Dr. Krishna Sinha Memorial Fund -for Life Projects
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A Life that Inspires, A Unique Life Dedicated to the Weak, the Needy & the Poor- Please Help Bring Her Incomplete Initiatives to Completion.
Dr. (Mrs.) Krishna Sinha, 77, passed away rather suddenly and unexpectedly on June 24th, 2019, with her family by her side in Lucknow, India.
Born August 7, 1941 , Krishna - affectionately called "NaniMa/DadiMa" by hundreds of children who were touched by her caring and generosity - was a woman with a razor sharp mind and passion for caring. Undaunted by circumstances, she dared to dream big, not just for herself and her children & grandchildren but also for thousands of needy and poor who came into her ever expanding orbit. A tireless worker, a true karma-yogi, her restless mind was actively strategizing till the end on how to improve the lot of people who came to depend on her.
This campaign is an attempt to bring the life-story of this remarkable woman in front of a bigger audience and to the extent possible seek contributions to successfully complete 2 specific initiatives that she started in the last couple of weeks of her life. First, let's take a brief look at the two main life initiatives of Dr. Krishna Sinha which made a huge difference in the society where those were undertaken. We will then look at the 2 unfinished initiatives ...
Dr. Krishna Sinha was born in Agra, the Taj-Mahal city and was educated in the metropolitan cities of Mumbai (Bombay) and Kolkata (Calcutta), India. But fate and an arranged marriage would bring her to the remote sleepy town and villages of Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, India, close by the Nepal border. The year was 1963 and Gonda was very much in the social and economic backwaters with scarce electricity and scarcer education - particularly for the girl child. This was a society where women either chose to or were forced to confine primarily to the limits of their home and cook and care for their husbands and extended families. Krishna was no destructive rebel, and for her initial many many years in Gonda, she devoted herself joyfully and completely in building a successful family life with her life-partner (Late) Mr. Rameshwar Nath Sinha (Ramesh). She would split time with her husband in raising 3 children in a small house in the town of Gonda and a bigger farm-house in a village about 30 km away. Together Ramesh and Krishna were immersed deeply in raising their children well, propelling them into education and career paths that nobody in Gonda at that time would dream of...
But the life-spirit within Krishna was too intense and sense of caring too acute for her to shut herself from the vicissitudes of poor and needy people around her. Her heart would revolt against some of the oppression that the poorest experienced in the village and the lack of education. Strongly nudged by Krishna, her husband successfully ran and won the office of Gram Pradhan - Village Chief- in the mid 1970's (a post that Krishna would herself assume later in her life) and ended decades of violent oppression of deeply poor and the so-called untouchables in scores of villages around them. Krishna would run large classes for village children, often till late at night using kerosene lanterns. The society was changing and governments were waking up to these societal ills and Krishna & Ramesh came to be well known in the villages and towns of Gonda as the progressive couple at the forefront of these changes.
At the end of the Day, Ask Yourself "Have I brought a smile on the face of some one" This and only This is the key to Happiness and The key to Success. ..... K. Sinha (Founder - Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College & Gram Pradhan Payagpur-Naubasta).
In mid-to-late 1980's Krishna turned her attention to the cause of women's higher education in Gonda, She was appalled by the fact that a large number of socially conservative parents withdrew their daughters from education after high school because the only degree college in Gonda was a co-ed college and thus was found unsuitable for their daughters. A constructive fighter, she quickly realized that it is much harder to change society's attitude in a hurry and, rather it will be better to provide girls an alternate avenue for college education by establishing a girl's only college for higher educations and thus she threw herself what would become one of her life's two primary initiatives -
Dr. Krishna Sinha Life Initiative #1: Women's Higher Education in Socially & Economically DIsadvantaged Gonda
She started a "Women's College" in the living room of her small home and now the Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College (also known as just Gyanasthali or NGM) is housed in its own sprawling campus in Gonda, UttarPradesh, India. She would walk tens of miles a day in the burning summer sun to raise money, seek donations of land and furniture, and the college quickly rose, brick-by-brick and lecture hall by lecture hall. Soon it came to be recognized as revolutionizing women's higher education in Gonda. Earlier, in her life she earned a PhD in English Literature and the cause of women's education was very dear to her heart, especially since as noted above, a large number of women were not allowed to attend co-ed colleges even in cities such as Gonda. Thus, she started a "Women's College" making it easier for women to thrive in a safe and secure environment. Her motto for the college is "Perfect Women, Perfect Society".
Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College is a result of her tireless efforts, clear concepts and a decisive goal. Efforts that painfully opened pages after pages of the growth of a degree College from one room and three students to a well-planned double storied twenty-five roomed structure and two thousand students. The concept was a clearly defined plan of an institution which was not only a structural admiration for parents/guardians and a ‘‘Degree’’ issuing center but a recognized and proven plan for total development of strong women of strong character. The goal was focused, decisive and pre-planned from scratch. The plan was a multifaceted place for higher education exclusively for women. Efforts, concepts and goal all quickly synchronized into a wonder which the District of Gonda witnessed with deep admiration from June 23, 1993 to date. Now Gyanasthali has become a Temple of Knowledge and an all round development of a “Women” irrespective of caste, creed and economic calculations. Today Gyanasthali has become the first choice of both the students' and their parent/guardians. Founder Dr. (Mrs.) Krishna Sinha cashed the benefits of her education from St. Theresa's Convent & Sophia College in Mumbai, Wadia College in Pune, Shiksha Yatan College in Calcutta. All her educational experiences have mirrored into a structure called NGM. The annals of the College are an open book for all those wanting to delve into the inner mysteries of the “Birth of the College."
Establishment of the pioneering women's college in Gonda, it would turn out, was only one of her two primary life initiatives. As noted above, Krishna, in collaboration with her husband Ramesh, was instrumental in helping free villagers in her adopted village from acute oppression in 1970's/80's/90's. But while freedom from oppression is one thing, the challenges of comprehensive economic development continued to remain acute in these village. Specially, since as he grew older, Ramesh had given up his elective office of Gram-Pradhan, and while government aid for development had risen in recent years, a large portion of it was swindled away by unscrupulous newly elected officials. After the demise of her husband Ramesh, in 2011, Krishna saw this as the unfinished work of his life and set about to correct this even at a relatively late stage in her life...
Dr. Krishna Sinha Life Initiative #2: All around Economic Development in and around her Adopted Village
In 2015 at the age of 74, Krishna was resoundingly elected as the Chief (Pradhan) of 13 villages in Prayagpur-Naubasta. She took up this work in addition to her ongoing involvement in managing the Gyanasthali College, and decided to focus on a few key initiatives to achieve comprehensive development: (i) ensure that every single penny of government aid reaches the villagers, (ii) ensure that the 3 primary education schools in the village are well managed and run, (iii) ensure that women in village are increasingly enlightened & aware and assume primary responsibility in improving the condition of their families, (iv) ensure that cleanliness and sanitation in the village improve with large scale construction of toilets and open clean spaces, and, (v) implore government authorities to speed up construction of roads and accelerate housing aids. To those visiting these 13 villages, vast dramatic improvements are already visible, in just 3 and 1/2 years that Dr. Krishna Sinha had focused her immense talents to this effort ...
This is in brief the story of this remarkable life ... a deeply loved and cherished person and her two major life initiatives. This then brings us to her two efforts in the last days of her life and why we are seeking donations...
