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बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल: वेस्ट डेनिम को बनाया गरीब बच्चो का सहारा

क्या आप जानते हैं कि एक जोड़ी जींस बनाने के लिए लगभग 8000 लीटर पानी की आवश्यकता होती है? और हर साल लाखों की तादात में इन जींसों को कूड़े में फेक दिया जाता है। लेकिन उदयपुर में ऐसी एक संस्था है जो उन सभी पुराने डेनिम को अपसाइकिल कर ज़रूरतमंद बच्चों के लिए स्कूल स्टेशनरी में पुनर्निर्मित करती है।

उदयपुर की प्रिया सचदेव द्वारा चलाई जा रही संस्था ‘बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल” इस्तेमाल हो चुकी डेनिम जीन्स को अपसाइकिल कर ज़रूरतमंद बच्चों के लिए ‘Gift a Basta’ नाम से मज़बूत बैग, स्कूल किट बना रही है।

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‘बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल’ के आईडिया से न केवल पुराने कपड़ें के कारण होने वाले प्रदुषण से राहत मिलती हैं बल्कि जरूरतमन्द बच्चों को मजबूत बैग, और स्कूल किट मिलती हैं। इसी के साथ ही वो ज़रूरतमंद महिलाओं के लिए रोज़गार भी पैदा कर रहे हैं जिससे लोगो के जीवन में सकारात्मक बदलाव आ रहा हैं। इस काम में अब तक बहुत सी महिलाओ को रोज़गार मिल चुका है।

गौरतलब है कि डेनिम जीन्स को गल कर डीकम्पोज़ होने में सैकड़ों साल लग जाते हैं। ऐसे पुराने डेनिम जीन्स को दोबारा इस्तेमाल में लाकर ये संस्था पर्यावरण को प्रदूषित होने से बचाने का काम कर रही है।

बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल का आईडिया और इनिशिएटिव संस्थापक प्रिया सचदेव का है वहीँ इस काम को आगे बढ़ाने में उनका साथ दे रही है हर्षिता चौहान।

फ़िलहाल यह संस्था बच्चों की लिए बैग और पेंसिल बॉक्स उपलब्ध करा रही है और आगे स्कूल के लिए दरियाँ और एप्रिन सहित कई तरह के उत्पाद बनाने की तैयारी भी कर रही है।

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संस्था की संस्थापक प्रिया सचदेव का कहना है कि कोई भी व्यक्ति, जो ”बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल ‘ की मदद करना चाहती है वह संस्था की वेबसाइट पर वॉलिंटियर्स फॉर्म भरकर जुड़ने के साथ ही प्रमोशन में भी मदद कर सकता है।

‘बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल’ की मेंबर हर्षिता बताती हैं कि अभी तक वे अपने प्रोडक्ट्स को विभिन्न स्तरों से आंगनबाड़ी की महिलाओं के माध्यम से गांवों के बच्चों तक पहुंचाते रहे हैं और आगे उनकी टीम इसको सिस्टमेटिक स्तर पर लाने के लिए जिले के स्कूल-कॉलेजों से संपर्क कर रही है।

टीम के लोग इलाके के हर सरकारी स्कूल में जाकर प्रिंसिपल से अपने प्रॉडक्ट की लिस्ट साझा करते हुए एक बड़ा रिकार्ड तैयार कर रहे हैं। इस प्रोजेक्ट में महिलओ को ज्यादा से ज्यादा रोजगार मिल पाए इसका भी पूरा ध्यान रख रहा है। संस्था ने अब तक 10 से अधिक महिलाओ को रोज़गार दिया है।

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‘बैग ऑफ़ स्माइल’ 10 हजार से ज्यादा बच्चों तक अपने किट पहुंचाने का टारगेट लेकर चल रही है। हजारो किट तैयार करने के लिए हजारो डिस्कार्डेड डेनिम को अपसाइकिल किए जाने का लक्ष्य है ।

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Ashadham Ashram | Helping those in need

A visit to Ashadham Ashram located in a remote corner of Sajjan Nagar near Sajjangarh fort arouses mixed feelings. The sight of sick persons, men, and women, young and old, suffering from different diseases touches one’s heart. On the other hand, watching the highly dedicated team of sisters engrossed fully in caring for the inmates gladdens ones’ heart.

