Responses to our Appeal (given below) have started trickling in ! We profusely express our heartfelt thanks to the following friends for their immediate Donations. We also hope other well wishers will kindly help us.
1.Ms. Panchali Goswami Bhattacharya, Kolkata INR. 1000/-
2.Ms. Sonia Bhattacharya, Bangalore INR 1000/-
3.Rasa & Rian Chatterjee, Kolkata INR 500/- (worth of gifts like crayons, drawing books, pencils and cup cakes)
Gift
a Magic!!
For little Joyce Murmu, a
visit to the local city of Ghatsila meant watching young girls of her age going
to the local school in their fresh, colourful uniforms with school bags, nice
shoes and socks. Being from the remote village of Kadamdih in Jharkhand, this
was all but a dream. Today, Joyce goes to the Swadhina Good Hope School set up in her village. She too
has a colorful uniform like her friends in the city and gets to learn little
English rhymes like them.
For Ratuli Sahis, life as a
marginal farmer was difficult. She had to balance her house-hold work with her
on-off work as a land labourer. That was the only way she could support her big
family. Swadhina’s help to her in the form of a pair of goats came as a boon to
her. Now she has a comfortable life by Animal Reaing with goats and hens as her
source of income. She has managed to repair her dilapidated house and is able
to afford school education for her children.
Being the third among her
seven siblings, Tapati’s life was a story of a never-ending drudgery – bringing in unending buckets of water from
the local tap, washing huge pile of utensils and washing clothes from dawn to
mid-noon. However, being offered a chance by Swadhina, she enrolled for a Batik Handicraft Training course of three months in her locality. Diligently, she took out
time from her busy schedule to attend the classes. At the end of the course she
became so well versed with the
It is the Christmas Season once again. It is the time of
gifts and merrymaking. So, this time why not Gift a Magic ? 'Gift a Magic' is a gift that
would bring in a positive change in the lives of those who are deprived of the
privilege of a better life and livelihood. It is a gift that empower women and
children themselves-belonging to the extreme marginalised sections of the
society located in Purulia (West Bengal), East Singbhum (Jharkhand), Mayurbhanj
(Odisha), East Champaran (Bihar) and Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu) through our
organisation, SWADHINA. Your support can go a long way to bring in a postive
change in the lives of many more Joyce, Ratuli or Tapati. It would help us help
people like them have a better life and
living; it would help us enlighten the light of magic in their lives! This
Christmas, let there be light in the life of little Joyce !
There are three activities
that you can help support:
* Support a Rural School -
Good Hope School : US$ 50 / € 50 / £ 45
(School Dresses/Shoes-Socks/Books/Copies/Sweaters for 5 students)
* Support Skill Training
Programme for Rural Women: US$ 50 / € 50 / £ 45
(Skill Training for 5 Young Rural Women )
* Support for providing Animal Resources to Landless or Marginal
Farmer Women : US$ 50
/ € 50 / £ 45
(Animal Support in the form 20 ducks/ hen or 1 goat each for 5
women)
You can send your donation through
A/c Payee Cheque issued in the name of : SWADHINA and mail it to : Swadhina, 34/C Bondel Road,
Kolkata 700019, India.
Also, please share this Appeal with your friends and dear ones
so that they too may take part in this joy of sharing.
SWADHINA, 34 C Bondel Road, Kolkata
– 700019, India
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