Kidney transaplantaion for Navaz | 1 lakh raised through MicroCharity

Yes!! Response was tremendous! I was bit skeptical as we just closed another 1 Lakhs for Liver transplant on previous day which also got closed in a day! so i was thinking, the response will be slow... but God has different plans! He wanted to help Navas today itself! Praise God!

Run with a difference - Sneha Run 2017 pics

A morning to cheer, support and liven up the spirit of kids living with HIV -  Apart from raising funds for children living with HIV, this annual run aims to make the society collectively think about the future of Children living with HIV/AIDS in relation to World HIV/AIDS day.

School Fee for 8th and 9th standard ( 60 K) - Reciepts

We got the acknowledgment from school for the 60 K that we transferred for the academic years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.

Sneha Run 2017 - To raise funds for children living with HIV

Dears,

Sneha care home as requested our participation and also to share this with our friends to create maximum awareness. Let's try to participate with our families and continue our support. Please see the mail below for registration details. Call me in case you are interested and we can plan together.

-pulicken (9845109125)

Respiratory machine for Ms Bhaghya (Kollegal, Karnataka)

Dear Antony,

Please find the attached form with all the details of Patient, Bhagya, including the certificate from consulting doctor and her ID & Address proofs.

Looks like machine is in good condition and we may not need to do anything extra. The only extra expense will be replacing the mask which also may not be needed in this case as doctors are suggesting just the tube for her. They will confirm that after monitoring the patient with machine for couple of days.

We can give the machine to Bhagya and doctors will set it up for her in JSS Medical college Mysore and monitor it for couple of days before they could take it to their home. If anything to be changed during that period, we will do that. 

Let me know if any questions.

Thanks,

Jisso

Garden for the children living with HIV @ Sneha Care Home (Snehadhaan)

Apart from helping in setting up an aquarium and love birds cage, we also helped in setting up a small garden @ Snehadaan..Here's few pics...

Note from Snehadaan.. (Sneha Care Home)

Thank you Antony and Sherin. Children are indeed glad and they are excited. They see that you are part of this extended family. Feel free to visit anytime.

Warm Regards

Fr. Jaison

Aquarium set up and love birds for PL HIV kids @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

We have set up the aquarium and also bought 7 pairs of  love birds(that's all they had) for the kids @ Snehadaan.....

Thanks to Sherin for setting aside half day for this and for all the help.  Also, big thanks to Swaroop from Aquatopia India for all the help/tips and for the big discount....

Even though Swaroop had strongly recommended not to put any fishes in the first week, we went against his advice just because of the sheer excitement of the kids there :-) :-)  I don't need to elaborate more as the video below will speak for itself..... !

A touching response...

I have been contacting various vendors for setting up an aquarium for the children @ Snehadhan... All of them are completely business minded and didn't care or bother to even listen when I tried explaining the context/cause and the reason why we are doing this..... But then I got this response from one of the vendor.....very honest, touching and with a very reasonable quotation... ...thought the mail is worth sharing ......not disclosing his details in this forum for obvious reasons....Will mail you the quotations separately...read on......

Dear Antony,

Firstly, i need to commend the effort and dedication put in by you & your team relating to all the causes i read about on your blog. Hats off to you guys and may you continue your wonderful initiatives and transform more lives for the better.

Taking it further.... | Schooling of Pavan

Now, it's our turn to take forward what kids had initiated !  - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.in/2017/04/it-simply-cant-get-any-better.html

Riya managed to contact Pavan's mom (Mrs Indra) and convinced her to admit Pavan to a school near their home.  Initially, they were very reluctant (primarily because of financial constraints and secondly because of ignorance).  We found a school for Pavan and when I spoke to the principal, he said they can take Pavan directly to 1st standard as he is already 7+ years now. But since he has never been to even a play school before, we suggested the principal to admit him in LKG and and promote him to UKG/1st standard this year itself,  if he is able to pick up the concepts fast.

Need volunteers.....

Last time when we went to Sneha care home to hand over school kits for the children, we had asked them how we can help them further. They had mentioned that the kids love gardening, taking care of birds, fishes etc.. We had immediately promised that we will help them to set up a garden, aquarium and a lovebirds cage.

We have to do that in June and will need volunteers.  Planning to do it in 2nd week or 3rd week of June. Before that, we need to enquire about it and budget it.

Guys in Bangalore, let me know who can help us in finding the details and available on one of the week ends in June to implement it.  I suggest we go there with our families. 

Alan (District/state level winner in sports) | School/hostel Fee

Got to know about this case through Mathai... I've told we can definitely help especially if one of us or Mathai's friend can directly go and pay the fee @ school.... Mathai will let us know about it. In the mean time, pls add your comments......

Update from Rohan & Roshan (kidney patients)

Rohan had called me couple of weeks back to thank us for the help that we did and also mentioned that both Rohan and Roshan have  registered for kidney transplantation.  It's going to take some time before they find a matching donor. Currently each of them are undergoing dialysis twice a week !!  I have requested him to let us know once they find a matching donor. He has requested us to continue to remember them in our prayers.

More details about Rohan & Roshan - http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.in/2017/03/financial-help-for-kidney.html

It simply can't get any better.... !!

