Community Service-Indira Ganhdi School

One of our team member's wife owns a restaurant and his family catered lunch for 250 people! Normally these kids have a very basic meal of rice and beans and today they had all they can eat curry chicken, yogurt with cucumbers, curry lamb, Paneer with spinach, two kids of dal, chappati and Roti. Also they had an unlimited supply of these really sweet ball which the little ones loved. They just ate and ate!! We joined them and it was really satisfying to see them enjoy the food so much! Emily who normally is very picky had some chapati and roti and dipped a bit into my curry chicken.

These kids are so polite and behaved so well. I only wish that they can get a decent education and one day return home to their families. I encourage all of them to learn English as I believe they can get better jobs if they can speak Tamil and English.

This school is also in diring need of English teachers. Two of the people who came with us (Arjun and Kusong) have decided to volunteer a few days a week to teach them English. All in all, it was a really good day and my involvement with this school (like with Ashwini and the Parikrma School) will be on-going as I'm supporting Lakshmi Gopinath who is Gopi's wife and she's completely drawn to helping these kids. I feel the little contribution I make can be put to good use because I trust that Lakshmi will make maximum use of whatever I raise for this school.

I'm also so pleased that Emily has been involved with me with each of these charities. I want Emily to grow up knowing that we have a responsibility to help those in need and a little bit of our efforts can go a long way.