Dhaan Utsav Distribution

                                                                                      By Devi Priya

"In this life, there is no greater power than to smile, no beauty greater than a genuine smile " And what if we make others smile?

There really wouldn’t be any form of happiness above that.

In the same way, the team of ENLIGHTENING LIVES thought to bring some happiness to the children staying in the 'Divya Disha' orphanage at Sangareddy.  The team totally had 21 members and went there by 10.00 am. There were a total of 16 children present at that time. The team had quality time with the children spending nearly 2 hours over there, playing games like carroms, chess, cricket, badminton, etc.

                       

The team tried out to bring out the talents in the young minds by encouraging them to sing and even dance. The team was awestruck realizing the talent the young kids possessed. They were also a few who were fond of drawing and are keen on doing it.

Finally, the team had distributed the clothes collected by them during the Dhaan Utsav along with some fruits, snacks, books, and pens. As per their wish on the last visit, the team was asked to get a dictionary and a drawing book that was handed to them.

"True happiness comes only by making others happy "

                       

After this, the team visited the Mental ward at Sangareddy and donated the clothes collected as a part of Dhaan Utsav. The patients over there were overwhelmed and one of them expressed their gratitude towards us saying that "We have been wearing these clothes from so many days. These are worn out. We are happy to see you bring something better for us. Thank you so much" It was a delight for the team to hear such words.

The team gave the remaining clothes and accessories to the 'GOOD WILL', which is a place in Sangareddy where we can donate clothes and any kind of goods.

It was indeed a really pleasant experience for the team who got to meet a variety of people and making a lot of memories. The team felt utmostly satisfied with the activities they have done.

 "Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want but, it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you have"

Visit to the Blind School

                                                                            -By Spandana

There comes a point in life when we realize that, we need to appreciate the life we have and the privileges that we are exposed to. There are so many children who are deprived of basic needs. This was one such instance to the entire team of Enlightening Lives, who made a visit to Louis Braille Educational Society for the Blind on 16^th  February 2020.

This blind school is located in Narsapur, Medak district and is run by Mr.Prabhakar. Mr. Prabhakar takes care of the 21 blind students in his school and is himself blind. These children's everyday life is an enormous challenge. Living through each day and fighting through it empowers them to achieve greater things. We must appreciate their will power to go through their struggles.

                      

Nine girls and six boys from BVRITN have visited the school. So, to be of some help and support to them, we gathered things that could be put to some help for them. We had donated them a few basic necessities such as rice bags, clothes, accessories, stationery, and other food items. Apart from these, we had also contributed a few braille slates, stylus and papers as well. To keep them entertained Chess Boards, Snakes and Ladders and Ludo also were given.

                     

For the volunteers of Enlightening Lives, it was truly an eye-opening experience to spend quality time with these kids. Irrespective of what they go through in their daily life, the innocent smiles fail to leave their faces. The time spent playing and bonding with them made us realize that no matter what may come in our ways, being happy is important. Visiting Louis Braille Educational Society for the Blind made us realize the value of life and helped us connect with people. Let's be thankful for the days we have and the opportunity to live life to the fullest.

Dhaan Utsav, 2020

                                                           BY R.JYOTHSNASREE

 

Dhaan Utsav, the great opportunity to show gratitude and giveaway the true sense of giving and making lives better. It’s the week where we celebrate the joy of giving. Dhaan Utsav-India’s festival of giving started all over India by various NGO’s to celebrate the joy of giving and to show true essence with gratitude towards our life.

     The true impact of life is evolved by giving away to people who are in need with same initiative to lend our helping hands to needy Enlightening Lives started the week to celebrate joy of giving .The Utsav of giving and lending a hand to people who are in need went from 20-25^th January where we divided the whole week into a meaningful essence of helping needy and had covered BVRITN, VIPER and Vishnu School in Narsapur.

 On 20-21^st January “Give for Good” was organized where we have collected the accessories, clothes and other goodies from people to help out needy. This was done so that people would give away the reusable things to needy and make their lives better

On 22-24^th January “Change for Change” was conducted. The change develops and comes out truly from the individual itself and this was a small hope that we actualized in the people and society to be the change to live better and make lives better by being a helping hand.