It just can't get any better... !!!!  Last Saturday,  4-6  kids in our apartment including Joe & Tony (Prajval, Mithil, Vasisht and Sanvi were the others) had conducted a food fest sort of thing in our basement. They called it "Chillar party" or something like that...They do that every vacation to make some extra pocket money. They made bhel puri, lime juice , bhajji  etc and also conducted some games. They sell these for 5-10 bucks and the profit they finally made was only around 400-500 Rs. Last year, it was much bigger and they had divided the profit among themselves. I was under the impression that they are doing the same thing this year as well.

A thank you note from Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Couple of hours with the children @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Last Saturday (March 25, 2017), we bought all the items for school kits (notebooks, coloring books, geometry boxes, pencils, pens, erasers, sharpeners, crayons, pencil boxes, sketch pens, rulers etc)  required for one academic year for each of the 83 kids @ Snehadaan and handed it over to the children.  All the children in the Bangalore center are aged between 6 years and 12 years, and we got the items according to the age group. Initially we thought of creating separate kit for each kid, but then ditched that idea as shopping itself took little more than 4 hours !! We got good discounts as we bought it in bulk from Metro.

 

FInancial help for kidney transplantation | Raised 1 Lakh

We have raised 1 Lakh for this cause  (50 K from our account and 50K from Shyju's group) and they have confirmed that the money has been credited to their account.  You can find the initial details about this case here:-  http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.in/2017/02/rohan-roshan-mysore-financial-help-for.html

We had collected some additional details about both in the mean time and that's given below:

Orphanage/old age home @ Bannerghatta road

We visited a old age home/orphanage (bala yesu bhavan) from our church last Sunday and I'm trying to explore and see how we can help them further....We got the idea of school kits (that we gave to kids at snehadaan)  from this visit only...... I will keep you posted on this....

Here's some pics/video from that visit....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbWfo9PdJs

https://goo.gl/photos/r38b48y6XkNU1zAG9

School kits for the 83 kids living with HIV @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Dears,

Fr Jaison from Snehadhan has agreed for the proposal that we had put forward for helping the kids there.  We will buy 83 school kits (bag, books, pencil, pen, eraser etc) for the next academic year. Each kit will be worth 500 Rs (Approx). Thought it's a better idea than giving them money.

We are doing something similar for an Orphanage on Bannerghatta road from our church next week. We have few guys in church who has the Metro membership, so that we can purchase in bulk for a good deal.  I'm planning to purchase these 83 kits also along with that purchase and hand those over to Snehadhan next week itself.  Hope Bangalore guys (Sreeju, Jithu , Prasad) can me join me.

Please see the mail from Fr Jaison below:

-pulicken

Snehadaan | Financial support for HIV infected kids (Sneha Care Home)

Further to what I mentioned about Snehadaan in the earlier post,  we also discussed with them about the possibility of sponsoring a kid or may be buying them grocery for a week/month etc.  He said they normally buy in bulk from Yeswanthpur and he said we can either buy groceries and give it to them or we can give them the money and they will buy it in bulk.

He has not told anything clearly about sponsoring a particular kid. I will follow up with him on that and update this post once I get that information.

In the mean time, request you to go through the below write-up about Snehadaan and let us decide whether we should get involved.

Snehadaan | Support for solar water heating installation (Sneha Care Home)

Snehadaan is a center for providing Care and Support to the PLHIV (Kids Living with HIV) and training of health care personnel in the HIV/ AIDS care field. They are taking care of around 80+ kids in the Bangalore location itself.   

They also provides care, treatment & support for the sick, especially the marginalized sick. 

It's situated near Carmelaram (Bangalore). 

I came to know about them couple of years back when they came to our Church for fund raising by selling the candles made by the HIV infected children. I had helped them in my personal capacity at that point of time. 

We visited Snehadaan last Sunday (Feb 26, 2017).  We visited both palliative care and also saw the kids there. These kids are all HIV infected, and most of them don't have parents or/are rejected from the community. Kids in this location are from different parts of Karnataka and Tamilnadu.  They are doing an excellent job in taking care of them, giving value education and in skill development. 

Rohan & Roshan (Mysore) | Financial help for dialysis & kidney transplantation

Dear Anto, 

How are you? Hope everything goes fine there.

I would like to bring a family to your kind attention which I happened to hear long back. I take my full freedom to report to you because you and your companions are ever ready to dole out charity from your generous heart. Therefore, I thought of reporting the matter to you here.

This family consists of  mother and three children. Father was the bread earner of the family, who was working in B.S.N.L. He died due to heart attack. Unfortunately,  all the children are suffering from kidney failure. Among two of them lost their both the kidneys and are in need of immediate action of transplanting them at the earliest which demands a huge amount.

For our Renjith's daughter Manna | Raised 6.68 Lacks

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Antony Pulicken <antony.pulicken@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:06 PM
Subject: Manna  | Policy Details
To:

Just want to let you know that we have completed all the formalities.  It took a while as we had to go through some contact to ensure that the policy is taken as per the following requirements that we had :

School Fee for 9th standard girl (Chandana) - Jan 08, 2017

I Met Sr Rosemary @ Mysore yesterday and she conveyed that the girl (Chandana) that we helped last year is doing exceedingly well in her studies and other extra curricular activities.  As we discussed last year, I have promised Sr that we will pay her fee next academic year (2017-2018)  as well.

Last year the it  was around Rs 28,500  (school fee + uniform + books etc) and this year it will be slightly more (may be little more than 30K)

-pulicken