Attempts to aid Tamilnadu flood relief and rehabilitation program dec-2015

I was telling Rohan(my son) one night (every night before sleeping we talk about our days) that there is a big flood in India in Tamilnadu, Chennai and lot of people had to rush to second floor and are staying there until they are rescued without food, drinking water and heating e.t.c. He seemed a little concerned... he asked me if we could help them anyways? I told him yes .. we could donate to the organizations I volunteer for ( AID, VIbha) .. he said sure .. , I told him we could raise more awareness about it to encourage others to donate  as well .. he said sure and then we started talking abotu what fundraisers are and how they work ( wish i knew about it all)  and the couple of fundraisers we have helped in past ) vibha's pani poori contect, kite flying contest,  cheering AID marathon runners, vibha walkathon e.t.c ) and in the end I encouraged him to check with his teacher if he can do something in school and we could explore if we could do some fundraisers in coppell  as well. (more about the coppell fundraiser later .. we ran into some hiccups with that one)


Interestingly he remembered (which does not happen often)  to ask his teacher (Miss Head) about it and tell her about the floods and his interest in doing something. His teacher encouraged him , supported him  and came up with a great plan to sell hot chocolate and candy canes every morning at school drop pff time. They ran this idea by the Principal and she approved!!!

So here we are this week every morning selling hot choclate and candy canes( which are more popular) to raise funds for Chennai .. Thanks to Miss Head and everybody at his school to help and support him!!

we will make sure all the proceeds from the sale ( and more ;) ) are donated to AID india who are carrying out a fabulous job out there on the ground helping people with their short term and long term needs. All updates, plans can be seen here :-
https://www.facebook.com/EurekaChild/?fref=ts

you can even join their conference calls to hear from activists on the ground. (PM me if you need more details)

Today was day 1 and we collected $32 already!!!


Here are some pictures of our first day!  Hopefully we will soon have one outside school as well ..since many of our non-pinkerton friends are also enthusiastic to help and participate.. as soon as a find a place .. which allows us :)  (we tried Andy Brown , sprouts, tom thumbs .. but did not work out)