Please spare my typos if you encounter any.I just wanted to say that Rs.250 will cost 5kg which is sufficient to feed one family for a month.You have no idea how much you have donated with such little amount.You have just donated 5000 grams of wheat to the needy for 30 days.
No problems at all boss. Just pointed it out. I got the message first time and agree with what you said.
The aim here is to realize that a person does not need to spend thousands.Spending few hundreds can bring you personal satisfaction, spiritual pleasure, gratitude and pleasure of God.
Regarding your project, then I find it excellent.I pray for success in this phase.Winters are coming and one "branded" sweater costs too much for the needy.We can buy old ones, washes them and wrap them and it could be distributed to people freely.
This is the idea. I will be frank, i donated 17000-18000 last season via this project but involved four friends in it. All of them wanted to share with the money but i didnt allowed them. Now trust me, they are itching for it to continue, they are desparete to contribute it. I feel that the feeling of spreading happiness is just addictive!
Also, old cloths could be washed, packed and distributed in such way. So what was a 200 garment project last year (just distributed once) will be 1000 garments (four friends and one myself) in one go. IF i manage to convince them not to distribute and send these to there four friends, i am looking at exponential growth. Will keep you people updated on the progress and how it is working and them may be some groups can be formed here who start working on similar lines.
We can also buy some basic required food such as pulses, wheat,rice,oil,eggs,milk,salt,teabags and few spices which will cost around Rs.4000 and distribute it to one family every month.These families are assigned into groups and each group consists of 3 families:
1__________ 2__________ 3_________ which would be group 1 and so on.
Also, donors will be assigned into groups.So if person A is donating to family 1 then person B will donate to family 2 by next month.Hence, all three families will get donations and no one will be burdened nor any family needed to wait for their turns.
Understandable!
Not too much of a burden in financial terms (we need to keep it that way else such projects fail rapidly, i can say this based on my experience) and yet effectively helping multiple families.
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On other thing i have always wanted to carry out but have met failure in it multiple times is to help someone in such a way that in sometime he is not dependent on anyone. I mean, like that Chinese saying, give a man a fish and he will eat it in one meal, teach a man fishing and he will have food everyday (something like that
). The idea is to support people so that they can stand up on their own foot. Two problems here, MANY of such people when supported do not want to work or will try to just take hard cash as help. Secondly, it is a bit more expensive than our normal donations. So if ANYONE have any suggestions regarding this, please do share.
One such thing that met limited success was helping a kid (15-16 years age) who sells socks in winters and kids drawing books in summers in Johar Town area. A friend saw him there and bought a book for his kid, got introduced. Winters were coming and we were told by him that he do not have enough money to buy socks so we just financed his stock. NOT A DONATION (as i did wanted to spoil a kid). We bought him socks and told him that he can sell these socks that we bought for 30Rs per pair but he will pay us back HONESTLY once he have sold. 4-5 weeks later he id returned the money and from that we bought him a few mufflers as well and asked him to continue on his own thereafter!
Anyone who have such an idea, helping people stand up on there own feet or things like that, DO SHARE.