Why Are We Seeking Donations -
In the last weeks of her life as Dr. Krishna Sinha lay recovering from a major spinal cord surgery (conducted on May 30th for an acute D7-D8 compression fracture that had caused her immense pain), her mind was not at rest. She had thought about and directed two new efforts to continue to help people who were so deeply connected to her. She was constantly on the phone assuring everybody who would call that she is on the way to recovery and will be back soon to take up these major new projects to help them. We in her family also bought into her optimism, and were certain that she would recover yet again but alas it was not to be so. She already had serious conditions - 2-previous bouts of heart attack, a stroke in 2017, diabetes for nearly 30 years, severe osteoporosis, progressing heart failure, the general anesthesia for the operation perhaps made all of this worse and to make matters more acute she was ordered complete immobilization for 5-weeks after surgery by her doctors. After spending a very cheerful Sunday the 23rd, planning things out, on Monday June 24th, in a moment when sheer sadness engulfed everything, she went in cardiac-arrest and did not recover despite desperate resuscitation attempts. She successfully hid her myriad health issues by being active till the last weeks of her life, and tenaciously lured everybody in thinking that she will live for many more years and continue on to fight for the causes she so deeply believed in.
As we in the family and everybody connected with Dr. Krishna Sinha, mourn her loss, we grapple with what to do. The day of her cremation on the banks of river Saryu, on the afternoon of 25th June, as she lay on the funeral pyre for it to be lit, and for her to begin the final assimilation into the elements, a brutal thunder-storm appeared out of nowhere and lashed everybody with rain intensity unseen in years. As we struggled to stop falling to the ground, it appeared as if mother nature, having realized the folly of mistakenly taken away a valued daughter with unfinished work, is lashing out in frustration. After the cremation, later that evening as we returned to the village home, completely deserted - as everyone had just dropped everything to rush to the cremation, and completely enveloped in darkness, with mother cows of unfed calves mooing hauntingly in protest, it felt as if complete darkness had descended on earth. In the subsequent days as we clawed our way out of darkness and focused ourselves towards a celebration of Dr. Krishna Sinha's life, it became amply clear to us that some of the things that she had taken up in the last weeks of her life must be finished for her sake, for our sake, and for the sake of decent humanistic values everywhere. We decided to set up a memorial fund so that all of us who can relate to her struggles may help towards successful and rapid completion of what was subsuming her mind in the last few days:
Dr. Krishna Sinha's Last Effort #1 - and a Goal of Completion
As she lay in her bed in the last weeks of her life, monsoon rains had begun to descend all over India and in her village of Payagpur-Naubasta. In this village there are still about 50-60 families which lack permanent housing structure (capable of withstanding the mighty monsoons) and live in ramshackle hutments. Their situation is particularly acute during the rains. To help them survive the immediate monsoons she directed her staff from her sick bed to rush and erect temporary structures for 8 of these families in gravest need, using tin sheds and plastic/canvas covers.
With the help of the temporary structures these families will somehow pass the current monsoon season. But to help complete her mission, and perhaps bring peace and closure to her soul, we want to try and build permanent 1-room brick homes for these families in the coming months. A number of these 50-60 families are on government list for housing construction aid in coming years, but these 8 fall into category who have partial or dilapidated old dwelling who thus don't qualify for any government aid. The cost for building these homes is a approximately $2500/home and to build 8 of these we're attempting to accumulate a total of $20,000.
Dr. Krishna Sinha's Last Effort #2 - and a Goal of Completion
In June, before her unexpected demise, Dr. Krishna Sinha's mind was also burning with a desire to make the Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College even better and give it a new look in time for the new session starting in August. Being a liberal arts college, it focuses on imparting B.A., M.A. and B.Com. degrees, but Dr. Krishna Sinha wanted to ensure all her students would be prepared in a world of rapid digital transformation. Thus, to better prepare them to succeed in the 21st century, she was also keen that these young women acquire modern skills including computer training and multi-media training. Towards this end she had started setting up a computer-lab to be used in a 1-year free computer skills course for students. The carpentry work for this lab was already complete and Dr. Krishna Sinha was hoping to seek computer equipment donations after her recovery and eventual return to Gonda.
