Sunday, December 13, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Re [E-Forum] Brave Gujarati girl

 

Dear Imran Sahab,

Thank you so much for your generous commitment to contribute $100 towards helping one of the victims of Patan Gang Rapes. We know there are many others, including the victims of the 2002 carnage. Possibly opening our wallet for one may get us into the habit of opening it up more often and readily and induce others to do the same.

It would be nice if all of us voluntarily decided to allocate a certain percentage of our income every year towards a personal pay back to the society we live in.

So far I had not committed any amount towards Guddi (the Dalit victim whose faintings at the sight of her tormentors caused this case to gather momentum and expose the scandal). But your generous commitment has encouraged me to do the same. I am also pledging to make a contribution of $100 towards helping Guddi. I will be sending my check to Mr. Kaila in the next few days.

For the address where to send the contribution to, I am copying the latest letter of Mr. Benjamin Kaila in this regard below. As far as I can make out, the contribution can be sent to one of the following two addresses mentioned at the website:
http://www.friends4education.org/

US (Tax exempted under 501(c)(3):
In favor of :FFEI (Friends for Education International)
Bank : US Bank, La Crescenta, CA

Address:
Benjamin P Kaila
2755 Sanborn Ave
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Tel: 818.248.5889
Email: benjamin_kaila@yahoo.com

For contributions in India, I think the address as given on the website is obsolete. It is supposed to go to Mr PVV Rao, Secretary, Hyderabad, India, Tel: (91)944.072.4001 (Mobile) pvvrao@hotmail.com

Mr. Rao has taken over the responsibilities previously allocated to: Mr K L Paul.

Thank you again, Imran Sahab. You an angel!

With love and best wishes to you and your family for a very Happy, Healthy and Wealthy New Year and joyous holidays!

Satinath

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Re: [nri-sahi] Re [E-Forum] Brave Gujarati girl
Saturday, 12 December, 2009 4:34 PM
From: "mohammad imran" imran@verizon.net
To: nri-sahi@yahoogroups.comCc: "'Satinath Choudhary'" <satichou2@yahoo.com>Dear Satinathji,

We should raise some funds for these girls. I will contribute $100.

Imran

On Dec 12, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Satinath Choudhary wrote:
Dear Prashant jee,

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[E-Forum] On brave Gujarati girl
Saturday, 12 December, 2009 10:55 AM
From: "Benjamin Kaila" <benjamin_kaila@yahoo.com>
To: raghavan@prl.res.in
Cc: sshankar@cmi.ac.in, "S. Anand" <anand@navayana.org>, "S.Anand" <anand.navayana@gmail.com>, "Dr. John Dayal" <catholicunion@gmail.com>, "Chandrabhan" <pioneercbp@yahoo.com>, "\'Shivam Vij\'" <shivamvij@gmail.com>, "shobhita naithani" <shobhitanaithani@gmail.com>, "Journalist-Rajeev" <rajeevravisankar@gmail.com>, "Tehelka-Shammy" <shammy@tehelka.com>, "Tehelka-Vikram" <vikram@tehelka.com>, "HinduReporter-RaviReddy HinduSpecialCorrespodent" <maramreddyravi@gmail.com>, "Journalist-Swathi" <swathi.vsk@gmail.com>, "Journalist-vidya venkat" <vidya_venkat153@yahoo.co.in>, "French Media-Saindon Stephanie" <stephanie.saindon@courrierinternational.com>, "StalinK" <stalink123@gmail.com>, "Stalin K" <drishti@vsnl.com>, "Dalits Media Watch" <PMARC@dgroups.org>, "AmbedkarScholarshipGroup" <ambedkarscholarship@yahoogroups.com>, "Human Horizons" <humanhorizons@yahoogroups.co.uk>, "APJC-Vinaya K" <k_vinaya16@yahoo.com>, "Dalit Group" <dalit@yahoogroups.com>, "KIRIT
PARMAR" <kirit11@yahoo.com>, "OfficersForum" <officersforum@yahoogroups.com>... more
(I am sending this email to some journalist and people in the media to see what do they think of it.) Please free to forward it to others.
Dear friends in the media,
I request you to give maximum publicity to this brave girl. Any help from your side is appreciated. Is she not brave enough to get bravery award from Govt of India? When a small dowry victim's case became international news, why her bravery doesn't hear anywhere? If you are with me, please publicist it widely and get the attention it requires.
Dear Mr Raghu,
Can I have your brief introduction to know you better?
Thanks for your communication and interest in this brave girl's case. Here are my responses to your queries.
1. As I have mentioned in my earlier email, we have a number of options I could think of. If all promised donations are realized, we may raise little more than a lakh. My first option is putting all the money in a Fixed Deposit for a period with an option of getting interest every month. But, I do not know how badly she is in need of money and how much she needs. That can be found by people like you, who are at the ground. We go by your suggestion.
2. I am also thinking of buying a second-hand auto-rikshaw and present it to her father, if that can help the whole family. Please think of it as well.
3. No function or no expenses involving in it. I may send someone I know to handover the check to her. We may need a photo or two with or without her (if there is any objection in publicity) to upload on our website.
4. Sure, please send an appeal and see if anyone responds. They can send donations to an India address or to you and you may send them to our organization in India. The details are at our website www.friendsforeduca tion.org
5. I will verify the FFEI website and try to correct it. It is a very outdated website and my all attempts to make it good failed. So far, I am looking for a free service as do no want to spend money for such cosmetics. Now, I think,I have no option.
6. Sure, you can contact the doctor and take whatever the help we may get. He may present when we are distributing our donation. I would like to invite the woman teacher Ms Patel (I read it in the news articles) who supported her, if possible.
7. I do not have the correct amount right now. Unless all pledged donations are realized, I will not have the amount. I do not quote some figure and recant when I could not deliver it. But, I am appealing to many people via group emails and individually as well. I want to help her to the maximum extent possible.
8. I am also trying my best to get her some job. I wrote to several influential people, but only one responded so far. Please try at your end as well.
9. To be frank, I got a marriage proposal for her from some social activist. I did not pursue it as I think it is too much for me to involve in such matters.
10. My special request to activists in India:
a. See that the case goes without a barrier. Take whatever the help required and see that the culprits punished to the fullest. I wish they should be hanged, frankly speaking. They destroyed so many lives accroding to the media reports.
b. See that she will get this year's bravery award from the Govt of India. Extensive publicity will be the only way to be noticed by the think-skinned bureaucrats in our "Karma Bhoomi." So, please take initiation on this front.
With regards
Ben
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An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he was a curse to society.
-Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar
Please visit www.friendsfor education. org or www.ambedkarscholar ship.org

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Dear Friends, in case you respond to any of my posts on any forum, please send a copy of the same to the eaddress: satichou2@yahoo.com. This ID is much less cluttered, and letters on this ID are much less likely to escape my notice.

Regards,
Satinath Choudhary

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