I am a student of SIMSR, and I belong to the Social cell of this college. Its a pleasure and a privilege to be a part of this group.
We at Somaiya social cell, are a group of people who are tryng to make a difference. We believe that any difference, however little or big, is significant - as long as it helps to enrich somebody's life. We believe in equality, empowerment of the society, and social responsibility of every individual. It is these values that has brought us together. It is for them, that we get together, form groups, and think of projects to do that could help some part of the society.
I will now write briefly about few of our major projects. The first is Warli. Warli is a small village, about 150km from Mumbai. The members of this project travel there once in a month to meet the local artists there, who make some beautiful and special paintings. Our members take responsibilty to market these paintings in the city, sell them, and help the local artists. This is one of our most successful projects. Warli paintings are also sold at stalls conducted by us during special ocassions in colleges, malls etc.
Pehel - This project is a step to empowerment of the childeren belonging to lower income group families. I am an active member of this project. We work together to educate the children of construction workers in our campus. We teach them English, Maths and Hindi. Many of these children's parents cannot afford to send them to English medium schools. It is a challenging and a critical project, and I have learned a lot personally, from this project.
Sahas - this is a project that aims at helping women afflicted by AIDS or HIV+ women by teaching them vocational courses so that they can earn their livelihood and lead an independent life. I must say here - it is very disappointing, to know that even though India is in the 21st century, and dreams of being a superpower, the stigma against employment of HIV+ and AIDS afflicted patients exist. This is truly one of the social evils in the society.
SMS - This project aims at selling products made by blind workers, widows, and eco friendly products and handing over the proceeds to them. This project was hugely successful at selling Eco-friendly Ganeshas during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in late sptember'2009.
In addition to these long term projects, Social cell at Somaiya also has undertaken other short term projects, like clean up of the Juhu beach last year.
We believe that to be a successful manager, in addition to studies, it is essential to gain some first-hand experiance of handling projects, innovation, logistics etc. Social Cell gives us a way to achieve this. Also, to be successful in one's life, what is most important, is to be a good human being. To be someone, who can think compassionately about other people, understand them, and try to resolve their problems. Someone, who can look at the world in an objective way, and make it a better place. As the Gita tells us, wealth only comes to one who uses it for the betterment of people. Happiness comes to the person who strives to make people around him\her happy. That is the true aim of an MBA, and that is what we at social cell hope to achieve.
We at Somaiya social cell, are a group of people who are tryng to make a difference. We believe that any difference, however little or big, is significant - as long as it helps to enrich somebody's life. We believe in equality, empowerment of the society, and social responsibility of every individual. It is these values that has brought us together. It is for them, that we get together, form groups, and think of projects to do that could help some part of the society.
I will now write briefly about few of our major projects. The first is Warli. Warli is a small village, about 150km from Mumbai. The members of this project travel there once in a month to meet the local artists there, who make some beautiful and special paintings. Our members take responsibilty to market these paintings in the city, sell them, and help the local artists. This is one of our most successful projects. Warli paintings are also sold at stalls conducted by us during special ocassions in colleges, malls etc.
Pehel - This project is a step to empowerment of the childeren belonging to lower income group families. I am an active member of this project. We work together to educate the children of construction workers in our campus. We teach them English, Maths and Hindi. Many of these children's parents cannot afford to send them to English medium schools. It is a challenging and a critical project, and I have learned a lot personally, from this project.
Sahas - this is a project that aims at helping women afflicted by AIDS or HIV+ women by teaching them vocational courses so that they can earn their livelihood and lead an independent life. I must say here - it is very disappointing, to know that even though India is in the 21st century, and dreams of being a superpower, the stigma against employment of HIV+ and AIDS afflicted patients exist. This is truly one of the social evils in the society.
SMS - This project aims at selling products made by blind workers, widows, and eco friendly products and handing over the proceeds to them. This project was hugely successful at selling Eco-friendly Ganeshas during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in late sptember'2009.
In addition to these long term projects, Social cell at Somaiya also has undertaken other short term projects, like clean up of the Juhu beach last year.
We believe that to be a successful manager, in addition to studies, it is essential to gain some first-hand experiance of handling projects, innovation, logistics etc. Social Cell gives us a way to achieve this. Also, to be successful in one's life, what is most important, is to be a good human being. To be someone, who can think compassionately about other people, understand them, and try to resolve their problems. Someone, who can look at the world in an objective way, and make it a better place. As the Gita tells us, wealth only comes to one who uses it for the betterment of people. Happiness comes to the person who strives to make people around him\her happy. That is the true aim of an MBA, and that is what we at social cell hope to achieve.
Wish this sense of charity,a virtue of heart stays with u on & on.....!!
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