This time of
the year corporate world comes together to gift smiles to school children from
the economically backward families. This year more than 250 volunteers from the corporate world along with their kids
and families are working every Saturday
and Sunday to assemble the kits at various assembly locations in Pune, Mumbai and
Navi Mumbai.
The
School Kit Donation drive is organized by Seva Sahayog Foundation in several
companies in and around Pune. Started in 2008, the drive has been receiving
better response year after year. Last year more than 50000 school kits were distributed
to children from different places from 20 districts in Maharashtra with the help of over 320 NGOs. 500 Kits were
distributed to schools in the border
region of J & K through help of 22 Rajput Regiment of Indian Army. This
year, Seva Sahayog estimates the donations to cross the 60000 mark.
Around
85 companies from Mumbai & Pune are participating in the event. The
speciality of this collective initiative is that it is organized by the employees
of one corporate house , for employees
of other corporate houses. Seva Sahayog is a group of like-minded people from the corporate world who came together to
do something for the society. With the
help of several NGOs, the organization conducts several programs such as
the School Donation Drive and works as a link to channelize the aid to the
needy sections of the society. Apart from the School Kit Donation drive,
programmes such as Arogyadoot (ambulance
service in remote rural places), Seva Fair etc, have been implemented by
Seva Sahyog last year.
For
the School Kit Donation Drive, contributions from each company are being
collected by interested coordinators within these companies. After the
collection of the contributions, interested employees from different companies
volunteer to help in assembling the school kits .Like every year, the kits will
be distributed before the schools reopen, on June 16, 2016. The outcome is that
students from remote rural areas get the
incentive to study further. It reduces the number of school drop outs.
For more information, please visit:
SEVA SAHAYOG FOUNDATION
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