Creating new ways to raise funds can be a great bonding exercise and a failsafe way of getting oneself noticed.
‘Tambola Dhamaka’, a fund-raising event hosted to raise money for charity by members of Vijayawada Ladies’ Circle—52 at Vedika Function Hall near Benz Circle on Tuesday was a successful experiment based on this theory.
The organisers of the all-women gathering came up with some wild and wacky ways to get people involved and have supporters keen to do their bit for the cause they have embraced.
The gathering was a mix of family, friends, colleagues and even total strangers and the activities they were engaged in were interspersed with loads of fun.
The ideas tossed were as funny as quirky, a deliberate attempt to make it an experience more interesting and memorable. The participants, divided in groups comprising 10 persons each, exercised a dress code. Diversity was the key and the attire of each group was like cheese and chalk.
The Tambola Dhamaka was part of their national project ‘Educate to Enlighten’ under which the ‘Tablers’ and the ‘Circlers’ as they are called, take up building infrastructure facilities in schools, scholarship schemes, nutrition and health and other programmes.
To kick start Tuesday’s programme, the members sponsored academic fee of a school boy Kumar Sai under their Adhyapana Sahaya scheme, presented a wet grinder to a woman from the economically backward section Manga Korada under their Stree Sahaya programme and offered financial support to a cancer patient Khasim Bee.
Contests like ‘Crazy Selfie’ wherein all 10 members of a group had to beat others by posing for most quirky selfie, a quilling contest which saw the women using strips of paper that were rolled, shaped and glued together to create decorative designs, and Dubsmash which witnessed their most funny side coming to the fore, kept the participants regaled all through the day.
The Ladies’ Circle members are wives of the members of Vijayawada Round Table—68 who work to promote the motto of ‘Friendship and Service’.
“The funds raised through this project will go to our community service programmes,” said Revathi Grandhi, chairperson of the Ladies’ Circle.
