I, Sarosh K Kakalia, husband of BLOOD CANCER patient Mrs Roshan S Kakalia, would like to give you all the latest update with regards to her disease. According to the latest reports, the disease has progressed critically even further and so we have left Hinduja Hospital to continue a cheaper / free treatment at TataCancer or any such organization / hospital. My wife now requires a Bone Marrow Transplant to survive, and the cost for that is a crore approx.
I'am now very busy with her treatment and am looking for cheaper alternatives and hence I would like to inform you that I will be unable to come personally to any trust or individual and now will also not be able to provide any sort of bills / receipts what so ever with regards to the above as bills will not be provided for cheaper / free treatments.
If you can accommodate me and give your donation only in my name I would be very grateful.
Cheques can be drawn in favor of Mr Sarosh K Kakalia and sent to the below address.
7 - Uranwalla Mansion,
Dr Ambedkar Rd,
Parel T.T.
Mumbai - 12.
India.
Kindly back up your donation with a covering letter stating that, I ......... would like to donate the sum of Rs ...... in favor of patient Mrs Roshan S Kakalia who is suffering from Blood Cancer.
I here by enclose a cheque from the ........ Bank, Chq # ........... for this noble cause.
Wishing her a speedy recovery.
Your Name and Address along with your Contact Nos.
This will help me for my tax purpose should any sort of inquiry come up.
Please do not send any direct bank transfers as I will not be able to follow up on that too.
Hope you will understand my plight and act accordingly.
Warm Regards,
Sarosh K Kakalia
M:- +91 98208 31118
Email:- saroshkakalia@hotmail.com
Saturday, March 21, 2009
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
APPEAL to all Zoroastrians Worldwide
THE DADAR-MATUNGA PARSI ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION
(Registered under the Societies Registration Act., XXl of 1860)
(Registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act ,1950 under No. F -736 Bom.)
(Estd. May 1925)
PRESIDENT: RUSTOM C. CHOTHIA - 757, RD.NO. 7,
PARSI COLONY, DADAR, MUMBAI 400014. - TEL/FAX: 4148394
Dear Folks,
WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR.
I approach you on behalf of The Dadar Matunga Parsi Zoroastrian Association, which is doing laudable work since the last 70 years by helping old and needy people of our community. The segments of society we assist are aged, infirm people, people who are mentally and physically handicapped and people in need of medical help. Many of our beneficiaries are widows and some are even bedridden. These are people who cannot be rehabilitated as they are incapable of doing any sort of work. Most of these people are under constant medical treatment though they cannot even afford a square meal. We have today more than 200 such unfortunates on our roles and there is a waiting list of fresh applicants. We extend cash assistance of Rs 100 per month which is woefully inadequate in present inflationary times. It is our aim to raise this sum and also to help more people who are on our waiting list. Our volunteers screen each applicant individually for suitability (financial and health) before we accept them as beneficiaries. You may find it difficult to believe but some of our beneficiaries are even residing in slums.
We organize a GHAMBAR LUNCH every year at Sohrab Palamkot Hall and feed over 500 poor people who come from all over Bombay to enjoy a true LAGAN NU BHONU complete with side dish, eggs, chicken and pulav followed with ice-cream.
We organize an EXHIBITION CUM SALE once a year with more than 100 tables where people bring all types of home made utility articles and foodstuff and also bought out items for sale.
We purchase mulmul and get poor women to stitch sudras which are then sold by our members.
We have brought out 4 editions of the Dadar Parsi Colony Directory listing all Parsi residents with addresses, phone numbers and even blood groups. It also lists emergency services, doctors etc and are very popular with the people.
We hold social/cultural functions to raise money but still our funds are limited and we depend on donations we receive from time to time from charitable minded organizations and individuals. We look forward to your support by way of a generous corpus donation which shall bring relief to and blessings from the underprivileged of our community. Today out of one billion Indians we are only around seventy thousand, which works out to less than one Parsi per ten thousand Indians. The other communities are not going to help our people. It is for us to look after our poor.
