Here are the winning entries from the “Make a difference this Diwali” challenge. We congratulate all the winners.
- Deepa Roy from Bengaluru shared happiness with the old ladies of Sandhya Suraksha old age home this Diwali.
In her words -: “Diwali for me is all about responsible gifting and conscious giving. What I want to convey is, spending money on the right thing is something we should learn. We exchange expensive gifts/sweets with our relatives and friends who may not even need those.
The money that I need to buy gifts/chocolates/sweets for them can be utilized in a much better way. Try spending it on the stray animals, old grannies/grandpas, kids at the orphanage, kids/adults with disabilities and the list is never-ending. Hence I thought of making someone else’s Diwali brighter so I decided to go and meet grannies this year and gave them fruits, biscuits, namkeens. These institutions, charitable trusts, NGOs are already doing a lot for these people and we should understand that they might not have a separate budget to celebrate every festival. We all need to pitch in here and help them to make things better. ” Few pics from Deepa -:
2. Bhagwan Singh Lodhi from Bhopal made a difference this Diwali by creating compost from the festivity waste material. He motivated others too and many of his family and friends followed the same. He requests from others to not immerse the festivity waste material in rivers, lakes, and be a proud citizen. He shared his message with us via this video -:
3. Jay S Padhya from Bengaluru Decided to give the gift of life this Diwali and he pledged to donate his blood for someone needy. He said he got motivated by our “Donate blood” campaign. Though he reached the blood bank on Diwali which didn’t work out before Diwali, so he donated after Diwali and saved almost 3 people’s life via his platelets and plasma. See his blood donor certificate from the blood bank.
4. Our fourth winner is a family from Gujarat Ahemdabad, who requested to be anonymous. This family visited Bhoga Nandishwara temple before Diwali which is near Bengaluru. Outside the temple, they noticed a unique orchestra. This orchestra group is run by blind people. This family requested that we should ask our readers to donate such differently-abled people if they can. So here we are providing a few pictures and contact detail for this blind Ashram.
You can contact Sankalp blind orchestra and school on these numbers -: 9066013117, 8197188865, 8105607013
5. The fifth is Mr. Pankaj Patel and his family from Bangaluru, who decided to go “vocal for local” in similar lines from this article. They decided to buy all the Diwali festivity items from the local street vendors. Also, they pledged that in the future they will try to buy the most thing from local street vendors without bargaining on the price.
We also want to name a few others who made a difference this Diwali by doing donations or social service at various places these are Anil Bhatt from Hyderabad, Keerti Agnihotri Pandit from Indore, Manas Sahu from Bengaluru.
We received a few other good great stories for this contest but our team selected the above stories to publish on the site. First, three entries will receive the 500 Rs. gift voucher for Flipkart. We congratulate the winners and all the participants. We also congratulate those heroes who made a difference this Diwali by doing so many good great things but may not have disclosed anywhere.
In the above-selected stories, you might have noticed that the act could be small but it leaves a lasting impact on someone. So never hesitate to do good work, you will always get support from people around you. The only thing required is to have the will to make a difference.
If you are reading this article till here then you are among one of those good great people who have a will to do good. So keep doing good work and keep inspiring us in this journey to make this world a better place.
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