IESM: Sustain the impact of the foundation

18 December, 2009 2:52:42 PM
Dear Veteran Brethren,
May God continue to bless us all.
We have to be grateful to the Governing Body for the wonderful work they have done to date. It has all been achieved on voluntary basis in a year and with no funds. The AGM rightly brought out that on the present basis, our ESM foundation won't last for long. How long do we expect the present members of the Governing Body to continue and incur all the expenses from their own pockets and and operate from their own homes? We therefore have THREE urgent problems to face.
FIRSTLY: Must find some place from where the Foundation can operate and hand over the affairs to those who might be willing to take over in due course.
SECOND: And of paramount importance, find some money. I must confess that even though I have some idea of keeping the books, I was not aware of the taxation problems etc. The Foundation can't use the money from the membership Fees for running the movement, even if it was enough !!
THIRD: Must provide some help, even if only PART TIME, on paid basis to the TREASURER and Brig Kamboj.
I have no doubt that the Chairman and his team of officers have been giving it a lot of thought. Thanks to the efforts of ESM, we have been fortunate to get some relief. For example, PB4 has been a great financial support. I therefore, request all of us, the recipients of the benefit of PB4, to donate an amount from it to the ESM. The increase because of age, of 10, 20,& 30 %, is really a real Bounty. At the ages of over 80 yrs or 85 yrs, we can't, in all honesty, claim that our family needs have correspondingly gone up. So we, the recipient of these increases should donate some of it to the ESM. Drop by drop it becomes an ocean. So it would all help and show our gratitude.
With lots of blessings.
Pran Parashar
Cdr Pran Parashar, Commissioned in 1941, Founder Member of Naval Aviation