Set up with the aim to accept people without any discrimination of caste, creed, and religion, Ashadham Ashram believes that everyone is the child of one God and serve the destitute, the poor and the abandoned. It tries to support them mentally, physically and socially to make them lead a life full of hope, happiness, and enthusiasm. This is being done by looking after them and treating them movingly.

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The story of how Ashadham Ashram was founded is quite dramatic. Sister Damian and Sister Bernadette who are members of Prabhudasi Sisters, Ajmer, were instrumental in starting this Ashram. God has wonderful plans for each one of us and without his mercy, care and help nothing can be accomplished. This has been true with Sister Damian. In the last phase of her teaching career, she thought of studying Ayurveda and serve the society. So she took permission from her Mother Superior to take this course. After the completion of her course, she along with Sister Bernadette went to Udaipur. Bishop Dr. Joseph Pathalil, to seek his blessings to start this new work. After listening to them the Bishop suggested that they should do something for the poor and needy people of the society. The sisters readily accepted this advice. Soon after this meeting, they found Lali, an 85-year-old lady lying on the roadside near Court Chouraha with both legs fractured and wounds decaying, as there was nobody to look after her. Nobody went near her as her wounds were stinking. The two sister took pity on her, bandaged her wounds gently and took her to the hospital in an auto. The doctors and nurses cured her. Every day, the two sisters visited lali with the help of the District Collector, the relations of Lali were identified and she went home. However, after a couple of days, Lali was again found lying on the road. This time, the sisters took her to a rented house arranged by a St. Pauls School teacher Ramesh Verma. They were morally supported by Advocate Fateh Singh Mehta who stood strongly with them to face all the legal challenges. Thus with its first inmate, Lali the noble mission of Ashadham Ashram started on 11th November 1997.

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Within a couple of days, more such people were taken to the sisters and the number soon increased, so they were shifted to the staff quarters of St. Paul’s school with the permission of the Bishor. The people in the neighborhood were very helpful and came forward to supply whatever was headed by the inmates. As the number of the destitute increased rapidly, a generous social worker donated three lands in the suburb of the city in a locality called Sajjan Nagar and since then, the Ashram is being run there. A registered society named Ashadham Ashram society came into existence.

Ashadham Ashram is serving the abandoned and needy persons of the society by providing them food, clothing, medicines, shelter and getting treatment by admitting them to hospitals. If any relative comes to take an inmate, he is allowed to return home. Inmates who are fit enough are being trained in different skills such as rope making, paper craft, preparing vermin compost, taking care of cows, etc.

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This Is How Avani Sansthan Is Raising A Helping Hand For People In Every Possible Way

Happiness is in giving. And, being a helping hand to someone needy is the best you can do in your life. This gesture of influencing others to help needy ones is taking an urge with Avani Sansthan, a Non-government organisation based in Udaipur and working angels in our society for seven years.

Holding their dignity with social services, they have accomplished so much in their entire voyage to bring the change with small efforts every single time.

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When we went up to meet the authorities of Avani Sansthan, Mangu Khan, Govind Paneri, and Dr Gaurav Agarwal they revealed us about the entire working of Avani Sansthan in their persistence with the joint endeavours.

Story of Avani Sansthan

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The successful journey of Avani Sansthan has been implicitly working and growing for all the needy people specially urchins, down trodden, slum dwellers, and much more, who are not so privileged when it comes to necessities. And, when we asked Mangu Khan about the initiation and objective, he elaborated firmly about their efforts,

“We are working since 2010, but Avani Sansthan made its registration and got certified under the Rajasthan Co-operative Society Registration Act 1958 in the year 2012.

