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Mangalore: Joy of Giving Week to be Observed in City from Sep 26

  •   Fri, Sep 24 2010 05:33:10 PM

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Mangalore, Sep 24: For the first time in the city the youth and kids are gearing up in a big way to observe the `Joy of Giving’ Week from Sunday September 26 to October 2 by inviting the Mangaloreans to join in the meaningful observance.

The programme, with its theme ‘feeling of goodness you receive when you give’, is a unique initiative of CREST (Creating Resources to Empower Society Today), a youth leadership forum and SAM (Students Action Movement), comprising of High School children.
 
The students have been on a campaign all around the city, contacting schools and colleges, public and private enterprises, religious institutions, apartments and such other places, appealing the concerned to give away things that they no longer use so that it can benefit the lesser fortunate ones. The students will form groups and go around the city through the Joy of Giving Week and collect the items that could include old cloths, books, newspapers, crockery among others which can be used. The same would be handed over to orphanages, blind mobility centre, old age homes and slums in and around the city.

The members of CREST and SAM, the forums initiated by Centre for Integrated Learning, a not-for-profit organization focusing on value addition to education, are enthusiastic with the response that they are receiving from general public. Various institutions have agreed to associate with the programme by encouraging students and professionals to involve in the event.
 
Those interested to donate items can contact CIL Campus, Behind Jugul Towers, Mallikatte or Call Trishma Pinto (9449569694) or Aurelia (9880115124).
  

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  • Joe D'Souza, Mangalore

    Fri, Sep 24 2010

    Who is pulling whose leg here?
    Clothes and other house hold items donated with good intention are sold on footpath near Town Hall and near Central Market on following Sunday.
    Many Oldage Homes charge lakhs as deposit which bring income of laks. Do they still needs free gifts?
    I am a Senior Citizen who works 7 days on average 16 hours/day while my laborers work only 5 days because they get free handouts. Workers take day off by loosing their income,just to collect free handouts at Jeppu Charity Premisus.
    Only until given,these institutions remember us with big smile and cheers and once the basket is empty,they will not even stay back to clean the basket.
    Slum dwellers have property in North Kanara growing Groundnuts(Nelakadale) while faking poverty in Mangalore.
    I am sure my fellow Citizens will agree of what I say. It is time to think and give.

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