Friday, December 21, 2012

We Demand Stricter Laws For Women Safety and Against Rapists

Volunteering for a BETTER India - A place where Women and Men both live with Dignity and Safety


YOUR  voice is VALUABLE and the Max Count will take it to action...
You have been liking posts at multiple places.This common petition Multiplies your effect.
As this is an important issue for all, please invite / share to your friends also



https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/strictest-law-against-rape-for-women-safety




Women help line numbers :
Delhi : 01123317004, 23317002, 23411091
DCW Helpline : 23379181, 23370597
Transport Helpline: 9604-400-400

Important Contact no.:
· DCP Night Duty Delhi Police Hotline – +91 875 0870 099
· Police Control room (Noida)– 8800199955, (0120) 2522023, 2518063, 2521420, 2528051 – 56
· Police Control room (Gurgaon)– 0124 2320100, 2316100
· Police Control room (All over India)– 100 (in case your phone can’t dial this add area code before 100 for example for Delhi 011 100)
44222222 or 44333222 is d no. of cabs with female drivers that have been started 4d safety of women, spread it 2all d girls around u! :)pass on the msg!delhi

Save these numbers in your cells to complaint against clods who don't have control over their actions/words and cross the line of appropriate manners.

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1. Be aware of your surroundings. Don’t let your guard down a. If things seem even a slight unsafe get out of that place immediately
2. Please trust and make good use of your 'gut feel' or 'intuition' or 'sixth sense' in each & every place and situation 
a. There will invariably be signs, however small or seemingly insignificant, that tell or alarm you that all is just not OK. You may not understand it or be able to analyze it consciously, but please do NOT ignore it. It is
your personal threat alarm beeping 
b. Make it a habit to read and notice these warning signs and go with your intuition to
quickly retract yourself, move out or immediately get away from potentially unsafe
situations
3. Don’t take eve teasing lightly
a. Raise your voice to gather a crowd
b. Don’t be afraid to hit the eve teaser and hit him hard if situation gets out of control. Carry
sprays.
4. As much as possible avoid late night travel using public transport
a. If avoiding is not possible then be sure to travel only on crowded bus
b. Avoid taking road side cabs
c. Avoid using a bus which has no passenger’s or less passenger’s
5. While using 2 wheeler be sure to wear helmet at all times (especially at night). Don’t
stop for any stranger
a. In case attacked, use your helmet to defend yourself
6. While driving a car:
a. Avoid parking at desolate area
b. Look inside the car especially the back seat before unlocking & entering
c. Lock the doors immediately after entering the car
d. Start the car & drive off rather then call someone. Calls can wait
e. Don’t give lift to strangers
f. Don’t stop your car for strangers, especially at night
g. Take known routes, avoid short cuts which you don’t know
7. While travelling at night don’t keep your phone in your hand
a. Remember phone is the first thing your attacker will throw away
b. Activate your speed dials which can be used
to dial numbers in emergency
c. Keep it in your pocket or at a place from where you can easily take it out & dial number
& leave it on
d. Once the number has been dialled start shouting & try to speak out your location so
that the other person can inform police about your location
e. If you have a smart phone then install emergency apps which can send sms to known
people & can even dial police no. in case of emergency
8. After getting dropped don’t stay outside to take a call
a. Take calls on your phone only when you have entered your home & not outside
9. If you feel that someone is following you immediately rush to a crowded place & if need
to be don’t be embarrassed to shout & gain attention
a. Don’t be embarrassed to share such things with your family & friends
10. In case you are in a sticky situation don’t be afraid to use anything in your hand to
defend yourself
a. Use keys, bottle even your purse to inflict damage to your attacker
11. Following are the most vulnerable areas to attack:
a. Use your knees to hit hard between the legs of the attacker
b. Using your fingers to poke hard in the eyes
c. Hitting front part of the neck on the Adams apple will leave him in a shock
d. Punching in the stomach will leave the attacker breathless & unable to chase you
e. Hitting hard in the chest area
12. In case you feel you are being stalked or regularly followed, don’t keep it to yourself
because what might be on lighter side now might become dangerous if not controlled
a. Seek help of friends & family
b. If need be approach police immediately
Important Contact no.:

· DCP Night Duty Delhi Police Hotline – +91
875 0870 099
· Police Control room (Noida)– 8800199955,
(0120) 2522023, 2518063, 2521420, 2528051 –
56
· Police Control room (Gurgaon)– 0124
2320100, 2316100
· Police Control room (All over India)– 100 (in
case your phone can’t dial this add area code
before 100 for example for Delhi 011 100)




P.S. Sorry friends, Could not decorate this post much.. but ensured you have valuable information in there...
Any help and support is appreciated...

