The Power of One

Bhavin Patel explains the Importance of One Rupee

“Today we live in the economy of hundreds and thousands, where a rupee practically seems a trivial amount to us. In our everyday life, we consider a rupee equivalent to a chocolate and nothing more; that would be the first and possibly the only thing that we perceive to be bought with a rupee. Many a times we accept mints or chocolates instead of a rupee in our day to day purchase and some event find it too trivial a matter to consider waiting for or fussing over to obtain the change of a rupee, many a times letting it go. It is not much to us today, is it?

Students of Kasturba Kanya Vidyalay

But, consider this: if every person saves 1 rupee a day, which doesn’t seem too difficult a matter, we save 30 rupees a month. If 100 such people put together their 1 rupee a day savings it becomes 300 rupees a month. And if a 1,000 such people come together that makes 30,000 rupees a month. Now that is a significant amount; and therein lays the concept of our ‘The Power of One’.

Students from Ambalal Balshala

We have organized an Addiction Relief club. We believe that Addiction of any sort may it be as small as sweet sopari not only harms our health but also weakens us economically. We preach that the money they put into their objects of addiction they should save it for themselves and out of that donate just 1 rupee for a good cause. I have come across many young boys who have been seen with tobacco or smokes. We want to help them quit by giving them a good cause to donate to and an understanding of financial savings.

The collection gained through this campaign would be put to use for the students who need economically help of any kind. There are students who show good potential, put they sometimes fall short of resources. We want to help those students with their books or stationary or fees. There are even students who are physically challenged and have certain special requirement, in such cases we want to work towards fulfilling them.

The concept came from our Chairman Nirav Patel. The Addiction Relief club is one of the appeals that we have adopted for the campaign, in the same manner we are working with various concepts to help induce a sense of saving and financial management among the students and of that savings we ask them to just put 1 rupee aside for helping their fellow students who need help.

           --- Bhavin Patel,  A.N. Patel PG Institute