Sunday, July 12, 2009

What is your view on these charity orgs?

jul 12th, 2009

i don't know about this entity. anybody with first-hand knowledge?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sujoy 

Hi Rajeev,
I recently received a flyer to donate money to an organisation, Vidya Daanam (www.vidyadaanam.org) which claims through its website to be an initiative by the Sanatana Dharma foundation. Sanatana Dharma Foundation, in its website (http://www.sanatanadharmafoundation.com/) looks to be a committed Hindu org and align itself with the views of people like Francois Gautier, Robert Spencer and Joe Kaufman.

Anyway, looking into the faq page on Vidya daanam (http://www.vidyadaanam.org/vidyadaanamfaq) I found this in question 7 -
7. Is Vidya Daanam a secular charity? Vidya Daanam is a 'Secular' Charity that is being run by 'Committed Hindus' ...
And this confuses me a bit, although it claims to be inspired by Sw. Dayanand Saraswati

You have previously suggested donations to SEWA and IDRF. Do you have any suggestion on this? I like the idea of donating for education, like in Ekal vidyalayas, but I was once duped into donating for ASHA when I was a "fresh off the boat grad student"; but now I'm being more careful and make sure I'm not donating to extreimsts like ASHA and AID.
Thanks,
Sujoy

 
Its God's responsibility to forgive the terrorist organizations
It's our responsibility to arrange the meeting between them and god."
- Indian Armed Forces

3 comments:

Deshabhakta said...

I am not sure about Vidya Daanam. You can help out our Vanavasi (tribal) brothers and sisters via Akhila Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram (http://www.vanavasikalyan.org).

M. Patil said...

I checked this site vidyadanam, on their main page they have Swami Dayananda Saraswati well displayed. However I could not find any information about this new group.

Instead, why not donate to Swamiji's own Vidya Danam program which is AIM for Seva. Other tried and true organizations like IDRF, support programs like one teacher schools, vanavasi education, womens empowerment and so on. I personally prefer organizations which have a track record of being pro Hindu.


M.Patil

Vijay said...

They are indeed devoted and and avowed Hindu organization working for the betterment of suffering Hindus.

Be rest assured your donations will not go for sickular or leftists causes but only for genuine Hindu causes.