Tej Kohli Personal Blog

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma last Saturday. Tej Kohli Charity News category brings the latest update..

An Edinburgh-based rescue charity is flying out aid to help the victims of the Burmese cyclone.

Mercy Corps is working with fellow aid agencies to bring relief to families affected by the disaster, which has left up to 22,000 people dead.

City-based fund manager, Artemis Investment Managers, have pledged £25,000 to the charity to help with its response.

At least 41,000 people are said to be missing since Cyclone Nargis struck.

Tej Kohli has always been associated with charity works and is helping scores of underprivileged people. Recently what called his attention is the slew of hoax charity emails fooling people on internet.

For years e-mails have been floating around the internet promising money to sick children or for disaster relief fund. Most of these emails assert that if users forward it in their circle, for each email they will contribute a certain some of money. Thus, if they forward email to enough people, some charity organization will make a donation for a good cause.

And while these messages are sham, majority of people continue to send them, clogging inboxes and even worse, casting suspicion on the legitimate online charity campaigns.

Hitherto, there is no such technology on internet to keep track of the forwarded emails. These hoax emails serves no better purpose than causing headache for authentic charities and thereby thinning their chance of raising funds for genuine causes.

Albeit many renowned charities have stepped forward to squash this practice and even have disclaimers on their websites warning users that such email chain letters are fakes, but to no avail.

Despite such efforts this practice is spreading on the internet like forest-fire. Though not all such campaigns are phony, the bad news is, it is casting clouds of suspicion on the legitimate campaigns too. As one fails to distinguish between the fake and genuine campaigns, the confusion persists.

Even online social networks are coming up with several features to thicken this muck further. As a result, people are becoming apprehensive of the online charities and this in turn is limiting the fundraising capacities of many popular charities.

Many hoax-busting websites maintain that this confusion will continue to exist for some time, even in face of efforts to discredit them. One of the reasons is that it’s all too tempting for users to feel like they’ve contributed by doing very little. Such hoaxes give people a chance to experience feeling of doing something good for virtually no effort.

Tej Kohli unveils the secret of true happiness. If you’ve known how to take, learn TO GIVE as well, says Tej Kohli.

Charity or philanthropy is the greatest virtue that makes us real human beings. We are born in this world, nurtured in comfort and have always been fortunate to enjoy all comforts of life. But there are those who live on the streets and run pillar to post to meet bare ends. We are born in a society. It is this society which gave us our individuality and so many other privileges. Like a mother, society has given us everything we desired of, but ‘what have you given to the society’- is the question to be answered.

Though I have volunteered a few charitable endeavors but I still don’t rank myself in the philanthropists of that great persona like Andrew Carnegie, Peter Cooper, William H. Gates or David Packard, who have devoted their entire lives in helping those who are less fortunate.

The attitude of giving is a great way to seek solace and pay homage towards the society, which has made you, who you are. Charity has nothing to do with your bank balance. No matter you come from the wealth or from a modest family background. All you need to have is an attitude of giving, the vim and vigor to volunteer your services. So what if it’s in kind and not cash. If you have the will, your keys to philanthropy are endless. Find what’s your key and Unlock the happiness in someone’s life today.