Let us NOT just GIVE and FORGET!!

As an early step of 'The Revolutions' let us find an alternative to 'just giving something to someone assuming that it would eventually reach that someone who is in real need of what you give'. We know it was quite a complex sentence and what we are planning to do is also a little complex than just taking a small bit out of our salaries and donating to charity. We have to put in some non-obligatory responsibility to make sure that what we donate doesn't go waste. To explain, let us take the example of helping poor and bright students: Once we identify the right and deserving candidates to be helped, as Diwakar said, each one of us can take responsibility of one(or may be more) student(s) and start with helping them by paying their school fees, purchasing books, etc and then visit them without fail once in a while to keep them motivated.

Our visiting the students is in many ways very important and the reasons for that follow... This way, we would be in touch with the actual students whom we would be helping and more importantly would be very satisfied to know that what we had spent has not gone waste. This would encourage us to do what we do year after year and may be to more students. More over, this would also inspire the other students who may not have had a sponsor, to try to improve their academic performance as we would make it clear that academic performance is one of the key criteria to get a sponsor. This should result in a good positive and competitive environment among the students, which would, may be result in many of them improving themselves to ultimately lead a better life and may be even join us in helping more such deserving candidates in the future. All of this would be happening in front of us as we would be getting regular updates on the academic performances of students we all sponsor, so that we would never feel a disconnect. What more could we ask for?

-Uttam for 'The Revolutions'