Project Jivan - 15 November (RTI Week)

"The business of business is business", said Milton Friedman but the corporate world of the 21st Century has come to realize that it cannot alone be the case anymore. Social Responsibility has become an intrinsic part of the corporate activity. Realizing its significance, Jaipur Pink city RoundTable 171 has taken yet another initiative under the Round Table India week to organise blood donation camp on 15th Nov 2008.

Pictures of Blood Donation Camp

108 people from JPRT171 and Students from Taxila came forward to donate blood in this camp. The required equipments for blood donation camp were organized by Santokba Durlabhji Hospital. The Blood donors were offered Banana, Biscuits and Apple along with coffee after the Blood donation. As a token Coffee mug was also presented to all the donors.

Dr. Vidhi from SDMH said "I am really impressed with such an enthusiastic response. I am really grateful for the kind co-operation and support extended by JPRT171. It was a marvellous experience."

HT Anant Kedia said, " It was heartening sight to see so many people taking time out from a working day and donation blood. Thanks to JPRT171 , Taxila Business School and SDMH for excellent arrangement and smooth conduct of the camp."

Tr. Ravi Goenka said, "The arrangement was very good , the team from SDMH professional and it was good to see the enthusiasm of the youngsters donating blood ."

Tr. Shishir Saraf who came with his son said, "The whole proces was a breeze and really felt nice to be donating.The coffee mug they gave was amazing."

Admission Director Sunil Sachdeva, after donation blood told students, "It was a fantastic feeling donating blood for someone's life. "

Students Hardik Chaudhary felt it was good experience and such camps should be organized quarterly.  Navin and Bhupendra said they felt good after this good activity.

Thanks to Tr. Alok for the quick reliable sms boradcasting. Chairman, JPRT 171, Tr. KeshavBihani made lot of people aware about what Round Table is and the role of JPRT 171 on the venue. 

Thanks

Tr. Rajat Bohra

When Jaipur The Pink City turned Red....

Jaipur: Terror striked in Jaipur on 13th of May 2008 as 9 serial blasts rocked the pink city leaving over 70 dead and putting unforgettable scars on the people’s memories that were directly affected. The blasts rocked the city in the busiest hour and in the busiest places with killing accuracy. The toll is going on increasing with the last one being 80 killed and 250 injured.

The first blast took place at 7:20pm on Tuesday in the bustling Johari bazaar and within 20 minutes 7 more blasts rocked the city in places like the Hanuman Mandir, Hawa Mahal, Badi chaupad, Tripolia Bazaar and chandpole.

The city was in chaos as people screamed and ran helter skelter , running , jumping over kids and injured. The siren of ambulance was every where in the city instead of the hustling bustling people that are usually the part of the Jaipur streets. The streets which are normally full with natives and tourists alike went deserted.
A bigger attack was averted as the police defused three bombs of same nature....

JPRT 171: By Grace of god we all are safe and well...

Its was a date with tragedy but Jaipur and its people have come together hand in hands to fight it...

Removing all fear and doubts we all reached at the Hospital at 9pm to see how and where we could be of help.....
13 May, the dreadful night after the blast ,1200+ units of blood was needed urgently at the SMS Hospital (where 250+ Injured were admitted) , it was the a night of calling.....
Tarun , Alok, Ashish, Anant, Ritika and I started calling and Smsing to all known ones , in less than 1 hr a large number Jaipur people came forward to donate Blood in middle of the night.
By mid night the staff at SMS asked us to arrange the blood of Only of under 40 age group so they are able get potent and usable blood.
Next Morning we organized a Blood Donation Camp only for O-ve and B-ve Bood group at Monelak Hospital, and we were on alert if any other hospital needed blood. By late afternoon we were able to collect 300+ extra units of blood from our friends and family....plus had 4000+ people listed, Ready in line to donate if required....

We visited the SMS hospital later in the day, Even in this mayhem the Patient & attendants were calm and helpful. A lot of volunteer's donated fruits , eatables, clothes and if necessary arranging and few even sponsoring operation cost if necessary .....

Another Organisation JPRT works with is AKSHEY-PATRA, a lot of our member do volunteer work aswell as donate funds to this noble organisation. More than 1800 children of Various Jaipur Roundtable schools are provided Daily MID-Day meals at school by this them.

Starting from 13th night,They were quick to set up 2 emergency Canteen at the hospital, they open at 6am and operate till 11pm. 8000-10000 FREE Meals per day are being offered to Patients/ Attendants/ Volunteers and even general public.

Terror can hurt us but can never scare us or bend us.....We will survive and go on....

We salute the spirit of Jaipur and its citizens

We were all overwhelmed by the numerous phone calls , email's we all have received from well wishers , friends, family and the Table fraternity,

We Thank you once again for the concern,

Yit,

Manish R Kasliwal

Scarves of Friendship...

This is how the Round Table Movement crosses the National and International Boundaries....

Jaipur Pinkcity Roundtable 171 (JPRT) and a Team of students of Charleston High School had visited Jaipur 2 Years back on a social-school project at Bindayaka School. A school being supported by JPRT for 4 years now.

These students had come through the World Challenge Expedition (WCE) and had done some fantastic work then. On return they had promised to raise money for JPRT and the Round Table India Movement of "Freedom Through Education".

This year we got a mail from them, if we could work out a Business for Charity joint venture. After a lot of brain storming by Tr. Tarun, Tr. Pushpendra, Tr. Sanjeev, Tr. Alok and myself, Tr. Alok and his wife Shweta came up with - What if we Export Jaipur Block Printed Scarves to UK?! JPRT members paid for the initial expanse of 250 scarves, which were immediately dispatched to the school in Charleston, Scotland.
In very first week of Pre-Christmas sale we started to get query for a repeat order and by the second week this Charleston Schoolchildren and JPRT tablers Joint business venture was a roaring success! Now we are working out the details on a longer term venture.

JPRT is right now working on an Ambitious Heritage School project in Jaipur. This is a heritage site about 300 years old and had 500+ students studying in this diaplated building.

We have in a record time built a new wing of 8 classroom in this premises, which was inaugurated on 20th of October, 2007, and now the strength has grown from 500 to 900 plus....

We are still working on improving the school's old structure and to add a new toilet and other facilities.

We are now in Last Leg of the Phase 1 of the Parshuramdwara School Project but still short of FUNDS to help us to achieve our target.

Thank you everyone for support in our endeavor...

Why build schools...?

Why do we build schools...

Sitting right in front of these kids on the Republic Day - 26th of January - at our Parshuramdwara School.

In spite of all the dull lectures, filmy perfomances and extreme cold, the enthusiasm of these young children as they shouted
'Jai Hind' had to be seen and heard, to be believed....
"Somewhere, Somehow we must be doing Something Right..."
What do these children have, to be so proud of our nation?

They come from poor families, have to struggle for every necessity, study in a school which cannot even give them a proper durry to sit on!
I could see some of them shivering without proper warm clothing.
The reason I think is hope - The hope in these young eyes has not yet died down. They still hope for a better future.

Another reason is faith - They believe that the school they come to will give them skills to face the future.
They believe that their nation is one to be proud of.

And this is the reason we build Schools. So that the hope remains alive.

So that the faith is not shaken.

Be proud to belong to a group which, even if in its own small way,
lets a few more dreams to live on.
Jai Hind! Jai Bharat ! Jai Roundtable...!!
Mera Bharat Mahaan...