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Ozindcare Newsletter :: Issue-1 : Jan-2014

Ozindcare - Newsletter

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1 st January 2014

Happy New Year to
all our members and well wishers


Ozindcare AGM

event

Ozindcare conducted its AGM for the year 2013 on 22nd December in a Park near Pemulwuy with a lunch time BBQ. Around 15 members were present. Last year AGM minutes, financial report for the year 2013 and the new projects and vision were all presented during the AGM. There were fruitful discussion about our service in the community for the past 18 years and all the members attended have extended their whole hearted support for the organisation.

Young member join Ozindcare Committee

Deepak Koomully, Lithika Vinod and Sindhu Unnirajan are the newly elected members of Ozindcare committee.

Deepak will focus more onto attract young people to work for Ozindcare. They will join Anil Pattarath, Anita Kurien, Ansaji, Bindu Anil, Beena Viswanath, Biju Kurien, Leslie Bonney, Manjula Ummer, Prakash Palakkil, Sudhir David, Ummer Kinathil and Usha Leslie.
Our Forthcoming
Fundraising Programs


We are happy to announce that JEEVAN SANGEETH, A newly formed music group in Sydney is presenting a musical entertainment night to help raise funds for Ozindcare.

Date:
Saturday 15 th Feb. 2014

Venue:
Dundas Community Hall

Only limited seats are available. Further details will follow soon.

Please mark the date in your diary. It will be a very good entertainment program filled with music and dance. Variety of home cooked food will be available at a reasonable cost.

Please volunteer to help us to conduct this program.

18 Years & Counting

Ozindcare has been in service for more than 18 years. Over this period we have helped more than 200 individuals, families and few organisations both in terms of financial assistance and otherwise.

It all started with sending quality used clothes to India to help the victims of natural disasters and other misfortunes. When it became financially nonviable to send material through air/ sea fright, due to the cost involved we decided to help them financially. So far we have supported many families in India and other countries including Australia collecting and dispersing about $200,000. This amount may seem very little compared to other charities who work on a corporate basis. Fund raising, administration and distributions are all done by volunteers thereby we are able to make sure that the amount collected reaches the needy in full.

It is great to know that there are many people in the community willing to help Ozindcare to “help the helpless”. Everyone has the urge to help others, but when it comes to reality, time is the major concern. But when we have lots of volunteers the work will be shared by all then the time will not be a concern. Yes, we need volunteers to help us to go on with our activities.

There are different ways you can help.

  • Help us to sell the tickets for our fund raising programs
  • Help us to cook for our food sales
  • Help us to increase the membership
  • Spreading our message in the wider community
  • Any other way that you think it is possible to help us…
Ozindcare -
How it works


The organisation was started in the year 1995 with the sole aim of helping the helpless without any affiliation with politics and or religion.

The BEGINING

Initially the membership fee for life member was $500/- with an annual membership fee of $100. Then the Organisation was registered with the Dept. of fair trading in NSW with a written constitution. This was to make sure that only people with genuine interest in the charity could work in the committee. Ordinary membership was open to the public with an annual family membership of $20/-

After about 5 years, once the stability of the organisation was confirmed the committee decided to amend the clause of life membership in the constitution opening the way for other genuinely interested people in the community to join Ozindcare committee. From then on, every year new committee is formed during the AGM and it gives plenty of opportunity to the members of the community to work for Ozindcare. The life members function as the parent committee.

Once the committee receives a request for financial assistance from any individual or other charities, the application is scrutinised with very stringent measure to make sure that the request is genuine. Usually the request comes from the members in the community in Australia and also directly from India. Once the possible amount is agreed upon in the committee depending on the fund available and urgency, the money is disbursed in the form of draft or in urgent cases in cash. We always make sure that it reaches the correct person/organisation.

Our accounts are audited annually by an accredited accounting firm. That is how we help the helpless.

Membership drive

We are embarked on a member ship drive in 2014 aiming to increase the paid up membership to at least 100 families by end of this year. Our request to all our current members is to get as many families as possible to join Ozindcare.

Together we can make a difference. It costs only $25 for a family membership and $10 for individual membership.
Contact any of our committee members to join us.
OR
You can download the application form from www.ozindcare.com
Email us for more info at admin@ozindcare.com or
Contact: 0430 512999; 0425 279651; 0402 385581

You helped them through Ozindcare

Following is the details of some of the financial assistance provided by Ozindcare during 2013

  • Financial Assistance of $6170/-provided to Manoj Kumar Masih’s family when he was killed in a road accident in Liverpool, the incident that shocked many in the local community.
  • $1000/- was given to the poor family of Abdul Nazar to help with the education of his children he left behind.
  • Donated $4000/- to a Palliative Care Centre “ Athani” Narikkuni near Calicut. Ozindcare has a ward in this project in our name.
  • Provided financial Assistance of $1000/- to Devi Mattannur, India. (The request came through Santhosh Puthan Veetil in Sydney).
  • Provided Financial Assistance of $1000/- to Sudhevan Ottappalam. (The request came through Jayanthi Palasseri in Sydney).
  • Provided $1000/- to Sister Tereessa in India to help the helpless. A direct request from India.
  • Provided $1000/- as a financial assistance to Shanamol Shamnad, Idukki Kerala for Cancer treatment. (The request came through Sheafer, Liverpool).
  • Provided $1000/- as a financial assistance to Rajan, Tellicherry a carpenter who lost his livelihood after a hip replacement. A direct request from India.
  • Provided $1000/- as a financial assistance to Sudhish, Calicut. A direct request from India.
OZINDCARE’S MAJOR
FUND RAISING
EVENT


3rd may 2014

Grand classical dance program :
“THE SACRED GRAHAS”
(Concept and Choreography by Manjula Viswanath)

Smt. Manjula Viswanath, the founder and Artistic director of Rasika Dance Academy has agreed to conduct a Grand Classical Dance Program for Ozindcare to help raise funds.

As she has done in the past, it will be a high quality dance program in Indian Traditional dance form performed by the talented students of the Academy.

Venue: Science Theatre,
UNSW Kensington

(free car parking available for this show)

Date: Sat, 3 rd May 2014

Time: 6:30 pm

Tickets:
$80/- (family-4 seats)
$30/- (single)

Ticket price includes food

Further details about this show will be out soon

Ozindcare - Helping The Helpless!
This newsletter is published by Ozindcare Inc. for circulation for its members and friends.
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