Raksha Delivered- Raksha Bandhan 2020

                                                                                           -By Akshay Joshi

                                               BANDHAN

                                        DELIVER THE LOVE!

Raksha Bandhan, a festival, a day where brothers take a promise to protect their sisters. Taking this protection to the next level, expanding the boundaries of protection to an unknown place but a place where there are brothers and sisters from other mothers lead their lives! Enlightening Lives has organized yet another fundraising activity, once again amidst pandemic!

As said earlier, the expanded boundary of protection reached Sishugruha, an orphanage in Sangareddy. With a noble intension to help the orphans leading their lives under hard conditions and struggling to survive in this Pandemic, Enlightening Lives collaborated with a Rakhi artist, Who carved personalised names on Rakhis. When this news reached the student masses, there was a huge demand flowing for these Rakhis. With every Rakhi being brought, an amount required to feed a toddler was being raised. Even with a huge success of Bandhan, Enlightening Lives had to end it with RakshaBandhan being on the troth.

 

POLAROID

Polaroid is a sister contest that was conducted along with Bandhan! Polaroid contest was also conducted with the same intension as Bandhan! In polaroid contest, Photos of students with their siblings were asked to send, with a minimum donation of 50/- but a few pupils with bigger hearts donated more than the minimum amount! Pictures sent by the pupils were posted on the Instagram page. Participants were asked to fill out a google form, which had some funky questions related to sibling fun, and after going through all answers given by all the participants, a winner will be chosen and the winner will receive a wonderful gift from Enlightening Lives. Polaroid ended on the 5 of August with 17 participants and the winner is awaited!

With the amount raised form both Bandhan and Polaroid, Enlightening Lives donated the Orphanage, the food supply for a month…The representative who went to the orphanage on behalf of the enlightening lives says she is absolutely overwhelmed by the happiness she saw in the eyes of those children!

 Enlightening Lives express its heartful gratitude for everyone who donated for the welfare of a brother from another mother and a sister for another brother!