Let Joy & Peace Prevail

With Joy of Giving Week 2010 just 6 days away, it is heartening to note that around 170 events have already been registered on our website. We are confident that in the coming days, more participants would come forward to register their events and the number of events is sure to surpass last years total of 300. Many have written in to ask whether they could hold their fundraising, awareness creating, volunteering, resource collection activities either before or after the week is officially over. While we welcome any activity or attempt to give and would encourage them, we regret that such events cannot be considered a part of the Joy of Giving Week.

Is it necessary to hold your 'giving' event only during the JGW? Not at all. We are free to spread joy through giving as and when we find it convenient and in the manner we choose to. Yet, we would like as many of you as possible to have your 'giving' activities during the JGW not because we want to preen about how successful we have been at co-ordinating the festival, but because only then will it truly turn into a national festival. This is crucial to spread the culture of giving in the country. The spirit of giving should be imbibed by each one of us and should be as natural to us as breathing. When that happens, each day will be a Joy of Giving Day and each one of us will experience the happiness that comes from giving and ultimately peace will prevail in the land.

So come forward to participate in this unique humane festival. For those who have no clue about how to contribute, our site joyofgivingweek.ning.com has the answers. Today, when there is turmoil in the land with flood and diseases, apprehension about terrorist attacks and engineered accidents, worry about the fallout of the Ayodhya Judgment, we are all in need of an event, a festival that helps us to reach out to each other in a spirit of equality and empathy and that is the Joy of Giving Week. Come forward to bury differences and reach out to help, to cheer, to encourage and to give. The Joy of Giving Week, 26th Sept., to 2nd Oct., 2010