It was a childhood dream for me to do something for the society and it came true when I, with one of my friend undertook the task of educating the destitute and orphaned children at Kanpur central railway station.
We started our classes at VIP platform after obtaining the permission from the S.I. of the RPF.There were about 25 children each having their own story. We had provided these children with books, clothes, movie and games. We also conducted their yoga classes. On the whole we wanted all of them to live a dignified life but whenever they listen to the horn of a train they'd run to sell cigarettes, gutkha, water bottles and other such stuffs. After selling those items, they soon returned to continue with their studies.
We found these boys under some influence of drugs or other addicting substances like whitener. When I asked them to give up, they told us that they don’t have anything to eat, wear and dwell. So they are forced to use them so they could live their life.
What we found was, that their condition is not economically as bad as we had thought. Their income varies from Rs 70 to Rs 350 per day. But they don’t know how to spend it on themselves. They spend major part of their income in alcohol, whitener and other type of addictions and rest is taken by police and their contractor.
After my experience, I can say that once you start any task, how hard it may seem to be, sooner of later people do support you sooner or later. As in my case I found Saathi, and other NGOs not to forget the CWC (Child Welfare Center), which started working actively after my initiation.
By this article, I request you all to come forward and work for the development of the society as we owe a lot to our motherland.
[Contributed by : Sanjeev Pandey,CS,2nd Year]
1 comments:
kudos........to your spirit........
I am really thrilled to know that somebody from my own college has taken such initiative,which everyone of us thinks at one point or the other in our lives...........
Keep the spirits always high...........
God Bless.
Swati Sati
IT-Final yr
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