KNOW YOUR VALUE....!!

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a rupee 500 note. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this rupee 500 note?”Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this note to one of you but first let me do this. “He proceeded to crumple the note up. He then asked, “Who still wants it?”

Still the hands up in the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. “Now who still wants it?”

Still the hands went into the air. “My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth rupee 500/-. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.

You are special. Don’t ever forget it! Never let yesterday‘s disappointments

Overshadow tomorrow‘s dreams.

“VALUE HAS A VALUE ONLY IF ITS VALUE IS VALUED”

EYE DONATION- Gift of sight

NATIONAL EYE DONATION AWARENESS FORTNIGHT 

25 AUGUST  to 8 SEPTEMBER

 India has the largest burden of global blindness. A considerable number of Indians suffer from significant impairment of vision that threatens their ability to be physically or financially self-sufficient. The cumulative loss to the country’s gross national product consequent to this is estimated to be $11.1 billion. While the problem is formidable, the need to take up the challenge of curtailing it is compelling.

Some 27 million Indians have moderate sight impairment; nine million are classified as bilateral blind; 260,000 children are blind. The number of corneal blind people in India is 4.6 million. Of these, 90 per cent are below 45. They include 60 per cent who are below 12 years of age. Looking at the root causes, 66 per cent of the cases are preventable or curable. Out of the 4.6 million people, at least three million can benefit from corneal transplantation.

Donated human eyes help preserve and restore sight through corneal transplantation, research and education. More than 90 per cent of corneal transplant operations successfully restore vision in people suffering from blindness due to corneal problems. Infants born with cloudy corneas gain sight from transplantation.

Eye banks obtain, evaluate and distribute eyes donated by humanitarian-minded citizens for use in corneal transplantation, research and education. To ensure patient safety, the donated eyes are evaluated under strict medical standards. Donated eyes that are not suitable for corneal transplantation are used for valuable research and education purposes.

The cornea is the clear, transparent dome in front of the “black portion” of the eye. It is also the main focusing surface, which converges light rays as they enter the eye to focus on the retina. It is thus the most important part of the optical apparatus of the eye. Loss of transparency directly results in loss of vision.

A corneal transplant is an operation that replaces the opaque cornea with a clear cornea obtained from a human donor eye. A cornea may become opaque owing to infection, injuries, iatrogenic causes such as malpractice and improper post-operative care, malnutrition, or congenital-hereditary reasons.

Practically anybody from the age of one can be an eye donor. There is no maximum age limit. Poor eyesight and age make no difference. Those who wear spectacles, those who have had cataract surgery, diabetics and those who are hypertensive can donate eyes. Even a person who is blind from retinal or optic nerve disease can donate eyes, provided the cornea is clear. Those who have died of unknown causes or due to infectious rabies, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, septicemia, and AIDS cannot be donors.

One can bequeath eyes by taking a pledge, resolving to donate them after death. But it requires the help of relatives or friends to carry out the pledge and desire. The next-of-kin can give consent for a donation even if the deceased family member has not signed a pledge form.

The eyes need to be collected within six hours, and so the eye bank has to be called as early as possible. After making the call, both eyes will need to be closed and covered with moist cotton. Any overhead fans should be turned off. If possible, antibiotic eye drops may be periodically instilled in the eyes in order to reduce chances of infection. The head end of the body could be kept raised by about 6 inches in order to reduce any bleeding during eye removal.

The removal will leave no visible signs that would interfere with common funeral arrangements and practices. There is no religious conflict involved. The donation actually gives a gift of life or sight to others. As such, it is consistent with the beliefs and attitudes of all major religious and ethical traditions.

The whole eye cannot be transplanted, only the cornea can be. The rest of the eye is used for therapeutic use, research and education. The ultimate decision about usage for transplantation will be made after evaluation.

A living person cannot donate eyes. A recipient is not told who donated the eye: the gift of sight is made anonymously.

At the eye bank, the donor corneas are strictly evaluated by means of various procedures including slit lamp examination, serology examination, and secular’s microscopic evaluation by specialists. The chosen corneas are removed from the eyeball and preserved in special storage solutions that can keep the cornea healthy for 14 days. Good quality corneas are used for corneal transplant procedures. The donor corneas are used for various types of keratoplasty procedures including multiple procedures. The donor sclera is preserved in absolute alcohol and used for surgical procedures concerning glaucoma, ocular trauma and oculoplasty.

The remaining parts of the donor eye ball are used for research by the research units of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Ocular Pathology, and Molecular Biology.