We now hope to complete equipping this lab with 10 modern computers and an overhead projector. The estimated cost for these is about $14000.
In summary:
1. We're attempting to pool resources and raise a total of $34,000 for the efforts which we believe will round-up Dr. Krishna Sinha's life-long struggle and humanitarian vision of helping a large number of people in her vicinity: $20,000 for the constructions of 8 homes in her village, and $14,000 for the computer equipment in the unfinished computer lab at the College she founded. As these projects get completed the pictures will be shared here and supporters will be invited to visit Gonda and the village at a time of their convenience with full arrangements for local stay. Those interested in volunteering at the NGM college for guest lectures/workshops or at the village for charitable/training activities are also encouraged to get in touch.
2. Who we are:
Deepen Sinha, Son, based in Chatham, NJ, USA (Cell: +1-973-809-2940, email: [email redacted])
Neelu Sinha, Daughter in Law, based in Chatham, NJ, USA (email: [email redacted])
Arati Srivastava, Elder Daughter, based in Lucknow, India (Mobile: +91-9450757483)
Vikas Srivastava, Elder Son in Law, based in Lucknow, India
Anandita Rajat, Younger Daughter, based in Ekona & Gonda, India (mobile: +91-9956199511)
Rajat Singh, Younger Son in Law, based in Ekona & Gonda, India
Rupal Srivastava, Grand Daughter, based in Buffalo, NY, USA
Ankita Vikas, Grand Daughter, based in Hyderabad, India
Anusha Sinha, Grand Daughter, based in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rachit Rajat, Grand Son, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nishita Sinha, Grand Daughter, based in Cambridge, MA, USA
3. We also urge all to leave supporting messages and comments, those who had a chance to know Dr. Krishna Sinha in person, and those who are able to relate to and empathize with the life story of this truly unique person who touched so many lives.
We take your leave with these few snapshots of her life obituaries as captured in the local newspapers in Gonda, India:
Dr. (Mrs.) Krishna Sinha, 77, passed away rather suddenly and unexpectedly on June 24th, 2019, with her family by her side in Lucknow, India.
Born August 7, 1941 , Krishna - affectionately called "NaniMa/DadiMa" by hundreds of children who were touched by her caring and generosity - was a woman with a razor sharp mind and passion for caring. Undaunted by circumstances, she dared to dream big, not just for herself and her children & grandchildren but also for thousands of needy and poor who came into her ever expanding orbit. A tireless worker, a true karma-yogi, her restless mind was actively strategizing till the end on how to improve the lot of people who came to depend on her.
This campaign is an attempt to bring the life-story of this remarkable woman in front of a bigger audience and to the extent possible seek contributions to successfully complete 2 specific initiatives that she started in the last couple of weeks of her life. First, let's take a brief look at the two main life initiatives of Dr. Krishna Sinha which made a huge difference in the society where those were undertaken. We will then look at the 2 unfinished initiatives ...
Dr. Krishna Sinha was born in Agra, the Taj-Mahal city and was educated in the metropolitan cities of Mumbai (Bombay) and Kolkata (Calcutta), India. But fate and an arranged marriage would bring her to the remote sleepy town and villages of Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, India, close by the Nepal border. The year was 1963 and Gonda was very much in the social and economic backwaters with scarce electricity and scarcer education - particularly for the girl child. This was a society where women either chose to or were forced to confine primarily to the limits of their home and cook and care for their husbands and extended families. Krishna was no destructive rebel, and for her initial many many years in Gonda, she devoted herself joyfully and completely in building a successful family life with her life-partner (Late) Mr. Rameshwar Nath Sinha (Ramesh). She would split time with her husband in raising 3 children in a small house in the town of Gonda and a bigger farm-house in a village about 30 km away. Together Ramesh and Krishna were immersed deeply in raising their children well, propelling them into education and career paths that nobody in Gonda at that time would dream of...
