MAY 2013 - Monthly Update from Kehi Garoun

Quotation of the month

Only the individual can change, not the mass -  "I am talking to the individual because only the individual can change, not the mass; only you can transform yourself, and so the individual matters infinitely. I know it is the fashion to talk about groups, the mass, the race, as though the individual had no importance at all, but in any creative action it is the individual who matters. Any true action, any important decision, the search for freedom, the inquiry after truth, can only come from the individual who ....is trying to understand ...a creative entity, a free person, unconditioned, capable of pursuing truth for itself and not for a result." - JK

Month's Highlight

• We distributed stationery to the area coordinators of 25 schools.  
  
• We carried out a stationery program impact discussion among teachers.
  
• We also developed a Marketing Plan to expand our outreach in 2013. 
  

Photo Stories

Stationery Impact Discussion Program, Adarsha School- Naxal

First Phase Stationery Distribution

Institutional Updates

• Inflow  of Rs. 300,000 (includes Rs. 137,500 loan to print notebooks) against outlfow of Rs 220,000 (includes an electricity back-up system (Rs 31,000) and monthly payment of an office projector (Rs 10,000)).
• Ankit Acharya has joined Kehi Garoun Team as a full time volunteer.  Karan Pratap Shah, an intern from Symbosis, completed his tenure of 1 month, and gifted printed marketing material to Kehi Garoun.  

Lives that we touched.

Monika Sunuwar is a beautiful eleven years old girl studying in grade five in Kanya Mandir School.  She never brought tiffin to the school...used to tolerate hunger because she knows if she asks her mother for tiffin, her mother will be hurt since she is struggling to earn a smooth living. 

Monika's father passed away when she was an infant.  They lived at her maternal uncle's house during the initial year but Monika's mother decided to come to Kathmandu to do something, and worked in a cloth factory, and remarried another man.  That man left when her mother was pregnant with his child. (read more)

Change Maker

Sujan Kumar Shrestha, Change Maker of the Month (May 2013)

Sujan Kumar Shrestha is a Deputy Sales Manager in Marketing Department in Asain Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.  (Solar Division). He lives in Samakhusi, Kathmandu.  

He came to know Kehi Garoun through Miru Vaidya, who serves in our compliance team.  He facilitated and encouraged Miru Vaidya to give a presentation to the pharma's professionals.  After an engaging discussion with the professionals, Miru collected more than Rs. 46,000 to sponsor students with stationery needs. This amount supported more than 65 students.  

He also visited Adarsha school to distribute stationery to some children, and participated in the 'impact discussion' with teachers.  Touched by the stories he heard, he pledged to support teachers to hold a 'Happy Tummy Campaign' against intestinal worms.  He admits that he is very happy to be a part of Kehi Garoun whilch offers him way to contribute to social uplifting while using his professional skills and network.