Sorry we do not qualify for income tax exemption as we are helping our own community only.
Yours sincerely,
RUSTOM C. CHOTHIA. (President)
USHTA AHMAI YAHMAI USHTA KAHMAICHIT
HAPPINESS TO HIM WHO MAKES OTHERS HAPPY
(PROPHET ASHO ZARATHUSTRA, HOLY GATHA YS. 43-1)
(Registered under the Societies Registration Act., XXl of 1860)
(Registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act ,1950 under No. F -736 Bom.)
(Estd. May 1925)
PRESIDENT: RUSTOM C. CHOTHIA - 757, RD.NO. 7,
PARSI COLONY, DADAR, MUMBAI 400014. - TEL/FAX: 4148394
Dear Folks,
WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS YEAR.
I approach you on behalf of The Dadar Matunga Parsi Zoroastrian Association, which is doing laudable work since the last 70 years by helping old and needy people of our community. The segments of society we assist are aged, infirm people, people who are mentally and physically handicapped and people in need of medical help. Many of our beneficiaries are widows and some are even bedridden. These are people who cannot be rehabilitated as they are incapable of doing any sort of work. Most of these people are under constant medical treatment though they cannot even afford a square meal. We have today more than 200 such unfortunates on our roles and there is a waiting list of fresh applicants. We extend cash assistance of Rs 100 per month which is woefully inadequate in present inflationary times. It is our aim to raise this sum and also to help more people who are on our waiting list. Our volunteers screen each applicant individually for suitability (financial and health) before we accept them as beneficiaries. You may find it difficult to believe but some of our beneficiaries are even residing in slums.
We organize a GHAMBAR LUNCH every year at Sohrab Palamkot Hall and feed over 500 poor people who come from all over Bombay to enjoy a true LAGAN NU BHONU complete with side dish, eggs, chicken and pulav followed with ice-cream.
We organize an EXHIBITION CUM SALE once a year with more than 100 tables where people bring all types of home made utility articles and foodstuff and also bought out items for sale.
We purchase mulmul and get poor women to stitch sudras which are then sold by our members.
We have brought out 4 editions of the Dadar Parsi Colony Directory listing all Parsi residents with addresses, phone numbers and even blood groups. It also lists emergency services, doctors etc and are very popular with the people.
We hold social/cultural functions to raise money but still our funds are limited and we depend on donations we receive from time to time from charitable minded organizations and individuals. We look forward to your support by way of a generous corpus donation which shall bring relief to and blessings from the underprivileged of our community. Today out of one billion Indians we are only around seventy thousand, which works out to less than one Parsi per ten thousand Indians. The other communities are not going to help our people. It is for us to look after our poor.
Sorry we do not qualify for income tax exemption as we are helping our own community only.
Yours sincerely,
RUSTOM C. CHOTHIA. (President)
USHTA AHMAI YAHMAI USHTA KAHMAICHIT
HAPPINESS TO HIM WHO MAKES OTHERS HAPPY
(PROPHET ASHO ZARATHUSTRA, HOLY GATHA YS. 43-1)
FOOD APPEAL by Mancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust
Dear Zoroastrian Brethren,
Wish you all a Very Happy and prosperous New Year. May Dadar Ahura Mazda bestow on you and your family all the Happiness of this World. But Are You Aware that there are many fellow Brethren in our community, who do not have a square meal to eat? Many of them, old and infirm, neglected by society, some of them, by their own children, are fighting for survival in this cruel world.
There are many such unfortunate old people, (some of them physically handicapped), in our community who unfortunately have no offspring to depend on. And if they have, they have neither the desire nor the inclination to look after their old and infirm parents. As a result, many of them are unable to have a decent meal a day. In Dadar Parsi Colony itself we have a list of 21 such people, who have to be taken care of. Some of them are seen subsisting on Bhajias and Wadas from road sidevendors, which tide them over for a day or two. Some of them so ill, weakand bed ridden, that they simply do not have strength to even visitsuch roadside stalls. Such people have to depend on neighbours who may or may not help them. Who is going to take care of such Unfortunate members ofour community?? If we don’t care, who will ?? Hence the idea of this "FOODSCHEME" originated.
