Samvedna Results

A big thanks to everyone who participated and congrats to the winners. The winners are as follows:

Posters:

1st Prize: Sunny Pagdiwala & Aarohi Shah

2nd Prize: Meghna Pandey & Pankaj Gupta

Write-ups:

1st Prize: Meghna Pandey & Pankaj Gupta

2nd Prize: Saurabh Bhasin & Kumar Abhimanyu

1st prize winning Samvedna poster

1st prize winning Samvedna Write-up

"Chotu zara chai lana", how many times have you caught yourself saying this? How many times have you looked out of the window of your car, dropped a rupee into the hands of that half naked kid at the traffic signal and cursed the government and the child rights organizations for making lofty promises? How many times has someone asked you about the best days of your life and you haven't thought of your school or college?

We take too many things for granted in life because we can afford to do so. We cannot think beyond our premises. But certain things prick our conscience and at occasions mentioned above, we probably place ourselves in the not so comfortable shoes and what do we do then? We form trusts and organisations, not to free these children from shackles but to help liberate our own conscience. We redeem ourselves by ‘Donating’, our perception of magnanimous charity and then forget about everything else. Ever wondered what happens to all the money spent? Ever wondered whether it is money that Chotu actually needs?

A warm gesture, a gentle touch and an encouraging smile are all something we relate to normalcy but not for Chotu, for him it is just an aberration, just something a large-hearted customer obliged him with. We need to bridge this gap, this disparity in the perception of normalcy and deviation. The onus is on us to stand up for emancipation and not just rant about it.

Instructions for Samvedna

Please find the Samvedna contest rules and pictures below. Your entries should be strictly based on one or more of the issues highlighted in the 5 pictures that has been given to you. Also it is very important to note that your entry should be to motivate people for a particular cause or to fight against a social problem and not merely on the problem.

Eg: If child labour is one of the issues raised in the pictures, your entry should focus on how to motivate people to fight against child labour or how to overcome this problem rather than on child labour.

Most importantly, your write-up or poster should not be a mere assortment of words or pictures respectively. Your entry should communicate a strong and coherent message.

Samvedna contest rules

MADF presents before you the Samvedna contest. Each of the given pictures stands for a relevant social issue. Lend your voice and make these pictures talk!

Following are the guidelines for the contest:

• Entries can be in the form of WRITE-UPS OR POSTERS OR BOTH.
• Entries have to be based on one or more of the issues addressed in the pictures given.
• The entries should be such that they motivate people to take initiatives and fight for the social cause depicted.
• You are permitted to form teams of one or two members maximum.
• No person can be part of more than one team.
• Only one entry is permitted per team.

Format Specifications:

• If you are sending in a write-up, it should be in MS Word Doc format and should not exceed
a word limit of 250 words. Entries exceeding the limit would be disqualified.
• If you are sending in a poster, it should be in JPEG format.
• Name of the file should be WriteUp_rollnum for write-ups or Poster_rollnum for posters
(The roll number of any one of the team members would suffice)
• The entries are to be mailed to madf@imt.edu
• The subject of the mail has to be MADF Contest_rollnum (The roll number of any one of the
team members would suffice)
• The body of the mail should clearly specify the contact details of the team members including roll numbers.

Decision of the judges shall be final and binding and questions in this regard will not be entertained. MADF reserves the right to use your entries in any of its publications.

There is no entry fee for the event.

The deadline for the contest is 05-07-08, 23:59:59 and the results will be announced during the
MADF Open House.

Prizes and certificates to be given away! Hurry!

For any queries please contact:

Tripti 9910194578 tripti30@gmail.com
Rakesh 9911962668 rakeshv4all@gmail.com

MADF Samvedna Contest

The details of MADF Samvedna contest will be launched on the website by 6pm on 03/07/2008. All the details are also available on the notice put up on the notice board in front of the mess. Please refer to the same.

Republic Day Initiative

Conceptualized and set rolling by the senior members of Make A Difference Foundation (MADF) and carried forward by the juniors, clothes distribution was slated to be the Republic Day initiative at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (IMT) for the year 2008. In fact it also turned out to be the first MADF activity of the new year. A group of second year MADF members actively involved themselves in the collection of usable clothes, with an aim to distribute it to the poor and needy in the town of Ghaziabad. The clothes collection drive, held over a few days, witnessed the students contributing generously and in large numbers to the cause; they filled up the huge card-board box kept on the greens beside the mess in no time. On a lighter note, the box with a scare-crow kept beside, beckoning the students with a “Clothes Here” board induced many a smile, besides keeping away birds!

Roughly around a hundred clothes were collected from the students, ranging from shirts and jeans to ladies wear. The heartening fact was that most of the clothes were in excellent condition and were not ones anywhere close to being termed as worn-out. At this point, MADF would like to extend its heart-felt gratitude to those who responded with such warmth to the call to contribute to the betterment of their less privileged brothers and sisters. We are indeed touched.

A few days before the occasion of Republic Day, the MADF team personally visited a slum in RDC, Raj Nagar to inform them about the clothes distribution initiative. We also got in touch with several of the cycle-rickshaw drivers in and around Sector 10 and RDC for the same. On the Republic Day, a stall was put up outside the IMT main gate for the distribution purpose. On the culmination of the official Republic Day celebrations, our director Mr. B.S. Sahay himself came to the stall to start off the initiative by handing over the first set of clothes to the needy hands that received them. He was followed by S.K. Singh Sir and Prusty Sir from whom the MADF members took over and completed the task of distribution.

This January 26 marks 58 years since India’s transition from a British dominion to a republic and we at MADF, feel immense pride and honour at having been able to serve the society in our own way by distributing clothes and spreading smiles on this joyous occasion. We would like to once again thank the students at IMT for their generosity. We also extend our gratitude to S.K. Singh Sir for his guidance and to NavBharat Times and Sky News who covered the event.

Fact is that, even after over half a century since independence, roti, kapda and makaan undoubtedly remain the greatest needs of the under-privileged Indian and empowerment, perhaps is the only true answer as MADF has always believed; but, if our initiative has been a relief in this bone-chilling and merciless winter to atleast a few of the fellow humans around us, we believe that by clothing them with the warmth of love and concern we have indeed made a difference.