Burjwadi, on foothills of Mathern, about 90km from Mumbai is a clouster of seven helmets with a population of 1200. Apart from the fact that it is 2500 feet above sea level, Burjwadi is like most other villages in India : poor. But thanks to a drive spearheaded by the NGO Sri Satya Sai Seva Organisation , and supported by Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank, among others, life is improving for its people. The global market team(87 executives) of StanChart donated a days salary and raised Rs 10 lakh. The bank chipped in another Rs 10 lakh. This corpus was enough to built a community centre containing a school, primary health care centre , a library and a vocationl training centre.The team will donate used computers, while one of the senior executive is sponsoring a library.The team members visit the village fornightly to review the progress.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by May of this year, post which the team will focus on equippping the school and and developing the curriculum.The sales team, which work with 1000 large corporates across India , will shortly involve clients in this noble cause." Soon, our sales presentations will close with a brief mention of thsi initiative", said one of the staff.
Slowly but surely these Stanchart staffers are helping the people of this little village unshackles themselves from poverty.
Lets see friends, when we start something like that to reduce the gap between rich and poor.
It has to begin soon for our own benefit.
Wah...sir,
ReplyDeleteIts simply superb....