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Abhimanyu Bose Charity Work for “the U Foundation” 2007-2008…

“What a beauteous world we live in. It is a world of uttermost joy and of extreme pain and suffering. A world full of sunshine and rain, it is a world full of life, and sad to say, of painful death. It is full of inequalities of riches in the west and of hardship in the formulating nations. There is a distinct lack of food, water and shelter, and an overpowering fight versus disease, pest and drought.” – Jay Tailor

Over the last year and a half, Abhi has been working with The U foundation Charity which “helps to advertize self sustainability through the provision of food, water and shelter and by way of endowing humans to achieve this by themselves.” It has it is administration base located Hinckley but it operates 5,000 miles south in four main emplacements in Zambia. It reached charitable status in 2006, and from then on has grown in size and has with great success been fundraising and aiding those less fortunate than ourselves even more.

1. How did you get involved in doing these events for charity?

I’ve always enjoyed helping people, and one of the easiest ways to support in such a way is to get stuck in, hands on, with a charity which you are regularly involved in. So The U foundation being so close to home, operating from Hinckley and Leicester provided a firm basis. I also play the Sitar, which parallel to the music aspect; I have been fundraising from charity events, festivals and respective performances to donate to The U Foundation. So a direct link was set up since then, and last year I had the chance to travel with my family and the charity to Zambia where it operates and see for myself, where the cash I raised was going to.

2. I bet that seeing introductory hand the effect the cash that you raised has, made the venture worthwhile, and was it aroused in any way for you to know you've made such a difference?

When I landed in Zambia last August, it was an awful feeling. It was the basi time I had stepped into Africa, initial time under the equator, and it was a dissimilar sentiment which I experienced on my trip. I visited three out of the four areas where The U foundation operates, and for the firstborn time I experienced real poverty, children orphaned due to AIDs related diseases. For the firstborn time I realised how necessary a glass of water and a grain of rice may be. I saw how much we in the UK take for granted, and it in truth moved me and made me think. But the most amazing thing I do not forget from the traveling is that everyone was smiling, all the kids were running around and having fun, with what little they had. Shoes made from plastic bottles, and a little football made of a stone wrapped around with old rags. Here I realised why I was raising cash for charity, and how the cash I would ultimately raise would aid them in much more than one way. I visited a range of schools, ranging from kids as young as 2, to senior schools where galore children has aspirations to become lawyers and medics…but just lacked the instructional services, even though they gave their all to what they had. I spoke to one boy who was 15, “I walk to school with my brother and sister who are 4 and 6, they go to the preschool and I go to the middle school. We walk in regards to 5miles each morning to travel to school. Then we walk home and then we have to find firewood, cook, tidy up and sleep. Our parents passed away when we were young, and now we do all the work…but now I may come to school and study, I would like to become rich and aid my brother and sister more…” I put myself in his shoes, and then realised how much hardship these kids go through. Come the blistering heat, the torrential rain or the unpleasantly cold nights, they don’t have parents; they don’t have brick houses with central heating and double glazed windows with blankets or just clothes to keep them warm. They live in mud-huts which are open, and often collapse in the torrential rain, these kids walk up to 17km a day just to fetch firewood and water to cook with and keep warm! These things we don’t see in Britain, but it’s out there in a great deal of more places just like this. It is in truth moving to interact with these children who can’t complain, who will they complain to? They can’t give up, or they will die, and thrive on what they have, yet they miraculously keep a smile on their faces! The cash which I raised is going to support in the development of the schools and the investment in Solar Cookers so that these villages may cook using the sun, rather than having to walk 17km. After all that long and deep explanation, yes it had a extraordinary aroused affect on not just me, but my whole family. I think it’s reasonable to say that after that experience, I look at life in a dissimilar view, remembering those children who I visited each day.