But the life-spirit within Krishna was too intense and sense of caring too acute for her to shut herself from the vicissitudes of poor and needy people around her. Her heart would revolt against some of the oppression that the poorest experienced in the village and the lack of education. Strongly nudged by Krishna, her husband successfully ran and won the office of Gram Pradhan - Village Chief- in the mid 1970's (a post that Krishna would herself assume later in her life) and ended decades of violent oppression of deeply poor and the so-called untouchables in scores of villages around them. Krishna would run large classes for village children, often till late at night using kerosene lanterns. The society was changing and governments were waking up to these societal ills and Krishna & Ramesh came to be well known in the villages and towns of Gonda as the progressive couple at the forefront of these changes.
At the end of the Day, Ask Yourself "Have I brought a smile on the face of some one" This and only This is the key to Happiness and The key to Success. ..... K. Sinha (Founder - Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College & Gram Pradhan Payagpur-Naubasta).
In mid-to-late 1980's Krishna turned her attention to the cause of women's higher education in Gonda, She was appalled by the fact that a large number of socially conservative parents withdrew their daughters from education after high school because the only degree college in Gonda was a co-ed college and thus was found unsuitable for their daughters. A constructive fighter, she quickly realized that it is much harder to change society's attitude in a hurry and, rather it will be better to provide girls an alternate avenue for college education by establishing a girl's only college for higher educations and thus she threw herself what would become one of her life's two primary initiatives -
Dr. Krishna Sinha Life Initiative #1: Women's Higher Education in Socially & Economically DIsadvantaged Gonda
She started a "Women's College" in the living room of her small home and now the Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College (also known as just Gyanasthali or NGM) is housed in its own sprawling campus in Gonda, UttarPradesh, India. She would walk tens of miles a day in the burning summer sun to raise money, seek donations of land and furniture, and the college quickly rose, brick-by-brick and lecture hall by lecture hall. Soon it came to be recognized as revolutionizing women's higher education in Gonda. Earlier, in her life she earned a PhD in English Literature and the cause of women's education was very dear to her heart, especially since as noted above, a large number of women were not allowed to attend co-ed colleges even in cities such as Gonda. Thus, she started a "Women's College" making it easier for women to thrive in a safe and secure environment. Her motto for the college is "Perfect Women, Perfect Society".
Saraswati Devi Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College is a result of her tireless efforts, clear concepts and a decisive goal. Efforts that painfully opened pages after pages of the growth of a degree College from one room and three students to a well-planned double storied twenty-five roomed structure and two thousand students. The concept was a clearly defined plan of an institution which was not only a structural admiration for parents/guardians and a ‘‘Degree’’ issuing center but a recognized and proven plan for total development of strong women of strong character. The goal was focused, decisive and pre-planned from scratch. The plan was a multifaceted place for higher education exclusively for women. Efforts, concepts and goal all quickly synchronized into a wonder which the District of Gonda witnessed with deep admiration from June 23, 1993 to date. Now Gyanasthali has become a Temple of Knowledge and an all round development of a “Women” irrespective of caste, creed and economic calculations. Today Gyanasthali has become the first choice of both the students' and their parent/guardians. Founder Dr. (Mrs.) Krishna Sinha cashed the benefits of her education from St. Theresa's Convent & Sophia College in Mumbai, Wadia College in Pune, Shiksha Yatan College in Calcutta. All her educational experiences have mirrored into a structure called NGM. The annals of the College are an open book for all those wanting to delve into the inner mysteries of the “Birth of the College."
Establishment of the pioneering women's college in Gonda, it would turn out, was only one of her two primary life initiatives. As noted above, Krishna, in collaboration with her husband Ramesh, was instrumental in helping free villagers in her adopted village from acute oppression in 1970's/80's/90's. But while freedom from oppression is one thing, the challenges of comprehensive economic development continued to remain acute in these village. Specially, since as he grew older, Ramesh had given up his elective office of Gram-Pradhan, and while government aid for development had risen in recent years, a large portion of it was swindled away by unscrupulous newly elected officials. After the demise of her husband Ramesh, in 2011, Krishna saw this as the unfinished work of his life and set about to correct this even at a relatively late stage in her life...
