Monday, November 9, 2009

My Trip to Orphanage Homes.

It was Sunday Morning 9.30 AM, weather was bit cool. Our Associates were waiting in between the 5A & 5B buildings of Bank of America for the other Associates who were yet to join; Finally everyone were in and the trip started with lot of warm, enthusiastic feeling that we are going to meet some special people.

We started & reached Chavadi, “Poor students hostel”. On the way, we purchased rice bags for the students. As soon we reached the place, we received a warm welcome from all the 34 students. Each student introduced himself. We found some of them wanted to be in Army, Police, Scientist and what not. Each one of them wanted to be in different fields with great sort of feeling that they want to succeed in their life. Of course we find 3 of them want to be IT too J. Mean while we realized that there is a kitten in the Hostel which was eager to introduce itself. J

Now it’s fun time for all of us , children shaped themselves into a circle & associates joined them in between; All the associates became kids & played so many games like “Watermelon, Watermelon ... All are fruits… “. Some more games like dancing with numbers 1,2 ,3, 4, … etc… Then we realized that it was time to visit other place. Then the children greeted us with different ways of telling “BYE “. With all their warm wishes we started to other special place called “Anurag society for specially able children & Old age home“.

The Name was very appropriate since it was a place of Love and Affection.
The place was filled with warm greetings of the Old people & specially challenged people. Every one of us were so surprised to see their maintenance of the place and also their hidden talent in drawing, singing, dancing etc.

Even though we gave little furniture to the school, they treated us as a special guests & celebrated our visit with a small function such as “Ribbon cutting” to the furniture & distributing the chocolates & biscuits. They did this function so formally that they gave the scissors which is placed in a plate which is filled with full of rose petals.

Then the fun started with showing the hidden talent of the children. Some of them sang songs. All of them danced along with us. We were all so surprised about the children and their spirit. They danced continuously for 6 songs or more. In fact we learnt so many new dancing steps from the children.
Finally, with so much of fun filled, amazing experience we left the place. Thanks to one & all the associates who initiated this program & made it a grand success. Hope we will continue to experience such experiences in future too !!!

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