dear friends
Mr Parthiban, Mr Devanathan and few software engineers across the country were undergoing training at Infosys Training Centre at Bangalore during October 2007. During a week end, some of them went for a Tamil movie in a Bangalore Theatre. The movie portrayed the sufferings of common men in Chennai City due to the growth of IT Companies. The film conveyed that due to few thousands of software engineers, the rental value and other prices had gone up, causing huge hardship to other millions of poor people. The film also showed a person, who migrated from Chennai City to a town 100 km away, due to hike in house rents, without any increase in his personal income.
While returning from the cinema, these young software engineers started discussing about the theme of the movie and decided to do something for the society. Next day, they shared their views with other 350 software engineers who were under training. All of them agreed to do something to the society.
Parthiban, Devanathan and their team during that week, visited a nearby orphanage 'Nele' and decided to celebrate Diwali with those children, during that time. Next day, they collected Rs.50,000/- from these 350 trainees towards supporting some social cause.
Meanwhile, brother of one of the trainees hailing from a very poor family had some serious health problem and she needd around 35,000/- immediately. These boys shared 34,000/- to her and bought rice and other requirements for Rs.16,000/- and handed over to the orphanage 'Nele'. They spent the Diwali with those children.
With the pleasure and happiness derived out of their help to the needy, these boys decided to form a group to support poor people. An organisation 'Swarg' (meaning Heaven) was born informally. The training got over within few days. All the trainees were sent to different locations of the company.
Suddenly the boys felt that they were all separated. They were worrying as to how to carry on with their activities, when people are in different place. Suddenly, an idea came into their young and enthusiastic minds. They wanted to convert this 'disadvantage' into an 'advantage'. Instead of worrying over the separation of the trainees, they thought, they would spread the wings to all other places. 'Swarg' was formed in four states, with those active participants.
Now 'Swarg' is operating in 5 locations in 4 States. They have introduced a scheme for providing 'Swage Scholarship Scheme' to help the poor children. They focus on education. Now after one year and few months of their experience, they decided to register Swarg as a Trust. They are going to launch their trust and their website on 9th May at Chennai. Now, they have more than 500 members, mostly from Infosys and few from other companies. The members contribute personally for the projects undertaken by them. Within this short span of one year, they have helped around 100 persons under different projects, with money outlay of Rs.3 lakhs.
When the young boys Parthiban and Devanathan met me today, I was highly impressed with their commitement. They want to start a 'library' for poor professional students and also support the poor children at primary education level.
They have also joined our group. I welcome them to this group. Let us wish them all the best in their future endeavours.
Srinivasan
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