My Social Service Plan for next year
So its December already. Last year this time, I had helped bring the internet to a remote village in Western India. Though I have done some truly fulfilling things before, I can confidently say that nothing gave me more happiness than the joy of helping someone else. I feel that the highest good a human can endeavor towards is to be of help to another human being.
This year I have decided to “bring” the internet to another ten remote villages in Western India. The idea is essentially the same:
1)Identify ten different villages whose school principals are a little progressive and would like to give the whole internet thing a shot
2)Enlist the help of the local telecom utility guy to get the telephone lines to that hamlet (this could be tricky if the approach road to the terrain is rough)
3)Help the school to get funding for a PC from the local MP (Member of Parliament’s) Area Development Fund
4)Donate a modem and UPS to the school (taken care of by me)
5)Introduce the school to the portal which will help them become “web ready” and learn the essential life skills to succeed in today’s India.
My ten year vision is to adopt 100 such village schools (at a rate of ten villages per year). Cumulatively, this program is expected to improve the lives of about five thousand children in those hundred schools.
I will be doing this program as a part of the corporate social responsibility of my business.
On the personal front, I have decided to donate Rs 2,500 a month to sponsor the Anti-retroviral therapy of 5-6 kids in Pune. I will also be working actively to help out a local day care center which caters to kids of commercial sex workers in Pune.
I am hoping that beginning next year, I will be able to make social service a more integral part of my life.
A big thanks to God for everything he gave me. Now its my turn to give back a little.
PS: See my past work here: http://www.aviontechnology.net/content.php?cont_id=csr
