30df , I , U - We bring a change

As a kid , me & my sister at age of 11 &12 respectively announced to our family ; When we grow up , we are gonna take up farming in our village. We will turn it green , use tractors & set up schools. There were two reasons why we said that , 1) The agricultural land in our village didn't produce much due to less rains  with poor farming practice and 2) The education we received in our school told us we are the young kids who are to bring prosperity to nation . My father didn't discourage us , his annual annual income was little above 100$ ( Rs. 4000) in 1994 and had to take care of family of 7 people. He said , ofcourse its your land , do whatever you wanna do .

There was a saying in my village ,Ravana kidnapped Sita from Panchvati , his plane (pushpak) went over from my village  and hence as a consequence it doesn't rain .Truth or Myth , it didn't rain much during 1994-2000 .Since there were not much of rains ,we didn't visit  our village during this period which we usually did during summer time. We heard stories of trees being cut to use/sell as fuel , animals dying of thirst , increase abuse ( thanks to desi bar) , and child marriages.

As I grew up ...I knew I would need more money to develop my own village . I needed to work harder .In this race eventually I forgot why was I running. Though the thought of giving back to the society , making it better place  always remained in my mind ....

15 years later , govt. in Centre has changed four times , In Maharashtra once we elected Shiv Sena & twice Congress. Today we can find in my village there are mobile phone &  TV in almost every house.However there is not much  provision for hygiene , the school still has a lower no. of literacy rate , the sale of desi bar has gone up .Ironical it may sound , it is truth of a economy growing at 7% and expected to grow at a higher rate ....

When I visited 30df's website through a status message of a friend on gtalk ,  I realised the story of my village is not unique . There are many more people , who want possibly only few more 1000 bucks to just start on their own and uplift from their current economically backward status .30df is currently working to collect investment for women enterprenurs who live in rural Maharashtra . These women want to do business right from a dairy  farm , opening a grocery store etc...

A few Questions : Why Maharashtra ? Why woman ? & Why me & you ?

Why Maharashtra :  30df has Identified Savitribai Phule Mutual Benefit Trust as microfinance partner.They are instrumental in identifying these woman , train them for a group activity & finance them. 30df is  just beginning its work in India and is yet to grow with manpower & finance .


Why Woman : Its said when a woman learns ; the society learns .Interactions with woman in rural India gives an idea about how much they want gather a decent earning for their family and send  their kids to school. Hence 30df is working  with women from rural area and urban area.

Why am I doing this : Its my way of doing a bit for the society . May be there is still some more time for me to go and open a school in my village.At this moment atleast I can help these women out with small investments.

Why you ? :Its said, donate to a person or organization who could utilize the money to change their life.And an extra  hand to bring a positive change someone's life and society  would be an absolute delight .

Lets come together and join hands  to bring change to rural India.


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