New way of raising funds

It is now more than 17 years that we have been running Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha with out financial aid from government. I vividly recall that our first month budget in 1993 was just Rs.3200. And now our monthly expense is more than Rs.2.5 lacks. Apart from this, we have a infrastructure were we must have invested not less than Rs.50-60 lacks. What is the source of funds? Most of the people do not believe that the only funding source for us is donations from philanthropic people and organizations. In spite of the fact that our only funding source is donation, we were never late by even one day in our payment schedule to our employees and any other deters as well. We have always and firmly believed that there are more number of good people in this world than otherwise. We have always felt from the bottom of our heart that, Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha's work is the divine work and we are only the means to serve the cause. GOD has always given us wisdom to carry this work in right direction and that is what really matters. With GOD blessed wisdom we carry our responsibility and the rest is left to the divine power.

As far as funds are concerned, we have monthly small amount donors. They have volunteered a small amount as per their wish. Our man goes every month to this donor and collects this small amount which is from rupees 20 to 12000 per month. It is amazing to see that people donate this amount with remarkable consistency month after month and year after year. This monthly committed donation amount is about 35% of our monthly expense. The remaining amount comes as a ad hoc donation which is difficult to anticipate. But surprisingly this non anticipated amount also comes regularly and it has never failed us in the past. And we are sure with the divine power in absolute command it will come in future also.

In spite of all this divine intervention, one has to put his efforts also. We at Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha, are appealing to people to donate news paper scrap to us. Our man is collecting this news paper scrap from the house of the donor. This scrap donation of news paper is used for paper bags in our rehab unit and the remaining is sold to generate funds. As it is, disposing off of news parer scrap is a headache to most of the families. So in a way, we are helping them to keep clean of this wast material otherwise. So the families do not mind donating this scrap to us, we in turn get small amount by selling this scrap to recycle chain. Though this scrap sale amount for each family is pretty small, but when the donor number is large enough than the amount is also quite sizable.

We have one more dimension to this novel fund raising scheme. This gives us opportunity to contact additional people in the society. While we reach them we have to explain to them the whole purpose and the cause for which we are working. It does gives us a golden opportunity to make people aware about mentally challenged and their problems.In this process we not only create awareness but we are likely to get customer for our products produced in our rehab units. Thus this shall help us in rehabilitation process also. We at Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha always believed that rehabilitation of mentally challenged and autistics is not possible with out active support from all sections of the society.

We therefore request every one who is in Nagpur to donate the News paper scrap to us. You can phone on one of these numbers and our man volunteer will come and collect from your house. Contact No.Mrs.Joshi- 9766788932, Mr. Ingole- 0712-2236043, Dr.Uttarwar-9822932031, Mr.Badkas-9890585005.

By: Navin Deshpande, Secretary, SSS

email: navindesh@gmail.com

website: www.sandnya.org