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Tej Chaggar & Sanjit Sagoo are travelling to Punjab February 14 2011 for a two-week charity mission for Sikh Orphan Fund (SOF) & Khalsa Aid UK. The two volunteers will be raising money and creating awareness of the project leading up to the departure date. The money raised will be split 50 – 50 for both the charities they are working with. The donations will be directly spent accordingly for both the projects and will be used in accordance to the direct needs once the situations have been assessed and an action plan has been put in place. MySeva will be documenting the entire project with videos, photographs and an online blog where you can follow our MySeva each step of the project.
Week One – Sikh Orphan fund
The project will start off in Amritsar Punjab where the MySeva Voluteers have been commissioned by Sikh Orphan Fund (SOF) to support the Shaheed Bhai Fauja Singh Charitable Trust (Amritsar). This is a School, a home and a family for “disadvantaged and forgotten” children of Punjab, this is a dedicated orphanage for tomorrows future of Punjab.
MySeva will be spending the first day with Bibi Amarjeet Kaur who has dedicated her life by establishing and running the orphanage in her husband’s name (Shaheed Bhai Fauja Singh). Our volunteer’s will discover the physical and financial status of the trust, and put in place an action plan for the rest of the week to achieve tasks to help provide the children with clothes, books, and everyday necessities funded by you generous donations.
The will be a important week for our volunteers organising various works and making arrangements for children’s future wellbeing, as well as spending quality time with these children, filling in the gap of emotional happiness and support. Interviews and photographs will be taken along with a full report of the current situation at the Shaheed Bhai Fauja Singh Charitable Trust (Amritsar). for Sikh Orphan Fund (UK) to proceed in their work and awareness around the world.
With your donations MySeva will be able to take a direct approach for SOF work and support for the Orphans in Amritsar and also use the money directly for the children. All the money spent will be shown in our report which will be available for public viewing on our website www.myseva.co.uk once our volunteers return alongside video and photographic proof of where and how the donations have been used and the effect they have had on a children’s lives.
Week Two – Khalsa Aid (Focus Punjab)
The second week MySeva will be spent volunteering for Khalsa Aid to assess and document their current project “Focus Punjab” (FB). FB is a project name for all of Khalsa Aid projects in Punjab. MySeva will be visiting a number rural villages in Punjab where Khalsa aid have assisted underprivileged families who are having financial and medial difficulties to support themselves and creating a better future for the next generation. There is a huge drugs problem in Punjab with 70% of families affected, Khalsa Aid has launched welfare programs aimed at children to create drugs awareness and sponsor their school education.
MySeva will be visiting the sponsored families to verify the work carried out is a success and also continuing Khalsa Aid’s work by using the money you donate to maintain and expand their programme by sponsoring more children to go to school as well as providing them with essential amenities to learn such as books, stationary and uniform.
Khalsa Aid will be also using the report and media footage created by MySeva in its work in the UK to promote and show their donators where their money is used with the impact it has on families in Punjab. This will help in the sustaining and develop Khalsa Aids work not only in India, but around the world in country’s like Haiti, Pakistan, Cambodia and Somalia.