Lets do it together!
Jai Hind.... :)

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A special Independence Day Message by Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam





Happy Independence day friends :)
Would like to thank all the helping hands (https://www.facebook.com/groups/weTheHelpingHands) who have been volunteering for tiny and big causes, whenever needed.. for the nation and the world, working towards making it a better place, with every effort of theirs.... Love you...Jai Hind!

P.S.: Kindly excuse the delay in response here sometimes - was on travel(will improve upon it :)) - Keep posting to us - every request / message on the blog,and FB group and email is read and suitable action is taken on it

and a special Independence Day Message by Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZFrEdWtes

http://we-the-helping-hands.blogspot.in/

Monday, November 28, 2011

Impact of a good and caring teacher



There are moments in your life when everyone leaves you!
The hand that holds you at that time is the most cherished one..

Have you had a teacher who has profoundly affected your life?

This video beautifully depicts one such case: the story of Edwin and Mrs. Chong.
Its been released as a commercial and is based on a true story, and released by the Ministry of Education, Singapore.








Friday, October 14, 2011

Followup-Journey to eliminate education inequity in India-Teach for India

#IGC2011 
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to our Fellows who have raised more than Rs. 70,000 for their classrooms in the India Giving Challenge!

Srinivasan Swaminathan Rs.1,24,068
Tarang Jatkar Rs. 96,843
Saurav Ghosh Roy Rs. 79,777
Let’s keep the momentum going until 20th October.


http://www.giveindia.org/iGive-teachforindia2011


Post Link: http://we-the-helping-hands.blogspot.com/2011/09/journey-to-eliminate-education-inequity.html

Friday, September 16, 2011

Journey to eliminate education inequity in India-Teach for India


‎'Education is the most powerful weapon with which we can change the world' said Nelson Mandela. 
While we work relentlessly toward eliminating educational inequity, we need your help too. 




Teach For India has pledged to raise 5 lakhs this year in the India GIving challenge.


Help us in our journey to eliminate education inequity in India. 


http://www.giveindia.org/iGive-teachforindia2011


Thursday, September 1, 2011

Parry deserves better! Dog Adoption

Dog Adoption - 


(from a message sent by a friend)-


7 year old Parry, a Spitz is in need of a home..his owner passed away..
and the rest of the family members say they are unable to take care of him. 


Parry has never been walked...has been chained for long hours all his life..


and totally deserves better! 


Pls pass on the word generously to help find him a new family...




No. to contact 9810560230.


[Pic arriving soon]

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Auction - Doing good for Japan


The posters (courtesy: Pandesign) as shown below are the 4 posters for 
fund raising for earthquake -struck Japan.

The collected money could be directly sent to UNICEF or some relief agency that's working in Japan. 

As the designer, Utpal Pande mentions
"Dear Friends, The money collected shall be handed over to charitable trusts working in Japan for relief work. The winning bidder shall be given all commercial print rights for the posters."

He may also choose to send the donation to a Relief agency of his/her choice (i.e.American Red Cross). The winning/bidder can chose to do that himself / herself and there isn't need to send money to Utpal Pande directly.
Once he gets a confirmation from an agency such as UNICEF, he shall send you the posters and also transfer copy rights to them.The winning bidder shall be given all commercial print rights for the posters.


You may view the posters at Pandesign

Please do feel free to write in...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Swasth Foundation - Call for support for Healthcare for the poor


Dear Friends,

Thanks for dropping by :)

I'll request you to support our effort in favour of Swasth Foundation which is working relentlessly towards providing Healthcare for the poor- you can do so by contributing at 

To know more about the cause, please read ahead...