The following steps will aid the noble cause. Dial the eye bank of any hospital soon after the unfortunate death of a near and dear one. Give your consent to donate the eyes of your close relatives and friends. You can also pledge for eye donation before death and get your donor card by just contact eye banks or well known NGO for eye donation named ‘DEED-NY-DEEDAR’ (09988229909). Motivate the family members of anyone who has died in your area. Spread information about eye care and eye donation.

The Department of Ophthalmology of various hospitals frequently organizes public health education programmes in schools, colleges, and industrial establishments in collaboration with non-governmental organizations, where issues relating to eye care and eye donation are explained. After you die, donate your eye because miracles cannot cure the blind, but you can and make yourself a friend of the eye bank.

                                                                                                                                       

Deed-ny-Deedar (NGO)

www.deednydeedar.yolasite.com

www.facebook.com/donateureye

deednydeedar@gmail.com

+91-9988229909

RELIGION: simple word with great values

Ancient word religion, it means to have come from words that meant, to pay careful attention to some activity (religere) to tie something tightly- (religare). It is a Latin word.

                   It is commonly used to prefer, beliefs, behavior and social institutions that have something to do with speculations (;ZN/pkIh, nebPkIh ); origin (P[o{nks); end; significance of universe (pqfjwzv dk wjZst); what happen after death (eh j[zd? wOs  so pknd); existence (ofjD ;fjD); spirits (go/s nkswk); ancestors (g{oti); angle (cfoPs/); demons (d[PN nkswk).

                   Religion is a matter of personal belief that can never be settled by rational debate.

                   Upper each of these make reference to an invisible (non-empirical) world that lies outside of or beyond human history, this thing we name as religious, are common opposed to those institutions that we labeled as political. Politics and public are observable and thus open to rational debate.

ARTICLE IN NEWSPAPER

MY FEATURE IN PUNJABI NEWSPAPER 'DESH SEWAK' PUBLISHED IN CHANDIGARH ON 15TH JULY 2012 (SUNDAY).

INCREDIBLE INDIA...!!

I would like to share with you something about India...

When we greet one another,
we foId our hands in namastey...
because we beIieve...
that God resides in the heart
of every human being.

India a nation where we aIIow
a Iady of CathoIic origin...

to step aside for a Sikh
to be sworn in as Prime Minister...

to a MusIim President to govern
a nation of over 80 percent Hindus.

It may aIso interest you
to know that...
many of the origins to your words
come from Sanskrit.

For exampIe,
maatr becomes mother...
bhratr becomes brother,
giamiti becomes geometry
trikonniti becomes trigonometry.

We have 5600 newspapers...
magazines in over twenty-one
different Ianguages...
with a combined readership
of over 120 miIIion.

We have reached the moon and back,
but yet...
people still feel that we've onIy
reached as far as the Indian rope trick.

We are the third largest pool in the word
of doctors, engineers
and scientists.

We have the third Iargest army
in the worId.

And even then, I foId my hands
in humiIity before you...

because we don't beIieve we are
above or beneath any individuaI.

namastey.....!!!

FACTS ABOUT LEARNING...!!

''I don't have time to learn accounting.'' I hear this every day. It's true - people are extremely busy these days. Between our day jobs,housekeeping,yard work, kids'
soccer games, church, and a hundred other things, it's hard tomake time for anything eise. Universal realized this years ago.
A teacher of mine once taught me the following simple lesson about managing time. From a bag she removed a large empty glass jar andplacedit on the table in front of the class.
Next she removed a bag full of colorful wooden blocks of different shapes and sizes. Last of all, she pulled a small metal bucket of sand from her bag and placed it in on the table.
Our teacher emptied the bucket of sand into the large empty glass jar so that the jar was about half-full of sand. ''Now, '' she said, ''Iwant you to come put these red,blue and yellow wooden blocks into the jar. We need to fit all of them in the jar. ''For the next few minutes, the five of us took turns trying to fit all of the blocks into the jar, but it just couldn't be done. There wasn,t enough room. After we'd all had a chance to try, our teacher announced that our time was up and sent us back to our seats. ''Do you want to know how to make it all fit, ''she whispered to us ? ''Yes,'' we responded enthusiastically, ''Show us!''
The teacher proceeded to remove all of the blocks from the jar and placed them on the table. Next, she poured the sand back into the bucket it came from. Teacher then placed the blocks back into the empty jar. With no sand in the jar, the blocks fit, but came allthe way to the brim of the jar. Next,the teacher poured all of the sand from the bucket into the jar blocks. The sand filled in the empty spaces between the blocks, and the sand and blocks all fit in the jar perfectly. ''Ooooh,'' we exclaimed.
''This is like life,'' our teacher said.''The blocks represent the most importent things in our lives like our families and school.''The sand is everything else, like playing with our friends and watching cartoons. When we put the sand in the  jar first, we can't fit all of the other ''fun'' things in too.
Though simple, that lesson was powerful to me and I have not forgotten it.

