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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 18:54 |
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Dear all,
Beating Mother Nature has never been easy, but human tenacity has always put up a decent fight. For the last few days, we have been witnessing the sad reality of people falling prey to the intense cold wave sweeping the nation - everyday a handful of people are dying (the death toll so far is 33+) while thousands of others are succumbing to cold-related diseases. Meteorologists expect this to continue for a few more weeks.
As the nation rises to the occasion, Jagoree and Drishtipat in collaboration with a few other youth initiatives such as UNYSAB, 1 Degree Initiative and Jaago Foundation, are putting together a blanket distribution drive with dual goals of:
1) distributing blankets to the needy in Dhaka and outside, mostly North Bengal
2) buying the blankets from rural artisans who make blankets but are unable to reach the urban market
We would appreciate any cash contribution you would like to make to this effort of standing beside the needy while supporting rural cottage industries. Due to the time sensitivity of this, we will only be accepting donations till the 10th of January so that we can get to work in beating Mother Nature before it can do more damage!
Remember, just Tk. 500 will buy 3-4 blankets potentially saving 3-4 lives and pay for the hard work of around 25 person-hours for making the blankets.
I eagerly look forward to your response. Please also feel free to get in touch with Imran Chowdhury who is coordinating the drive at
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or +8801913641101.
Asif Saleh
Drishtipat
Reprinted by
Kawser Jamal
Volunteer for the greater good of Bangladesh and it's people.
Change Bangladesh Org
How to participate:
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Last Updated on Friday, 08 January 2010 21:15 |
About the people interested in USA to donate, we can take their donation, and also some of you have asked about tax deductible receipts for the donation, that will also be provided.
Please read below how and where the donation can be sent or provided.In USA, We are only taking cash donation no cloths or stuffs at this time.
1:If the amount is less than $200 dollar for any individual or organization they can send the payment at the address below or to Paypal account at
donation@changeBangladesh.com ( we are creating a link on paypal to put on a website where people can click a link and donate.We are working on that and will send that soon. But the email address (donation@changeBangladesh.com)should be enough to make a transaction in Paypal.
Check: Payable to
Change Bangladesh Org or to Bangladesh Relief Fund
Address: Attn: Kawser Jamal
505 Nan Circle,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72211
On Memo: Please write for Winter cloths donation in BD.
2: If the amount is more than $200 dollar, they need to write the check to
Bangladesh Relief Fund.
Address: Attn: Kawser Jamal
505 Nan Circle,
Little Rock, Arkansas 72211
On Memo: Please write for Winter cloths donation in BD.
3: If people have Bank of America account, they can easily transfer the money to our Bank of America account in USA on case by case basis. We can provide that Bank info if people are interested in taking this easy route.We already got few donors transfered and given their money with this route today.It's easy and secure too.
4: All donor's would be given a money receipts and tax deductible receipts by the end of Jan 31st,2010 for the tax year 2010 with the IRS Tax ID numbers to claim for their tax year 2010. Just to let you know in advance, any donation more than $200 needs a tax deductible receipts, up to $200 can be claimed without showing or proving any receipts or papers.(United States Tax Law, per HR&BLOCK)
5 We will update to the group or any one in particular about the instant donation that hits our account at our Bank and PayPal. Till now we have raised $100 dollar from couple of donors all ready and many more pledged to do it asap. So, $100 dollar can already be counted as we have got it in our account. We are doing a good drive on Friday after Jummah at our local Masjid ICLR www.iclrlittlerock.com and expecting a good turn around inshallah.We will let you know about the total collection on that date after friday Jan 8th 2010.
Hope this should help any one who has any question regarding the USA donation part. I can be contacted at my email,facebook, or phone 501-255-2814 any time for this drive.
Once this drive is over we can continue to talk about working on our next drive 2010 winter in Bangladesh by working jointly and taking a mission that " No one will die in 2010 Winter in Bangladesh from cold because he or she doesn't have warm cloths", we will provide that" people and organizations interested please email me separate or wait to hear from me after this drive. We would follow our United Bangladesh Appeal type movement for the next drive that we did for SIDR 2007 drive in Bangladesh and many of you are aware and for those who don't would be provided with the information. Definitely the next winter drive will start way ahead than this one. Lets all make this a success and thanks to everyone here on email for your wonderful initiative and we are happy to be part of it. It be pleasure working on serving the people of the most beautiful country Bangladesh.
Thanks
Kawser Jamal
Change Bangladesh Org
N.B If you still have any question regarding collection of donation in USA, feel free to shoot me a separate email for your question, I would answer that