Nayi Raahein continued!

Guys, the response to my previous post has been overwhelming! THANK U! I could not touch upon the most amazing aspects of the school in my last post. So here it is.

Nayi Raahein has been doing phenomenon work and we have been experimenting a lot at the school. Thats perhaps the best part about having a small system in one's own home town! Its easy to implement your ideas, and you get faster results, at least that's what happened here!

Now, we have been lucky in the initial phase as we did not have any funding constraints. But donations are like monsoons,they dwindle with recession, wedding seasons and what not! We wanted to inculcate a feeling that each one who is able has a duty towards those who are not.

We started holding seminars in other schools telling the kids about this venture. We even brought the monitors of every class to Nayi Raahein to interact with the children. Then we insisted the Students, who belonged to well off families, to bring their previous day's newspaper from home and submit it to their class teachers.

The students were so involved that within the next one month, we had sold a lot of scrap. This was so much better than donations for the students now valued their state of being more, they knew that there were others far less blessed. But then over the weeks, the collection kept on decreasing. We had to device some way to keep students motivated, and we wanted to involve the parents and teachers as well! This is what we came up with:

A Weekly Newsletter! This two page newsletter contained the class photograph of most consistently involved class and original articles/paintings/drawings of the children from that class along with some tips for the parents like how to proactively know if your kids is into bad company, best practices n all that.
It also acted as a free publicity engine for the school.

The results were better than expected. Not only did students bring newspapers regularly, the school invested the best teachers in editing the articles. We eventually decided to run such campaigns in all schools of Hisar to reach out some 15000 school kids. The campaign is still on the run. I hope the ideas shared will help budding ventures in fund raising.

Thanks for all the encouragement! Have a great time! Bbye!!