‘The Joy of Giving Week’: An initiative of SIES College of Management Studies

The Joy of Giving Week is an initiative by the Sahyog Committee of SIES College of Management Studies to undertake social activities.

The primary objective of the committee is to inculcate values of social responsibility among the management students. The concept aims to broaden students understanding about social sectors with emphasis on executing managerial role.

Following are the various activities doe by the Committee during the week.

Collection drive: (Oct 3– Oct 9)

All students from the college were asked to donate clothes, books, stationery and bags. Within one week, there was a huge collection of donation by the end of the week.

Visit to St. Jude’s Child care Centre: October 5, 2013

St. Judeprovides shelter to families who come to Mumbai for cancer treatment of their child. They house around 46 kids from different parts of India.

The kids were asked to draw anything they want to and the response was amazing. Apart from this just to entertain their parents. They organized Tug-of-war for their fathers and a Rangoli workshop for their mothers. Even though they appeared shy, they gave surprise with their sporting spirit. With this college experienced the real joy of giving.

Thanks Giving program:

We get so busy in life that we never see the efforts of some people like security guards, Sweepers and all the non teaching staff. They are like back stage crew which we don’t see often on screen but they are responsible for daily proceedings.

On Friday the SAHYOG team went to all of them, gave them a rose , Hugged them and said ‘THANK YOU’ . They were surprised to see them and happy too at the same time.

Cash Collection Drive:

On October 8, 2013 a cash collection drive was organised with ‘TARANG’, An NGO working with the concept of night school. They teach small poor children at night and also provide them evening meal. The drive was very successful and many students along with faculty have donated cash for their evening meal.

Thus ended a very successful week, involving a lot of learning and giving back to the society that everyone is responsible for

Source: Aniket Agarwal, click4college Specialist