Raghav Narayan-Concord,OH
WINTER CLOTHES:
On Dec 27th,2008 we dropped off some winter clothes at Dev ji's home at Manchester, NH and later visited Parsu ji. That box had around 10 winter jackets and few clothes. Definitely they need more. I am planning to collect few more and drop off this weekend. Please send a note to Satsangh and Azad shakha for the winter clothes/shoes/boots.
NEXT HELP: DRIVING LESSONS
They are looking forward to have our help in developing driving skills and getting the drivers license. So far, three people cleared written test by taking few hours from the auto school and one of them have a driving license and a car. At school, high school kids are learning driving. As I mentioned earlier, driving lessons costs $680 per person.
JOB SEARCH:
They also look for our help in getting the job, one job per family is what they expect now. Bad transportation in this area is affecting their job search.
SOME STATISTICS
From MANCHESTER, NH
Total working males= 8
Total workable males = 43
Senior males= 8
Total working females= 6
Total workable females= 35
Total senior females= 14
Total elementary school going females= 7
Total elementary school going males= 11
Total middle school going females= 8
Total middle school going males= 13
Total high school going females= 7
Total high school going males= 11
Grant Total = 171
So working people are 14 out of 34 families and few do some odd few hours per day job. This week they had two more familes moved from Nepal. This weekend, 8 people are going to loose their job, working in a same place (sandwich shop in Airport).
Today I found out that in CONCORD, NH there are around 20 familes and LACONIA, NH there are around 15 familes. I have the contact names from these place. I am not planning to contact them without any plan from our side. Again they will expect mainly help in driving and jobs. Plus there are around 15 familes in Lynn/Cheslea, MA area. I was told they are expecting few more families in NH/MA area within next two months. Very soon Boston vibhag need to come up with the plan to provide some help. Prashanth ji (Bhat) will take it further.
INVOLVING OTHER ORGANIZATION
I have established some connection in BAPS. I'll follow up in a day or two. Shirdi sai group are also involved in winter clothes/PC drive. I am in touch with them. They have invited us for their baithak on Jan 10th. They have few Manchester, NH based members.
Tomorrow I am meeting Indian Association of NH team at Bedford, NH. Over the email they said they would help. I'll give you the update later.
YUVA CAMP: Involving kishore gana from this community
Umesh ji, There are 40 kishore gana (middle school and high school) in Manchester, NH alone from this community. This is for your planning for Yuva camp in Feb 2009. I'll find out their school vacation scheudles, normally MA and NH have one week difference in school holidays.
Dhanyavaad
Raghav Narayan
