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Different Strokes: India Association of NH paints a rundown apartment in restoration effort.

The Public Service group of the Indian Association of New Hampshire undertook an apartment restoration project on Sep 9, 2006 at 86 Chestnut Street in downtown Nashua. The apartment belongs to the Nashua Soup Kitchen.  It is used to provide temporary accommodation to the families who have lost their home due to various reasons like job loss and fire damage.  The Nashua Soup Kitchen helps these families with free accommodation until they are able to get back to normal lives.

Ramesh Shelat of Nashua led this voluntary effort. Prithvi Kumar, Umang Kumar, Sai Krishna Murthy, Srikanth Vaidyanathan, Shankar, and Yadavali Rao joined him in carrying out the task. 

The volunteers began work at 7:30 am in the morning. The India Association had arranged the paint and related supplies. Each volunteer was assigned a portion of the apartment to clean and paint. Some volunteers took charge of installing new blinds on the windows. All volunteers attacked their assignments with great enthusiasm and were able to complete the job by 1pm. A total of 4 rooms, one kitchen, one bathroom and one balcony were painted and hung with new blinds. 

The Public Service group of the association participates in various events like cooking for soup kitchens and food donations to food banks.  This is the first community restoration project the group undertook.  IANH plans to offer more such projects in future and hopes greater participation, especially from the youth group.  IANH raises money for its Public Service activities through donations, contributions made to the United Way, and annual fund raiser.  Please contact publicservice@ianh.org to learn more about our activities and how you can help.