SahayaSpoorthi -- In Detail

SahayaSpoorthi:

“SahayaSpoorthi”, the idea to help the needy is an initiative by the students of Sri Venkateswara College of Engg & Tech, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, 2001-2005 Computer Science batch in the month of December-2007. Though its an initiative by Alums, we attract all our friends into our network to lend their hands for help. In that way, we are around 50 now. The name significantly has the meaning “An inspiration to help”.

Today when you look around you will find people at different stages, rich, poor and very poor. As a human being sometimes you at least feel bad for those who are leading a miserable life, and think “Can I do something for them”. But most of the people fail even after having a strong desire to help because of so many reasons. We people at SahayaSpoorthi believe that grouping these kind of people with a strong will to help will really make a difference and now we are proud to say that we have succeeded at many cases like sponsoring for two Cardiac Surgeries…. a few to mention.

How do SahayaSpoorthi work:

Every member of the team will donate a minimum of Rs.100 every month. These funds will be used to spend for the charity activities like helping needy, orphanage homes, old age homes, poor patients, etc. Each month, a group will be formed to spare their time to visit places and to take survey about the activity required, which gives the plan for the activity, and spend the funds for the planned one.

Milestones:

Ø December:

First month of SahayaSpoorthi, able to collected Rs.1000/- and was donated to Yamini School for Physically Challenged Children (http://yaminifoundation.org), Kukatpally, Hyderabad.

Rs.1500/- was spent to donate blankets (14) to Construction workers staying around Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad.

Ø January: Rs.2800/- has been spent purchasing medicines and provisions for Rakum School of Blind, Indira Nagar, Bangalore.

Ø Feb, March and April: Funds collected during these three months have been used to help a patient who is undergoing Chemotherapy.

Ø May,June,July: SahayaSpoorthi has not made any contribution to any individual NGO/individual treatment. It has helped few other groups, who are collecting funds for few operations. Few cases are , Cardiac case, where Pranay (native of Karimnagar), 7 months old has to undergo a Cardiac Surgery as his chambers in heart were mixed up without separation. The baby was treated at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore. The surgery costs around 2.5 Lakhs and after having discussions with hospital Charity, we could able to convince them for 1.2 Lakh. But unfortunately after performing so many tests the doctors finally said to wait for another 6 months as the kid is too younger for the operation. Significant amount was spent towards the medical tests.

Ø August, September:

SahayaSpoorthi group made significant contribution in terms of money and

moral strength towards Spinal Card surgery for Mr.Phani and also for Cancer treatment to a lady (Accenture Employee’s mother)

Ø October: This month is the most successful. A poor family from Tirupathi, the person owns tea stall. He has two kids, Dwarakanath (6 yrs) and Harshitha (7yrs), and unfortunately both the kids are having a hole of around 14mm in their heart and should undergo an immediate surgery. We have again approached Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore. The operation costs around 2.2 Lakhs and finally made it possible for 1 Lakh after talking to the Charity head over there. SahayaSpoorthi gave them financial as well as moral help.

In recent local news paper we found a case where a drunken father had shown his anger on his kid and made him hospitalized. This happened in a tribal village near to Rajamundry,Andhra Pradesh. Satya Sai Hospitals are taking care of the treatment for the kid, which will cost Rs.32000 and we are helping for this treatment as well by helping other groups to collect complete amount.