3. Whose idea was it anyway to catapult yourself off Victoria Falls Bridge all in the good name of charity?

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Well since I found out that I was visiting Zambia on this charity trip, I wanted to do a bit of fundraising to donate for the cause. I told people and I was gathering coppers for a week…ended up with regarding £5 in coppers. I thought to myself…ok I need an event that I may do to raise a heap of “proper” money. I researched Zambia, and found that there was a Bungee Jump at the Victoria Falls Bridge, which incidentally happened to be the 2nd most eminent bungee from a base. As soon as I told persons what I intended to do, I was raking donations, from £5 to £150! Eventually I ended up having raised around £1200 which Bablake helped raise £650.55. My target was around £300, so I was genuinely amazed to understand how much funds had been raised. I felt rather good regarding myself until I reached that dreaded day, when I actually had to leap into thin air, fall 366ft with not one thing but a piece of “string” attached to my ankles!!!. It was unquestionably the most nerve-racking thing I have ever put myself up for, but it was unquestionably was the most intense experience I have encountered…besides a good deal of numbers of persons warning me of the dangers and just attempting to make me back out of it (especially my mum). I still went for it, I leaped off that platform, to hurl myself toward the River Zambezi rapids under me and bungee back up and down repeatedly till I was swinging upside down beneath the bridge. At this point I couldn’t tell which way was up or down since my head was so confused with the motion. When I got up to the bridge again…after finding my own two feet, I knew that I had accomplished what I had come out for. Knowing that all that cash which was raised was going to efficaciously be employed for a cause I had devoted myself to, and back home I could prove that I had done what I had promised to do.

4. So tell me in regards to London to Paris, all on a bike? That’s got to hurt…

In July this year, after the stress of exams was out, I embarked on a four day cycling trip from London to Paris which was 300 miles. I rode with 19 other persons and 4 support staff. We rode from London from 7am through Kent, into Dover on the original day, in extreme cycling conditions, torrential rain, partially flooded roads, and gale strength winds over steep undulating hills reaching speeds of 45mph downhill. These 95 miles were the most demoralising share of our journey, yet we over came the weather, the miserable mood, and the one major incurred by a guy from Zambia!, he had a crushed shoulder after colliding and crashing into the floor on a downhill…he had to have prompt surgery and hence could not carry on the journey…also after the numerous punctures and we reached a cloudy Calais after catching the ferry at 5.30pm to reach at 8pm. A bed has never seemed so comfortable before that day. The second day was rain, but it was warmer, which boosted our moods, a somewhat easier, but still very wet 75 miles through field upon field from Calais to Abbeville. The third day the sun in the end came out, and off came the waterproofs…after the two days we had endured before, these next two days came as a breeze to us, with the sun blazing and the shades on, a very calm 70 miles route from Abbeville through little French villages to warm sunny Beauvai s. The last day was the most uplifting and energy filled day, “just ” 6 0 miles (compared to the introductory day’s 95 miles) from Beauvais to Paris. Spirits were high, we had done it, we had endured 4 days of sore backsides, and tiresome legs. But we gave it our all on the last day; we regrouped four miles from the Eiffel Tower, we had reached the city we set out to reach! I did the last couple of miles on a “Raleigh Chopper Bike” being suicidal whilst riding round the Arc de Triomphe…but we didn’t care, we waved our flags, rung our bells, We had with great success cycled 300 miles in all kinds of conditions, losing a fellow cyclist to the parts but we made it to the Eiffel Tower. I was speechless when we arrived, phones were crazy, ringing parents and friends, then it hit me “I just finished cycling from London to Paris!” It was perhaps the greatest sense of accomplishment for me…Although my “derrière” could only perchance be resembled by the “Japanese Flag” …yet I am still crazy sufficient to want to do it again…was a wondrous “Sunday lunch” type of ride…well...kind of!

5. So what does the future have in store for you, Mr. Bose?"

Oh…that’s a hard one…I think the simple answer is that going to have a year off from doing anything crazy…might actually use my summer to relax for once this coming year. Maybe in the future, I wouldn’t mind attempting to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. Or travelling to see the Inca trails would be interesting. But as ever, the charity work will carry on, and I will keep up the fundraising. You will still see my brother and I play music in charity concerts to raise cash for this charity and numerous others.

About the Author

Hi I'm Abz, a student in college. I love to travel, play music, and I want to make a divergence to people's lives.

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“Lupton says hard things that need to be said, and he’s earned the right to say them. Believers would do well to receive his words with the mindset that ‘faithful are the wounds of a friend.’” (Christianity Today )

“[Lupton’s] new book, Toxic Charity, draws on his 40 years’ experience as an urban activist in Atlanta, and he argues that most charitable work is inefficient or actually destructive to those it is supposed to help.” (Washington Post )

“Lupton’s work, his books and, most importantly, his life proceed to guide and give hope or courage to me to live and serve in a way that honors God and my neighbor. I highly commend Toxic Charity.” (Danny Wuerffel, Executive Director, Desire Street Ministries )

“Lupton’s book reminds us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. He shows how the humans called poor may be blessed by supporting chances for them to give their gifts, skills, psychological result of perception learning and reasoning and wisdom to creating the future.” (John McKnight, Codirector, Asset Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern University )

“A must-read book for those who give or support others.” (Booklist )

