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Payir Fund Raiser in California, USA

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A fundraiser for Payir Trust in the Bay Area on April 9th, 2016.

Our Friends of Payir organisation in the USA is organising a fundraiser for Payir Trust in the Bay Area, CA, USA on April 9th, 2016 at:

Venue: Shiridi Sai Parivar, 1221 California circle, Milpitas, CA

Time: 5:30pm

Event:   Rythm Meets Melody – A South Indian classical music concert by renowned artists

Sangeetha Choodamani, Acharya Kalaratna Shri. Neyveli R Santanagopalan – Vocal

Shri. Delhi P Sunderrrajan – Violin

Double Mruthangam by

Shri. Neyveli R Narayanan and Vikram Bharati

There will be a stall at the event selling Thoorigai Bags made by the rural women – a women’s empowerment livelihood project of Payir Trust, providing self confidence and livelihood to many families (especially women).

Tickets available at

www.eventbrite.com

www.cmay.org,

Science toys workshop for Payir kids

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Science toys workshop for Payir kids

by Aravind Gupta’s student Subid

9th to 11th march, 2016

The workshop was successfully conducted for school children of Payir School and Government Schools under Payir Trust’s care, by Aravind Gupta’s student Subid. The kids and teachers learnt to make toys from Subid. Subid was very patient with kids, while kids went crazy. The kids loved the workshop and enjoyed making the toys and understanding the science behind them.

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2015 Holiday Season Newsletter

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Warm wishes from Payir Team to you and your family for the 2015 Holiday Season.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in Payir and would like to share some updates from our Team. It has been an eventful 2015 at Payir Trust and we have made great progress in our existing projects and looking forward to the new initiatives we have undertaken.

Here are a few initiatives we started in 2015:

School dropout children Residential Education Program
This year we rescued some children from illegal forced child labour. These children have limited or no family support and are left to fend for themselves. We have adopted them as part of this program and provided safe accommodation, food, and clothing and initiate them into education so they can catch up with kids of their age. We are glad to see them smile and have a normal childhood. The cost to support a child is Rs.3000 per month (US$50). You can support us with $200 for 4 months, $400 for 8 months or $600 for 12 months.

Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP)
We have started a supplementary nutrition program for adolescent girls in government schools. This program reaches out to 3200 adolescent girls in 18 government schools and provides supplementary nutrition, addresses anemia and provides valuable training that facilitates their empowerment. We also reach out to 136 school dropout kids who need such support largely. The program provides much needed employment to 100 residents in 18 villages who are employed in various roles in this program and play a pivotal role in making it successful.

Core Programs
As in the past years, we continue supporting our core programs of providing health care, education, skill development/training, agriculture, cattle rearing – reaching out to 20,000 villagers in 10 villages.

Please visit our Facebook page which we update regularly with news, pictures and videos.

We are very grateful to supporters such as you without whom we cannot make this difference in the lives of so many people. And we are looking for continued support from you and your friends. Please take his Holiday Season to make your donations. And keep in mind that all donations in India or US are tax exempt.

Again wishing you and your family best wishes for the Holiday Season and a very Happy New Year.

Sincere Wishes
Payir Team
For Contributions: In India
Electronic Fund Transfer
State Bank of India
IFSC Code  : SBIN0001983
A/c Name    : PAYIR TRUST
A/c Number : 10465350452All contributions tax exempt
under Section 80G in India
For Contributions: In US
Make checks payable to
“Friends of Payir”
Mail to:
39, Anderson Way,
Walpole, MA-02032
All contributions tax exempt 
under Section 501(c)(3) in US

How can I help Payir?

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The Payir team has received many emails from well wishers and supporters of Payir, regarding how much they wish to participate and volunteer in Payir’s activities, but their inability to pursue it because of their day to day engagements. Some have also mentioned that Payir is their dream goal and they will get involved actively soon, but have current commitments that they have to fulfill.

We really appreciate all your efforts and willingness to get involved with Payir. And we do truly understand the current commitments and fulfillment’s everyone has. As the Gita mentions – we all are karma yogis and have to fulfil our duties in life, without concerns of results.

I just wanted to write in this blog a few activities which you can undertake right away, with less effort on your end, but big impact to us. Here they are:

1. You can help spread the word about Payir and the work we do with all your friends and family. You can refer them to our website, introduce them to our blog and also if they are interested ask them to enroll with our mailing list, so they can get updates from Payir.

2. You can also help us by spreading the word about Payir to your colleagues at work:
a. Many companies offer a variety of social welfare projects. You can refer Payir to those projects
b. The bulletin boards at work are a great tools to spread the news about Payir. You can request brochures from us, which you can post on your bulletin boards.
c. You can fwd information about Payir to your internal mailing lists at work, and other groups you are a member of
d. You can check with your company if they offer ‘matching grants’ for contributions. If so, you can help us by allowing access to those matching grants.

3. Visit Payir @ Thenur village when possible, just for a day or a few hours. A personal visit will truly enhance your visibility to the work we do, and will also encourage the people in Thenur a lot. There is something we can learn from every visitor.

4. You can have your friends and relatives make a donation to Payir in your name for any important events in your life like kid’s birthdays, birthday milestones (30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, … birthdays), marriage, marriage anniversaries, or any other event. Donations in all amounts are welcome, and donations made in India are tax exempt.

5. If you are planning to take some tax benefits for filing taxes in India, please consider a donation to Payir, as all donations are tax exempt under 80 G. If you are planning to contribute to Payir, please do it right away. Please write to us on how you can money transfer to Payir online from any banks in India. This is an excellent alternative for your tax dollars to work for the society.

These are simple but effective activities which will help Payir a lot, and at the same time provide you with personal satisfaction of helping the community, region, state, nation and humankind as a whole. It is important to keep the passion in your heart – to help the society – burning and alive, so can put it to action sooner. It is even more important to act sooner!

Remember, every single act counts and every single rupee helps!!