Dr. Krishna Sinha Life Initiative #2: All around Economic Development in and around her Adopted Village
In 2015 at the age of 74, Krishna was resoundingly elected as the Chief (Pradhan) of 13 villages in Prayagpur-Naubasta. She took up this work in addition to her ongoing involvement in managing the Gyanasthali College, and decided to focus on a few key initiatives to achieve comprehensive development: (i) ensure that every single penny of government aid reaches the villagers, (ii) ensure that the 3 primary education schools in the village are well managed and run, (iii) ensure that women in village are increasingly enlightened & aware and assume primary responsibility in improving the condition of their families, (iv) ensure that cleanliness and sanitation in the village improve with large scale construction of toilets and open clean spaces, and, (v) implore government authorities to speed up construction of roads and accelerate housing aids. To those visiting these 13 villages, vast dramatic improvements are already visible, in just 3 and 1/2 years that Dr. Krishna Sinha had focused her immense talents to this effort ...
This is in brief the story of this remarkable life ... a deeply loved and cherished person and her two major life initiatives. This then brings us to her two efforts in the last days of her life and why we are seeking donations...
Why Are We Seeking Donations -
In the last weeks of her life as Dr. Krishna Sinha lay recovering from a major spinal cord surgery (conducted on May 30th for an acute D7-D8 compression fracture that had caused her immense pain), her mind was not at rest. She had thought about and directed two new efforts to continue to help people who were so deeply connected to her. She was constantly on the phone assuring everybody who would call that she is on the way to recovery and will be back soon to take up these major new projects to help them. We in her family also bought into her optimism, and were certain that she would recover yet again but alas it was not to be so. She already had serious conditions - 2-previous bouts of heart attack, a stroke in 2017, diabetes for nearly 30 years, severe osteoporosis, progressing heart failure, the general anesthesia for the operation perhaps made all of this worse and to make matters more acute she was ordered complete immobilization for 5-weeks after surgery by her doctors. After spending a very cheerful Sunday the 23rd, planning things out, on Monday June 24th, in a moment when sheer sadness engulfed everything, she went in cardiac-arrest and did not recover despite desperate resuscitation attempts. She successfully hid her myriad health issues by being active till the last weeks of her life, and tenaciously lured everybody in thinking that she will live for many more years and continue on to fight for the causes she so deeply believed in.
As we in the family and everybody connected with Dr. Krishna Sinha, mourn her loss, we grapple with what to do. The day of her cremation on the banks of river Saryu, on the afternoon of 25th June, as she lay on the funeral pyre for it to be lit, and for her to begin the final assimilation into the elements, a brutal thunder-storm appeared out of nowhere and lashed everybody with rain intensity unseen in years. As we struggled to stop falling to the ground, it appeared as if mother nature, having realized the folly of mistakenly taken away a valued daughter with unfinished work, is lashing out in frustration. After the cremation, later that evening as we returned to the village home, completely deserted - as everyone had just dropped everything to rush to the cremation, and completely enveloped in darkness, with mother cows of unfed calves mooing hauntingly in protest, it felt as if complete darkness had descended on earth. In the subsequent days as we clawed our way out of darkness and focused ourselves towards a celebration of Dr. Krishna Sinha's life, it became amply clear to us that some of the things that she had taken up in the last weeks of her life must be finished for her sake, for our sake, and for the sake of decent humanistic values everywhere. We decided to set up a memorial fund so that all of us who can relate to her struggles may help towards successful and rapid completion of what was subsuming her mind in the last few days:
Dr. Krishna Sinha's Last Effort #1 - and a Goal of Completion
As she lay in her bed in the last weeks of her life, monsoon rains had begun to descend all over India and in her village of Payagpur-Naubasta. In this village there are still about 50-60 families which lack permanent housing structure (capable of withstanding the mighty monsoons) and live in ramshackle hutments. Their situation is particularly acute during the rains. To help them survive the immediate monsoons she directed her staff from her sick bed to rush and erect temporary structures for 8 of these families in gravest need, using tin sheds and plastic/canvas covers.