“In Toxic Charity, Lupton reminds us that being materialistically poor does not mean that there is no capacity, no voice, and no dignity within a person. If we veritably love the poor, we will want to educate ourselves on how best to serve. Let our charity be transformative not toxic.” (Roger Sandberg, Executive Director of Medair International )

“A superb book. Toxic Charity ought to serve as a guide and course correction for any person involved in charitable endeavors at home or abroad.” (Ronald W. Nikkel, President, Prison Fellowship International )

“Toxic Charity provides the necessitated counterbalance to a kind heart: a wise mind. Though I many times thought, “Ouch!” while I was reading the book, Robert Lupton gave this pastor what I necessitated to become a more effective leader.” (Dr. Joel C. Hunter, Senior Pastor, Northland – A Church Distributed )

“When Bob Lupton speaks of the inner city, the rest of us ought to sit up and take notice... [His work is] deeply distrurbing—in the best sense of the word.” (Philip Yancey, author of What Good Is God? )

About the Author

Robert D. Lupton is founder and president of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies), through which he has formulated two mixed-income subdivisions, coordinated a multiracial congregation, started a number of businesses, produced housing for hundreds of families, and initiated a wide range of humane services in his community. Lupton is the author of Theirs Is the Kingdom; Return Flight; Renewing the City; Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life; and the widely propagated “Urban Perspectives,” per month reflections on the Gospel and the poor.

Public service is a way of life for Americans; giving is a part of our national character. But compassionate instincts and generous spirits aren’t enough, says veteran urban activist Robert D. Lupton. In this groundbreaking guide, he reveals the disturbing truth regarding charity: all too much of it has become toxic, excessive damage and destruction to the very humans it’s meant to help.

In his four decades of urban ministry, Lupton has experienced firsthand how our good purposes may have unintended, dire consequences. Our free feed and costume distribution inspires ever-growing handout lines, diminishing the dignity of the poor while increasing their dependency. We converge on inner-city neighborhoods to plant flowers and pick up trash, battering the pride of residents who have the capacity (and responsibility) to embellish their own environment. We fly off on mission trips to poverty-stricken villages, hearts full of pity and suitcases bulging with giveaways—trips that one Nicaraguan leader describes as effective only in “turning my humans into beggars.”

In Toxic Charity, Lupton urges individuals, churches, and organizations to step away from these spontaneous, oftentimes detrimental acts of compassionateness toward thoughtful paths to community development. He delivers proven systems for moving from toxic charity to transformative charity.

Proposing a powerful “Oath for Compassionate Service” and spotlighting real-life examples of humans serving not just with their hearts but with proven schemes and tested tactics, Lupton offers all the tools and inspiration we need to develop healthy, community-driven programs that create deep, measurable, and lasting change. Everyone who volunteers or donates to charity needs to wrestle with this book.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Good intentions, toxic results
By Paul Adams
Its title notwithstanding, this book is not a case for stinginess. Its author has four decades' experience of faith-based charitable work to his credit and draws on this experience as well as a host of anecdotes and research (which, however, he does not cite - the book does is one of advocacy, not scholarship). His is also not an argument against voluntary or faith-based giving in favor of public welfare or rights-based claims on the state. Rather, with multiple and compelling examples, from weeklong `missions' of church youth groups to poor countries through inner-city charitable initiatives to the enormous Kroc grant to the Salvation Army, Lupton argues that this work needs to be rethought and reoriented.

As Brooks (Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism) has shown, giving by religious Americans, both to church-based charities and secular agencies like the Red Cross, is extraordinarily generous by any measure, in time, treasure, and talent, compared with that of secular Americans and citizens of other affluent countries. Lupton does not disparage these efforts or their (mostly) good intentions, but argues that most of this activity does more harm than good. Given the author's own commitment and credentials in the field, anyone engaged in this work will want to pay attention to his critique.

In some ways, Lupton echoes those 19th-century critics of "sentimental charity," who sought to replace random handouts with organized charity based on a relationship between giver and recipient that offered "not alms, but a friend" (the motto of the Charity organization Societies). Those charity reform efforts, which gave rise to the profession of social work, are widely disparaged today, not least by professional social workers. But the problem of how to help those who need help, whether through government programs or private charity, in ways that do not shame, demoralize, sap initiative, and create dependency remains, as Lupton shows, as big a challenge today as ever.

Lupton's approach, that of asset-based community development, aims to empower and partner with those helped, recognizing and engaging their capacity to contribute to their community with their own resources, knowledge, and wisdom. Instead of flying in with a team of eager young missioners to build a well for a poor village whose women have to carry water long distances on their heads - and coming back every year to fix `their' well - Lupton argues for an approach that facilitates engaging the skills and energy of the local people to fund, build, and manage their own well.