We have started a 'FOOD SCHEME' a Charitable Trust, under theMancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust, to feed such unfortunate members of ourCommunity. In this scheme, Food Tiffins are supplied to 21 members in the Dadar/Wadala/Matunga Parsi Colony Area. The food is prepared by a young Parsi, who himself has come up a hard way in life. The Dabbawala delivers food to these 21 members of our community. And after giving themfood, brings back the Dabbas for rotation next day. Some of the members are in such a bad shape, that they are unable to even receive the food, eat and clean the dabba. In such cases, the Dabbawala is instructed to feed them, wash the Dabba and bring it back.
Kindly note, this e mail is not to auger sympathy for them, but to put forward bare statement of facts. It is indeed sad that in our elite and forward community, there are people uncared and unloved in the even tide of their lives. The FOOD SCHEME was started last year, on a small level to feed a handful of deserving members.Initially there were only 10 members to be fed. (10 members X 2 meals perday). But as word got around, more old and infirm approached us or were referred to us. Each case was scrutinized thoroughly and credentials established before responding positively to their appeal. Likewise, as most of them were very old, some passed away, and some other applicant got added into the list. Thus, today the trust feeds 21 such members.
You will appreciatethat we can continue this scheme only through the generosity of ourdonors. Thanks to the charities received from a handful of Zarthosties, some from Bombayand some from abroad, we are able to feed these 21 deserving members of ourcommunity. But can we continue this service, if the funds dry up ?? One has to only visit these members to see how grateful they are to the association whichis running this commendable service to the forgotten members of ourcommunity and the donors. Their only fear is, if the meals should someday stop on account of paucity of funds. And it may happen, if the donations donot come in regularly.
May I request all well to do Zarthosties to kindly come forward in good quantity to help us run this scheme. Your affinity to our community and your genuine sympathy for our less fortunate brethrens gives us courage to approach you to help us in this noble cause. We shallbe grateful for what ever assistance you can give so that we can continue withour Food Scheme, thereby holding out HOPE to the Hopeless.
Kindly note, to feed 21 members at Rs. 20 per meal, it costs us Rs. 840 per day fortwo meals. The same works out to Rs. 25,200 per month and Rs. 3,02,400 per year. It costs Rs. 14,600 to feed 2 meals per day to one member for ayear. May I request we fortunate Zarthusties to come forward and donate, whatever we can for this noble cause. You may donate anything, that suits your pocket. May be a meal for all 21 members for one day (Rs. 840). Or for one member for one month (Rs. 1240). Kindly do remember these unfortunate people, especially on the dayswe have a birthday or anniversary in our family. We eat and enjoy on thesedays. Can you sponsor a meal for all 21 members on such days, so that they toocan share your happiness??
If each donor donates a days meal for all 21members on each good occasion in his family, say 2/3 birthdays, one anniversary, then 100 such donors will be enough to feed these 21 members for thewhole year.
Donations can be made by cheque to the "Mancherji Edalji JoshiMemorial Trust". I am sure fortunate members of our community willcome forward in large numbers to support this noble cause. Please send cheques to:
Mancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust
797, Jesia Building
Jame Jamshed Road
Parsi ColonyDadar (E)
Mumbai 400014
INDIA
With WarmRegards,
Homi Daruwalla.
Wish you all a Very Happy and prosperous New Year. May Dadar Ahura Mazda bestow on you and your family all the Happiness of this World. But Are You Aware that there are many fellow Brethren in our community, who do not have a square meal to eat? Many of them, old and infirm, neglected by society, some of them, by their own children, are fighting for survival in this cruel world.
