Celebrate Joy of Giving Week India's "festival of giving" with Green Yatra.

The Joy of Giving Week is India's "festival of giving"! Launched in 2009, the festival is celebrated every year, in the week including Gandhi Jayanti, i.e., October 2-8, and brings together Indians from all walks of life, to celebrate "giving".

From auto drivers to CEOs, school children to celebrities, homemakers to opinion leaders, millions of people give their time, money, resources or skills back to society- by creating or participating in "events" of their choice. For more detail kindly visit:www.joyofgivingweek.org

Green Yatra: A Non-Governmental Charity (NGO), actively dedicated to Protection and Conservation of Environment and Humanity. The organisation is registered and associated with Planning Commission, Government of India, United Nation and tax exempted u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act. For more information kindly visit www.greenyatra.org  or find attached file.

We believe in ACTION on ground level. Sitting idly, complaining, blaming the system, societies, or commenting on internet forums are THINGS WE DO NOT DO. The impact and success of our initiatives are a token of our dedication honest and hard work. Our main objective has always been to leave the world better than we found it.

We are growing rapidly with our important and much needed projects: Green Youth Green Mumbai, Plant a Tree, Plant a New Life…..We will do it for You, Zaroorat - A Need, Go GREEN Kids, Go GREEN Ganesha.  Soon we are starting a free specialized medical camps round the year and free school dropouts rehabilitation center. Our main roadblock, we are facing is the financial obstacle because until now Green Yatra’s projects have been funded mostly by the personal savings and contributions of founder members. We want to continue to offer our FREE services such as Go GREEN Kids, Green Youth Green Mumbai, Go GREEN Ganesha,presentations, workshops and events in schools, colleges and residential societies, Medical camps, Tree Plantations and providing free clothing and lots of daily necessity things to poor communities under project Zaroorat - A Need.

Our Current Projects:

Zaroorat - A Need: We provide free clothing and lots of daily necessity things to poor communities and promote child education through it. We are setting up 100+old household stuff collection boxes/ centers across Mumbai in first phase. For now we are providing home pick up services for the same. We need your valuable support to setup these collection boxes so we can reach our target of 100+ villages to help needy people and send their children to school.

Plant a Tree, Plant a new life: We conduct Tree Plantation Drive in Mumbai; Anywhere /Any location. Tree Plantation in Office Premises, Housing Societies, Schools and Colleges throughout the year in all seasons with very high survival rates.

Go GREEN Kids: It is an International Environment Education initiative which has the support of more than 50 lakhs students in various schools across India. We organized free environment education, workshops, presentations, eco- picnics, natural site visits and lots of other activities to school students.

Go GREEN Ganesha: A fight against harmful Plaster of Paris (PoP) made Ganesha idols with solution since 2009.

Green Youth Green Mumbai: is our upcoming initiative. It’s a largest and first ever inter-college Green revolutionary initiative to bring youth together under one roof & create ideas of Going Green & saving Mother Nature for a Green Existence.

Now we are hoping and looking for your much needed and valuable support in this “Joy of Giving Week” so please come forward and donate generously to help us to bring the positive Change in underprivileged class of society and Mother Earth. Your small contribution can be of great help for us to continue serving the humanity. Become a monthly donor, you can Sponsor a Presentation, a Workshop, Events, Tree Plantation, Eco- Picnic, Medical Camp and donate us computers, laptops, projectors, sewing & washing machines, old stuff collection boxes, Irons, transportation vehicles etc. and such other useful things.

You can organize many events and activities during the “Joy of Giving Week” there are just few ideas kindly find attached excel file for more ideas:

Corporate employees/cine workers: can donate one day’s salary/earnings to Green Yatra., Banks: ATM donations, Corporates go green, Restaurants: Signature Dish idea, Collection Box. Your company can donate us your dry & E- waste. Organize old household stuff collection drive in your housing society or for your employees. Fund raising events, charity auction.

You can also support us by selling your old newspapers and donate to us the generated money.  This can be also done in groups, such as your whole family, relatives and friends or in office. This way the donation may be larger and more helpful.  Donations more than INR. 500 will be tax exempted under section 80 G of IT Act.

For a token of our dedicated and honest efforts kindly visit:

www.picasaweb.google.com/greenyatra09    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.190899260960256.63118.126587470724769&type=3

For any further detail and query feel free to write us on pradeep@greenyatra.org / durgesh@greenyatra.org or call on 093235 12478/ 098198 95849.

Looking forward for your valuable support for a better world.