Do people need charity? Do they need our pity? Would some moneyed authority do a welfare activity and folks at the receiving end will live happily ever after?
NO. True empathy instills self – esteem and confidence to tide over adversities, and NOT make anyone dependent forever.
Our volunteers are living with their communities, understanding their potential and helping them realize what they are capable of doing…what are the constitutional provisions to safeguard their interests…which govt policies were made and promised them a dignified living….what are their true resources which haven’t been used optimally… where is corruption duping them, depriving them of their legitimate rights, what are their duties which must be performed nicely to be able to rise to the level of stakeholder for participatory governance, and not reduce oneself to a beneficiary.
Having a beneficiary status implies a persistent drain in the national budget which is not desirable by any logic.
We must learn and teach our children, our communities how to resurrect oneself (after a mishappening) and what preventive measures need to be taken to avert the crisis. The shallowness of perpetually expecting the government to do everything for us, is evident!
And while we do ‘social service’, making a community ever-dependent on us is even worse. Tapobhoomi Trust has imbibed a famous chinese proverb, which says “Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know. Build with what they can. When the task is accomplished, the people will say ‘We’ve done this ourselves!”
For our volunteers, it is a full time responsibility, they’ve left their lucrative jobs and immersed themselves in building strong foundation for a community’s self-discovery, emergence from misery by ensuring prudent use of available resources. Your monetary support would help them to keep rowing upstream.
Tapobhoomi Trust, SB A/C No.015901000018772 IFSC:IOBA0000159
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