DAWN: An NGO for Better Tomorrow
It was the most uncertain of times! One could not tell good from bad, wisdom from foolishness, friend from foe, belief from incredulity, hope from despair, Light from Darkness … “we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way”. It was 2003 and, for more than a decade, Kashmir was braving an intense conflict that touched, tested and tormented every aspect of human life: social, economic, political. It was in these uncertain times that a group of associates – realising that the social and economic aspects of life cannot await the political solution – came together, informally, to found the organisation that came to be known as DAWN: An NGO for Better Tomorrow. The mission was to sincerely try and do everything we could to help and improve as many lives as possible, undertake as many socioeconomic initiatives as possible and work, consistently, towards realising our cherished vision of a ‘better tomorrow’. The objective was to achieve our goals whilst being totally and completely apolitical. That is why the word “an NGO” was inserted in the title itself, even though it made it look ungainly long.
Among the founders of the organisation, so far as I can gather, were:-
1. Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed Pir
2. Dr Zahoor Ahmad Baba
3. Dr Hafeezullah Dar
4. Mr Abdul Majeed Dar
5. Showket Saleem Bulla
6. Mr. Meharajuddin Sofi
7. Dr. Ibrahim Masoodi
8. Dr Fayaz Ahmed Sofi
9.Mr Mohd Shaban
10.Mr Ammar Kabli .
11.Mr Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat
12.Mr .Mohd Saleem Bhat
All the founding members did, possibly, everything within their means to get the organisation started. However, it is very pertinent to iterate here, that the one person who was pivotal in the whole endeavour was Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed Pir, the founder Chancellor of the organisation. It was his social net-wok and resources that made it possible, first, to bring us all together and then to enable us to organise some really successful events executing some much needed socio-economic interventions. Since I left India in 2006 I have not been up-to-date with the organisational activities but hope and pray that ‘DAWN’ continues to be ‘an NGO for a better tomorrow’!
9.Mr Mohd Shaban
10.Mr Ammar Kabli .
11.Mr Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat
12.Mr .Mohd Saleem Bhat
All the founding members did, possibly, everything within their means to get the organisation started. However, it is very pertinent to iterate here, that the one person who was pivotal in the whole endeavour was Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed Pir, the founder Chancellor of the organisation. It was his social net-wok and resources that made it possible, first, to bring us all together and then to enable us to organise some really successful events executing some much needed socio-economic interventions. Since I left India in 2006 I have not been up-to-date with the organisational activities but hope and pray that ‘DAWN’ continues to be ‘an NGO for a better tomorrow’!
Jazak Allahu khayran!
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