Connect October2018, Issue 4 | Page 7

Further, we have also mounted 20 hoardings at prominent locations of Ahmedabad. With this initiative we have collected a lot of materials, which can be used for donations to under privileged and the society. The material includes Clothes, Toys, Gift Articles, Furniture, Utensils, Games, etc. In the month of November 2018, our team has decided to distribute all such merchandise to the needy part of the Society. We were fortunate enough to meet Chief Minister Shree Vijaybhai Rupani, who understood the entire concept and gave a video bite where he has appealed to all Amdavadi's to support this event. The event has got huge publicity across the city, we were able to get space inside the Airport for the first time and have sponsored news paper copies at airport everyday for 10days.The USP of the event is there is no money involved which helps you get the attention of people without any doubt in mind. We were able to get top 5 corporates of Ahmedabad supporting #AmdavadGives. It got support of all leading clubs of Ahmedabad where in they had sent personalised sms & email to all club members. We were able to send to send flyers about Round Table India & AmdavadGives to 6000 students of two major schools of Ahmedabad. We had tied up with BNI where in we had personally visited 26 chapters in 4 days time everyday morning 6.45am to 8am , 1600+ BNI members now know Round Table India & its activities. The best thing about the entire activity is it connects to each Amdavadi, No sponsorship added huge value to entire concept. We were able to do this with the help of Uber, who gave us tremendous support in getting 479 pick ups done in 1 single day. We had a publicity drive just one day before the event and we were 100 tablers/circlers standing holding the RTI banner & #AmdavadGives boards which was well covered by media in news & newspaper. Success of the entire event is result of hard work by Tablers & Circlers who have invested their time, sources and energy to achieve what was required. We have a distribution process in place which we will initiate during Diwali -“Iss Diwali Kare Roshan"  Tr. Vikram, NAGM Convener