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In the founder's own words:  

 

"Dear Friends,

Back in June 2008, we started Swasth India - a social business with a vision to provide for healthcare for the poor of India. The last 2 ½ yrs have been challenging, humbling and rewarding. When we started, we had, caught in our overconfidence, assumed that we could provide healthcare to a lot of poor lives very soon. We have moved forward, from idea to implementation, trying everything we first listed in powerpoints & excel sheets, and fixing details in the implementation - and now cover about 13,000 lives in our comprehensive health cover schemes.

However, we have been humbled by the challenges of offering product to the poor - keeping costs low that they can afford, and even when they can afford, convincing them on parting with their hard earned money. We have realized the the effort and learning that has to go into creating awareness about health insurance or preventive care. That led us to form Swasth Foundation in Feb 2009 - with the goal of providing for healthcare for the poor, by building some viable health systems model -
but also involving community & people at large to make it viable. Our motto is "All for Health".

Swasth Foundation currently runs a pilot health insurance scheme in Latur (called "Arogya Suraksha") where we do the last mile community reach directly, supports community health workers in Washim district (as part of a comprehensive health product offering to people), provided health care services to construction workers in Haryana, and now works with Delhi government to improve access to primary healthcare services in 2 slums. Learnings from these projects have started showing up in
Swasth India Services' comprehensive health scheme pilots. I've attached an introductory presentation to Swasth Foundation and a brochure soft copy.

These activities by Swasth Foundation need your support to continue - and I'll request you to support these. Swasth Foundation team (a team of 6 runners) will participate in Standard Charted Mumbai Marathon on Jan 16th 2011 to raise funds for Swasth Foundation.  I'll be running the half marathon (21 km) to raise support for the organization.

You can find out more about our marathon fund raising effort at:


We'll request you to support our effort - you can do so by contributing at


The site supports fundraising only for a week only. You can also mail in
checks directly in the name of "Swasth Foundation" to the following address:

  Swasth Foundation
  615 Palms 2, Royal Palms Estate
  Aarey colony, Goregaon E
  Mumbai - 400 065
Please do contact for bank account details, if you'll like to make an direct bank account contribution. Your contribution will be income tax exempt under 80G.

If you have any questions about the organization or how can support us -
please do not hesitate to ask me.

Arvind can be reached on arvind@swasth.org,
or +91 96190 59634.

Looking forward to your support,
Helping Hands Team
God Bless!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Helping hands - 2011 calendar



We are coming up with our DESKTOP/ WALL HANGING Calendars for the yr 2011.
The calendar is full of puppies who have been adopted through Lets Live Together...whose lives have changed forever.
We are hoping you would support us by buying our Calendars for the New Year to come and help us spread the message of “Joy in Saving Lives” to the larger audience..

The price of each calendar would come up to Rs 200

The money raised would completely help us save many many more homeless puppies.

call/mail us, place an order...you could make an online payment (account transfer) the calendars would be couriered to any part of INDIA.



Friends send in a mail with the exact no of calendars you need, the address that it need to be couriered to,

MAIL US AT 
worthamention@gmail.com, and CC to letslivetogether.in@gmail.com 
Please put subject as "Helping hands - 2011 calendar / "
We shall calculate the courier charges and mail u back.you can make a bank transfer and the calendars will reach you.

 or YOU COULD PICK IT UP DIRECTLY, from our office.
call 9986413916 for any details.

ALSO AVAILBLE AT :
Lets Live Together's Office(near malleswaram) -9986413916

Joyline (NEAR CHITRAKALA PARISHAT)- 9880944362

Gangarams book store, MG ROAD.
PAWS The Pet store 


Achala (Bangalore) -09986413916

Niranjan (Chennai)-09840432530

Sadhwi (DELHI)-09958866067

Chandni(MUMBAI)-09930911271

Thursday, September 30, 2010

revolutionizing education

Hey friends, here's another awesome link I found.. and am sharing it here...

http://www.khanacademy.org

I'll keep updating this...
If you have some more links for free online education, do share across....