Stranger Things

 

As the year started to wind up and with Christmas around the corner, here’s what Enlightening Lives did.

Christmas is a celebration of giving and sharing. Keeping this in mind we tried to emphasise this motto and organised an event. A week before Christmas i.e on the 19th of December, a fundraising event was organised. As a part of this, participants were asked to donate one hundred and ninety-nine rupees and wait for a surprise Christmas gift and a positive note from a stranger(who is also a participant in the event). Certainly, the concept excites a lot of students and as soon as the posters and registration links were released, students enrolled in good numbers and generously donated for welfare activities and received their Christmas gifts and special notes from a stranger. The year 2020 was indeed full of hurdles and difficulties. But at  Enlightening Lives, we helped a few throughout the year and did our part in reaching out to those in need. We pledged to continue the help for years to come.

Diwali in your words

On the 9th of November, on the occasion of Diwali, Enlightening Lives wanted to light up every home with happiness and joy and hence it organized an event. Participants in this event were asked to write to us what this festival meant to them and received very creative and beautiful pieces of writing describing the importance of this festival. 

The stories we got painted a beautiful picture of the festival in the reader's mind. Each of the participants donated a minimum of fifty rupees to take part in the contest. Even though people couldn't meet up physically, this paved a new way for students to express their thoughts while parallelly helping someone. The funds raised were used for the welfare of the needy. Surely the donations made lit up somebody’s home this Diwali

Never Retreat

On the 30th of August, Enlightening Lives donated a sum to a needy man... Ramulu, a 63-year-old man was fighting for his life after being met with an accident on the 30th of August. He got admitted to a hospital in Nizamabad, he was diagnosed with a clot in the brain and the major issue was his ribs were seriously injured making it difficult for him to breathe and was on ventilator support. Doctors of that hospital were demanding huge amounts of money for his treatment. His son Sanjeev was unable to afford such an amount of money for his father's survival and then when he approached Enlightening Lives for help. The core team held a meeting and decided to donate from the organization’s treasure. This decision was taken understanding the seriousness and urgency of the situation. Sadly, Ramulu did not survive despite undergoing surgery. 

Saving a Life!

 On the 21st of August 2020, Enlightening lives started a fundraising campaign, intending to save a life. Here is its briefing. Praveen is a 22-year B.Tech undergraduate from KITS Warangal, who was fighting his life with cancer. He was undergoing chemotherapy. His bone marrow was also to be transplanted and one other typical cancer treatment. All of these cost around Twenty Lakh Rupees. Praveen’s family were in a situation where they weren’t able to afford this. They were able to collect around 5 Lakh Rupees through a crowdfunding organization. Enlightening Lives decided to contribute its part in saving Praveen’s life. A campaign was started and funds began to flow in. With the tireless effort of Enlightening Live’s Core and its volunteers, within no time Enlightening Lives donated a life-saving amount to help Praveen. Enlightening Lives promised any further help to Praveen and his family. We consider this campaign as one of the pleasing and worthy donations Enlightening Lives made. 

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!

Vruksha Sampadha 2020

 

                                 -By Sai Nithika

Right now, we are in the midst of a pandemic. This is the right time for us to rediscover ourselves and to fix our busy lives. And the first step to achieve this serenity is by planting a plant. Plants are the source of our energy; they are the source of the beauty in this world and most importantly they are the source of our life.

“If speaking kindly helps a plant to grow, imagine what speaking kindly can do to humans”. Plants have many lessons to teach us. They give us food, air to breathe, and nature to rekindle us. And yet we kill them to satisfy our own greed.  As compensation to the atrocities we made to this nature we can compensate for the reparations by planting a sapling.

We the team of enlightening lives came up with an initiative to plant trees. Planting a sapling gives us happiness, but we made it more fun by adding the present generation tint and that is “vruksha sampada”.

This year we're going to start a sapling plantation program at your place!

All you've to do is

-Plant a sapling.

-Click a picture of yourself and the sapling.

-Upload this in your Instagram story and tag us el_bvrit .

-Use hashtag #enlighteninglives

-Nominate your friends.

-We'll upload your pictures in our Instagram page.

"He who plants a tree plants a hope" so let's give hope to our future generations by planting trees. Change starts with us so let’s be the key to a greener planet.

Fundraiser Event - Art Contest

                                                                                 -By Sai Nithika

Sketch the art competition

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen” said Leonardo da Vinci. In order to enlighten the creative side in the people, we the team of "Enlightening lives" are organizing an "Art contest" as a fundraiser event and thereby, putting our efforts to come handy for the people who are unable to afford basic necessities this pandemic. This competition is conducted to bring back those nostalgic memories when you used to doodle as a child. Sharpen your brains and put all your imagination on the paper. All you need to do is donate a minimum of 50/- to be eligible to participate in this contest. People who are willing to help us can donate even more. Details regarding this contest:

•  Take a photo of your drawing or screenshot of the payment and they must be sent to this mail el_bvrit@bvrit.ac.in  Don’t forget to write your details like name, Instagram id, age, description of your picture. Pictures must be emailed before 21 of May,2020. Pictures will be posted on enlightening lives Instagram page @el_bvrit so don't forget to follow our page. The picture with most likes will be declared as a win (tip: share your post to as many people as you can).  The top three most liked pictures will be declared as winners.  All the contestants who won are honoured by posting their pictures in our blog symbolizing their valuable help and donation for the welfare of people.  Online certificates are given to all the participants.      

                       

The winners of the contest were:

1. V.Madhav Reddy
2. S.Rohitha
3. G.Hrithika

Despite the fear of the pandemic, enlightening lives planned to do something creative and that is this "Art contest". This is a wonderful way to create awareness among people alongside helping those who need help. This is how we brought a smile on many people's faces in this pandemic.

Gentle reminder from enlightening lives team:

• Make sure to maintain social distancing.  Stay indoors and go out only if it is a necessity.  Keep yourself clean by washing your hands frequently and cleansing with sanitizer. Don’t forget to wear a mask when you go out.  Also don’t spread rumours on social media regarding this pandemic. Most importantly have faith and spread some love to this world.