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IDRF annual appeal

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:47:05 -0600

 

INDIA DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF FUND, INC.

(www.idrf.org)

[Public Charity, Tax - Exempt Organization under U.S. Internal Revenue Code, Sec. 501©(3)]

40 Orchard St, Tewksbury, MA

IDRF Motto: ?Service to Humanity is the Service to God?

We are gratified by your enthusiastic support to

IDRF, enabling us to give grants to several NGOs during

2003-2004. Congratulations to all of you for your generosity. However, there is

no room for complacency as the task ahead is indeed immense.

We must continue working together with much greater empathy, humility and

solicitude so that the challenges facing the poor and the underprivileged

regarding receiving proper education and medical care, and accomplishing

self-empowerment and social harmony are effectively met.

Let the IDRF motto, ?Nar Seva: Narayan Seva? (Service to Society is Service to

God) be embraced by each one of us, pledging to serve the needy and the

downtrodden to the best of our potential. IDRF strives to help the people

realize their full potential and lead a life with dignity, self-esteem and

happiness.

IDRF remains committed to remit 100% of your contributions to the grassroots

non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Sample Projects selected for 2005

Shri Ved Mandir, Ambphala, Jammu.

Focus - helping the children affected by terrorism in J & K. Runs orphanages,

old age homes, medical clinics.

Project: construction of balika niketan ? girls orphanage.

Vanavasi Ashram Trust, Waynad, Kerala.

Focus - child education in tribal areas of Kerala. Runs a residential school

with about 402 children.

Project: Construction of a ten-bedded hospital and supporting

boarding/lodging/other expenses for high school children.

Seva Bharathi, Vijayawada, AP.

Focus - Child education in rural and tribal areas of Andhra Pradesh

Project: 50 One Teacher Schools (OTS) in Khammam district, AP.

National Sanitation & Environment Improvement (NASA) Foundation

Focus: aimed to eliminate filth & disease by implementing sustainable schemes of

pay-and-use toilets and recycling human refuse into energy generating devices

such as gas powered electricity etc.

Project: construction of toilets in Gujarat

Sewa Bharati, Jammu & Kashmir

Address: Sewa Bharati, Ved Mandir, Ambphala, Jammu-180001

Ph: 91-191-2570750

Contact Person: Shri Jaidev Singh

Focus: Kargil and Leh-Laddakh are underdeveloped regions of Jammu and Kashmir

state. Sewa Bharati has planned to start Computer Training Centers at Kargil

and Leh for the benefit of students from deprived sections of the society. Sewa

Bharati is seeking one time financial support of Rs. 5 Lakh each for the

establishment of these centers.

Project: Computer Training Center, Leh & Kargil

Sewa Bharati Madhya Bharat

Address: Matruchaya, Swami Ramtirth Nagar, Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal-462011, M.P., India

Ph: 91-755-2559597, 2762158

E-mail: swbharti (AT) bom6 (DOT) vsnl.net.in

Contact Person: Shri Vishnu Kumar

Focus: Sewa Bharati Madhya Bharat, Bhopal is running several hostels for tribal

and poor students at different places in M.P. and Chattisgarh states. Residents

of these hostels are provided with boarding, lodging and good educational

facilities. They are admitted to the best possible educational institutions.

Special coaching classes, individual attention and motivational lectures are

the inputs that they can cope with the pressure of competition.

Sewa Bharati Madhya Bharat is seeking financial support of Rs. 15 Lakhs per

annum to run its hostels.

Project: Hostels

Deendayal Research Institute

Address: 7-E, Swami Ramtirth Nagar, New Delhi-110055

Ph: 91-11-2356735, 23526792

Contact Person: Prof. Murthy

Focus: DRI is running its integrated rural development project in villages in

Satna District of Madhya Pradesh. SSDs (Samaj Shilpi Dampati) are selected and

trained to work in these villages. DRI is seeking financial support to expand

this project to more villages by selecting more SSDs in future.

Project: Rural Development Project

Rastothan Parishad, Bangalore

Focus: The project is aimed at building an education center for the entire North

Karnataka Region, introducing a unique way of education to imbibe high moral in

the younger generation with CBSC Curriculum blended with Panchamukhi Shikshana.

Project: Rashtrothana Vidya Kendra, Neeralkatti village, Dharwad, Karnataka

You can support IDRF in several ways

The common features of our NGOs are

Issue a single check or Join our

eazy gift-scheme for your periodic donations.

Avail your employer?s (corporation?s)

matching gift program.

Designate all your gifts to IDRF on celebrations with your family and friends.

Designate your donation to IDRF under the

UNITED WAY?s ?donor-choice program.?

Designate IDRF as a beneficiary in your

WILL, Trust and/or Life Insurance Policies.

Transfer appreciated

stocks to IDRF, thus avoid capital gain tax.

Donate on-line through your VISA/MasterCard or Direct Debit from checking account.

Creation of self-empowerment and responsible citizenry.

Operation under a shoestring budget.

Bringing impoverished, neglected people into the mainstream.

Management by selfless, dedicated volunteers.

Humanitarian service without consideration of sect, caste, religion and region.

 

IDRF offers a wide range of choices for your contributions

Few Grassroots NGO's Supported by IDRF

Mobile medical clinics

One-teacher schools

Tribal girls dorm/Ekal Vidyalaya

Orphans & children with disabilities

Children at a residential school

Scholarship fund for deprived students

Corpus fund for dedicated social workers to serve a project

Saving thousands of children from blindness

Vocational training/women self-empowerment

Rural development/economic self-reliance

Click here for complete list of

NGOs

Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram (Chattisgarh)

Bharatiya Cattle Resource Development Foundation (Delhi)

Vivekananda Kendra (TN)

Keshava Seva Samithi (AP)

Shri Ved Mandir Committee (J & K)

Vikas Bharati (Jharkhand)

Vanavasi Ashram Trust (Kerala)

Sewa Bharati (MP)

Bhatke Vimukta Vikas Pratishthana (Maharashtra)

Uttaranchal Daivi Apada Peedit Sahayata Samiti (Uttaranchal)

Bharat Kalyan Pratishthan (Delhi)

Contact

Us

Suresh Deopura

(510) 573-5100

suresh (AT) dewsoftware (DOT) com

Babulal Gupta

(309)- 663-9198

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Raghu Verabelli

781-270-2349,

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Vijay Pallod

(281) 568-4995,

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