The unfortunate news of Farmers’ Suicide
has been splashing across the Indian media for years. And, it’s high time for
us as an INDIAN Citizen to come forward and help our farmers stop committing
suicide leaving back their entire family in lurch.
Actor Nana Patekar and Makrand Anaspure have
jointly launched the Naam Foundation -
a well-coordinated effort to help the families of farmers in Maharashtra who
are crushed by drought, crop failure and debts, which is unfortunately leading
them to take such mourning decision of ending their lives. The actor duo,
visited the farmers’ families from the Marathwada region of Maharashtra to understand
the impact of severe drought conditions due to monsoon failure. While the two founded
and started working for the Naam Foundation, many contributors started joining and
raising funds to support the drought-hit farmers & their families.
The Naam Foundation broadly serves two
purposes:
- Donating money to the farmers affected by drought.
- Provide employment opportunities for the youth in those villages.
Soon after the foundation was registered, people
started making contributing funds. Nearly in a day’s time the foundation collected
INR 80 Lakhs. This confirms, that the people are willing to extend their
support to help the deprived farmers and their family, it’s just that they are
not assured if their money goes to the right place or not. Establishment of
Naam Foundation has broken this disbelief & gained the trust of people and
has encouraged them to support the sons of soil.
Nana Patekar has already visited more than
120 widows in Marathwada – Beed and has planned to visit 700 more families in
Nagpur, Jalna, Parbani, Aurangabad, Nanded, Usmanabad, Bhusawal, Hingoli, Jalgaon,
Latur, etc. Until today, the duo has helped more than 150 families and will
continue doing this noble cause for the betterment of Farmer and their
families.
To continue this noble cause initiated
by Nana Patekar and Makrand Anaspure to support the Sons of the Soil; Lions
Clubs International District 323-D2 arranged a Fund-Raising evening:
“Coffee with Nana” on 15th October 2015 at PYC Club, Deccan Gymkhanna, Pune.
The Lions Clubs Members took their best foot forward to raise backing
to accumulate financial aid to the drought hit farmers of Maharashtra. To which,
they shall be approaching the Lion members, Lion leaders and other
philanthropists to generously donate for this noble cause – rescuing our
suffering farmers.
The key motive of conducting this event was
to collect a generous amount of monitory support for the Farmers of Maharashtra
and their families.
Thanks to the humble Lions Club Members for their support
and willingness to lend a helping hand to generate support of approximately INR
65 Lakhs. Lions Club will be donating INR 15,000 per year to a drought-hit
farmer’s family, this will lend support to more than 400 families.
This amount would be deposited in the Bank
and Bankers would be advised to disburse in the following way:
- Immediately Support Amount - INR 3,000
- Hereafter, every month INR 1500 till the inset of next monsoon
Mr. Shailesh Shah & Mr. Deepak Shah,
Founders of Namrata Group a renowned name from the Pune Real Estate Market and the
Proud Member of the Lions Club have taken a personal initiative to lend a
helping hand in supporting this noble cause by raising a support of INR 5 Lakhs
to this amount.
They pledge to continue to be part of such noble causes whenever it
comes to do their bit for the betterment of the society.
Let’s stop blaming the government for not
doing anything and start thinking over what more can be done to help the
farmers and stop the suicides.
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