Even you can Serve Community during your Professional Life
(In the pictures on the left hand side Illa Bhatt, Megasey Award winner of Self Employed Women Bank,Ahd, in the middle Logo of the Lions International and on the right hand side Ambani family of Reliance Industries Ltd)
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By Bharat Desai
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You cannot give full time to the community service during your professional career. However some time your profession gives you ample opportunity to serve it. I tried to finance the needy people on merits who were neglected during my banking career.
It was a great self satisfaction to give help to unorganized women who were running business on movable cart or who were selling flowers and Hand made Craft in Ahmedabad. Besides that I recollect that we had finance at initial stages about 20 women who were totally neglected and sponsored by then 'SEWA ' Ahmedabad.(i.e.Self Employed Women Association) It became gradually internationally recognized organization. Its chair person Mrs Illben Bhatt was also awarded 'Megasey Award 'for her contribution thereon.
There were small powerlooms owners in surat who were need of finance then and we had helped. It is great satisfaction to see them happy and prosperous now.
I had opportunity to deal with the finance of one of the companies which was small and unknown house at initial stage. It is now one of the Giant Industrial House in India (i.e. Reliance Industries Ltd) It gives you satisfaction to the effect that you have somewhere played some small part in development of company which gives now employments to laces of persons and plays very important role in the Development of India.
In the public relation for your profession will also give you some opportunity to do public service. In the process I joined the Service Club like Lions club which gave me position and dignity in Public Service. We had done many projects to assist blind and disabled. We adopted many schools for giving all sort of help to the schools and students thereon. The adoption of villages were the very interesting activities which assist those villages in building up their infrastructures facilities.
These are few instances which shows that"If there is a will there is a way."
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