As reported in the Deccan Chronicle, Chowdhury noted that fun time is never a priority for aiding street children. The camps will reach out to children in orphanages and on the streets and help them unleash their creativity in putting together fun one-day events. The first one is taking place on September 25 from 11-4 at APSA—Dream School, Nammamane, Vimanapura Post HAL.

“It will be a fun day with art, food, magic show and games,” says Chowdhury. “A day that will be etched in the child’s mind.”

According to the newspaper, Kumar and his team made basic amenities available for the village residents. Two hundred volunteers from 26 separate colleges took part in the project. All told, 3000 saplings were planted, 45 patients in the village were operated on for free, and items worth Rs. 25 lakh were given to the village community.

Mr. Kumar is a lecturer in the Government First Grade College in Challaekere. Read the story published in “The Hindu“ 

According to Singh, I Love My City will join Art of Living team on 11th September at Sector 15 Market, from 10:00am to 12:30pm, with the team coiming in I Love My City TShirts and Caps. Each member of ILMC is requested to be present in the event and be part of this cleanliness drive. More facts can be gained at 0124-4519977.

They Love Their City. Do You?

Sanjay Chaturvedi

Recent Initiatives of an NGO in Faridabad has focused on how people can participate in campaigns towards keeping their city clean and derive satisfaction out of it by fulfilling their civic responsibilities in the best possible manner

“The city has given me so much, I want to do whatever I can for the city,” says PP Singh, founder of the NGO ‘I Love my city’. The organisation has participated in various campaigns towards sensitising people and making them aware of their civic duties.

Singh (48) who was born in Myanmar and shifted to Faridabad in 1994 had mooted the idea with 15 of his colleagues and friends last November. “The membership which has now risen to 45 is offered for lifetime for Rs100 and is far less important than people’s willingness to do something for their city’s welfare,” says Singh. He said, “The feeling of satisfaction and realising my worth for the society keeps me on my toes.”

The organisation has undertaken several tasks which, for others, is ‘demeaning’. As their maiden initiative, they repaired the road connecting the industrial belt to the residential areas in Sector-23. They themselves mixed the mortar and cement for the purpose and barricaded the area marked for repair. This fetched them the attention of public as many people came forward and decided to join the movement.

Gradually, more and more people jumped onto the bandwagon of this movement as the NGO organised an awareness drive about the traffic rules. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Shashank Anand, himself participated in the programme and which bears a robust testimony to the enthusiasm shown by the local police in this public campaign. Further, as more and more people started joining the movement, they decide to work as professional massions and repaired the potholes in the road in Sector-28 as their next venture. The activity was followed by a presentation of their cause before Fardidabad Industries Association which motivated all its executive committee members to take a pledge for the cause.

The latest feather the organisation has added to its cap came last Sunday when the members educated the vendors in Sector-15 market regarding how to maintain cleanliness and a healthy atmosphere around their establishments.

Shouting slogans like mera market kaisa ho, mere ghar ke jaisa ho, kooda ki jagah kahan par ho, Koodedaan mein and Swachchha rah, Swastha raho, they disseminated their message amongst the local people. These activities had the salutary effect of shopkeepers running to clean their areas before the group arrived to campaign. The group also distributed pamphlets to shopkeepers as well as the shoppers.  Besides, a few dustbins and brooms were also distributed to the vendors for a proper upkeep of the place.

The group has members cutting across age-groups and other segments and has members including Sajan Kumar Jain, president, FIA, Sunil Gulati, ex-president FIA, Sanjay Gulati, TD Jatwani, president, Residents Welfare Association.