By Wilma Correa | Donor Development & Communication Manager
Catalysts for Social Action(CSA) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to create a brighter future for children under institutional care. With an objective to create an awareness & importance of Joy of Giving CSA held a series of 'Daan Utsav' (Joy of Giving) events across all our location offices in Mumbai, Pune, Odisha, Goa & Madhya Pradesh.
Joy of Giving or DaanUtsav is a movement that seeks to inculcate the ‘giving’ habit in individuals. JoG is not an organization; nor an NGO. Individual volunteers promote the cause and encourage people to initiate acts of giving leading to some societal change-no matter how small.
The choice of the ‘Giving’ act as also, its recipient is the decision of the individual/group. As an organisation that believes in giving back, CSA decided to spread awareness & get involved in the JoG movement this time a little differently compared to the past years.
Children living in CCI’s are always receivers. From the day they are admitted to CCI, they are given basic necessities. They are usally at the receiving end and fail to have an experience/ opportunity of joy of giving. So this Joy of Giving week, we gave them an opportunity to experience giving in different CCI’s from Goa, Maharashtra, Odisha & Madhya Pradesh, where the CCI children actually played the role of a giver and experienced the joy of giving. the event hashtag was #WeGiveToo!
Children from one of our Mumbai CCIs had an emotional engagement with a cancer hospital which was a special experience where they interacted with children at the hospital, gave them colourful joy of giving bands with drawing books & crayons, snacks.
Children from other Mumbai & Odisha CCIs visited service departments fire brigade, bank, traffic police just to make them feel special by felicitating them with thank you cards, sweets and gifts.
Few special events were planned in order to fulfil few things from children’s wish list like;
Fruit box installation - A simple way to create awareness of JoG - encouraging people to donate fruits instead of donating fast food & sweets.
Book box installation - This was again an idea where children can receive school materials.
Wall Painting Activity - Every child will paint a wall with a good message, which will also renew the walls & children got an opportunity to show their talent as well.
Self Defence training - Our trained children made other children stronger by training them for self-defence.
Few locations also planned the Joy of Giving in a way to educate children by celebrating “Mentoring Day”.
This Daan Utsav has been an enriching experience for all the children & left them with fond memories!
By Shraddha Gaikwad | Marketing and Communication
By Wilma Correa | Donor Relations & Communication Manager
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