Monthly Archives: July 2009

Orientation Program – July 18

This meeting was held in order to brief our volunteers and resource partners on our work, and to share our thoughts and experiences on our ongoing programs. Those invited were intended to be a core group of the foundation, who would spread the word of our activities and bring more volunteers and sponsors to sustain our programs.

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Enthusiasm

It was one of those days that seemed to be extremely busy at the ward…and extremely dull for us. Very few kids were ready for our program when we arrived. Manjari and I went about talking to the staff, parents and children, trying to gather them for some activities and lessons. We did manage to gather about twenty children, many of whom were newly admitted.

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Aspiration

14 year old Deepa (name changed) has just started the tenth grade. I asked her if she had her textbooks and schoolwork with her, and she told me that, since she had been diagnosed and moved to the hospital, she was not going to school.

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