Help the Visually Challenged Celebrate Diwali

Diwali is probably the most popular and well known of all Indian festivals. With different styles of celebration, rituals and traditions in different parts of India, this festival is well loved and welcomed in every Indian home. And every home is happy for Diwali. But Diwali is more about the spirit of giving than receiving. There are a lot of Visually Challenged children who love to celebrate in the way we do in our homes.

Indian Association for the Blind (lAB), based in South India is a well-known non-profit organization working to provide education, employment, training and rehabilitation for the visually challenged from rural areas. Late Mr. S.M.A.Jinnah, the visually challenged activist and a group of like-minded visually challenged people founded IAB in 1985.

Since its inception, IAB has educated and rehabilitated more than 23700 visually challenged children and youths mainly from rural areas of Tamil Nadu. This drive helped us to raise funds by $647. Thanks to all the philanthropists who gave hands to raise this much.

Let's take a look at some ways in which you can make Diwali special for the less fortunate.

• Give gifts to the needy - This is a very good way of receiving blessings from Goddess Laxmi and earning goodwill at the same time. Being generous with clothes, giving away some food or old toys to needy people will truly make you feel better this Diwali.
• Donate to a cause - Keeping in the spirit of Diwali, try and make a donation to some cause. India has a lot of issues and many NGOs are struggling hard with problems like education, domestic violence, rehabilitation, women's issues, etc. Making a small donation will surely bring a smile to many faces. 

Thus, with a few tiny actions, you will find true peace and happiness this Diwali. After all, you will have lit up more lives than just your own! The fact is this is achievable through Global Giving and we feel very thankful to the philanthropists who support us for the cause.

We look forward to raising more for this cause. As always, we, along with GlobalGiving, will do our best in reaching out to generous donors across the Globe and will strive to bring happiness on the face of each of our beneficiaries.

Links:

• http://www.theiab.org