On 24^th-25^th January to be bring out the wishes to people who are stricken by poverty and wish hard that someone could help them, we made a wish tree branching up their wishes into a beautiful tree listing out their wishes from various orphanages and blind school. 

As a part of this we tied up with one of the talented magician and kindest person in the college Avinash Varma of 3^rd Year, CSE and organized a close up magic show to raise the funds we are really thankful to him which ended to be really successful.

 Through out our true intension was to raise funds toward making lives of needy better and we raised about RS 14,450/- and other monetary from the students are still being counted.

  

The main initiative of Dhaan Utsav is to spread generosity among human kind as always it’s all about kindness, helpfulness, being selfless. Giving away to people can make tremendous effect because it is more blessed to give than to receive. 

The more you give of yourself the more yourself the more you find yourself through the week of Dhaan Utsav we make people realize the true essence of being human.

TRADITIONAL DAY, 2020

               

                                                                                            -BY R.Jyothsnasree
                      BVRITN has a culture of celebrating Traditional Day every year in which students cherish India’s diverse tradition and culture and it’s a great way of getting back to our traditions surviving modernized busy lives.

As a part of retrieving our traditions Enlightening Lives being a non-profitable NGO took an initiative to reclaim the Indian tradition of Dana and Dharma on the occasion of Traditional Day. Charity is one of the four pillars of Dharma. Daana is the cultivation of generosity and charity. Being selfless and giving back has always been the biggest part of Indian tradition.

Enlightening Lives always takes an initiative to connect college to charity and make the lives of needy better as a part of which we organized events on Traditional Day. Our idea was to raise funds in an entertaining and appealing way for the students so that they have their share of fun and memories while we can receive funds to make lives of needy better.

Practicing charity as a virtue is always part of tradition. We the team of Enlightening Lives through the events organized tried to restore the virtue of charity and serve the needy as much as we can as a part of traditional day.

We put up a photobooth where people can come and capture memories and smiles on the occasion with a registration fee of Rs.20 per head. We also organized Snake & Ladders where the registration fee of about Rs.50 to make the events fun and entertaining to the students. With all of this, once again it was proved that love and charity for human race is the test of true religiousness.

“We live, we make smiles, we donate, we initiate, it’s we who can make lives better and live better”

Blood Group Detection Camp, 2k19

                             

With a fresh restart this academic year, Enlightening Lives, the NGO started by the alumni of BVRIT is back with a boom!

The team of Enlightening Lives had organized it's the very first event of the year, the Blood Group Detection Camp on 24^th September 2019 at ED Hall 2^nd floor in Abdul Kalam Block, BVRIT Narsapur. Blood Group Detection Camp is a tradition that Enlightening Lives follows every year with two major intention. One is to help the students who are unaware of their blood groups to get them detected and second and the major reason is to raise funds to help the people in need. This is our way to serve a greater cause by providing equal benefit to the students.

Just like the previous years, Enlightening Lives collaborated with the students of Vishnu Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (VIPER) who lend a great helping hand to detect blood under the supervision of Dr.Nikhil, MBBS. Not just that, our college was a great support to us throughout and also sponsored for the medical kits. We charged a small amount of Rs.30 per person to get their blood group detected.

This year was a grand success with 512 registrations. Many faculty members and students voluntarily came forward to donate money as a small gesture from their side. Observing this made us realize that humanity and kindness still exist despite the rat race towards money and fame. At the end of the day, a record-breaking total of Rs.25000 was collected which will be distributed and used for the betterment of the society as a whole.

Lastly, the team of Enlightening Lives would like to thank the college, all the faculty members and students who came forward and added a new flavor to this event and helped us raise funds to help the needy.

“Be a part to make the society, be a part to live better”

Induction Day, 2k19

                                                                                     -Contributed by Sai Nithika

Enlightening Lives aims to create social awareness among the students about the struggles and hardships faced by several people in the society and to inculcate in them the humanity to help these people out. So, on the Induction Day 2k19 for Freshmen, the team of Enlightening Lives had conducted a session.

 Any session earns student's attention only if it is interactive. So, initially, we started by explaining the young minds what an NGO is.

