Freedom
from Flouride in Nalgonda - Safe Drinking Water Campaign Petition
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What can we
do? |
Please remember every action you take will be properly credited with your name or as you wish with respect to what you do. |
If you are like most of us who are working on this website voluntarily donating time and resources, you have come to the right place.
There is not right or wrong answer. And we have learnt that there are no shortcuts either. |
| A short list of ways to make a difference: |
1. Donate
time |
There is a need for people who can take time to brainstorm ideas, provide input into the process.
We need some one to take charge of each of the problem areas and research those within the context of
Nalgonda District. We also need them to work with a small group to come up with practical solutions and
develop a business plan to improve conditions in various areas. |
Example 1: On a single visit to your native place in Nalgonda, you could visit the Mandal HQ and develop
a comprehensive list of needs at the village or mandal level which is helpful with respect to drinking water.
Determine resources needed to achieve a level of sustenance in drinking water and work toward providing help. |
Example 2: Visit any of our work areas each might be at a different stage of development and provide feedback
on how the things are materializing at the grassroots level. This feedback will be most helpful for the current as
well as future projects. Documentation using vedio or photos is most helpful. |
| Cost: None Value: priceless |
2. Networking
with others |
There is an insatiable need for energetic people to bring in more of your kind into the stream. People together
make a difference. We provide an opportunity using one of groups to find like minded people and exchange ideas with
respect to providing employment, education and health for the people of Nalgonda. There is a target for us to get as
big as having an active 2000 participants at our website in the near future. Can you imagine 2000 people of Nalgonda
origin trying to find ways to improve the district from all corners? We all will be better off with more ideas and
thoughts. Make it a goal to introduce atleast five of your friends or others from Nalgonda to the website.
That is a big contribution. |
| Cost: None |
3. Adopt
a Project in your Native Area |
From time to time we research villages, mandals and regions for needs, development proposals within the Nalgonda
District. We do add these needs to the project list here. If you find a pet project in the area you are interested in,
you are free to find resources to fund it (either you alone or by raising those from others), or find like minded people
here at this site to fund the project and monitor progress on your own or with help from us. We are here only to offer
guidance and assistance on a voluntary basis. What we think finally counts is the result.
Let us do what ever it takes. |
| Cost: $100 - $5,000 over the project's
life |
4. Adopt
a Village |
Can you imagine a thousand of us adopting one village or sharing a village to develop and setting goals for that
village and monitoring it the whole time? We will not only provide employment by hiring a local graduate from Nalgonda
but also improve the situation over a period of time. We have several engineering colleges and degree colleges that
produce perennial supply of human resources. The idea is for you to take the village under your wings and give it a
shape you want - it costs money, human resources, knowledge base and political linkages. We are here to pave the way
for those who do not have enough time to do all of these - and if there is anything and any way we can be of help -
we will consider this website a success. |
| Cost: $500 - $5,000 over a period of
time |
5. Adopt
a School |
Our public schools lack a number of things - one can blame it on the apathy of Government or lack of accountability
or lack of resources; but the truth is we do not even have a clean black board in our schools to write on. We hope to
set a goal for every class room to have minimum needs met, and every student to have the basics such as being able
to afford a pair of slippers to walk to school - We do not have to tell you about a number of our rural school going
children walking to school in a 45 Celsius degree temperature through the dust - and we expect them to be the
torchbearers for future? How unreasonable that is!!! One school at a time and
especially the way it should count. |
| Cost: $100 - $1,000 over a period of
time |
6. Adopt
a Child |
Child labor is the ugliest practice of all time. It is common practice and everyone familiar with Nalgonda knows
exactly how many of our children there are subjected to bonded labor in homes, farms, industries and trades.
Agricultural labor find it easy to raise money for food, marriages, pay of money lenders and other health needs by
bartering a child's labor - it is common to see a child of 7 or 8 being bartered this way. We would like to seek out
these children in urban homes, industries, trades and see what we can do. Adopting a child cost less than 10 dollars
a month. While we do not lessen the value of 10 dollars, we know it is simply value less for that one child.
The one who saves one child's life, saves the world. |
| Cost: $10 dollars per month |
7. Provide
assistance with monitoring our projects |
Please join our team and contribute your ideas and help us specifically with scouting projects, ideas and
implementation. We specifically require someone who makes frequent trips to India for family or business reasons to
document our projects and search for new ideas. |
| Cost: None except some incidentals |
8. Donate
other resources |
Always we are looking for donations such as used eyeglasses, picture frames, calculators, computers, supplies,
help celebrate events. |
| Every action will be properly credited to the donor. |