Friday 29 March 2013

Holi



How lucky was I, to celebrate Holi for the first time in my life, twice! Two days ago I celebrated Holi with my friends, and after visiting the project yesterday, we decided that it would be good to celebrate Holi with the children also.



All of the senior boys plus Rumi and 
Deepika came for a class with volunteer Puneeta at Parichay, and after we had great fun playing Holi on the roof. Given my previous experience, I applied plenty of coconut oil before playing to avoid any further staining to my skin!








Thursday 28 March 2013

Surprise!

I am back in Delhi! There was much more I wanted to see in India so I decided to come back on a long trip and spend more time in Parichay also. Apart from Vijay, no one in the project was aware of my plan to come, so I decided to film the reaction of the senior children.

The shock of my arrival brought Moni to tears, and the children were very much pleased to see me. In addition to purchasing some stationary items in London for the project and some sweets for the children, 2/3 of my luggage was taken up in donated items only. Since the senior children had come to the project especially for this surprise, I will meet the younger children later next week for them to see these items.


The senior children enjoyed the sweets and browsed over the piles of books and Raju was particularly pleased with the t-shirts my Mother had sent for him.