Distribution 6 -- Day 6
Hello folks at home and at 28 Pinehurst in Toronto.
So far we have distributed 4,000 bedkits with today's distribution to Chandra's Garden and village. It was a four-hour journey to and from, but well worth it!
Along the way we passed by Ramkrishna Mission, solar energy education centre, a landfill site which eventually will be used to fertilize the land for vegetables.
Chandra's Garden is a beautiful site with flowers and garden -- an oasis. Children and their parents were so happy to receive the bedkits at this beautiful location. Rotarians and their wives were pleased to know that children and grandchildren from Canada donated money from their piggy banks to purchase these gifts for the children of India.
Kolkata is a very populated city of ten million people (and six Canadian SCAW volunteers!) and full of people with manual rickshaws, cars, trucks, and taxis with loud horn sounds in the traffic.
It is a unique experience for me to see Kolkata city after thirty-five years of living in Canada.
We also saw the homes of many world-renowned dignataries like Vivekanand, Ramkrisha, and Tagore ... to whom I salute with high respect.
Regards
Suman Patal,
on behalf of Team Kolkata 2012
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