Khwaab -Inspire the Dreams

Not many of us had thought that Sunday can bring such a huge change in our lives. When i met Mukul,Aashish,Pradeep,Shipra,Saravana at MG road i had rarely imagined that the next few hours will be so meaningful to all of us. Its not always we get a chance to see the effect of capitalist society whose one side we have been enjoying to the brink. But we got a chance to see it from a very close quarter.
It was through Mukul that I came across www.khwaab.org which is an organization whose main aim is to see that our so called ‘social work’ actually reached the people intended at. Unlike other organization it was not asking for donations and money and other stuff, instead it seeked our active support to make sure the people that need support actually got them.
As a first step we traveled to Saraswati Ashram and Niradhar Balsangopan Orphan Home today to find out the problems faced by the little ones who lived there. While traveling through the bylanes of slums where people are struggling to get their daily wants met, I felt like a blessed human beings. It may be may be philosophical but unless we see the other side of life we rarely appreciate the side which we enjoy.
On reaching Saraswati Ashram we were greeted by smiling little boys and girls whose smiles and curious looks on seeing us was the most warming welcome one can expect. It was a different world. A world far away from the world we live in. A world which had made these little fellows gel into a big family and they have no other family of their own. I guess the proverb “One for all and all for one” stands true to this day. Now sitting back I can barely remember their names, but those smiling faces still hover in my mind.
Our main aim in Saraswati Ashram was to find out how we can help the students studying in the standard IX, X,XI to achieve their goals in life. It wasn’t an easy task to begin with. They had funds and place to study but what I felt they lacked was the zeal and motivation to study and be someone in life. One can’t blame them as they are never given any glimpse of the future that awaits them if they complete their studies well .Then we traveled to meet their private teacher,Mr Ramesh Powar to find out what was exactly going wrong with the kind of education that they were exposed to. It didn’t take us much time to realize that these fellows lacked a vision of a good future and probably they needed good jobs once they go through their education life cycle. If only we can help someone from them to be an established person in life they might get motivated from that success story. We took down our observations and went back from there to the Ashram.
Then we went to Niradhar Balsangopan Orphan Home. It was beside Saraswati Ashram. The two storyed structure was the “Home Sweet Home” for many little children. Unlike Saraswati the age group living here are very young but full of life. Taking to the owner of the Orphanage about the stories of these kids I felt a pang in my heart. Not everyone deserved to be there. But ironically luck has probably played they greatest trick that have made this place home for so many of them, otherwise how you can describe a mother deserting her baby to an orphanage after she is born?? Well I guess the easiest way to run away from reality is to be an escapist. Anyway returning back to the main topic, we talked with the Orphanage owner about the problems faced by them in their day to day activities.
It was the time for us to start back to our lives. The whole evening was spent just finding out what we can do to make a difference to a few lives. I know all six of us have our own views about the evening we spent there but one thing was for sure….all of us were determined to make some difference to the lives of these people. The understanding phase is over now. It’s the time to act. The coming few weeks may prove to be very much activity packed. We need more people to help us out but that’s not going to boggle down our high flying spirit. We are determined to convert our findings of today into reality.
It’s a blog that I am writing after a long time ,but this time it has a purpose. The purpose is more important than the writing. If you read it then join us at www.khwaab.org or be our orkut community member at http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=46200218 .If you are living in Pune then be an active member of www.khwaab.org and lets make few dreams fulfilled.