The school we fund at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

We fund a non-formal school for underprivileged children at Vasant Kunj, which is run by several volunteers from the upmarket residential colony, under the untiring and highly committed efforts and leadership of Col. (Retd.) Ramakrishna. In the running of the school, Mr. Prasad, a retired Railways officer, is no less motivated than Col. Rama.

Some pictures from the school.


See here, the school running in the Sector A, Pocket-C, Residents' Welfare Association (RWA) office.

The seated man in shorts, is Mr. Prasad.












Zeeshan, seen standing on the extreme right, is one of the few people I recognise in the school. Sharp, bright, full of enthusiasm and very naughty eyes.












Ah! That's me!





















Our Great man, and the inspiration and motivation behind the continuity of this school running since 1998 now.
Presenting - Col. Ramakrishna!

About Srijan Foundation

After months of waiting and conceptualising ideas for implementation of Srijan Foundation's website, it finally occurred to me to take a baby-step forward and setup this Blog.

For months on end this project has been getting pushed aside, as the bread-and-butter projects of our software services company - Srijan Technologies - which funds Srijan Foundation, always get higher priority. So here we have a simple, yet, as communicative a Blog, instead of a complex and ambitious, feature rich website implemented in one of the Open Source CMS, such as Plone/Zope, Typo3 or Drupal.

Now for some real action and real postings of the good work that we have been doing at Srijan Foundation, which is a Trust, waiting to be registered more than 4 weeks into submission of the application. We refused to pay bribe - hence the wait - else we were told it would be a 1 week process. I've actually been part of the registeration of a Trust with some other people earlier, whose approval came in 7 days flat. We paid bribe that time. That social Trust never got off the ground with its planned projects.

So if the approval, or some communication, does not reach us in another 2 weeks, we're going to be filing an application under the RTI. I'm almost looking forward to not receiving any response from them.

What a good sign it would be - our first RTI application would be for forming Srijan Foundation Trust.