Followed to the fullest by all people associated with Amar Seva Sangam Association, is the motto of the NGO. My father had gone there to conduct free motivational training programmes for the employees of ASSA. So, we got a chance to spend 3 days in their premises as a guest. It’s a much calm place with ample of space, surrounded by lot of trees, good wind and good souls! I had heard a lot about Mr.Ramakrishnan, founder of ASSA through my father. We got a chance to meet him in person and understand the real service done by him this time! A little background about Mr. Ramakrishnan sir. He was studying engineering final year in 1976. He had an amibition to enter into army. He had gone for the army examination and as part of the test process had to jump from a huge height and unfortunately met with a major accident leading to complete paralysis of his body below neck! He required help of others for every little movement.
The below information is an excerpt from their annual magazine. This is a benediction from Bharat Ratna Late Shri. C. Subramaniam, first patron-in-chief of ASSA.
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In 1981, he had the courage of conviction, injected and inspired by his mentor Dr.Amar Singh, and dared to establish a service organization and christened it as AMAR SEVA SANGAM by way of paying his humble but sincere gratitude and tribute to the doctor who has helped him out of the jaws of death during the accident in army tests!
Interestingly another crippled young man, Sankara Raman, Chartered accountant with a sizeable practice of his own in Madras, who happened to visit Ayikudy in January 1992, out of curiosity to see for himself what Ramakrishnan was doing there, lost no time in bidding good bye to his lucrative auditing practice and settled down in Ayikudy to help and work with Ramakrishnan. “
It was so motivating to see both these inspiring people in person and get to have a chat with them.
We wanted to see if we could also contribute to the ASSA through our educational background!As my husband was a finance background, he tried to understand their financial operations and tried to suggest some modifications during our short visit! I tried to understand the IT system. There needs lot of knowledgeable people& machines in networking to run the huge system in ASSA currently. I got to meet another young gentle man called Rajesh. He is currently looking after the IT system. He is also physically challenged and has no movement below his neck! I was very happy to see the confidence with which he spoke and didn’t show a bit of frustration over his current condition! I was very much moved to talk to such people! He has learnt software languages out of his own interest and is not a professional qualified person! They need a little bit of guidance to channelize the IT packages which they are developing for ASSA. I am not a trained in that area to support the same! I have tried to source a upcoming networking professional from Chennai to look their IT related issues and sort out their issues and help to improve their IT infrastructure for smooth running of ASSA. There is a need donations and knowledge youngsters for ensuring the smooth running of these systems!
We are trying to see if we can spread out this message about ASSA to more people to help to collect donations & qualified volunteers for a certain commited time !
I have to definitely mention about “Muthamma” aunty. We used to go there to the “Barrier free dining hall” for our lunch and dinner. We got to see many “special children” taken care so well by the staff there for serving food. Muthamma aunty has been in ASSA for the last 8 years in the kitchen session! She has an ever smiling face and serves food to all of the guests who come there!!
There are a few lessons learnt from this trip
I realized that I should not crib about the small health issues which I have! I can still move around, work and contribute monetarily to my family and society! It made me realize that there is more scope for social responsibility from my end and I should not just get constrained to my family alone!!
The below information is an excerpt from their annual magazine. This is a benediction from Bharat Ratna Late Shri. C. Subramaniam, first patron-in-chief of ASSA.
“
In 1981, he had the courage of conviction, injected and inspired by his mentor Dr.Amar Singh, and dared to establish a service organization and christened it as AMAR SEVA SANGAM by way of paying his humble but sincere gratitude and tribute to the doctor who has helped him out of the jaws of death during the accident in army tests!
Interestingly another crippled young man, Sankara Raman, Chartered accountant with a sizeable practice of his own in Madras, who happened to visit Ayikudy in January 1992, out of curiosity to see for himself what Ramakrishnan was doing there, lost no time in bidding good bye to his lucrative auditing practice and settled down in Ayikudy to help and work with Ramakrishnan. “
It was so motivating to see both these inspiring people in person and get to have a chat with them.
We wanted to see if we could also contribute to the ASSA through our educational background!As my husband was a finance background, he tried to understand their financial operations and tried to suggest some modifications during our short visit! I tried to understand the IT system. There needs lot of knowledgeable people& machines in networking to run the huge system in ASSA currently. I got to meet another young gentle man called Rajesh. He is currently looking after the IT system. He is also physically challenged and has no movement below his neck! I was very happy to see the confidence with which he spoke and didn’t show a bit of frustration over his current condition! I was very much moved to talk to such people! He has learnt software languages out of his own interest and is not a professional qualified person! They need a little bit of guidance to channelize the IT packages which they are developing for ASSA. I am not a trained in that area to support the same! I have tried to source a upcoming networking professional from Chennai to look their IT related issues and sort out their issues and help to improve their IT infrastructure for smooth running of ASSA. There is a need donations and knowledge youngsters for ensuring the smooth running of these systems!
We are trying to see if we can spread out this message about ASSA to more people to help to collect donations & qualified volunteers for a certain commited time !
I have to definitely mention about “Muthamma” aunty. We used to go there to the “Barrier free dining hall” for our lunch and dinner. We got to see many “special children” taken care so well by the staff there for serving food. Muthamma aunty has been in ASSA for the last 8 years in the kitchen session! She has an ever smiling face and serves food to all of the guests who come there!!
There are a few lessons learnt from this trip
I realized that I should not crib about the small health issues which I have! I can still move around, work and contribute monetarily to my family and society! It made me realize that there is more scope for social responsibility from my end and I should not just get constrained to my family alone!!
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