A Special Friend is a compassionate and cheerful student who acts as a volunteer for the special children at Margdarsi. They help the special children by taking part in various fundraisers, organising events and becoming a bridge for them into the society.
Who are they?A kind-hearted and upbeat youngster named A Special Friend volunteers for Margdarsi's special-needs students. By organising activities, participating in fundraisers, and acting as a bridge between the unique kids and the rest of society, they support the special kids. In layman’s language, a special friend is a volunteer who is willing to extend his/her free time to help the persons with special needs. It can be for spread of relevant information, awareness campaigns, technology information, conducting identification camps and referral of people to the nearest service centre.
Margdarsi has created an engagement platform SFP for all those kind hearted people who donates resources, often including time and expertise to the mission of Margdarsi, for medical rehabilitation of all kinds of recognised Disabilities and disabling conditions. They will be part of this mission in a way that is focused, sustained and designed for meaningful change within a given issue or problem among the range of disorders and disabilities irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity of the affected people. Institutions establishment for institution based rehabilitation services, capacity building, outreach program, research and innovation to develop technology solutions are to be patronaged by this group of SFP.
Philanthropists, benevolent Corporate Executives, grantmaking and philanthropy-serving organizations or who seek to champion disability rehabilitation for inclusion in the social mainstream are welcome to join SFP.
Patrons are invited to join quarterly community meetings online or offline, to connect with other benevolent people. Each meeting will be centered on a key topic and will include opportunities for group discussion. Patrons are encouraged to propose ideas for meeting topics and are welcomed to be part of facilitating dialogue on that topic. As Patrons, you also have the opportunity to be part of a listserv to share resources and best practices, request guidance, and disseminate relevant information in the groups.
Each one tries to bring two more patrons and create a ripple effect to attract more people to join as SFP.
Starting or inaugural meeting is scheduled to be held on January 15th, 2024.
Special Friend I card , Felicitations, Tax exemption certificate for the amount donated at any time, Participation in various Events as Special guests/ Guests of honour, opportunity to share their experiences as a SFP. They may have privileges to avail professional services rendered by Margdarsi for themselves and immediate family members.
Keep in touch with each other and to share information with all. There can be online/ offline/hybrid mode meets.
We are all on a learning journey. It’s important to ask questions, but be sure to do so respectfully to each other.
Margdarsi will value your participation, and want to make sure everyone has a chance to respond or lead the many different relevant activities. Take care to invite others in and make space for all perspectives to be part of the Rehabilitation services.
This will be a respectable community to support Persons with Disabilities individually and as a group for their functional independence through Medical rehabilitation. During meeting we welcome requests for mentorship or guidance, dissemination of job postings for PwDs and other resources for grantmaking or consulting. Join Margdarsi, to build hope for the suffering humanity.
Being a Margdarsi special friend entitles the student to avail a set of recognitions to help them present an unique mark in the society.
Each Special Friend will receive a certificate of appreciation, which they can utilise to participate in additional social cause-related endeavours.
