YES (Yuva Ekta Samiti)

True teachers are those who helps us think for ourselves.                                                                              - Dr.  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Last Sunday, SmileGifters team met a unique kind of enthusiast and a true teacher, who actually wants their students to think for themselves and decide their own future.

Anand is a developing town of Gujarat, where this small organisation, Yuva Ekta Samiti (YES) has come up with an idea to educate and literate underprivileged children from slum areas around.

They have started program with a simple motto for volunteers willing to contribute - “Donate Your Sunday”. Presently, they are targeting one slum after other, identifying the school drop out kids and making them study for 3 hours on Sunday with youth volunteers. After study hours, Volunteers hold discussions with kids' parents, understand their circumstances and encourage them to send them back to school.

They are concentrating on five “Sa” for the development of kids,

1. संस्कार (Culture)
2. शिक्षण (Education)
3. संस्कृति (Tradition)
4. स्वास्थ्य (Health)
5. स्वावलम्बन (Self-dependence)

Its been two successful consecutive years of this initiative and now they have two proper established Gurukuls in Anand District, Gujarat.

One can actually observe the difference.

While we were in conversation with Mr. Mayur Suthar, head coordinator, he said that initially, kids use to hesitate and parents too had some trust issues. But now, with persistent efforts by their teams, kids themselves are showing interest to come and sit with them for Sunday lessons.

"If you can dream it, You can do it. "

Once you have a strong will to achieve something, and a hint of true feelings attached to the cause, definitely the biggest of dreams can be acheived.

Let’s be a part in spreading more goodness..

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How overpowering comparison has become?

"Never let anyone else to affect your life, Don't even bother what others will say."

Golden words of my Grandfather, who was a very calm & quiet personality. He was a self-made man and ignored any kind of help offered, until he really needed. We cousins, as kids, used to visit him, in every summer holiday. 

We used to follow a tradition of reciting multiplication tables from 2 to 20, before dinner.  Whoever came first, without a mistake, won the dessert of his/her choice. I always felt like a loser in competition against my cousins and underestimated myself with this comparison.

One fine day my Dadu called me up and asked me to write an essay on National Symbols. Next day he was supposed to go a school which had invited him as one of the judges for an essay competition. When he came back he asked all of us to gather and to my surprise, directly asked me, “what would you like to have as dessert after dinner today?”

That was a goosebumps moment for me, and he praised me in front of everyone. He had given the essay I wrote to one of his favorite student in the school, who then had won the competition prize money. What raised my pride even more, was when Dadu told us about that favorite student, who was a girl coming from slum area and wanted the prize money to get some important books for her upcoming examination. All the time, Dadu had confidence that if I would write that essay, it will be a winning one.

That day I learnt the biggest lesson of my life. People around you will definitely show excellence in their respective field, but we should know where lies our own strength. We should not compare ourselves or others.

Nowadays on social media platforms, what we are doing? I think COMPARISON. As a result the bars of expectations from oneself are getting raised, after effects are Anxiety, Depression and many more. 

what do you think the solution is ??

Mission Fuel

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

                                                       -Mother Teresa.

While we were busy making individual goals before the start of the year, Bhopal Food Lovers (BFL) had already drawn an agenda to feed 10,000 Hungary poor people and have successfully accomplished their first milestone on 13th jan 2019 at Madamil, Bhopal by donating food packets to 500 people in collaboration with Sharad Welfare Society (SWS).

We at #Smilegifters applaud the efforts made by those 20 members team and believe in the strong effects of the trails formed by little acts of goodness.