27.6.2010 - School Distribution & Orphanage Home Visit

27th June 2010, marked our 6th activity, where we went to the western ends of Mumbai, near Borivali to visit a school and distribute a kit which would be helpful to the students in school. We helped them with the basic necessities like pencil, eraser, sharpners, rulers. Also we gave them drawing books, crayons. We then served them with some eatables. 

The teachers there helped us in lining up the kids in ques and they sat there patiently whilst we distributed it all to them. Their innocent eyes looked upto us in delight and with a sweet smile on their faces & with their soft subtle voices, some of them said "THANK U Didi and THANK U Bhaiya"

They seemed over-whelmed with small but numerous things given to them, and tried to grab it all in their tiny little hands. By the time we were done, some of them quickly ran to their rooms, kept all their stuff, and returned to play with us and then pose with us for pictures. The kids were joyful, playful & contented with smiling glows reflecting off their faces.

We then headed to an orphanage home which was another 15 minutes drive from the school. This orphanage shelter was home to new borns and toddlers. It was run by nuns who stayed there and gave their undivided attention to these young ones. When we spoke to the sisters, they told us how they found most of these kids in dust-bins OR left alone by the road-side, by parents who couldn't handle children or by young mothers who couldn't abort on time and couldn't give the child an official identity in the society.

The plight of mistakes commited by others, was now theirs. These kids would now grow up as orphans. But this organisation took very good of the children and as they grew, loved them like their own children, gave they timely food, kept them hygienic and as they grew, trained them for skills that could earn them a living.

While the sister educated us on how these children were brought here, some of us started distributing sweets among the children while some of us went into their playing area and started playing with them. The kids were over-whelmed, playful and enjoyed with us thoroughly. We even shook a leg with the kids over music that the sister played for us and some of them sung out poetries to us.

We enjoyed being with such loving children, but left there with a pitiful thought for those parents who abandoned such gifted blessings on earth.