With the help of the temporary structures these families will somehow pass the current monsoon season. But to help complete her mission, and perhaps bring peace and closure to her soul, we want to try and build permanent 1-room brick homes for these families in the coming months. A number of these 50-60 families are on government list for housing construction aid in coming years, but these 8 fall into category who have partial or dilapidated old dwelling who thus don't qualify for any government aid. The cost for building these homes is a approximately $2500/home and to build 8 of these we're attempting to accumulate a total of $20,000.
Dr. Krishna Sinha's Last Effort #2 - and a Goal of Completion
In June, before her unexpected demise, Dr. Krishna Sinha's mind was also burning with a desire to make the Nari Gyanasthali P.G. College even better and give it a new look in time for the new session starting in August. Being a liberal arts college, it focuses on imparting B.A., M.A. and B.Com. degrees, but Dr. Krishna Sinha wanted to ensure all her students would be prepared in a world of rapid digital transformation. Thus, to better prepare them to succeed in the 21st century, she was also keen that these young women acquire modern skills including computer training and multi-media training. Towards this end she had started setting up a computer-lab to be used in a 1-year free computer skills course for students. The carpentry work for this lab was already complete and Dr. Krishna Sinha was hoping to seek computer equipment donations after her recovery and eventual return to Gonda.
We now hope to complete equipping this lab with 10 modern computers and an overhead projector. The estimated cost for these is about $14000.
In summary:
1. We're attempting to pool resources and raise a total of $34,000 for the efforts which we believe will round-up Dr. Krishna Sinha's life-long struggle and humanitarian vision of helping a large number of people in her vicinity: $20,000 for the constructions of 8 homes in her village, and $14,000 for the computer equipment in the unfinished computer lab at the College she founded. As these projects get completed the pictures will be shared here and supporters will be invited to visit Gonda and the village at a time of their convenience with full arrangements for local stay. Those interested in volunteering at the NGM college for guest lectures/workshops or at the village for charitable/training activities are also encouraged to get in touch.
2. Who we are:
Deepen Sinha, Son, based in Chatham, NJ, USA (Cell: +1-973-809-2940, email: [email redacted])
Neelu Sinha, Daughter in Law, based in Chatham, NJ, USA (email: [email redacted])
Arati Srivastava, Elder Daughter, based in Lucknow, India (Mobile: +91-9450757483)
Vikas Srivastava, Elder Son in Law, based in Lucknow, India
Anandita Rajat, Younger Daughter, based in Ekona & Gonda, India (mobile: +91-9956199511)
Rajat Singh, Younger Son in Law, based in Ekona & Gonda, India
Rupal Srivastava, Grand Daughter, based in Buffalo, NY, USA
Ankita Vikas, Grand Daughter, based in Hyderabad, India
Anusha Sinha, Grand Daughter, based in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Rachit Rajat, Grand Son, based in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nishita Sinha, Grand Daughter, based in Cambridge, MA, USA
3. We also urge all to leave supporting messages and comments, those who had a chance to know Dr. Krishna Sinha in person, and those who are able to relate to and empathize with the life story of this truly unique person who touched so many lives.
We take your leave with these few snapshots of her life obituaries as captured in the local newspapers in Gonda, India:
Fundraising team: Dr.Krishna Sinha Memorial Fund Team (5)
Deepen Sinha
Organizer
Chatham, NJ
Neelu Sinha
Team member
Katherine Abbott
Team member
Ken Abbott
Team member
Anusha Sinha
Team member