Friday 6 February 2009

Chennai: 651 bedkits at T. Nagar

From Chennai Photo Album 2009
We travelled to T. Nagar to an all-girls private school to distribute 651 bedkits to children who came from 40 different locations close to Chennai.

Most of these children came from parents who themselves are uneducated (i.e., no schooling at all!) and 271 of the children were coastal children who would have suffered the effects of the tsunami.

And as possibly everywhere in the world, kids are kids. Some getting their photos taken smiled, some giggled, some cried, some engaged us with their knowledge of English, some were stoic and some were really interested in eyeing that bedkit, knowing it would be theirs before day's end.

All in all, a great day, despite the 34 degree temperature.

Kristein Johnson
for Team Chennai 2009


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