My special thanks again to everyone for
making iVolunteer’s participation in Sunfeast World 10K Run a success.
I just am so curious to share with you all the Sponsors and
the Contributors list as of now, the feedbacks I have received from some of the
Run participants (put at end because you need to read them patientlyJ), the snaps and a surprise to
all Run participants, the videos taken after successfully reaching the destination…
Sponsors:
Special Thanks to our Sponsors Maintec Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Meera Raman for taking care
of Run expenses like T shirts, Banners, Head bands etc who agreed to take the
sponsorship based on the email sent by me at the last minuteJ Meera Raman was the one gave us
the idea of Headband which was unique in crowd of 10,000 people.
Contributor’s as of now:
Special thanks to our contributors too!!! Below are names
of all contributors/donors in order of contributions made as of now:
Narayanan Shankaran
Maintec Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (sponsorship money left was
considered as contribution)
Ajithesh Hegde
Dr. Suresh
Prateek Kaul
Vasanth and Chendur Chandramouli
Mrs. Uma Arun
Mrs. Ravikala Pai
Mr. Srikanth
Divya, Punita
Venkatraman
Mrs. Meera Ramadas
No contribution is big or small and every rupee counts.
Hoping to see many of your names in my list to be sent on 25th May
2008. 5 more days to go!!!
Snaps links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sajesh.j/IVolunteerBangaloreMarathon
http://picasaweb.google.com/ivolunteerbangalore/SunfeaskWorld10KRun
Videos (surpriseeee):
All 20+ people Ran for a cause supporting
many causes... These videos were taken only after the successful completion of
our Majja Run when we reached the final destination... After reaching the
destination too all were in full josh, so we went one more round all around the
stadium… Before we started going to the ground for a biiig Round, we had
a fun and formed a little train and did some masti, watch out!!!! It’ll
take some time to buffer, so plzz have some patienceJ Unforgettable moments of life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Tl5zz1hMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJn0sY-0vI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrhzchR-0nM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMoHwqtnqKs
Media Coverage:
Not sure where all we were covered but for sure we got
good coverage. As per one student volunteer Mythri we had a coverage for few secs
today morning in “MTV Wassup”. To add Mythri although didn’t
participate in Run was part of helping team and ya also raised Rs 3,400/- from
her sourcesJ Thanks MythriJ
Volunteer’s/Run participants
feedbacks: Please read these very patiently
and in leisure, I know you don’t wanna miss any feedback and I have lots
to share:
Vishwanath Unkalkar: (Active volunteer
and Senior Citizen Run participant)
Initially for the preparation of
On the
Still there are 5 days to raise
the funds for the cause for which I and all youngsters ran... Hence I appeal
everyone to contribute generously. Definitely your contribution will be
utilised for the betterment of the society.
Thanks to Prarthana and iVolunteer for giving me this
opportunity.
Suresh Reddy: (Beneficiary turning to be
a volunteer) We all were amazed seeing his enthu yesterday in running as well
as spreading the message. Nobody knew till the end that he was visually
challenged. You won’t believe one of new volunteer who joined us mid way
didn’t know till end that Suresh is visually challenged individual. Only
after the Run when we were dispersing he realised it, that too when I mentioned
it to himJ Great job Suresh!!! Way to go
boy!!!
I am so happy to walk with volunteers who were running for
great cause by which most of the people need to get admire. As an individual I
pray to almighty the energy which was shown by everyone yesterday its wonder,
Could we all transfer towards real challenges? 10 years ago hard to find single
volunteer to read but today there are many to help, I believe this is the
progress what it mean?
Tons of thanks for Amith and Kaushal for highlighting my
name in the mail, My hearty congratulation for each one of you all for
supporting me and making this event great success, which would continue
forever.
Vijayanand Nagaraj: (Active + Star
volunteer and attracted many on run day, wearing good costume and spreading
message “save trees save garden city”)
The Sunfeast World 10K run was a marvelous
event…
- Loads of
Enthusiasm…
- Full of Fun...
- Immense passion
from volunteers and for volunteering…
- Excellent
awareness for iVolunteer...by shouting short and sensible Slogans.
(Slogans are still ringing in my ears)
- I
Volunteer, Do you?
- If
you mean it, Do it.
- Intentions
don’t make a difference, Volunteer Do?
- Who
volunteers, I Volunteer..
Though I have got throat pain after all the
shouting…..but it was really worthwhile. Also I felt my costume
(especially the leaves)gave me a lot of Oxygen to complete the run without much
of pain in the legs.
Only disappointment is, should have come a bit
early and participated in costume competition :)
Rashmi K.C : (Active + Star
volunteer of last month)
I am also one of the culprits as I couldn’t attend the earlier planning
meetings..................:-) There's a lots about the good things that
happened and we all are aware of it..
It gave all the volunteers a sense of satisfaction and we are all proud of
being a part of iVolunteer
Some things we could have done better:
- More people competing for the costume
competition
- Placards missing - impacted on
spreading awareness on the works done by the iVolunteer
I am also one of the culprits as i couldn’t attend
the earlier planning meetings..................:-)
Ramya Rekha: (Active Volunteer)
It's been a wonderful morning with a great bunch
of enthusiastic people!
Had loads of fun holding the banners, shouting the
slogans.......guess we spread the message of volunteering to our best with in
this event than ever before.
Though the event is over, I can still feel
it................maybe 'coz of the body pains :)
My voice is slightly ok today!
Thanks to Sajesh and Sayeesh for the action snaps!
