

This post is about the notebook Parcham created for raising funds. Each year for three years now, we have chosen a theme to write about to raise awareness of the issues close to our heart and used it to raise funds for our work with adolescent girls.
This year’s notebook titled Jashn-e-Dosti (Celebration of Friendship) is a celebration of friendship, of diversity in India, challenging forces which seek to divide us along religion, language, caste and other artificial divides.
The theme we chose is a response to the horrific news of the abduction, rape and brutal murder of an eight year old child, of a teenager being killed by lynch mobs because of his religious identity, of killings in the name of the cow, caste pride and family honour. Hence this diary with the theme of friendship; friendship which transcends the artificial divides of religion and caste.
This notebook was a result of a poetry workshop conducted jointly by friends Aquila and Rabiya at the Parcham office in early 2018. The poetry in the notebook is multilingual with translation in English. All effort to bring this out was voluntary, from those who conducted the workshop, to the translators and children who contributed to the artwork for the poetry.
We wish to thank all our friends and well wishers who work with us towards our dream of a more humane world.
Hi Sabah,
How are you doing? Thanks for sharing your lovely post and poems. Is the fundraiser complete now? How much money were you able to raise?
Hope you're having a good day!
Thank you Jill! We managed to cover our printing expenses so it didn't work as a fund raiser. But we are happy that our work and message reached to many.
You're welcome!
Oh:( Well, that's good. Good job, dear:-)
This is beautiful! What a powerful way to bring together voices and to raise funds. Thank you for sharing the images of these translated poems, and for al you are doing!
Thank you so much Corine for your kind words <3
Thank you so much Sabah for sharing such a nice initiative. Best wishes to you, anjana
Thanks so much Anjana!
Hello, Sabah,
How creative and resourceful of you to think of this initiative. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much Karen!
You’re welcome. :)
A great way to connect over a common mission.
Thank you so much Beth!
What an amazing idea. Such a healing way to deal with the horrific happenings, the feelings of everyone and the process of grieving.
Thank you Wendy :)
My pleasure. Thanks for writing. Hope all is going well for you.
Ubuntu,
Wendy
What a powerful message and action!
Thank you Sharon!
Hi Saabah,
Kudos to you. It's not a child's play raising funds but I trust you have connected with donors. Well done
Thank you Tola!
Its also a very nice platform to network. Thanks for sharing
Thank you Lisbeth. It is indeed wonderful to have the platform to get to learn from each other and collaborate.
Hi Sabah,
Thank you for sharing this lovely post. Hope you were able to achieve your goals with this fundraiser.
Have a lovely day.
Thank you Anita! We managed to raise enough to cover our printing expenses. We are happy our message is reaching out to many people :)
Thank you for sharing Sabah!
Keep up the good work.
Love,
Adanna
Thank you Adanna! Best wishes!
Dear Sabah
thanks for sharing your work...connected and happy
best wishes for your work