Hindu Charities For America

We are very pleased to announce that we met our goal and commitment to support 15% or 300 homeless children in Austin, TX with donation for funding of school supplies for the 2011-12 school year. Present were Cathy Requejo (Project H.E.L.P. program manager), Mike Lawrence (Founder, CapCityKids), Harish Kotecha (Founder, HC4A), and HC4A board members: Krishna Kondapalli, S.P. Reddy and Vimal Motipara.

The event was aired by the local news channel in Austin.

We are now going to finalize commitment for 2012-13 school year in coming months. You can help by making a donation - please click here to donate.

Over 35 volunteer slots were filled on Saturday 6, 2011 at the Alternate Learning Center on 901 Neal St., Austin, TX! They helped with serving breakfast and distribute backpack with school supplies. HC4A donated to 15% of Homeless children in Austin are. Here is what Cathy Requejo, Program Supervisor for Project HELP said "Hindu Volunteers were AWESOME!!!!!!! Nothing but praise from other volunteers, Project HELP team and CapCityKids. Thank you all so much".

Austin metro Hindu community came together - young, old, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, etc - and organizations came together to help. As an example, the youth group from Radha Madhav temple joined hands!

We hope to have such support in coming years.

We currently have the following corporations which allow payroll contributions to HC4A:

• Dell Computers, Inc. – Matching Grants possible
• Applied Materials, Inc. – Matching Grants possible
• Hewlett-Packard Company – Matching Grants possible
• IBM
  
• AMD
  

Thanks to the volunteers who have made this possible. Apart from the above list, many other corporate matching programs are likely to be eligible when donating to HC4A. We like your help to enroll HC4A in these programs.

We need volunteer to help with:

• Web site maintenance
• Volunteer coordination
• Fund Raising
• Finance
• Newsletter
• Databases
• Development to other cities and states

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On June 24, HC4A hosted a fund raising dinner in Austin at Madras Pavilion with help of Sanjay & Pammy Razdan and Madhvi Mittal with HC4A board. Sanjay emceed the event and did a great job!

Special Guest included Barbara Wand and Vicky Dill, both from Texas Homeless Education Office and Cathy Requejo from Project HELP.

Founder Harish Kotecha gave an overview on HC4A followed by a talk on issue of homeless children by Barbara and Vicky. A short 60 min clip on homeless children in America was also shown.

We thank Madras Pavilion for wonderful dinner and working with us!

As some of you may know the wild fire in Bastrop, TX (a town near Austin), has caused estimated $250M in damage.

Working with the Texas Homeless Education Office and Bastrop ISD, we have determined that the Hindu community can help by replacing the checked out library books that were destroyed by the wild fires.

We have committed to raise up to $4,000 for this cause.

Rahda Madav Dham is hoping to help HC4A from proceeds from the Anup Jalota Concert on October 8th (please support this cause). Swaminarayan Satsang in Austin is supporting this cause and Shridi Sai Baba Temple of Austin has publicized a donation drive.

Please help with this important cause, click here to donate through HC4A Paypal.

Gujarati Samaj of Greater Austin granted us free booth on Saturday September  24 and 30th.

Shirdi Sai Baba Temple has also given us a free booth at their mela on October 16th. On October 22nd, we plan to also have a booth at Austin Hindu Temple's mela.