It's been a pleasure to be a part of this
event as an iVolunteer member!
Cheers to iVolunteer........! :)
Amit Mittal: (Active Volunteer)
What to say!!!
As always, it was really a fun morning yesterday. This event reminded me the masti
and fun we used to have in ASHA Foundation events :) Additionally, I got a
chance to catch up some of old dudes and to meet some new members of the team
:)
I wish, I could go back in time while rehearsing our favourite play :)
The slogans were quite catchy as these were small and were able to question any
human being (like "do you?").
Of course, the presence of Suresh was a great motivating factor for the group.
Looking forward to similar masti soon :)
Majja maadi!!!
Varuna Gupta: (Our new enthu Volunteer)
I completely agree with Rashmi about the Costume
Competition part. In fact, having a few unusual costumes in Majja Run
wasn’t really a bad idea either. We saw the kind of media/public
attention Vijayanand’s creative outfit got! We could have spread more
messages via such creativity since the run was a platform with much wider
audience base.
The sticks with the banners could have attracted a
lotta people (though we compensated for it with all that
“josheelee” shouting. :-D )
It was the first such kind of event that I attended
and I must say everyone’s enthusiasm was absolutely contagious – be
it Suresh leading the way or Sayeesh’s hoo-hoo-hoo or Amit’s
shouting or Vijay’s rhythmic slogans or Jaya/Ramya running all the way or
Rashmi n Prarthana’s on-the-spot-motivating-inputs ( like tying band on
ravan’s head :-P ) or our father-son ( Mr. Ramdas) duo sharing the
banner or Chennai gang’s arrival to boost the morales or Venkat’s
Sprint :-P and Edwin’s sweet-talks with all the cute “kuttis”
enroute !!!!
Not to mention Sajesh’s
‘not-to-miss-a-moment’ snaps :)
We must not forget Meera’s bandanas which
made us look so different that day. We must be thankful to her for all her
efforts.
There is only one thing that baffled me and that
was the amount of water-bottles strewn everywhere on the roads. Though we
couldn’t have done much to stop people from committing the folly, we
should have been more conscious not to be a part of it ourselves
……every small deed counts ! And I guess we are the biggest proponents
of the theory :). So, we must always lead by example and save our Garden City !
Edwin: (Chennai
volunteer moved to Bengaluru recently)
Its such fun and joy to be with you all
yesterday………..
5.7km, did we imagine when we started; it was more
of a procession right…. Believe me I enjoyed it to the core...
The arrangements, Bengaluru folks initiatives is so
rich………and exciting…
Volunteers------- Rocks!!!!!
Kudddoooooooooooooos Meera!!!!! The band made the
unique difference, Even Ravana in Majja Run, had tied in all of his 2
heads….
Ramadas: (Active
Volunteer cum associate of The Hindu Paper)
It was great fun and joy, shouting at the top of our
voices--i volunteer.....do you? Three cheers to... i volunteer.... Hip
Hip Hureh, Hip Hip Hureh, Hip Hip Hureh.
My son Srisha, did have his debut, first of its
kind running a marathon (5.7kms.). He did get a feel of it and did enjoy
it thoroughly. He did have two minds coming, as he was not fit.. with
cold and a bad cough. He made it and did his bit of slogan shouting and give
good company to Suresh (Who did need a guide, especially while walking and
running).
End of it all we have got back totally drained and not
able to speak much- sore throat(after shouting). No complains. We
thoroughly enjoyed every bit.
Thanks to all who made this possible. We
definitely have created a lot of awareness.
And thanks once again to Prarthana, you also did your bit
of organising. Very good show.
Kaushal: (New
volunteer actively involved past 2 months who went and got the sponsorship
cheque and headbands:))
It was refreshing to walk all the way..
I cherished shouting: 3 cheers to iVolunteer- Hip
Hip Hurray..
cause I could shout loudest then :))..
Good to see that everyone were full of energy.
Suresh's company, all the way, was inspirational.
Meera Raman: )New
volunteer with unique ideasJ)
Really sorry about the placards - murphy beat me on this
one big time...:(
And i didnt even get to join in all the yelling... Had to chaperone
another bunch of guys who were being extremely wicked(they threatened to drop
out if they didn’t see me anywhere within 2 feet raduis of them) ...
though i did manage to catch up with a few of u on the track for sometime....
But overall - just simply loved it - can’t wait for next year's
marathon... :)
Sayeesh Kirani: (Active volunteer)
Amazing time everyone has had in the
I appreciate everyone’s contribution towards
everything holding banners to completing the RUN, the best part is no
VOLUNTEER has tired or stopped in middle of the RUN(walk) that
was amazing truly appreciated.
WILL WAIT FOR THE NEXT RUN...........
Pearl Malhotra: (New Volunteer)
I was part of the Sunfeast Run
too. As I registered at the nth second I could not be a part of the I-Volunteer
bandwagon. However I could see all of you holding Banners and shouting slogans.
I think all of you did an extremely wonderful job.
I loved the group with the save
environment posters.
Wish could be a part of the run
with all of you too.
Cheers to you for doing a bindaas job!!!!
Thanks and hope you all enjoyed reading
it!!!
Lots to
be done for Social development in our country… 5 more days to go if you
wish to contribute for what we believe inJ
Best
Regards,
Prarthana
Prarthana Unkalkar
Head - National Volunteering
iVolunteer,
Web: www.ivolunteer.in
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in yourself and your ability to be successful.”
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