Mr. Vikas Kumar, graduate of NIT Hamirpur pursuing electrical and communication engineering was inspired by the covid emergency to selflessly provide services to the people in need. He, along with some of his peers from his village distributed food-items, masks, soap and medicine while also creating awareness among the villagers. This initiative has now grown into Sankalp Shiksha which is working towards upliftment and betterment of society as a whole. Mr Kumar’s efforts have been an inspiration for many others who are striving hard during this difficult time to help those in need without expecting anything in return.
The situation faced by the people of his village made him realise the misery faced by the people country wide. Examining the situation near him and understanding the basic requirements of a family, he decided to make packets comprising dry ration, and sanitization products. As a student he did everything that was possible from his side and the problems of funds were solved by seeking for fund-raising through their contacts.
Through this fund he was able to help 140 families in a village named H a f a Balram. The food packets had a quantity which could last for around 10 days. The food items included were potatoes, onions, rice, wheat flour, pulses, edible oil, soya bean, salts, turmeric and biscuits. Apart from giving food items he and his team distributed soaps, hand sanitizers and masks and also made the people aware of social distancing and by following some simple rules and having awareness we can give a tough fight to Coronavirus. Due to people’s awareness and support he was able to collect 1Lakh INR through funding. This time his distribution also had statistical studies about the families, their earning members etc. He increased the distribution range and went to 12 villages in the radius of 10 km. The distribution consisted of rice, wheat flour, edible oil, pulses, turmeric, salt, soya bean, biscuits, soap, detergent, hand sanitizers and masks to 400 families. He not only helped the villagers but also the workers who were migrating from Delhi to Bihar by keeping provisions for them like biscuits and water.
As we all are aware of Bihar floods and the massive destruction it brought to man and his environment. The state had to encounter two problems simultaneously that is the flood and the pandemic. This misfortune greatly affected the daily wagers. Their livelihood got disturbed due to flood and agriculture also got affected. Small farmers and labourers were facing financial problem with lack of basic amenities. Our team and volunteers worked tirelessly to serve to the nation-men in every possible way. Our team had distributed around 400 food relief packages in worst hit flood affected areas of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
We have organized a cleanliness campaign at Comti river front, Lucknow. It was the time between Dussehra and Diwali and due to immersion of statues in the river it got very much polluted, so we decided to clean it as much as we can. With the help of local citizens, we were able to clean a lot of areas. We ran thiscampaign for seven days and after that due to some unfortunate circumstances we had to stop this campaign. But due to this initiative the locals get to know the importance of cleanliness and we also teach them about consequences of not being clean.
Our Sannkalp team organized a Road awareness rally at NH-28 in Gopalganj, Bihar. We stood there at chowk and whoever that is not wearing helmet while driving two wheeler, we greeted them nicely and gave a flower of rose. After that we told them about benefits of wearing helmet and also consequences of not wearing helmet. After that people promised that, they will always wear helmet as well as create awareness about it among their friends and families.
At the occasion of Diwali our team celebrated diwali with children of nearby villages whose families are not so financially able. Usually they don’t celebrate festivals with so much joy because of financial problems, but this year we went to them in diwali morning and distributed sweets, candles to almost 50+ families. After that we again visited at their place in evening and celebrated diwali with children’s and their parents. The joy at their face was very precious.
We teamed up with Air Force Wives Welfare Association to distribute 200 Ration packets to the families that are financially weaker. Each packet costed around Rs. 1000 and team Sannkalp is really looking forward to collaborationg with AFWWA, Gorakhpur again in the future.
On the occasion of Children’s day (14th November 2020 ) our team went to Primary school of Hafua balram, kushinagar. We got huge support from Pradhan of village and principal of primary school. We gathered almost 200+ children’s from nearby villages in the school campus at about 10AM. After that we organized various fun games among those and awarded winners of various games. Distributed copies, stationaries and sweets among childrens and motivated them to come to study and make their future bright. Since that day, we have visited several times to these schools, distributed stationaries and motivated them.
On the occasion of Holi, our team celebrated it with unprivileged children of rural areas. Donated sweets to their families and children. The expression of happiness we drew on the faces of these children was priceless. It made them feel worthy of their existence like their lives matter. Not like other days where they are segregated and treated like a scrap in society. And our team has taken the Sannkalp of celebrating every festival with these unprivileged children and to motivate &empower them.
Rakshabandhan is the celebration for girls to show respect and gratitude towards their brothers. Brothers in-turn pledge to guard and respect their sisters and in order to symbolize this celebration Rakhi is tied on the arms of brothers as a sign of respect. Team Sannkalp celebrated Rakhi with students at 4 Pathshalas and provided the students with Rakhi and sweets and the girl students tied Rakhis to the Volunteers/Teachers of Sannkalp Pathshala.
On the 75th Independence day we celebrated by hoisting a flag at our pathshalas and by distributing sweets and providing awards to the Volunteers/Teachers for their efforts and selfless dedication towards the society. The students performed various cultural programs in the forms of dance, singing, skits etc.
We have organized a cricket competition in collaboration with RNC cricket club in 2nd week of January 2021. In this competition total 16 teams participated from U.P and bihar. We had some very exciting rewards and trophies for winner of competition. Final is played between Salemgarh U.P and Sasamusa Bihar and Sasamusa Bihar won the trophy. More than four thousand people came to see the finals. The main motto of this competition was to identify the top talents from rural area and help them in achieving something big and help them in making our country proud.