An NGO stands for Non-Governmental Organization. These organizations aim for the betterment of society and are non-profitable. Keeping this as a main motive Enlightening Lives was started by students in the year 2010. Enlightening Lives have associated with various other organizations and work for the people in need.

Now that the freshmen are aware of what Enlightening Lives is, we took it forward to give them a better understanding by telling them the various events organized by us.

Enlightening Lives conduct blood donation camps and organize several fun activities like Rakhi stalls, Dhaan Utsav, etc. Later this money and goodies received are used for a good cause. Enlightening Lives aims at creating social awareness through various Campaigns and to provide education for the ones in short of money or facilities. 

Many misunderstand that to serve a greater cause, it takes a lot of effort and money. To clear this misunderstanding of the students, we told them our basic source of fund.

Every little ounce that you donate has a cause. Enlightening Lives gives transparency to all the money so that not a single rupee is wasted in the wrong way. Unlike other NGOs who are running around for funds, Enlightening lives came up with an idea which is out the box.

“One person one rupee one day”

A person donating one rupee every day can gather thirty rupees at the end of the month. Thousand such people can gather thirty thousand per month. In this way, without any burden, anyone can donate money.  

The students were also interested in the collaborations, the structure of an organization and its working. Their enthusiasm was appreciated and was given answers by Ranganadh, the President of Enlightening Lives.

Miss.Hanisha’s take on Enlightening Lives:

Enlightening Lives aims to provide a lending hand for those in need. Enlightening Lives have organized stalls and provided a donation to orphanages, they also donated a sum for alumni of 2011, provided scholarship for EEE students and conducted a scholarship test for students. They also offered money to Blind School, Narsapur and adopted Divya Disha Foundation, an orphanage in Sangareddy.

This interactive session ended on a good note with enthusiasm in the freshmen to serve a great cause and help in the betterment of society.

Fresh Restart of Enlightening Lives

                                                                                                                    - Contributed by Spandana

OUR MISSION

- - - - X

We believe in selfless actions and attaining peace through the elimination of selfishness. Creating social awareness among the students and helping them in building a better society is our main objective.

WHAT WE DO

- - - - X

Lending helping hand to the poor and the needy.

Organizing various programs to create social awareness.

“

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't

Wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you fill yourself with hope.

-Barack Obama 

”

HOW IT ALL STARTED

- - - - X

Our organization has started as a small initiative to help the poor and needy. In a world full of self-centered people, they are drifting away from basic mundane values. Enlightening Lives has taken up the responsibility to regain humanity from its very roots, starting from the young minds of our nation, The Youth.

It was started on 12th June 2010 with 20 volunteers at BVRIT, Narsapur and soon started expanding which lead to being recognized by the government as an NGO in 2011.

It started as an initiative to create social awareness about the suffering faced over the world. In this process the student’s strife to make a better society.

OUR PREVIOUS WORKS

- - - - X

In 2011, Candle march was organized to express deep condolences to all the people who lost their lives in a natural disaster in Japan.

In the year 2015, Enlightening Lives adopted Divya Disha orphanage and have taken it as a challenge to meet the basic needs of the kids present there and to help brighten their future.

Among the various fundraisers, the 5k Marathon held in 2015 helped serve the needs of various orphanages.

Career counseling programs for kids above 8th grade have been organized in 20 schools for 178 rural kids with the help of 215 coordinators and over 180 books were donated.

EVENTS

- - - - X

Blood Group Detection Camp is one of the very first events of Enlightening Lives which aims at raising funds by providing a benefit to the students that come forward. We help students detect their blood groups and in return charge a small amount which will be put for the help of the needy.

DhaanUtsav celebrations have become a major part of Enlightening Lives. It is a week-long donation program or the "Joy of Giving" week, generally conducted from in the month of October every year, where funds, clothes, and other materials are collected and then distributed to various orphanages in Hyderabad.

Not only this, Enlightening Lives has also shown active participation in events like Annual Day celebrations by organizing various stalls and conducting fun activities like bubble shoot, thumbola and much more.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

- - - - X

Enlightening Lives aims at making students realize that every small effort from their side counts. Our organization is very transparent and here is what you can do if you wish to help us.

Per day an amount of Rs.1 is collected voluntarily from students which sum up to a total of Rs.30 each month. The total funds are then distributed to orphanages to meet their basic needs