CINI Asha

Hi!!Long time!! Well, well, I've been busy. Yeah, you got me right. I. Have been busy. Random things: Learning lawn tennis, X-uberence (the one act play), inter-house debate, Lotus Buds editing, attending parties, and studying. That apart, sketching, painting, listening to music, dancing, talking to people and so on...

Recently, I visited an NGO (which I will be going to every week), called CINI Asha. The Child In Need Institute is called a halfway-house; it houses underprivileged children for and prepares them admission in good schools. These are kids they've picked up from roadsides, railway stations, children of sex workers - who, if left in that environment, would take away from society, rather than contributing to it. CINI is also a part of the TOI initiated Teach India project.

These kids need love. I spent about thirty minutes with them, and in that they showed me prepared group dances, and they sang, and they asked me to join them (which I did!) , and before I left, they all wanted to shake hands with me, and asked me to come again: "Aaj to baat hi nahi hua, Didi..."

Am I going again?

Can't wait!

Please try and do something for these kids. All children deserve love, care, protection, education. At least food? Do anything. Do something. I mean, I may be sounding all artificially concerned, with this kind of persuasion, but I mean it as truly as when I say 'I want love, care, protection, and education'.

If I could support one social cause, it would be the environment. If I could support two, I would just want to ensure that every single child gets what every single child needs. If I can afford it, I want to give them not only things that they need, but also what they want! Why not? If we can spend thousands of bucks on dinners and dresses and parties, I suppose we can spare 5 bucks to buy muri, or an ice cream for that little urchin who looks at you with craving eyes as you have your Cornetto. Can you do it? If you say no, all I have to say, is, GET A LIFE.

It's not me, being so blunt, so try and think how strongly I feel about it. Go ahead, and do these little things - please...

Cheers to the love you and I spread around us! :)