Sang & the story by saloni goel

We came home from Ashoka....

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:00:41 UTC

SANG has two originating points which helped all of us come together for a common goal of LOCKING THE HUNGER DOWN. Project NOOR Members of Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University AND some Young India Fellows, now alums.

Amidst the new schedules and the crisis, people came together even before the idea.

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:05:44 UTC

Tamanna & Saloni, interestingly alums of both, IPCW AND YIF, talked. They knew that as much as Covid was causing uncertainties for us, for some communities it was more than that. For them, Covid was giving way to another pandemic called hunger, unemployment and what not. They decided that something needed to be done.

They called up Tanya & Utsav.
The four together, talked to people who had the same urge to do something.

BEFORE THEY KNEW, there was already a strong team of young people willing to do whatever necessary.

TEAM that started it:

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:14:12 UTC

Co-founders:
Tamanna Jindal; Saloni Goel; Tanya Khatri; Utsav Mittal

Founding members:
Khushi; Amanveer Kaur; Tabassum; Bhargavi Thakur; Anudeep Kanneganti; Yash Maheswari

Advisor and the guy who set up SANG comms:
Mohit (MOJO): YIF alum, batch of 2019

The money guy who gave SANG an anchor:
Indrashish Chakraborty (Indrashish's trust: DHURI: Building sustainable livelihoods, is our legal anchor through which all funds are directed to the vendors etc)

The START

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:19:59 UTC

Conversations happened. 1 thing that was decided: PROVIDE PEOPLE who have no means of earning now WITH FOOD & ESSENTIALS.

Confusion:
How? Which communities? Do we trust the govt? How do we ensure safety? How much money do we raise? How?

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:31:25 UTC

~ Support a community we already know well, area where we have access to community leaders. CATER TO THE 300 families by ourselves, raise at least 4Lakh Rs.

~ The communities that we picked were the ones that Project NOOR has been working with. So the team already had a strong access.

~ To raise an amt. that big, Mojo helped us set up our comms to provide a strong platform to connect to donors with, Indrashish provided us with his trust's DHURI's support as legal backing to manage finance.

~ We knew that relief work required collaboration with others working in the space. As the base was being set up, Saloni initiated network creation with Anudeep, Tamanna managed the on-ground operations, Tanya and Yash looked at comms with a team and Utsav looked at fundraising.

We helped the target communities. Faster than we anticipated.

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-11 15:32:43 UTC

NOT WITHOUT ISSUES.
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WE LEARNT
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SANG STARTED GETTING MORE & MORE REQUESTS FOR RELIEF. WE CONTINUES RAISING MORE & MORE FUNDS.
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OUR PROCESS GOT BETTER, COLLABORATIVE AND MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL.

Relief gave way to preliminary rehabilitation

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-18 08:02:20 UTC

As our process got streamlined and relief work got more impactful, SANG started lending it's support in two other areas: migrants movement which was becoming a humanitarian nightmare and rise in cases of domestic Violence.

We have Supported 300+ Individuals go back to their hometowns with dignity, proper food and travel arrangements.

Through our SabKeSang arm led by Bhargavi Thakur, we now take Individual cases of domestic Violence and other distress calls which are coordinated by counselors (Nilusha, Srijata, Aishwarya, Priyanshi).
From counselling, legal to medical help, sang has now created a proper network of professionals which can be reached out to as per need.

Pilot projects

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-18 08:04:42 UTC

One pilot project that is being undertaken right now is in education. Bhargavi, Nihalini, Nayonika and Ritwika form the team as of now.

Now?

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-18 08:09:13 UTC

As we decide to move forward, we need to focus our energies in one direction for in-depth and impactful work. To ensure that we choose this direction consciously, we are currently in a brainstorming process which can help us understand what does communities really need support in.

Meanwhile, sabKeSang will continue taking Individual cases and going in-depth with them, working on education and livelihood at a very preliminary level as a bridge between the beneficiary and the professionals who can help.

To aid the work of both SabKeSang and onground team, we have recently set up a policy team led by Anudeep & Shivam who with a team are researching policies which can help our efforts and make them more effective and sustainable.

Communication team will also be focusing on bringing value to our audience through informative and engaging content as it also share content on updates etc.

The first version

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-19 10:42:21 UTC

We envision SANG being a collective in the long run which
can ensure that each case we take up and each crisis we work through are dealt with collaboratively with stakeholders in the organisation. We support organisations working for a cause and we also ask for it whenever needed. We also connect two different organisations/individuals as needed!
Livelihood and skill development will be our broad focus when it comes to out own programs.
The version will evolve with insights from the brainstorming session as it finally concludes by first week of Augusst 2020.

Relief, SabKeSang and Rehabilitation projects will be the teams that work on ground operation, in different capacities.

Communications, Policy and fundraising act as amplifiers and support arms for the above mentioned areas while also having the freedom to create new initiatives and give direction to SANG.

HR and people will be a part of the fluid culture in which any volunteer who wants to learn how one area operates and gain experience in it, can move to that area. (how this happens will be defined soon)

{This is only the first draft that will most definitely evolve as we settle into being a volunteer led organisation from an initiative. ANY FEEDBACK/SUGGESTIONS/QUESTIONS CAN BE PUT INTO THE COMMENT BOX OF THIS NOTE}

salonigoel922 — 2020-07-19 15:10:42 UTC

And in the meantime, only one thing is going to make our work excellent and impactful like it already has! We make a great team <3