POSTS ON FB GOING VIRAL HELPS INJURED GARIMA SEEKING MORAL N FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The power of the social networking site is tremendous, provided it is used for good, noble, genuine, transparent and philanthropic purposes.

It’s very easy to be negative or complacent to a cause but to help the man in need or the one suffering from agony, trauma or pain is the true and real service to the society.

The media is considered to be the fourth important pillar of the country and a very powerful one, provided it’s used impartially and justifiably and for the good of the poor, needy, down troddens, distressed, victimised, disadvantageous or the exploited.

These days social media has really geared itself and it has its own goods and evils.

But if used rightly and for the noble cause it does bring fruitful results and it has happened in the case of the budding and promising athelete Garima Joshi of Almora who brought laurels for Uttarakhand by coming sixth in the national 10 kilomteres race competition in Bangalore but was hard lucked to have met with a severe accident having broken her spinal chord that was fitted with sixteen rods and her lower body portion paralysed.

The treatment in a Bangalore hospital required expensive costs which was beyond her poor father to bear who had to mortgage his land and only house against the private loan of Rs. five lakhs from the money lenders at the interest rste of 10%.

Her mother is addmitted in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital suffering from acute cancer.

Her younger brother is a dish washer in Mumbai drawing a meagre salary.

After knowing about her plight a RTI activist Gurvinder Singh Chadda posted a request for donations for this poor hapless girl, a few days ago.

On knowing I immediately made a story on newsviewsnetwork requesting one and all to donate generously for her treatment with the necessary bank account etc furnished in the news story with a special request to the Uttarakhand CM, the central government and the Sports Federation of India.

I even got it shared by number of FB friends and requested the CM, UK to do the needful by posting the story on his twitter handle and on the walls of all the UK leaders.

The news became viral with a good response. In the meanwhile the Uttarakhand C M Trivendra Rawat agreed to help the athelete by bearing the entire expenditure of the hospital.

In the meanwhile as per Gurvinder Singh Chadda, about Rs. 2.5 lakhs have been deposited in the account of her father Puran Singh and the Sports Authority of India’s senior officials are also visiting Garima joshi in Bangalore tomorrow, probably to help her financially and otherwise.

We all are so glad, relieved and indebted to one and all, on getting the extremely positive feedback from the UK CM, the general public and the Sports authority of India. Thank You Facebook and Twitter and all the kind and generous friends especially the UK CM who stood by the distressed family of Garima Joshi in these hours of crisis/ critical juncture.