Deepavali celebrations

Our family celebrated deepavali with new dresses, sweets and crackers. Till last year Abhi was scared of crackers. But this time he wanted to light sparklers and crackers. He enjoyed deepavali.

In addition to our normal celebrations, I wanted to do something more. I-volunteer,chennai members decided to visit the juvenile home at royapuram. Though it was bit far away from my residence, my family also decided to join me. We took lot of clothes,toys, shampoo sachets and sweets.

We could see the happiness in the children to see visitors bringing them sweets etc.

Volunteering

When I was in my school-college days, I wanted to do some kind of social service. But I neither had the courage to do nor the circumstances allowed me.

Once I started to work, I used to contribute financially to some poor homes. And for the past few years have been contributing to Udavum Karangal. But deep within me I wanted to help in some other way also. Due to family restrictions I was never able to do so.
But now an opportunity is has come….

I must thank my indirect friend who introduced me to i-volunteer. Few months back i-volunteer Chennai group was formed. When going through the messages, I saw about volunteer need for “Maithri” towards helping visually challenged students. The work can be done at our home, in our leisure time. So immediately I got the alert and decided to give it a GO..! And hopefully, I will be able to take up more in future.

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