On a bright sunny morning of 26th January, 8 MFGites started from campus towards Madhurmayee Ashram, a home for 55 destitute kids, consisting majorly kids of prisoners.
With a single minded goal of educating the kids about health and hygiene, we marched forward, beating the overwhelming Saturday laziness that afflicts all of us.
Despite some logistics barriers, we retained our energetic spirit. The Projector was too big to fit into our cab, so instead we came up with the novel plan of taking a white bed sheet instead into which we projected the image. We reached the ashram at around 10 in the morning. After getting a warm welcome from the kids, we started our work. Tied the white bed sheet from a window, and connected the laptop to the LCD projector. The excitement of the kids was palpable.
We showed a ppt on health and hygiene, followed by some very interesting educational videos on the same topic, which also included a National award winning short animation video on sanitation. We also gave a First-aid kit to them. This was followed by snacks distribution. After the session, we moved to see the new upcoming shelter for the kids, being constructed near Jharpada Jail. It has the capacity to house around 200 kids and is almost 90% complete. The kids would be moving there in March.
The whole experience was extremely heartening and this was by far one of the best Republic Days we all ever had.
I Would like to thank my team of good Samaritans from MFG Reach and MFG Akanksha, who came forward with brilliant ideas and executed this initiative with such finesse. Saswat, Roshni, Saurav, Ritwik, Rakesh, Sweta & Amrita. You all are wonderful people, and I really appreciate this special effort of going that extra mile, and doing your bit towards the society. God bless!
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