Lake shoreline · every Sunday · Bhopal
Every Sunday for the past two years, a squad has worked one stretch of the Motia Talaab shoreline: litter out, weed cut back, the drain mouths netted, the sacks weighed and logged. This page prices that keeping openly — gloves, sacks, a paid safai saathi's morning — and asks how you will join it.
The shift log — date, stretch, hands, kilos — is public at every shift and totals only month by month. We do not claim the lake is saved; we claim Sunday happened, and show the log.
For Residents who walk the shoreline and want it clean next year too · People who can give a Sunday morning a month · Companies whose CSR wants maintenance, not one photographed event
These four are promises this page makes on your behalf. Keep them or change them — they are not decoration.
Ways to give or join
Every figure is what the thing costs this trust at Bhopal market rates — gloves and sacks by the bundle, a safai saathi's honest morning wage, a sharpened sickle's regrind. A shoreline is kept by small sums repeating, which is why most of these cards are monthly and none of them is dramatic.
One-time
Gloves and sacks for a twelve-hand squad, the sickle regrinds, tea after, and a paid safai saathi's morning wage — one Sunday, fully carried.
Monthly
Three netted drain mouths stop most of what the lane sends the lake. Nets tear monthly; clearing them is the least loved job on the rota and the most useful.
Monthly
Volunteers come and go; the shoreline needs one pair of hands it can count on between Sundays. A fair morning wage, paid monthly, stated openly.
Volunteer
Seven to ten, one stretch, tools provided. You will smell of lake and feel disproportionately good about it.
In kind
Rakes, sickles, wheelbarrow tyres, tarpaulin, a weighing scale that survives rain. Things, not money — brought to a Sunday shift and entered in the tool register.
Pick the way you want to help and it lands in the form below. Picking another replaces it — this page records one intention at a time, not a basket. NO MONEY MOVES ON THIS PAGE: nothing is charged, deducted or collected here, and how giving actually happens is written under the form.
On the ground
No before-and-after theatre and no drone glamour. These frames are placeholders for your own shifts — hands working, sacks filling, the scale and the log doing their quiet arithmetic.
How giving actually happens
Paste the trust's bank account name, number and IFSC here, and the UPI ID if you use one — exactly as the bank has them. State plainly that nobody collects cash at the shoreline in the trust's name.
Words you have permission to print
A resident, a Sunday regular or the safai saathi, in their own words, with their name — collected with written permission.
Your honest record
Last quarter's shift log summary — shifts held, hands, kilos out, money in and what it bought — dated. The audited annual figures go here exactly as the auditor wrote them.
The frames above are placeholder photographs of the kind of work this page is about — not this organisation's own record, and never a person whose face buys sympathy. The slots below are deliberately blank: this is a template, and an invented beneficiary count, an invented donor or an invented 80G number would be a lie on a page asking people to give — and inventing the tax registration is an offence. Fill each slot with something real and checkable, then delete this line.
How it works
Three steps, and money moves only to the trust's account, only against a receipt.
The form records what you picked and how to reach you. Nothing is charged here — the page has no way to take money, on purpose.
Within the week, with the account details and receipt mechanics, or your Sunday assignment and the stretch map if you pledged mornings.
The shift log is open at every Sunday tea. Walk the stretch that was worked last week; a kept shoreline is its own quarterly report.
Before you give
Much of it, yes, and the trust says so in writing to the corporation — copies of that correspondence are at every shift. We keep the shoreline while the letters travel, because the lake cannot wait for the reply, and a logged year of Sundays makes a better letter anyway.
Because volunteers are weather. The weekday drain mouths, the stretch between Sundays, the monsoon weeks when enthusiasm stays home — that work needs a paid, fairly-waged pair of hands, and pretending otherwise is how citizen drives die by year two.
We will not answer that with an adjective. The log says what came out of the water, stretch by stretch, kilo by kilo, and the drain nets say what never went in. Read it at any shift, then walk the shoreline and judge with your own feet.
Only if the trust's 80G registration is current — the cell at the top of this page is where the number itself goes, checkable on the income-tax portal. An empty cell means ask the office before assuming a deduction.
Your company can fund the rota — saathi months, net months, shift kits — and its people are welcome on ordinary Sundays as hands among hands. What we do not host is a one-day branded cleanup that leaves with the cameras; the lake has seen enough of those.
The one thing this page asks
One form, one intention. The trust replies within the week — nothing is charged or collected here.
You want to help with
Nothing yet — pick a way to give above, or say it in the form.
Two required fields, because joining a Sunday rota needs only a name and a way to reply; the Sunday picker is optional because half the pledges here are money, not mornings. Deliberately absent: any amount field (the cards carry the costs), any PAN (that belongs with the 80G receipt at donation time), and any payment field at all — this page records intentions and takes nothing, which is the whole design.
Your details go to the trust for this one reply and the rota if you volunteered. Never sold, never passed to event promoters, no appeal calls.