Think Beyond

Donate Blood, Touch Lives of Three Human Beings

2011-04-03T13:50:00.002+05:30

India’s victory in CWC – 2011 was not about the skills of individuals but more of playing for each other as one. With Indian cricket team gladdening our hearts with their show of unity & the team spirit; it is time for rest of us to do something for our fellow human beings.

A report in Hindustan Times of April 3, 2011 has informed that our city is falling short of 85000 units of blood, the most vital essence of our life. It is the moment for us to rise as a team to face this challenge and contribute the serum of life to eradicate this shortage.

Hence, the volunteers of Think Beyond are holding a Blood Donation Camp on 17^th April 2011 at the Rodas Banquets, Powai, in aid of Thalassaemia patients – mostly the little children, who need blood transfusion every 7-15 days.

Kahlil Gibran had said about giving:

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

So this is an appeal to all the residents of Powai:

Remember, a simple act of blood donation requires few moments of your holiday, a fraction of the buffer blood you possess and yet you are able to contribute to the lives of three human beings - A Thalassaemia patient, A cancer patient and a burns/ accident/surgery case.

Please Donate Blood…

Together we walk...

2010-11-17T09:28:00.000+05:30

Think Beyond is back with the 2^nd Powai Peace Walk – an annual event that was conceptualized on the first anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008. The Powai Peace Walk is to celebrate the unity that we as a nation showed on that day & the peace that prevailed after our peacekeepers overcame the terrorists.

We now invite you to participate in the event and walk alongwith the rest for Unity, Peace & Harmony. The proposed itinerary of the event is as under:

Event 2^nd Annual Powai Peace Walk

Date 28^th November 2010

Time 10.30 AM

Venue Hiranandani Gardens, Powai

Flag off by Dr (Mrs) Indu Shahani, the Sheriff of Mumbai

Your participation in the event will not only contribute to the success of the event, but more important, it will help in bringing the lesser-privileged children & youth to mainstream of the society.

Together, we walk. Together, we bridge the gap.

Tamaso Maa Jyotirgamay...Illuminate!!

2010-02-19T15:46:00.003+05:30

Tamaso ma Jyotirgamay..

Lead us from darkness to the enlightenment…

Thus says the devotee to the god in ancient Hindu scriptures, while praying for eternal peace. And how wisely – because it is the darkness in & around us that leads to the gloom & despair and peace can not co-exist with gloom & despair all around.

“Think Beyond” was founded with the objective of being a catalyst in illuminating lives of lesser privileged. Illuminate is a program of Think Beyond through which we propose to implement a coordinated effort by the privileged sections of the society towards bringing light into the lives of lesser-privileged. The program strives to attain its objective through concentrating on 2 basic essentials of life – Electricity & Education.

As a service to the community & the country, through Illuminate program, we shall enable the villagers to obtain such electricity where the recurring costs are either low or tap renweable energy sources to ensure free electricty for them. The program also envisages volunteer driven remedial education to the children & adults of lesser-privileged section of the society in urban as well as rural areas.

Thapar Pada, a small village near Vikramgad housing about 40 odd families, is first such village that has been adopted by Think Beyond for this purpose. The team of Think Beyond volunteers, in support of the villagers’ initiative of obtaining electricity legally, on 13th February 2010, distributed CFL bulbs of highest luminance possible. This would ensure lower recurring cost of electricity for them while providing light bright enough for their children to study.

The team of Think Beyond would like to acknowledge Mr. Hemant Chhabra for his inspirational guidance and Mr. Christophe Vanpoulle of Roquette for providing caps for distribution to the villagers.

Think beyond is further supplementing this initiative through organizing a volunteer driven remedial education programme for the children & illiterate adults of the area, including neighbouring villages as well as the lesser privileged section of our city. We sincerely believe in the vision of Kahlil Gibran when he wrote:

You give but little when you give of your possessions, It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

For more details of the Illuminate program or for enlisting yourselves as a volunteer, please write to letusthinkbeyond@gmail.com
or call:
Minoo - 9820060599 / Ashish - 9820031399.