There are many such unfortunate old people, (some of them physically handicapped), in our community who unfortunately have no offspring to depend on. And if they have, they have neither the desire nor the inclination to look after their old and infirm parents. As a result, many of them are unable to have a decent meal a day. In Dadar Parsi Colony itself we have a list of 21 such people, who have to be taken care of. Some of them are seen subsisting on Bhajias and Wadas from road sidevendors, which tide them over for a day or two. Some of them so ill, weakand bed ridden, that they simply do not have strength to even visitsuch roadside stalls. Such people have to depend on neighbours who may or may not help them. Who is going to take care of such Unfortunate members ofour community?? If we don’t care, who will ?? Hence the idea of this "FOODSCHEME" originated.
We have started a 'FOOD SCHEME' a Charitable Trust, under theMancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust, to feed such unfortunate members of ourCommunity. In this scheme, Food Tiffins are supplied to 21 members in the Dadar/Wadala/Matunga Parsi Colony Area. The food is prepared by a young Parsi, who himself has come up a hard way in life. The Dabbawala delivers food to these 21 members of our community. And after giving themfood, brings back the Dabbas for rotation next day. Some of the members are in such a bad shape, that they are unable to even receive the food, eat and clean the dabba. In such cases, the Dabbawala is instructed to feed them, wash the Dabba and bring it back.
Kindly note, this e mail is not to auger sympathy for them, but to put forward bare statement of facts. It is indeed sad that in our elite and forward community, there are people uncared and unloved in the even tide of their lives. The FOOD SCHEME was started last year, on a small level to feed a handful of deserving members.Initially there were only 10 members to be fed. (10 members X 2 meals perday). But as word got around, more old and infirm approached us or were referred to us. Each case was scrutinized thoroughly and credentials established before responding positively to their appeal. Likewise, as most of them were very old, some passed away, and some other applicant got added into the list. Thus, today the trust feeds 21 such members.
You will appreciatethat we can continue this scheme only through the generosity of ourdonors. Thanks to the charities received from a handful of Zarthosties, some from Bombayand some from abroad, we are able to feed these 21 deserving members of ourcommunity. But can we continue this service, if the funds dry up ?? One has to only visit these members to see how grateful they are to the association whichis running this commendable service to the forgotten members of ourcommunity and the donors. Their only fear is, if the meals should someday stop on account of paucity of funds. And it may happen, if the donations donot come in regularly.
May I request all well to do Zarthosties to kindly come forward in good quantity to help us run this scheme. Your affinity to our community and your genuine sympathy for our less fortunate brethrens gives us courage to approach you to help us in this noble cause. We shallbe grateful for what ever assistance you can give so that we can continue withour Food Scheme, thereby holding out HOPE to the Hopeless.
Kindly note, to feed 21 members at Rs. 20 per meal, it costs us Rs. 840 per day fortwo meals. The same works out to Rs. 25,200 per month and Rs. 3,02,400 per year. It costs Rs. 14,600 to feed 2 meals per day to one member for ayear. May I request we fortunate Zarthusties to come forward and donate, whatever we can for this noble cause. You may donate anything, that suits your pocket. May be a meal for all 21 members for one day (Rs. 840). Or for one member for one month (Rs. 1240). Kindly do remember these unfortunate people, especially on the dayswe have a birthday or anniversary in our family. We eat and enjoy on thesedays. Can you sponsor a meal for all 21 members on such days, so that they toocan share your happiness??
If each donor donates a days meal for all 21members on each good occasion in his family, say 2/3 birthdays, one anniversary, then 100 such donors will be enough to feed these 21 members for thewhole year.
Donations can be made by cheque to the "Mancherji Edalji JoshiMemorial Trust". I am sure fortunate members of our community willcome forward in large numbers to support this noble cause. Please send cheques to:
Mancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust
797, Jesia Building
Jame Jamshed Road
Parsi ColonyDadar (E)
Mumbai 400014
INDIA
With WarmRegards,
Homi Daruwalla.
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