Baalemane Charity Ride

To register email venetia@roadveda.com - registration closes at 100 bikes

UPDATES

Capture Crew are making a film of this ride.  Send us your song suggestions for the soundtrack and everyone will vote on the day of the ride.

Pre-ride drop in for all riders – hand over your donation and we’ll give you a flag, a briefing and possibly a beer in return.  7-10pm Friday 29th at 14 Naina Terraces, 159 Richmond Road – behind Kids Kemp on MG Road

Article in the Deccan Chronicle – DC article

Fastrack confirm sponsorship

Opus agrees to a special price of Rs. 550 plus tax (instead of Rs.888 plus tax)

Masters Management Consultants pledge a year’s worth of educational materials for girls in 8th-10th standard

Yogesh Bhandari and Rotract team up to provide an annual supply of sanitary napkins to the orphanage

Nike agrees to donate basket balls

Economic Transport Organisation will be sending their trucks to collect and deliver donations and gifts to Baale Mane

Metro Monkey, Road Veda’s online partner, features the ride: http://metromonkey.in/riding-for-a-cause/

Alpha Relations has pledged 10,000 for two months worth of vegetables

The New Indian Express features the ride: http://bit.ly/6hwdk2

Gayatri International donates educational materials for a year for girls in 1st-7th standards – thank you Alpesh and colleagues

Road Veda is organising a charity ride for a girls’ orphanage on Sunday January 31st. This ride will give you a chance to improve a girl’s life, by applying your mind and heart to her cause. Donations are welcome in kind (and can be selected from the list given below) – they will go a long way to making this orphanage a more livable space. There is no minimum and certainly no maximum. From a single spoon to a whole wardrobe, anything that will help us improve how the girls live is very welcome. Please note that the amount listed beside each item is the total number required; you may want to give two of the 50 light bulbs needed or one mattress from the 12 on the list. Riders can also  give specific cash amounts for particular expenses – such as a month’s vegetable supply – as listed below the ‘donations in kind’  list.

It will be a fun ride of almost 100kms outbound, through big highways, narrow country lanes and well paved and winding state highways. The return journey will be just 30kms, to Opus where beers and mojitos flow freely and a sumptuous brunch awaits us.

Once an item has been selected by a rider or group it will be marked as such on the list so we don’t end up with 500 plates and no mattresses….  All gifts/donations can be handed over to the Road Veda truck which will come to fetch them at a time and place convenient to you or dropped off on 29th Jan as above in red. All contributions in cash will be exempt from income tax up to 50% of the value of the donation or as specified in the IT act, section 80G.

The aim is to get 100 bikes, both Royal Enfields and other classic bikes. Please do join us.

To register: Venetia (+91 99723 05440) or Gautam (+91 99455 33440)

For donations (both selecting and the Road Veda truck): Krunal (+91 97399 77379)

If you’re a corporate/group: Kabir (+91 93425 34027) or Puja (+91 90083 16820)

For logistics: Gaurav (+91 99012 22077)

For more about Baalemane: Bella (+91 95386 91370) www.baalemane.org

List of items for donations in kind:

	DONATION	SIZE / STYLE	QUANTITY
In Kind
Kitchen Equipment	Plates with a thick lip	Steel thali with rim	70
	Glasses	Steel	70
	Pressure Cooker	5 litres	3 1 remaining
	Sambar Vessels	10 kgs	1
	Plastic Storage Drum	400 kgs	1
	Chombu (water jugs)	Steel	5
	Storage Boxes for grains	Steel 10 kgs	10
	Cutting Knives		10
	Vessel Stand		2
	Plate Stand		3
	Vessels for tea Preparation	3 litres and 2 litres	2
	Plastic Storage Drum	100 kgs	1
	Plastic Storage Drum	50 kgs	1
	Banali / kadai – vessel for frying items such as bonda and palya.	3 litres	3
	Plastic Drums	30 kgs	5
	Tiffin Boxes	big enough for lunch	52
	Big stirring spoons	3 feet	3
	Mixer for chutney		1
	Dosa Thava	Big	1
	Chappathi Thava	Big	1
	Chopping  Boards		10
	Strainer for tea aluminium	small	2
	Community Rice Preparing Vessel (donga)	15 kg	2
	Trays		4 2 remaining
Others	Floor mat (Chatai,) for children (individual)		70
	Warm bed blankets	Single beds	70
	Single Mattresses	Cotton  (6ft x 3ft)	12
	Bed sheets	Single beds	70 50 remaining
	Bicycles with inner tubes		20
	Light Bulbs	CFL bulbs 60Volts	100
	Music Player with CD and cassette		1
	UPS system with battery for computer room		1
	Girls clothes	Ages 6 – 17yrs
	Metal buckets	5litres	20
	Mugs		50
	Alarm Clocks		3
	Bathroom Stands		6
	Whiteboard		2
	Mirror		3
	Computer		1
Healthcare	Lice shampoo	100ml	52
	Face Cream
	Soap	Lifebouy	580 473 remaining
	Toothpaste
	Tooth Mugs		52
	Soap Boxes		52 37 remaining

List for donations in cash

	DONATION	AMOUNT OF TIME	QUANTITY	TOTAL COST (Rs.)
In Cash
EDUCATION	8th – 10th Standard Educational Materials	1 year	20 19 remaining	4602
	5th – 7th Standard Educational Materials	1 year	25 13 remaining	2404
	1st – 4th Standard Educational Materials	1 year	15 11 remaining	1989
FOOD	Vegetables	2 months		10,000
	Eggs	2 months		2,400
	Fruit	1 month		4000
	Meat	1 month		4000
	Milk	1 month		5580
	Rations	1 month		25000
OTHER	Cooking Gas	1 month		2800