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Dallas Run 2018

Dallas Marathon 2018 

The extra mile and a run for a cause appeal by Ankur Bora

One of AFNA's prominent volunteer Ankur Bora is preparing for a marathon to support and raise money for a school for underprivileged children in Assam, India. It is a life changing experience - the practice and the preparation for the run, going through the hurdle, focusing and reaching the finishing line, the race taught how to bring one's best self to every facet of life. The marathon and the successful fund-raising campaign also showed how this country America stands for those in need, how much can we do for poor and destitute.

This year Ankur is running for a school for differently-abled abandoned/orphaned children called ‘Tapoban’. The founder Mr. Kumud Kalita is a sincere and upright man who is doing everything he can in his capacity to help these children lead fulfilling lives. Tapoban has transformed the life of special need child and witnessed some of these children performing on stage and realized how he is turning their disability to ability. The residential school building is a four-story structure without an elevator. Every day is a struggle for these children in wheelchair who needed to be lifted by others. Ankur is  running to raise money for construction of an electrical elevator which will greatly help these children.

Ankur is running 50km this year at Dallas, BMW Ultra Marathon and appealing you to a sponsor for a mile at $100 each. We will acknowledge each of you and will provide Tax exempt receipt and utilization through our Foundation. Ankur's appeal "It’s going to be a grueling race spreading across multiple cities, but when I imagine the cheerful faces of these children, I get motivated to run those extra miles. I am starting from zero, but I am sure I will reach my goal of 50 sponsors with all of you. Support me by donating $100 to Tapoban for each mile of my run and help me and AFNA to support the special need children at Tapoban"

 

 

 Sponsor a mile of Ankur Bora's marathon run 

 This will take you to the PayPal website on a page for AFNA to complete your donation. Please fill in the web-form and submit your payment. Please follow the instruction below to fill the two fields in the PayPal web-form:

  1. In the Amount field, please consider adding 2.2% to the total. This helps AFNA pay the Paypal processing fee. Thank you!
  2. In the Donation Description field, please put "Ankur Bora Dallas Marathon 2018".

 

 

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SHED Integrated School

Integrating Able and Differently-abled Children In Rural Assam

Society for Health & Educational Development (SHED) in Sonapur, Assam has one solution to two problems:

  • Underprivileged children in this area have no access to a good education. These include tribal children, girls in the age-group 5-18, children with physical and mental disabilities, children who have faced domestic or other violence, and orphans
  • Differently-abled children are not integrated into mainstream society which causes them to suffer economically and otherwise later in life

Swabalambi - WWSF 2013

Swabalambi Founder Wins International Creativity Award

Suchismita Majumdar, founder of Swabalambi, won the 2013 Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life from the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Swabalambi, based in the outskirts of Guwahati, works for the betterment of differently-abled people all over Assam. Ms. Majumdar is among only ten people around the world selected for this international award for creativity. More information is in the WWSF award citation. Congratulations to Ms. Majumdar! AFNA is proud to support Swabalambi's mission to champion social change for differently-abled people.

Rickshaw Bank: Pride of North East

Pradip Sarmah & Rickshaw Bank: Pride of North East

By Saibal Das

Rickshaws are a significant means of transport and conveyance in India. There are currently estimated to be 8 million rickshaw pullers in India. 95 percent of these rickshaw pullers are victims of high daily rental fees making it nearly impossible to earn enough income to ever own a rickshaw in their lifetime. It was year 2003; a rickshaw puller was narrating his ordeal to Dr Pradip Kumar Sarmah. He was so distressed that he could not sleep at night; the realization however also galvanized Mr. Sharma into action and he initiated the project “Rickshaw Bank”. In the month of November 2010 Dr. Pradip Sarmah visited Boston at the Invitation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On first of November we organized a teleconference whereby Satyajit Nath , Pallav Saikia, Ankur Bora, Krishanu Kaushik, Amitav Chakravarthy, Saibal Das, Debojit Bora and Hitesh Kalita participated. The following article has been prepared based on this interaction.

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