year child was
identified with a serious health
problem- a hole
in the heart and needed immediate surgery.Total cost involved was
Rs.1.25
lakhs.The parents approached us for financial support as they could not
afford the cost. While I was keen to be helpful to others and was doing
some civic service, this was a major project which needed to be
executed urgently. While providing a sum of Rs.25,000,I appealed for
donations through the columns of The Mylapore Times. Donors were kind
and generous enough to come with the necessary funds and the surgery
was done successfully. A balance of Rs.25,000 has been kept in Fixed
Deposit with a bank for the child’s educational expenses. A
photo of the child as it is today is given alongside.
|
| Maintained aged,
poor relative couple in
different seniors’ homes. For nearly 8 years.Total
expenses
Rs.1,50,000, which included the funeral expenses of the husband and
Rs.15,000 for the upkeep of
the widow
in a seniors’ home in
Thimmakudy,near Swamimalai. |
| Supporting
Vishranthi Old Age Home @
Palavakkam for women on my parents’ Death Anniversary
by
meeting cost of Lunch for the inmates for the past 10 years; |
| Feeding the
inmates of Old Age Home @ Stree
Seva Mandir @ Saligramam, besides donating
funds for the
orphanage; |
| Donating old/new
clothes and food for the
residents of Kakkum Karangal and Udavum Karangal in
Thiruvanmiyur on
occasions like Deepavali; |
| Collecting
old cotton clothes for
distribution to terminally ill cancer patients and donating same to
Rajasthani
Dharmasala,Adayar Cancer Institute; |
| Assisting a
seriously ill senior citizen
with funds to the tune of Rs.12,500 to meet medical
expenses; |
| Donating
funds, about Rs.50,000, for
meeting marriage expenses of poor relatives and family
purohit; |
| Donated Rs.5,000
for Tsunami Relief Fund to
Sri Ramakrishna Mission besides old clothes,
medicines etc., |
| Donated Rs.25, 000
a Charitable
Organization run by trustees of Shri Sringeri Math, R.A.Puram; |
| Donated Rs.20,000
to Dhivya Kshetra Mahotsava Samithi towards expenses of conducting
Srimad Ramyana Navaha Yajna Mahotsavam
@ Chitrakoot by Sri Sri Muralidhara Sarmaji between 18th
Sept and 26th
Sept 2007. Also, collected Rs.15, 000 towards the same cause; |
Donated Rs.12,000 towards
conduct of religious discourses
@ Sringeri Pravachana
Mandiram, R.A.Puram,
Chennai-28; |
Donated Rs.4, 000 towards
conduct of religious discourse
@ Sri Ramana Kendra,
Mylapore, Chennai - 4; |
Donated Rs.3,000 to Siva Sakthi
Sai Charitable Trust which is running a
Home for
Disabled Children @ Saligramam,
Chennai; |
Donated Rs.50,001 to Dharmatma
Charitable Trust,131, Chamiers Rd, Chennai-28
This corpus fund is being used to provide scholarship to 2 students from PSSHS, Mylapore
studying in class 11 & 12;
|
Donated Rs.10,001 to Divya Deepa
Charitable Trust, Mysore which is running a value-based and
children-centric alternative schooling for children from villages; |
| Donated Rs.2,000 to Sri Harihara
Sudha Seva Samiti,Mogappair which is caring for seniors; |
| Donated Rs.5,000 to Sri Poorna
Mahameru Trust,Old Age Ashram @ Old Pallavaram,Chennai; |
Donated Rs.5,000 to Swami Dayananda Ashram - Sri Gangadhareswara Trust
for feeding Sadhus @ Rishikesh;
|
Donated Rs.10,000/- towards Construction of Sri Shiva Temple @ Manalur Village,
Kumbakonam Taluk; |
|
Donated Rs.10,000/- towards Kumbabishekam of Sri Kamakoteeswarar Temple @ Kashi; |
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| Other non - financial activities: |
| Publication of a
Newsletter containing
interesting articles about Spirituality, Ageing and Giving
back
to
society. |
| Forwarding
interesting articles on above
subjects to interested friends and to the management of
Senior Citizen's
Homes |
| Facilitating
interaction between seniors on
subjects of mutual interest and providing emotional or
other support to
selected seniors in Chennai and @ Soundaryam in Covai; |
| Sharing
Information on Ageing & Wellness with Friends &
Associates; |
| Endeavouring to
facilitate financial
support from NRIs for organizations involved in maintaining
seniors who
are ill and need medical and other support; |
| Quotes: |
| "Old
Age, especially an honoured old age,
Has so great an authority, that this is of more
value than all the
pleasures of youth."-- CICERO
|
| "As for old age,
embrace it and love it. It
abounds with pleasures if you know how to use it. The gradually
declining years are among the sweetest in a human’s life."
-- SENECA |
" No one is so rich that he
does not need
another's help; no one is so poor as not to
be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask
assistance
from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness, is part of
our very nature. "
---POPELEO XII
" That gift which is given out of duty, at the proper time and place,
and without expectations of return is considered Charity in the mode of
Goodness " ---BHAGAVAD GITA |
