In Tune to Fight Cancer

Courtsey : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1051806

Thursday August 28, 2008 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Bharat Ratna M S Subhalaxmi Auditorium

Next to SIES School, Bhaudaji Road Extension, Sion
Mumbai, Maharashtra Get Directions

Umang Foundation has organized musical concert for 150 cancer patients of Tata Memorial Hospital.

For Details Contact 9819940222.

Promote Education among children

August 23, 2008 : Distribution of Books, School Uniforms and School Bags in the 3 school of Ulhasnagar

Umang Champion : Deena Sawlani & Hema Permanandani

Supporters : Swapna More, Gargee Lad, Meena Jain, Akshay Shah, Surender Pendam, Pooja Ochani, Archana and Ashish Goyal, Kanish Vadera, Megha Doshi, Sandeep Bhanushaali, Ashish Kharkhanis and Veena Sawant

Thanks to AASARA, Mr Sharad and his team from Kalyan Child Line and Special Thanks to Father Jodigama, Director AASARA, Mumbai

Once again it was opportunity for all members of Umang Foundation to bring the smile on many innocent faces who have thirst to study further but due to their family financial situation they could not study as their is unavailability of stationary.

Also here we have also sponsored education of 8 children who are studying the early class of their school.

Event was inaurgrated with the Saraswati Vandana by the group of school girls.
We have individually called every child on the floor and Umang Volunteers have distributed the notebooks to all children in their hands and wish them Good Luck for their studies.

Note Books were already segregated as per the Class wise requirement of the children.

Distribution of Book and Note Books to 160 students, School Uniforms to 6 students and School Bags to 15 students to the more than 160 under privileged school students in the 3 school of Ulhasnagar

For More Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/umangfoundation/NotebookDistributionTo170UnderPrivilegedSchoolStudents#

Blood Donation Camp

August 13, 2008 : Blood Donation Camp at TCS Malad

Umang Champion : Chandni Shah & Manali Shah
Supporters : Riddhi Sheth, Megha Doshi, Deena Sawlani and Ashish Goyal

This camp was organized with Sarla Blood Bank and 143 bottles of blood were collected at TCS Malad Campus

For More Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/umangfoundation/BloodDonationCampTCSMalad#

Warli Painting Workshop

12th August 2008:
Warli Painting Workshop for Patients of Tata Memorial Hospital and Research Center

Umang Champion : R S Swaminathan

45 Innocent children at TATA Memorial Hospital, who are suffering from Cancer but they are lack of any learning capabilities, it was in fact realize by Umang Volunteers and Warli Painting Trainer Mrs Mini.

Children have made wonderful sketches on Jute piece and tiles.

For More Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.co.in/umangfoundation/WarliPaintingWorkshopForCancerPatients#

Afternoon Despatch & Courier

Hindustan Times - HT Lives

DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1181044

Karmayog

http://www.karmayog.org/youthnews/youthnews_17007.htm

Sindhunagar

http://www.sindhunagar.com/news.php?month=8&year=2008

Social networking with a difference

Courtsey : DNA, Mumbai

By Deepa Suryanarayan

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_social-networking-with-a-difference_1181044

"Let's go to an old age home next weekend," writes Akshay Shah in an e-mail to his network of friends. Not the typical weekend plan of a 22-year-old? But, this group of twenty-somethings is not ordinary, and so are their plans.

Although, the internet is the preferred tool of communication for Shah's network of around 30-odd IT professionals from various investment banks across the city, unlike Orkut or Facebook, their network -- Umang -- aims exclusively to help the under privileged in the society.

"Umang aims at one activity every week, be it spending time at a home for the aged or teaching street kids or holding blood donation camps," says Ashish Goyal, 24, an investment banker.

"All of us wanted to do something for the society, be it for the aged or the children. That is when we came up with Umang," Goyal said.

All volunteers with Umang have weekends off. "In the first week of July, we donated books and clothes to Takshashila Vidhyalaya at Ulhasnagar, while in the second week we collected 150 bottles of blood at a blood donation drive at TCS Campus, Kanjurmarg," said Shah, an IT professional and one of the founders of Umang.

"Last Sunday, we visited Justice HK Chainani's Elders Home in Mulund. We had great fun with the aged at home," said Shah. Sometimes, investing just little time is more than enough, said Hema Parmanandani, 28, a finance consultant. "Umang is open to anyone who has the best interests of the society at heart," she said.

Over the next few weekends, Umang will organise blood donation camps, find sponsors for educating the gifted poor children, and conduct awareness and education programmes to help clean the city.