Ash"win" krishna

This idea is hovering in my mind from few months. I have written this entry in NGO Post and it has been marked as one of the TOP stories of the website. You can read the same here

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“Why cant people after retirement from their career life get into social sector?”

After retirment (The sarkari naukari restricts every Indian to work till 58 Years. Correct me If am wrong in number ), people will be usually sitting idle in home. I know people want to call it retired life and they want a relaxed life. Agreed.

But how many days they want to relax? They can sign up for voluntary work, They can start something very small which will impact society. For example: Recite stories for maild’s son/daughter. People say “charity starts from home”. For me making a difference to ones life is social responsibility but NOT charity.

One of my friends dad is a retired guy. He takes free tution classes for deserving students (For tenth standard and II PUC). I was amazed by his simplicity and energy. What he says is “Lets do our bit for society and leave the rest to almighty”. What if every Indian thinks on the same lines?

I found this is as a very powerful thought. The best part is retired folks will be very experienced and knowledgeble.The amount of patience which our elders have is laudable. Why should this knowledge and experience just get stagnated. It should be passed on to next generations. In this fast moving world, we are losing our identity and tradional values which were regarded as the core of our society. The need of the hour is to transfer all of the good stuff from our elder generations to ours and younger generations.

Lets consider a bank official who had worked for 25+ years. If he can mentor few youth who are taking up banking exams or something like that, It might be change the whole course of life for those youth.

I am thinking of a plan for the NGO(http://divyadeepatrust.org) which I am associated. Bringing granny, grandfathers and our school children together. They can recite moral stories to children and spend some quality time with little angels. Their Life will gain so much meaning and they will also have lot of fun with kids

Encourage your fathers, mothers, aunties and uncles for signing up for small things which they like to do. Encourage them to take up stuff which they have performed. Lets say they were an accountant, request them to sign up for finance related taks for NGOs.

If WE think about bringing CHANGE is our responsibility, We can see the Shining India, outsmarting so called developed countries.

WE Hope. WE should. WE can. WE will