Monday, May 19, 2008
Donation Duke students' donation will help provide limbs to needy
On a recent trip to India earlier this year, 100 students of the Fuqua School of Business Global Executive MBA class of 2008 at Duke University, saw the poverty and the need and acted on it. They got together a donation of $10,000 for the Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a charitable organization, considered the largest in the world for donating artificial limbs to those in need.
The donations continue coming in according to Prem Talreja, one of the students. D.R. Mehta, founder of BMVSS, which is best known for the development of the renowned ‘Jaipur Foot', gave them a talk while in New Delhi from January 15 to 26, about how he was inspired to found the agency and about nonprofit management and the structure of India's health care system.
"His speech was very inspiring, with video on how the foot was put on a person, and how well they are serviced in very quick turn around time. Right at that moment, my colleagues at the business school were just absolutely astounded, and there was a standing applause and there was a bubbling desire, I could see, to figure out a way to reach out," Talreja told News India-Times.
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The donations continue coming in according to Prem Talreja, one of the students. D.R. Mehta, founder of BMVSS, which is best known for the development of the renowned ‘Jaipur Foot', gave them a talk while in New Delhi from January 15 to 26, about how he was inspired to found the agency and about nonprofit management and the structure of India's health care system.
"His speech was very inspiring, with video on how the foot was put on a person, and how well they are serviced in very quick turn around time. Right at that moment, my colleagues at the business school were just absolutely astounded, and there was a standing applause and there was a bubbling desire, I could see, to figure out a way to reach out," Talreja told News India-Times.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
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