WHY DONATE EYES.....?

To begin with, may be ,for a selfish reason; our eyes can live even after our death.

• Secondly, more importantly, we can light the life of two blind people by donating our eyes after our death.
• Thirdly, not to mention, eye donation is one of the noblest of all causes.

Over 90 percent of all cornea transplant operations performed each year successfully restores vision to people suffering from corneal blindness. Donated human eyes and corneal tissue are also used for research and education.

How do research and education help the cause, you may ask. This is a very important aspect of the eye donation movement. More than 35,000 eyes are used annually for research and education. Research into glaucoma, retinal disease, complications of diabetes and other sight disorders benefit from donations because many eye problems cannot be simulated and only human eyes can be used. These studies advance the discovery of the causes and effects of specific eye conditions and lead to new treatments and cures.

Other than these, there are a few more compelling reasons why you need to donate your eyes and these include:

• 1.5% of the population are unnecessarily blind
• 25% live below the poverty line
• 2.5 million children are suffering, including those who don’t have the correct spectacles
• 32% are under 15
• 60% of blind children will not make it to adulthood. A cumulative economic loss to India’s GNP of US$11.1 billion
• 75% live in rural areas
• There are 12,000 ophthalmologists in the country but the majorities of them live and work in the urban areas
• 40% live in rural areas in Central & Northern India where there is little access to quality eye care services.

Are you ready to gift a life? Become an eye donor!

A POSTER..

SOME TRUE FACTS OF "SARDAR"

We all love Sardar jokes. But do you know that Sikhs are one of the hardest work...ing, prosperous and diversified communities in the world!
My friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.

During the last vacation, a few friends came to Delhi . They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing. The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys, these pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old man. But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed..

At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire charges. The Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said,''Sons, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad taste. Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to see the world. But I have one request. I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar beggar that you come across in this or any other city !!!"

My friend continued, "That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find a single Sardar begging anywhere."

MORAL:
The secret behind their universal success is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication and pride. A Sardar will drive a truck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, run a fruit juice stall, take up small time carpentry, ... but he will never beg on the streets


Because Sikhs contribute:
* 33% of total income tax
* 67% of total charities
* 45% of Indian Army

* 59,000++ Gurudwaras serve LANGAR to 5,900,000+ people everyday!


& All this when THEY make only 1.4% of the total INDIAN POPULATION.
share it if u agree...

MY EXPERIENCE (as NSS volunteer)

I remember the day; I enrolled myself as NSS volunteer just for enjoyment and for friends. But the first camp was an eye-opener and after that I was hooked with the meaning and motto of NSS becoming clearer with every passing day. From that day my involvement with NSS increased and realized the amount of work we could do to help others. There is an inexplicable ‘joy’ in giving specially one’s time and support that was far greater than the pleasure of receiving. NSS motto “NOT TO ME BUT YOU” did great job to develop my own personality through community service and teach me discipline, team work, hard working and punctuality. In three years, I participated in National Integration Camp, Mega Integration Camp, National Hiking Trekking Camp, Three Pre- Republic Day Parade Camp and Three Ten Days Camp with others states. During these camps, I learnt about the rich heritage, cultures and traditions of my incredible India and feel proud to be an Indian. College NSS days is now the part and parcel of my life where I remembered each and every moment whether it rallies, earthwork, lectures, one day camps, ten days camp, dining hall, night stay in camps and educational tours. That was my memorable moment when our state won “best state team” award in national integration camp and also our team won bronze medal in skit in mega integration camp. My happiness knew no bounds our union minister of youth affairs and sports, govt. of India especially me for my bhangra performance. I want all the youths to follow me by joining NSS because NSS can bring such laurels to one’s life. I am very thankful to our NSS programming officers who motivated me to join NSS, appreciated me on my every success and inspire us to do new and creative things that will help us to shape our future.

SADBHAVNA DAY PLEDGE

I take this solemn pledge that I will work for the emotional oneness and harmony of all the people of India regardless of caste, region, religion or language. I further pledge that I shall resolve all differences among us through dialogue and constitutional means without resorting to violence.