This is what the people said via Ootsav! 2015-
Of course I support the library!
Because people like us do things like this!
People came out and supported the effort by the community.
I was quietly surprised when I saw the ambush of the volunteers at the first volunteer meeting at the library. We did not have a clear agenda for the day of (we had one for the meeting). We did not know how and what we would do eventually- but we all knew one thing- we all wanted to give back to the community. To give back to the library in manifold ways, in ways that cannot be quantified.
Paraphrasing Seth Godin- the reason for the existence of donors/ volunteers and non-profits is that we don't know how to solve some problems in the world. Problems that are unprecedented -like the economic recession and what it did to our economy and then to our library. When we move to volunteer and fundraising for a cause, we take risks which don't make profitable sense. This risk basically puts the onus on a few people who believe in the cause. This is what I saw in the handful of south Asian volunteers who decided to support the cause. No one person knew how much we could raise but we were all willing to do what we could and we did.
It is the volunteers and the few workers who believe and push the cause forward. It is not that they are not aware of the risks of failure, it is not that they are sure of what the end result it. The one thing common in all the donors and volunteers is the belief that the effort is worth the risk.
It is worth giving it your all and being a part of the effort- albeit small. This is a small token of writing, of offering thanks to all those who made it possible.
Salud and thank you.
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