Daan Utsav

Daan Utsav 2017 took off at AIMIT with the launching of the Daan Utsav-AIMIT plaque and unveiling of Daan Utsav Memory Board by Dr Rowena Wright, Dean and Prof. T Ramesh Kamath.  Mr Rayan D‟Souza, Faculty Coordinator, Daan Utsav, briefed the gathering about the origin and auspiciousness of the festival of giving.  Dr Wright handed over the Daan Utsav– AIMIT Plaque to Daan Utsav Student Coordinators, Ms Deepika and Mr Reynal, and invited the student community to do acts of giving in the process of becoming men and women for others.
To support the various acts of giving, the students of AIMIT organized various fund raising and promotional events to which they received a phenomenal response .

As part of DAANUTSAV, students conducted various events. Wish Tree  was planted  bearing 55 wishes sent to us from Roshini Social Center, Hangal by the Nuns serving. Toy Drive , aiming at collecting toys for children;  Co-workers’ Day  to felicitate the support staff of AIMIT was held on 5th Oct.; through Share-a-thon: students  shared our lunch with the less privileged on the streets of Mangaluru. Volunteers went around Mangaluru in smaller groups and distributed 100 food packets with juice to beggars, street dwellers and destitute at Railway station, Milagres bus stand, State bank, Central market, near Town hall and KSRTC bus stand.
Through Spreading Smile students visited  St Joseph – Prashanth Nivas Orphanage at Jeppu , spent an afternoon sharing smiles with the 36 small children (mostly girls). While the action songs, games and anthakshari kept the smiles glowing on the tiny faces