Fund Raising Event @ RAHGIRI

ONCE UPON A TIME IN KASHMIR….

They too had a home to live in, cloths to wear, footwear to make them comfortable in blasting cold, food to eat and a life to live. One night all hell broke loose and the heaven on earth was covered in darkness. Thunder struck, clouds poured and Jhelum went wild with frenzy against the ill effects caused to nature by human race.

As is the case always, people in Kashmir are facing repercussions of all the global warming caused across the world. They do not have any home left, their means of earning a living are drowned in the floods and there is havoc everywhere.

When people all around the nation are doing their bit to ensure help reaches our fellow countrymen in Kashmir we also tried to contribute towards this noble cause in our own way. My friend Dr Shivani Pall, who is very passionate about her social responsibilities towards the society, initiated and led this entire drive under her registered trust “MEHAAN CHARITIABLE FOUNDATION”.

Shivani and her husband Dr Anuj Pall are doctors and were in constant contact with other doctors in Kashmir. Because of the flood and in absence of proper sanitation the hygiene conditions are very poor in Kashmir currently. This has aggravated the onset of water borne diseases like cholera, typhoid, dengue, malaria etc in the state. There are doctors to attend to the sufferers but not enough medicines are available in such a condition. Hence, it was decided to raise funds for buying required medicines.

Living in Gurgaon gives you a very good platform to reach out to common people and masses through RAHGIRI every Sunday, and so they decided to use this opportunity to address the maximum people. They booked a slot with RAHGIRI team in advance and 14^th Sept, Sunday morning, we all reached the event at around 7 in the morning.

Enthusiastic and with much passion we the team of welfare warriors setup our stall near the center stage. We were carrying hoardings and message boards and so people and media gave us instant attention. People started coming towards us and inquired about the event and organization. We also gave away handouts with the complete information stating elaborately the kinds of general medicines that would be required and why it is required

As per schedule with prior permission we were given the time slot to deliver the speech and create awareness regarding the cause. We were welcomed to the stage very warmly with applaud, as everyone well appreciated our efforts for supporting the cause. After giving a brief introduction about our organization and what we do, we made clear to the crowd that our sole purpose was to bring awareness and extend medical help to the needy people in Jammu and Kashmir. The response was overwhelming as we got good lot of donations on the stage itself. We were delighted to see people coming forward to support us and in return we also gave away chocolates to our young donors as a token of appreciation for their efforts.

We also had solidarity message board with us on which we asked the donors and supporters to write messages for the people stranded in Jammu and Kashmir floods.

All the proceedings and medicines being collected by MCF would be handed over to the Six sigma health, organization (New Delhi) the members of which are pioneers and trustworthy in reaching out to the most needy. 

Let's all support, let's all show solidarity. We want to save lives!!

Mehaan Charitable Foundation
GF,C6-1049, Opposite DLF Summit,
Dlf Phase V,
Sector 55,

Gurgaon. 9871217300, 0124-6614282.

We are thankful to RAHGIRI for providing us the platform and TOI for supporting us through media coverage. Over all we made the best use of our Sunday morning.