About ten days back I received a official quotation from M/s Johnson Lifts. This was for a lift which we had asked for, that is which will accommodate two wheel chairs at a time. The price quoted was Rs.11.00 lacks all inclusive. I simply did not go through the whole quotation because I knew we can not afford such a high cost. I thought it is out of question to ask donation for this. I immediately convinced myself that probably we do not need this lift for our mentally challenged children and that is why I am getting this exorbitant figure in quotation. With this thought I got settled mentally and conveyed this fact to my friend and our chairman Dr.Uttarwar. Both of us agreed that, God has decided against the lift requirement. This was in the first half of the day. Around noon, I received a telephone call from our Principal, Mr.Alok. He inquired, weather I got the quotation file and have I gone through it. I said, there is nothing to read more since I have gone through the cost page. He said, a gentleman from M/s Jonhsons had come here and was inquiring in detail about the requirement of lift, its size, our disabled students etc. Alok said, on asking him why he is so inquisitive, the gentleman replied that he has received a message from his owner that this lift is to be fully sponsored by the company. It is in this regard he has come to ascertain the facts about the NGO and its need.
I simply could not believe this. Thus phoned immediately to Mr.Jeetendra Nayak, the one who had initiated this matter. He said he is not sure about this total sponsorship but the owner at Chennai had promised to do the best. However, Jeetendra said that he will confirm the fact and shall revert back to me. That is what he did in less then ten minutes. Jeetendra told me that the owner of M/s Jonhsons has confirmed that they are really sponsoring the whole lift equipment free of cost and we only have to provide civil works and power supply. Thus the thing came from the horses mouth directly.
Is it not a great NEWS? I think, it is! by all means!! And is it not true as we always say at Sandnya, that there are more number of good people in this world than otherwise. We at Sandnya genuinely believe that it is a Divine work, and "HE" takes care of all our needs. How else can we explain that a man sitting at 1100 km at Chennai, whom we have never met, who has not seen our work should sponsor a lift which was quoted at Rs.11 lacks?
People may call it a miracle. But for us, right from day one, at Sandnya such so called miracles occur every now and than.
I personally feel that our need for lift was genuine and GOD has responded through Mr. john K John and the mediator is of course Mr. Jeetendra Nayak.
By: Navin Deshpande, Secretary, SSS
email: navindesh@gmail.com
website: www.sandnya.org
Wow. This is good news indeed. Kaka, I was getting slightly dejected that there is not as much response as expected in the pledge drive. I was indeed hoping that many of my like-minded friends would step up. But we are making progress nonetheless! There are good people indeed and they will help us make a difference.
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