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Maya for Global Peace and Serenity
We are working for the less privileged women and children since 2010. Founded in 2010, it has been donating underutilised clothes and other necessities to the weaker sections of our society across Delhi NCR . It has also rescued a girl (aged 16yrs ) from the custody of Police on the false charges of stealing in 2012.
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| Children and their families - The pavement dwellers |
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| Children wait for their share. |
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| Children and their families. |
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| Packets being distributed |
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| Lovely children share their stories.. |
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| Happy faces |
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| Waiting for their packets. |
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| The school Nirmal Seva - Donated clothes the children. |
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| The class rooms where free education is being given. |
Founder's Note
When the society bestows everything you desire for, the time for giving back something or the other to the society begins. Whoever I have come across in my life, has given his best in giving it back to the society. The people who I came across have also done good to me and my life. It has always been a learning experience with whoever I met till now.
As I moved to Delhi from the City of Joy, the pleasant memories of my working days with the differently-abled children, women, and the inmates of orphanages would keep coming back to me. Also the memories of my work as a teacher with one of the finest institutions in Kolkata have been wonderful. I thank God for blessing me with the time I could spend with lovely children, and wonderful colleagues, who are now my friends. Soon after, I chose to work with the less privileged women and children. I started my work by visiting them in the numerous slums spread across different parts of Delhi.
With almost no resource, my work for them began. It was in 2009, I was in Ghaziabad and used to visit the slum areas to be with the women and children for some time. They used to share sad tales on their living conditions, and would request me to go to their children’s schools to talk to their teachers about food and other necessities. Also the happiness that I could see in very small things that I would share or they would share with me. Back home, I would feel the need and the urgency to help these small children with whatever little I had or I could.
In Delhi, the summer and winter days are both very difficult. More importantly, they are difficult for the street dwellers. They have to survive in extreme weather conditions with very little to cover themselves from the chilling cold. I have seen people shivering, the ones who are on the pavements. With almost no resource, I started my journey. I went to every house in my locality, and the other nearby localities, asking for woolens, garments and other necessities to beat the chill weather of December and January. I got positive response from a group of elderly persons, who helped me a lot in the collection. Later, I got help from many more who were there with me. Our collection was done mainly on the basis of underutilised garments collected from the people. People don’t die of cold, they die because they don’t have proper winter clothing for themselves.
I visited the same slum in Ghaziabad that I used to visit often. This time, I had already had the collection of books and garments that I could provide to them. Children were so happy to see me. They came running to me to tell their stories. That is what gives me joy--when I see smiles and happiness on the faces of these children.
With a few friends and my family by my side, I went out on a December night to distribute the garments to the needy in 2010. Since then, it’s been more than six years, and we have been donating garments and other necessary things to the different parts of Delhi and NCR. With the encouragement of my family and some people, my organisation was born in the same year.
This year, on the birthday of my organisation, we distributed garments to the street dwellers, to the children who are living in extreme poverty, and living in inside very small makeshift houses on the railway stations and flyovers.
Our next visit was to Nirmal Seva, an institute for less-privileged children. We donated six to eight bags of garments for children and other people there. At present, I am working on other projects. With very limited resources, I am still carrying my crusade forward for the last six years and will continue to do so in the near future.
I am thankful and grateful to all who have helped me and encouraged me to carry on with my work for the less privileged people. I owe this to my late mother Smt. Manju Sengupta, who was my inspiration from my childhood days. She was the one who ignited the flame inside me since I was in school and encouraged me with this work till her last day.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Beat the Chill
Maya for Global Peace & Serenity undertakes this project every year during the winter season.
Winter in Delhi is among the coldest in India. And while we enjoy this season wearing our trendy winter garments or having a nice sleep under that warm blanket, there are some who struggle for survival in order to beat this chill. While some of us want the season to stay, some pray to fight the chill of a winter night.
There are thousands of people who live in the poorest of conditions – be it the railway station, the slums, the camps or even the roads. These people can’t afford to keep them well-supplied during the season and hence, Delhi sees a lot of deaths during these cold months.
Maya cares for these people. For the last two years, Maya has been donating warm and woolen clothes to slums and roadside camps all over Delhi in the months of December, January and February.
The clothes are collected from people who wish to donate some of their clothes for this cause and these in turn are distributed among those who need them the most. The organisation is grateful to each and every person from Delhi and across the country who have donated their clothes for the needy in the last two years.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
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