Sunday, February 24, 2008

Maria Roopa - An Inspiration




Maria Roopa [Chandra Shekar Institute for Speech and Hearing.]

It’s a great pleasure and honour in introducing Ms. Maria Roopa. To give you some insights into her life; she’s pursuing her Bachelors degree in Art & Literature and resides in Bangalore-India with her brothers and sisters. Her only ambition and goal is to follow the footsteps of Mother Teresa. She admires her humble sacrifice made towards helping others. Ms. Roopa, does exactly the same in her every day life.

From the age of 23 yrs, she is very focused and determined to reach her objectives, no matter what. We interviewed this beautiful individual who hails from a middle class family comprising of two elder brothers and an elder sister. We also had a word with their family members too.

Her mission to help begins from her Home. She's an helping hand to all her family members[Nithya, Rebecca Priya, and Diviya Prasad]. This family lost their parents at a very early age and have grown up to live happily only by helping each other. Roopa contributes a lot. Nothing moves in house, or not a second passes by without their brothers and sister calling her for assistance. She’s been serving them humbly without any complaints since her teenage.

She has a different view of pleasure; helping and visiting the homeless or the orphans, gives her much pleasure than anything else that one can think at her age. Roopa has only one friend that she talks, messages and shares gifts with. Jennifer, Samson’s only sister. Jennifer who’s married to Gunashekar, honours and appreciates her for all that she’s doing on a regular basis. Jennifer is a part of Roopa’s moral support.

Roopa seems to be content in life. When questioned about money, success and fame. She waves her beautiful smile and says “I have everything with me, that I can think of. Why should I worry about money when my brothers and sisters are here to take care of my every need?”

Her spiritual knowledge is extremely high compared to any normal individual in that age group. Roopa learns and teaches sign language to the children who are hearing impaired. She also works has a volunteer in Chandra Shekhar Institute for Speech and Hearing.

She’s very happy helping children who are mentally handicapped and partially disabled. Roopa finds her joy helping and teaching these individuals to do their basic work of taking care of themselves. She contributes her time and money to help these uniquely blessed individuals to cope up with life.
She helps them to learn common words, maths, and games, helps them to draw, paint, create crafts, and also makes them perform on stage shows. She recently has helped the mentally retarded individuals and the deaf to perform for Amir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par title song.

It’s a glorious sight to watch these uniquely talented individuals watch Roopa for step by step instructions as they “dance”. This video link with take you right there…

You are looking at an absolutely deaf and mentally challenged group perform with Roopa. We’re sure that the God she serves must be delighted watching this individual perform. She’s just started and we all from Shineforever.com wish her all happiness and success.

We need more people like Roopa to make this world a happy place.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Objectives of Gerizim

Mission:
Gerizim - Rehabilitation Trust serves for the poorest of the poor Children, orphans, semi orphans, Mentally retarded children and adults, Multiple Handicapped, Deserted Women, Unwed Mothers and Widows by providing them with shelter, food, Medical, Physical, Leadership Training, Vocational and Placement Services.

Goals:
To build up Gerizim Home and Special School for Mentally Retarded Children and Adults from the Poorest of the poor families.

To Encourage children living in the residential set up in family type of cottages and enjoy freedom, love in a family with a house father and mother and learn skills to lead a life like any other person in the community.

To give shelter, food basic education, medical care pre vocational training and vocational training in farming, Agriculture and sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped and orphans, semi orphans, destitute children, deserted women, unwed mothers and widows from poor family.

To provide indoor and out door games facilities to develop sound health and sound mind and good character to be productive citizens and to help others.

To provide spiritual nurture and pastoral care to lead a clean life and help others.

To provide Leadership training to the children, Youth, women and men to bring peace and Harmony in their lives, family and community to be productive and to take leadership in the community.

To provide Education and Training for the parents of the Handicapped.

To provide placement services through farming and agriculture in a big farmland and under sheltered workshop for adult mentally retarded.

To reach out to the neighbouring 30 villages and slums and to bring awareness on the various services available such as training and rehabilitation services available for the handicapped.

Shineforever is closely working to help Gerizim reach its objectives. If you would like to volunteer or help Gerizim take care of these little angels(children), please write to us at nithy@shinforever.org or nithyfbi@gmail.com

Shineforever.com has been working hard to enable special children to show-up their talents. We will have their talents uploaded on our websites has a source of inspiration to the world. These angels (children) are uniquely blessed with great abilities to cope with life and its pressures. We (Shineforever) will have them displayed to motivate the other half of normal individuals.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Intitutions in Bangalore

Institutes in Bangalore.

After having read through various blogs and forums talking about parent’s despair in finding the right institution for their special children in Bangalore. We have gathered all contact details of institutions available in Bangalore.

Please reach out to our website www.shineforever.com and navigate to the link named institutes in Bangalore to find various institutions’ name and contact details.

Parents Association in Bangalore has helped us with these details. If you come across any non-functional numbers or want more details about the institutions, please feel free to write to us at nithy@shinforever.org or nithyfbi@gmail.com

We commend the parents of special children who pay special attention in bringing up these individuals. "May God impart Special strength and Perseverance" to such parents.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Visit to Gerizim

We recently visited Gerizim Rehabilitation Trust, EjipuraViveknagar P.O. Bangalore - 47 on the 21st July'07.

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Is built to help the needy.
It’s a bridge between the organizations in need and the contributors
It’s an information centre for identifying organizations in bangalore, in bringing up physically handicapped children and also a motivational base for those needy children to display their talents.


Talent zone
This little guiding light of mine, I’m going to let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine all the time.

(Talents will be displayed, be it a picture of a painting or a writing by an individual. All painting or craftworks will have an option to buy, which will lead the user to a form page).

[Note] Every talent posted here belongs to an individual from the organizations we support.


Organizations / Homes
Self-motivated individuals, who wish to see a smile on others, maintain these Organizations/homes. Shineforever helps these philanthropists with some contributions every quarter.


[The moto of Shineforever is to help as many organizations as possible every month.]
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Motivational Articles (Archive)
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Our contributors

Life is a gift from God; temporary difficulties take away this charm. Contributors like these, help people restore their charm of life. There is a lot of pleasure in giving to the needy. We at Shineforever are more than glad to list these individuals, who love to go that extra mile to see someone smile. Thank you all.

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About us
Founders : Sunil, Diviya, and Vimal.
Nithyanandan : ( Organizer )
Samson Sheel Kumar : ( Organizer )
Charles (Fundraiser)
Sujith (Accountant)

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Nithy : 98440 70206
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