itmantra – Page 2 – Help Empower

Awareness & Pen Pal Program

Created awareness through presentations and speeches for the AIF – Light a Lamp campaign at Buckingham, Brown and Nichols school, Wellesley Public school and community events like IFNET Newton Diwali Ball etc. Volunteered

http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=11814&utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

Sanya started the Pen Pal program in Grade 5 by connecting underprivileged children of migrant workers in India with her classmates at BB&N school in Cambridge, MA. Sanya felt that she should continue to create more awareness and educate the kids in her class about the lives and realities of the children in India and how they can help them.

Through the Pen Pal program, the kids from her 5^th grade class made postcards and wrote about themselves and their lives/hobbies etc. Her class teacher too wrote a letter for the teacher in India.
These postcards were then mailed by AIF in Boston to the AIF chapter in India.

Below is the link to the article in the local MA newspaper:

http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=11481&utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

Bicycle & Book Donation Drive

Every summer the girls have visited, volunteered and raised funds for various necessities like Bicycles, books etc. for underprivileged girls at the Smt. Radhadevi Goenka Public School and the RDG College for Women in Akola. Some of the students were walking nearly an hour each way to get to school as they did not have any proper mode of transportation and money. The donation of bicycles helped cut down their travel time and gave them more energy to spend on education.

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Cataract – Eye Operation Camps (2012 – 2015)

Raised Funds and distributed food, clothing to patients at the Cataract eye camps organized in Akola, India. A mere $25 helps to restore eyesight to a poor person. They were able to fundraise and provide cataract operations to over 200 people in under-resourced communities. These camps gave the gift of eyesight to underserved poor communities who would have gone without care and suffered from blindness all their lives.

Helpful Life Peace World

Orthopedic & Limb Surgeries Camps (2010/ 2011)

Volunteered and raised funds to be provide free limb corrective surgeries and prosthetic limbs to over 50 disable children at the Orthopedic Camps in Akola, India. Our mission was to provide these children who had lost their limbs in accidents or those born with congenital defects the ability to improve their mobility and thereby improve their lives. The parents of these children were unable to afford these expensive surgeries on their own.