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AKKA
in cooperation Kannada Kootas across USA and Canada conducted
collection drive to gather used cloths, toys, and books
to distribute them to the needy people of Karnataka.
AKKA has partnered with East-meets-West Relocation company
to transfer the collected goods to Karnataka at Free of
cost. These goods will be distributed to the needy people.
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Here are some of the Frequently
Asked Questions related to this charity collection drive:
Q:How does this program works?
- Kannada Kootas will communicate
to their koota members about this Charity Collection
Drive program and request them to donate used goods.
- Koota members either can bring
in their goods to one of the Kannada Koota function
or they can be collected by Koota volunteers.
Q. How many Kannada Kootas participated
in this collection dirve?
Follwoing AKKA Charter Members
participated in this program
- Pampa Kannada Koota, MI
- Colorado Kannada Koota, CO
- Mallige Kannada Balaga of
Charelston, WV
- Abhimana Kannada Sangha,
KY
- Richmond Kannada Sangha,
VA
- Colombus Kannadigas.OH
Q:What kinds of items collected?
- We collected cloths, toys and
books.
- The items wrer in good shape,
not torn, holes, broken etc. Cloths were washed.
Q:Wwhat will we do with these
collected items?
- The filled boxes were shipped
from participating Kannada Kootas to Michigan
- We have over 400 boxes from
all Kannada Kootas
- AKKA has partnered with East-meets-West
relocation company to pick up these boxes from Michigan
- The relocation company will
specify a date when they will pickup the filled boxes
- The boxes from Michigan will
be shipped to their warehouse in New Jersey
- The boxes will be shipped
out from their warehouse to Bangalore via their Cargo
ship
- In Bangalore, an AKKA
representative along with another charity agency will
clear the customs and will distributed to the needy
people through volunteers.
Q: Will my donation is Tax-deductable?
- The whole intention of this
effort is to help needy people and empahsis should
NOT be on
tax deductions as we are collecting used goods, I
suspect they carry very little value.
If somebody still wants to use for tax deductions,
they can use AKKA's non-profit
Tax ID: 59-3527607
Q. In case if I need additioanal
information, who do I contact?
- Please contact AKKA President
at 248-377-2727 or gowda@smgi.net
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Other AKKA Charitable
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| Donation
Mr. Krishna Sastry of Iowa has donated $5,000 through AKKA
to Gayathri Trust of Chamarajanagar in Karnataka
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Cloths, Books
and Toys Collection Drive
- East-West Relocation company of New
Jersey has offered to ship free the old cloths, book, toys
to Karnataka to be distibuted to the needy people.
- Collection drive will be held in
various cities across USA.
- To organize such drive in your cities,
please contact
any of the AKKA Executive Committee
Members
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| Bangalore
Eye Hospital
- Total amount to be financed $3M
- SEF commitment approx. $1.3M
- AKKA has donated $200,000 (including
B.V.Jagadeesh's $100,000 matching funds)
- Please help us by sending your donations
Payable to
" AKKA Charity" and mail to the following address:
AKKA Charity
63 N. Squirrel Road
Auburn Hills, MI 48326
For more information, please contact Ramesh Gowda at
248-377-2727 or e-mail to: gowda@smgi.net
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Hospital Construction
Progress
View the Hospital construction
progress on YouTube
- The Bangalore Hosptal is scheuduled
open on January 20, 2008
- Roof slab concreting for the ground
floor of Blocks A & B are completed
- Bhoomi Pooja and work for Blocks
C & D have begun
- Building work to be completed by
Dec. 2007
- 8 existing eye surgeons to be posted
here and 7 more to be identifie
- A section of the Hospital will
be named after AKKA
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