“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
This is what, we, DCT proved on 13th Nov,2011.
Our 150th activity, UPAYN, was indeed a grand success, and the credit goes to all the Deepastambha members.
It was Upayn, donation in the form of Gift,on Sunday 13/11/11. Members gathered at the venue at 7am.
All dressed up for first time ever in the DCT T-shirts. Uniformity was the colour of the day.
Morning session was 9am to 1pm & evening was 4pm to 8pm. The Punyayi hall other wise used for dining, looked entirely different. The hall was divided in sections of Blood, Clothes, Books & Eye Donation.
More than 60 DCT members & still no chaos, no internal chatting. All the magic was of real social hard work. Such a good level of commitment, involvement was shown by all the members, it was amazing to watch.
The tasks were allotted perfectly to all the members..
More than 1000 people visited the place mind full of social commitment, this gave a automatic divinity to the place. Right from decoration to Return Gifts to donors, everything was amazing. The jute bags / napkins / certificates for blood donors / key-chain were given to respective donor as a return gift.
The Upayn was such a grand success because of constant efforts from members in awareness pre Upayn. Many people said that a management school students should have been invited to teach them how an event is planned & executed in a best possible manner.The collected clothes & Books will be given to ' Deep Griha Society ' & 'Vanchit Vikas'. Blood donation was supported by 'Janakalyan Blood Bank' & Eye Donation by 'H V Desai Eye Hospital'
DCT also arranged breakfast /Lunch/Dinner for members,Janakalyan team,H.V.Desai Team.
On a single day, under one roof, we had :
261 blood donors( 211 eligible), 236 eye donors, 450+ clothes donors, 80+ books donors,45+ enquiries for DCT membership and 1000+ visitors including all for Upayn 2011.
The idea behind donation is the person who is short of the resources should get those & be comforted. This I think is the biggest direct social work one can do, and we should be really proud that in a real sense, on this day, we were the connection between the needy & the society. Full credit to PMs, if DCT goes like this, one day, We shall rock the world.
Activity drawback: Response by children was less than expected. Had we done the campaigning at the Bal Bhawan or Maharashtra Mandal, etc, the response could have been a bit better, but still,this was the best activity of DCT so far.
We would sincerely like to thank each and every one of the DCT contributors/members who were present for UPAYN preparation, planning as well as execution.
Thanks:
Starting from the concept, design to actual implementation, we would like to thank following members for their special efforts, we are not repeating the names as many of them are common in one or another work:
1. Special thanks to all the sponsors for their generous sponsorship which is very much appreciated
2. Saurabh Chitale for making Venue available cost effectively and at a prime location.
3. Pankaj Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Gharpure, Monika Shete for designing the banner, pamphlets and posters, visiting cards with great creativity.
4. Chinmay Joshi for introducing the organisation for book donation-Vanchit Vikas and for designing the receipts for DCT.
5. Shraddha, Dilip, Rutuja, Gandhar for taking lead in making awareness campaign successful. And all others who helped in spreading the word, for UPAYN.
6. Roopal, Laxman, Konark, Smita Kanade and the entire decoration team for making the hall more lively and presentable.
7. Apoorva, Madhavi Kaku, Suraj, Prasad, Amey for looking after the entire food arrangements, from breakfast to lunch and dinner.
8. Konark, Suraj for photographs.
9. Hrishikesh P and Apoorva for the DCT presentation.
10. Shailesh and Amruta M. for the gifts, bag and napkins, respectively.
11. Kedar for stamps and registration forms.
12. Chinmay, Adish for making the transport available whenever required.
13. Pankaj P for Rangoli and managing the work properly.
14. Thanks to, Tanmayee, Neha P., Kirtida, Smita, Bharat, Asavari, Amruta Karve ,Bhagyada, Shraddha K, Nikhil,Adwait, Aniruddha,Vaibhav, Harshada, Manoj, Apurva, Prachiti for doing the allotted work properly with responsibility.
15. Vijay N., Gaurav, Pritesh, Priyanka, Paresh, Pratik, Pallavi, for lending helping hand.
16. Vilas Kaka, for his support and helping us with the management of visitors.
17. Last but not the least, special thanks to our trustees for their continuous support and motivation.
Please forgive us if we have missed anybody.
Anushka Shembekar / Sucheta Mahajan
In the troubled world it is refreshing to find
ReplyDeleteSomeone who still has the time to be kind.
Someone who still has the faith to belive.
That the more you give. the more you receive.
Someone who ready by thoughts, words and deed
To reach out a hand in the hour of need
from an admiring hearts with abundant blessings to you and your team members
ajay potdar
hyderabad