It was March 2014 I suppose; I was
discussing my new goal of joining a NGO where I could work in volunteering
capacity with few of my friends. We searched for NGOs that we could join on the
net and I stumbled upon Citizens Association for Child Rights. We contacted Dr.Richa Singh, who explained the working of the organization, the need for more
volunteers as well as of people who could spread the word through the net and I
was hooked.
The truth is that I never
gave any thought to the plight of children who were not as privileged as me or
the people I interacted on a daily basis. I volunteered to work for the
organization by going to schools and spending 2 to 3 hours to teach the
students basic computer courses. However, I soon realized that I was more interested
in spreading the word about this organization via my writing skills. I contacted Dr. Richa and she
appointed me as a volunteer in maintaining the blog.
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Writing and editing the
blog posts was a major exposure for me. The experiences shared by the
volunteers told a horrific story of neglect suffered by the children in our
country. We shared these stories on the blog which garnered an impressive
response. However, it was not enough. The fight is to change the condition of
children all over the country; we had to reach a larger audience to make a
significant change. We decided to change the look of the blog and the technical
team played a major role in that endeavor. Guest writers played a crucial role
in branching out and spreading the information to a larger audience.
I did not have a history
of working with NGOs but CACR gave me a strong platform to help the organization spread awareness about its cause with my
talents from day one. I understood the various fields in which we could help
our society and the rising need for the efforts to make it a better place. It
also brought in sharp focus the fact that for uplifting each section of the
society it is necessary that the whole society works as a single body. For this
the citizens need to know the problems faced by the various sections, and hence
spreading knowledge about it is equally important as making efforts to solve
the problems.
CACR.
The team working for is efficient in planning as well as execution of events
and plans. The smiling faces of hundreds of children are a mark of their
efforts and the milestones that this organization that CACR has achieved.Writing has become my
passion and I am actively aware of the society I live in. This has been the
gift of joining CACR. It has given me the incentive to fight for the deprived
classes and to make the country we inhabit a better place to live. Working with an NGO can be a frustrating experience if the organization is not organized to meet the demands. I am proud to say that I faced no such qualms while working for
-by +KAVISHA SHAH is a engineer by profession who loves to blog and volunteer with +Citizens Association For Child Rights
website : www.ngocacr.com
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