Think Generous

EVENTS

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THINK COMPASSIONATE

This event is unlike any other, it is held on a regular basis. Every few months we gather some TG volunteers and head out to visit our little friends.

Location: Kerdasa, Abhab El Rahman Orphanage.

Visit 1:

Date: 25th August 2010

Description: We spent time with the children, teaching them vital prayer as well as playing some educational games.

Visit 3:

Date: 5th July 2011

Description: We spend time with the children, teaching them vital prayer and playing educational games. We colored in coloring books, made bracelets with the girls, and played many fun games, including duck duck goose, wolf wolf, balloon popping, redlight-greenlight, blindfolded cat, and ended the day with a meal we prepared for them.

Visit 2:

Date: 18th December 2010

Description: We spent time with the children, teaching them, playing educational games, coloring, playing word puzzles and creating a special poster with them. We also taught the children ablutions and prayed Al Duhr with them. We ended the day with a meal we prepared for them.

Visit 4:

Date: 4th November 2011

Description: We had a very creative arts and crafts session, a puppet show, storytelling, competition, prayed with the children and concluded the visit with an iftar we prepared for them. We bought the children winter clothes to stay warm and wear during the feast, they all looked very pretty and handsome with their new jackets and pullovers

THINK THIRSTY

Description: An event held in Ramadan where Think Generous Volunteers spent Iftar time passing free snacks and water bottles out to drivers stuck in Cairo traffic.

Dates:

-23rd August 2010

-1st September 2010

-6th September 2010

-11th September 2010

-6th August, 2011

-27th August 2011

Location: El Nasr Street, Maadi & Mohandiseen.

THINK AFFECTIONATE

Description: Volunteers visited an orphanage which not only hosts orphans, but the orphans themselves are children between the age of 0 and 6 with special needs; they're either mentally or physically ill.

Mission: To ease the pain and suffering of the kids who don't receive any warm and tender feelings of love and care.

Date:

-30th August 2010

Location: Dar Al Sondos, Disabled children's orphanage.

THINK OF THE HOMELESS

Description: Think Generous Volunteers visited 'Banati', a shelter for street children as well as children who have mentally ill parents, parents who are in prison and parents that cannot provide for them. We spent time with the children, carrying out a range of activities, including face painting, story telling and a puppet show.

Date: 25th February 2011

Location: Banati Shelter, 6th of October

CAMPAIGNS

RETHINK (Think Green)

Description: Five of the TG admins attended an event in Smart Village which was dedicated to the environment.

It was organised by '350'. Inspired by the 350 'go green' campaign we decided to dedicate our Sundays to the environment.

On this day, members are encouraged to become more environmentally friendly and raise awareness about the crisis the world is facing. This is by keeping use of electrical devices to a minimum, switching off light during daytime, less driving & more walking, using both sides of paper and reusing plastic.

Aim: To live by the concept 'act today to save tomorrow' and to teach the youngsters to take care of their world and that improvement begins with 'I'.

THINK IMMACULATE

Description: Joseph Addison once wrote, "Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind."

Think Immaculate is one of our weekly events which is dedicated to cleanliness; and it's usually held on Tuesdays.

On this day, members are encouraged to pick up any garbage that comes their way; they are also encouraged to go out of their way to pick it up. We ask all of the attendees each week to change their habits of littering and of ignoring litter in the streets.

Aim: To make the world a cleaner place to live in, take care of our environment and teach future generations to not litter, rather that to pick the litter up.

THINK TECHNOLOGY

Description: A Think Generous project to help a woman in need. A widow who has lost her husband to a tragic fire along with their family business is now struggling to support herself and her three children.

Aim: Collecting old cell phones for her to send to be fixed and sold. This easy task will ensure her kids have a hot meal ready each day, can go to school and lead a normal life.

THINK OF THE HANDICAPPED

Description: A project to help buy a wheel chair for someone who is in need.

For every 2,000 bottle caps we collected and sent to be recycled, enough money was raised for one wheel chair. TG members worked on collecting as many caps as they could.

Result: Six wheelchairs were bought with the money gained from the bottle caps, and one extra wheelchair was bought through Think Generous funds.

THINK OF THE TRAGEDY

Description: A mother had gone through the most traumatic experience ever; a nurse has struggled to provide for her daughter enough funds for her battle against cancer.

TG members were kindly asked to search their hearts and help her pay off her debts by donating any amount of money and spreading the word to their family and friends, and to whoever can help with donations.

Result: 6,000LE worth of donations.

THINK HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Description: We asked all TG members to donate any sum of money and to collect any donations their friends or families were able to make in order to help Noura, an orphan girl who is engaged to be married, get her apartment ready.

Result: We were able to cross everything off the list of things Noura needed for her apartment to get married; we were able to provide Noura with the appliances and personal things she needed.

THINK GENEROUS