Our Sansthan always had a firm belief to nurture the unfortunate ones with love, care, and support evolved from society. Because, nothing can be accomplished beyond destiny but through contribution towards betterment, you can bring a smile on someone’s face, living in unbearable conditions of life.

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That’s why we make our reach to the villages on the outskirts of Udaipur like Pipliya Ji, Jhadol, Dodawali, Iswal, and so on to provide them necessary things like blankets, food items, clothes, shoes, bags, books, etc. that are given by people as a donation.”

Pledge of Avani Sansthan

After knowing about the beginning, Govind Paneri pleasantly described the aim of this non-government organisation.

“We are focused on making a significant change through the little. And, for this purpose, our efforts are conjoined with donators and patrons for the major issues.

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  1. We help and bestow confidence such women who have been disowned by their families – irrespective of their age & reason for their misfortune. By supporting them to move out of their painful conditions, we motivate them to become independent and live with dignity by rendering all possible assistance they require.
  2. Working to pour of the best efforts, our foundation extends aid to those unfortunates new born kids in our rehabilitation, who are abandoned by their parents due to poor economic conditions.
  3. And, our primary efforts mark into the education and clothing to the ones, living in slums, to better their lot in life.”

Social Aspects That Avani Sansthan Look Into

According to Dr Gaurav Agarwal, we also got to know that Avani Sansthan proceeds ethically and elaborated,

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“Our organisation works up for the multiple social aspects and different sections of the society. But, some of the follow-ups, we regularly look are

  1. Raising funds for the national and social causes like Floods, Tsunami victims, Earthquake victims, etc. and imparting educational assistance to the ones who cannot afford studies in the rural zones.
  2. Support for crèches as we have seen many orphan children and kids roaming on streets who are left to die and suffer from horrible situations that we cannot even imagine.
  3. Ensure treatments of needy people by providing Medical assistance through generated funds.
  4. Distributing clothes in the rural areas, to fill their basic need.
  5. Training and education to less privileged in self-employment schemes and also giving them assistance for the purchase of land to work or establish something on their own.

And, most probably our good selves relies on to the liberty and will of people to contribute as per their wish to our organisation.”

Remarkable Deeds Of Avani Sansthan

As per our consistent conversation with all of them, authorities also let us discover the commendable achievements that are made by this non-government organisation so far.

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“On the regular basis, we perform the activities by going in hand with the ones who want to volunteer or wanted to donate something on their memorable days. Through our efforts, till date, we have managed to provide monetary aid as well essential things to the number of poor regions in and around Udaipur.

There is no precise count of the amount as donation regularly goes into the education, medical, and self-employment assistance in the rural and not so fortunate areas.

Apart from a district, Avani Sansthan also contributed a specific amount for the flood victims of Uttarakhand into the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund, for which we also received appreciation from the collector of Udaipur.”

Any On-Going Project People Can Connect With

“Right now, our foundation has come up with the services where we have raised helping hand for the girls and women, who live in rural sectors and willing to work or being independent by earning on their own.

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So, for this keen purpose, we have Silai Prakshishan Kendra under process, where we have bought 30 sewing machines to let women earn through their tailoring skills. And, it will be executed by 1st quarter of 2018.

Also, we are giving job assistance to girls, who have excellent skills of Mehendi and henna designing. So, people can hire them and pay for their artistic work as a genuine contribution.

And, this Sunday on 6th August 2017, we are arranging a Tree Plantation Event, which will be held in Udaipur in a government school near Kodiyat Road where individuals can contribute through their valuable approach. They can join us and volunteer for a good cause with their family and friends in the respective event.”

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Udaipurites! If you are willing to perform a simple deed to change to rescue the charitable change, this Rakshabandhan, you have a chance to plan up and show your part by volunteering for change, supporting through your donations or planting a tree for implementing a step towards the eco-friendly environment.

If you want to know more about Avani Sansthan, you can connect with them on Facebook, or you can also browse through their website http://avanisansthan.org/.

Or, for direct call, you can contact their helpline number: +91-9414233126, +91-9829830107, +91-9929843206.