WE THOUGHT BEYOND!

2009-11-29T22:41:00.056+05:30

Peace – the most sought after yet the most elusive word. Across various cultures, spanning the generations, the idea of peace has always been there. Be it through Atharva Veda in ancient India, Greek philosophers, Buddha or great thinkers of modern world from Einstein to Mahatma Gandhi, Peace has always been an underlying theme. Yet, the reason it has been so elusive could be because of inability of people to unite. We always find a reason that can divide us - be it colour, caste, religion, profession or our strata in the society. While the need is to be compassionate towards our fellow human beings, time and again, human race has always failed in its efforts to do so, resulting in inequality and lack of unity.

This was the basic idea when Think Beyond team decided to bring together various communities living in Powai through Powai Peace Run. An idea, which would ensure a beginning of interaction among literates & lesser literates, privileged & not so privileged; an interaction that over the period can make an urban middle class impart better knowledge to children lacking proper education at this moment – in turn preparing them for being an ideal citizen of the country and the world; an interaction that can be a genesis for better understanding over a period and thus bringing in equality & harmony across the communities.

It was an idea which started with a handful of people and gathered momentum as more and more volunteers joined hands. Various NGOs, including Udaan, Vidya, Mobile Creche, MBA Foundation, Asha for Education and Young Environmentalists agreed to bring the children from their various programmes for the Peace Run. Meanwhile, the volunteers comprising of youngsters and elders were making an all out concerted effort to ensure that the Peace Run happens in the most efficient & economic manner. Rather than seeking a personal glorification for Think Beyond, or tom-tomming about the organisations involved, the efforts were only to express our gratitude for what we already have. While Hiranandani Group, Hiranandani Hospital, Haiko, Big Bazaar & Deloitte supported the event, the only banners & placards that could be seen prominently were peace messages prepared personally by some of the volunteers & participating children.

Flagged off by a few Mumbai Marathon runners, who changed their training schedule for participating in the event, the Peace Run was soon a joyous & exuberant expression by children & elders alike, something that made the entire efforts of the volunteers of Think Beyond worthwhile. After all, Think Beyond wanted to make a statement about “Peace through Unity & Harmony” on the 1st anniversary of the day when last year our peacekeeping forces had overcome the terrorists.

The idea of Peace had fired the soul of Beatles when John Lenon sang one of his most famous solo - "Imagine".

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try,

No hell below us, above us only sky,

Imagine all the people, living for today.

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do,

Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too,

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can,

No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man,

Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,

I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one

The 1st Powai Peace Run was an effort towards making that imagination a reality one day. We know it is a small step, but all that we wanted to say was (using lines from another hit of Beatles)

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!

Powai Peace Run - 29th November 2009

2009-11-19T12:02:00.001+05:30

26th November 2008 shall always go down in the history of India as the day when a peaceful nation was jolted out of its reverie by a handful of terrorists.

29th November 2008 was the day that our peacekeepers overcame the terrorist & freed the prominent landmarks of the city.

“Think Beyond” – a motley group of conscientious citizens are organizing “A Peace Run” for the children associated with the NGOs in and around Powai, with an objective of bringing communities in the area together. We appeal to the residents to run alongwith them.

Cause UNITY & PEACE

Occasion To celebrate Victory of Peace over Evil

Date 29th November 2009

Time Start 8 AM

Finish 10 AM

Venue Start & Finish at Go-Kart, Hiranandani, Powai

Distance Approx 2 Km. within Hiranandani Complex, Powai

We request you to participate in the event. After all, S_CCESS is complete only with U.

For further details, please contact:

Minoo Eakta Sudipta Manoj Monisha

9820060599 9892730671 9820720466 9892334681 9819010014

Or write to us at: letusthinkbeyond@gmail.com