This is off-topic, so please forgive the intrusion.
Recently, a colleague of mine initiated a fund-raiser for benches in a school in India. His daughter, a US-born kid, never educated in India, got together with some friends and hosted a fund-raiser. The collection was around $4000. With the money, they managed to get about 100 benches made for a primary school in India, where the children sat on the floor previously.
Secondly, I started going through John Wood's "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World" - and checked his web site (http://www.roomtoread.org/).
I am quite taken up with the idea, but between a day job and a family, am torn between the desire to do something - and give back to the country - and the reality.
Please take a moment - and let me know if we could pool in about $2K for a library. At $10 per head - pocket change for most of us - we would need 200 donors.
Something worthwhile, I feel.
Again, off-topic, so apologies.
Recently, a colleague of mine initiated a fund-raiser for benches in a school in India. His daughter, a US-born kid, never educated in India, got together with some friends and hosted a fund-raiser. The collection was around $4000. With the money, they managed to get about 100 benches made for a primary school in India, where the children sat on the floor previously.
Secondly, I started going through John Wood's "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World" - and checked his web site (http://www.roomtoread.org/).
I am quite taken up with the idea, but between a day job and a family, am torn between the desire to do something - and give back to the country - and the reality.
Please take a moment - and let me know if we could pool in about $2K for a library. At $10 per head - pocket change for most of us - we would need 200 donors.
Something worthwhile, I feel.
Again, off-topic, so apologies.