It is not a matter of being stingy rather than generous, but of helping in ways that truly help, without the enervating, dependency-creating disempowerment of much current charity in practice. Lupton's argument is not against charity as such, but for charity in its true sense of willing the good of the other. This implies, Lupton shows, a consistent focus on results rather than intentions, on the good of those helped rather than the supposed benefits to the giver (e.g., the 'life-changing experience' of young participants in expensive mission junkets or the warm feelings of congregations that want to help.) The virtue of charity in this view cannot stand alone. It requires the exercise of other virtues like justice and prudence, and full engagement of the head as well as the heart.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Essential reading before mission trips and service projects
By John Gibbs
While Americans are very generous in charitable giving, much of that money is either wasted or actually harms the people it is targeted to help, according to Robert Lupton in this book. The author has been serving the poor for more than 40 years, and he wants to see giving and practical help delivered in a way that actually produces positive outcomes.

Compassion is such a virtuous value that it is almost sacrilegious for someone to question whether it is achieving its desired aims. People dig wells in Sudan or send food to Haiti or serve in a soup kitchen and simply assume that they are helping people out of poverty, without considering whether they are creating dependency, destroying personal initiative, and disempowering the recipients of the aid.

The problem is not the motivation. The problem is the unintended consequences of rightly motivated efforts. The book details a broad range of unintended consequences of mission trips, service projects, public housing developments, international partnerships, Christmas gift distributions, foreign aid projects, foodbanks, and other activities designed to help the poor.

The author proposes that there should be an oath for compassionate service, similar to the Hippocratic Oath, but including such elements as:

* Never do for the poor what they have the capacity to do for themselves
* Limit one-way giving to emergency situations
* Listen closely to those you seek to help
* Above all, do no harm

I do not entirely agree with the author's position on the evils of one-way giving. For example, most countries offer free education to children who cannot afford to pay for it. This creates dependency, because the country has to keep paying for free schooling year after year. It is a form of one-way giving, and it is not an emergency situation, but most people would say it is a good thing to do. Similarly, in my opinion it is often a good idea to provide free feeding programs in schools to help ensure that children are alive, healthy and educated by the time they graduate.

Notwithstanding these minor differences of opinion, I consider this to be an outstanding book, which should be read by anyone who wants to serve the poor, either locally or in other countries.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Before You Give Another Dime To Charity Read THIS book!
By Harold Cameron
Americans are an extremely giving, generous people when it comes to charitable giving. That is an indisputable fact. And most Americans give with good intentions. However, with all of our giving are we really helping the people that we are giving billions of dollars to help or are we doing more harm than good? Author Robert Lupton takes an objective look at the critical issue of charitable giving to the poor and needy and raises some very appropriate concerns and asks some hard and necessary questions in regards to the matter.

In Chapter one of his book, Author Lupton addresses what he refers to as the "growing scandal" related to the matter of our generosity in giving in that either much of the money we give is misappropriated or "wasted" or actually does more harm than good to the people we are giving the money to. He is not trying to be mean spirited like The Grinch in the popular children's book "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," by discouraging people from giving altogether; but rather, he is using the message of his book to communicate other possible and just maybe some better options to how we are currently doing giving in our country.
Author Lupton asserts in his book that most of us have "good intentions" by our giving as generously as we do as Americans. He is rightly concerned however that with all of our giving we might actually be doing more harm than good to the people we are giving to. The author states by our methods of giving we are turning needy people into "beggars" thereby robbing them of their initiative and dignity, and thus, leaving them in far worse shape than they were before we ever gave to them.

Author Lupton is someone who has been and is on the front lines of serving the needs of others as an "urban activist" so in Toxic Charity he writes from experience, with compassion as well as with a keen insight as to the changes that need to be made so that we might be more effective in our giving to the needs of others. He challenges us if that if only we will stop doing what we are doing we will stop getting what we have been getting as donors which has been dismal results for the most part up to this point in time. What we pretty much have created is a world full of needy, dependent people who feel that they are entitled to the handouts and help they are receiving now and have become complacent and are content with them rather than reaching out for a hand up...that is their being given the education, tools and resources along with their having to do the work necessary to become independent and even thriving. And he provides us creative ideas, practical resources, (such as the "Oath for Compassionate Service"); along with helpful tools and examples from the lives of people on the front lines that we can use to improve greatly on our giving. If we will but heed his warnings, have "ears to hear" and will listen and apply our hearts to understanding in regards to his advice in the matter of giving everyone involved in the process will be the better and richer for it.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Harper One Publishers. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

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