I know its been long since I last wrote on my blog. I have been busy at work and in life otherwise…. (not sure how many people read this blog anyway.. lol)
This one is a real sad one so if you are not interesting in something like that, you can quit reading here…..
After many days I went to meet the kids at Pratham.. the smile on their face was soo real (compared to the fake smiles we see around many times now days) …. We (me and Swapy) had taken cake for them for some small celebration.. Exam season is on for the kids.. We started by enquiring about their exams and other details.. .. we lined them up for the cake..it is so funny sometimes.. those kids are much more disciplined than we adults… within 15 secs they lined up systematically by height (no noise, no hussle bussle) .. none of them pounced on the cake to try n get extra share (this is a common site among guys celebrating bdays in hostels)
After one round of cake we were left with some extra pieces . We decided to quiz the kids and reward the ones who answer correctly … it was so much fun and we had a gr8 time … this 1 hour spent with the kids is so refreshing…
Now you must be thinking where does recession come in to picture.. the end of our meet wasn’t good.. …it was really bad actually.. the Caretaker at Pratham told us that they are planning to send some of the kids back home and only keep 20 kids (currently there are 45 kids at the centre). This is because some company which sponsors this centre has decided to withdraw / reduce the Financial Aid. Companies reducing their Corporate Social Responsibility expense because of recession or low demand in the market… we were saddened .. why do these kids (the future of this country) have to suffer because of mistakes made by us… it is so unfair …
Anyways… we don’t want to sit on the problem and we are going to look for other funding options.. Will set up a website and request people to donate to Pratham directly so that those kids don’t have to go back home. They get all the education n support to take our country forward.
I would request all the readers of my blog of any solutions or ways in which these kids can be helped? Any thoughts. Also I would need your help in promoting the website which we will put up with details n videos of the kids.
Its surprising what people can achieve when they work together.. so I m confident we will be able to help them.. hopefully before things fall apart.
Keep Smiling and make others smile
