The Walk Along Brochure 2010

The Walk Along Trust small steps, BIG difference

The Walk Along Trust

Information Brochure

Who we are No matter how unpromising the situation might be, it always brings with it the opportunity to conquer the setbacks and gain something worthy out of it. Walk Along is a Trust with the goal to support development in order to eradicate poverty, inspired by the message 'small steps make big differences'. With incessant hard work and selfless effort, Walk Along provides the platform for every individual, rich or poor, young or old, to march hand in hand, in the journey of spreading peace and serenity all over. With the core philosophy, 'a dream to transform hopes to reality', Walk Along steps ahead to help the lives of rural families and aims to secure their future.

We appeal to each and every individual to come forward and join the chain in supporting and working towards a better standard of living for the people who just manage to scrape by a living. The Walk Along dictum remains unfulfilled, without the rich to help the poor and literates to educate the illiterates. The trust looks forward to energize every soul with the mantra of 'Karma' and 'positive thinking'. Walk Along believes that “Sharing Is Caring� and walks ahead to create an ocean of love and prosperity for one and all.

'Individually we are drops, together we are an ocean'.

What we do We bring smiles to those faces which many a times get prematurely wrinkled, struggling to survive on shaky grounds just to make ends meet for themselves and their loved ones.

We have adopted a three fold strategy, to achieve inclusive growth for the impoverished, under the following heads: Education Health Employment Generation Apart from these we also involve people from various walks of life to uplift the society through various projects carried out under the banner of individual social responsibility.

Collaboration in Germany The support from abroad comes not only through donations but also through different projects. One such project is the partnership between Walk Along and two German Schools in Nussloch near Frankfurt.

With the idea of 'children help children' ,the pupils from Germany now learn about India as part of their curriculum and help raising funds for the Indian schools by selling home baked cakes. The German schools provide school material for Indian children and help in creating a course-outline to teach English at the adopted schools in India in a structured and efficient way.

Encouraging Individual social responsibility The volunteers who support Walk Along, come from various age groups, even as our main focus rests on the youth, as they are the nation's future leaders. As future leaders they should develop a passion for morale justice and equality in the world. By involving students, who rarely have prior work experience, we motivate them to understand their individual social responsibility. We also insist the institutions associated with us to include this subject matter as part a of their curriculum so that every student gets an exposure to a different aspect of life and develop a holistically responsible attitude towards their surrounding.

In the student involvement program, we build committees in colleges and universities. The committee consists of students of all batches and a Senior Advisory Club, who are working together in order to provide support to the nearby villages.

The Senior Advisory Club consists of faculty members of the colleges, who help and advise students with their wisdom and knowledge in many different areas.

Our volunteers appreciate the privilege they have had to be able to pursue their studies, and feel the urge to give something back to the society. The best way for them to do so is by looking beyond the urban streets into the villages located around their college and help the people, who are not privileged enough.

Projects Undertaken Within this short span of four months, we are successfully being able to reach the hearts of people in Bangalore and even have adopted one village in Annekal taluk , Chikahagre. We have become support to 40 children and are now initiating to start Walk Along Academy for under privileged children in village and even in city slum areas, with the objective, “By the people, For the people and Of the people”. We have even conducted many events and activities for the poor like :

Individual Social Responsibility (ISR)

Don’t waste waste

Employment Generation

Education

Community Radio centre Haryana

Walk Along academy ( By the people, For the people, Of the people)

ISR training Commercial fertilizer

Promotion of handloom and other handmade products

Clean India, clearer thoughts (event)

Biogas Plant

Promoting Solar electricity

Children helping children Home schooling

Health

Staying alive event Fortunate medical Quantum jumping (energy healing)

care

Don’t waste Waste.

In this latest endeavor initiated by Walk Along, we aim at reducing reproduction of plastic and related material by procuring electronic waste and empty printer cartridges by associating with various corporate bodies and educational institutions and pave the way for a global green revolution.

Why Cartridges and electronic waste ?

Obsolete ewaste are a valuable source for secondary raw materials, if treated properly.

More than 3 Quarts of oil is used to produce each laser cartridge.

The plastic used in each printer cartridge takes more than 10 centuries to decompose.

Why Recycling ?

25 million cartridges go to landfills each month.

Saves Energy and time.

the costs of constructing new systems.

Saves Environmental Conditions

Toner cartridge re-manufacturing saves over 38 thousand tones of plastic

Pollution

and metal from landfills.

Reuse of tin, silicon, iron, aluminum, and a variety of plastics can reduce

Saves Natural Resources Economic Benefits Saves Space for Waste Disposal

Authorizing partner | Peace River Enterprise Certified under ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 China Since it’s inception in 2000, Peace River Enterprise has been into re manufacturing of electronic waste and printer cartridges.

Walk along is an authorised collection agent for these products in India. The funds generated through this activity would be utilized to finance various projects carried out under the “Don't Waste Waste” banner.

Press Release

The Walk Along Family Lupa Borah (Trustee and COO, India) Valentina Heuschmidt (Trustee and COO, Germany) Suraj Natraj (Head of Operations, Singapore) Saahil Malik (Chief Project officer, India) Vivin Wason (Public Relations Officer, India) Aditya Bhardwaj (Brand manager, India) Anupa lahkar (Head of Operations, India) Thomas Sommereisen (Foreign Affairs co-ordinator, Germany) Matt Long (Project Manager, USA) Nilova Pandey (Operating Officer) Kaushal Kishore Sharma (Operating Officer)

visit us at www.walkalong.in