Belgaum: Yellapur

Four happy children and their parents wait patiently for their ride home (30-40 km) after the children have received their bed kits and have been fed at the Brahmakumaris Centre for Spiritual Learning (our distribution site in Yellapur).

300 bedkits distributed today with another 300 to go tomorrow to reach 4,500.

From Belgaum 2012

After travelling 60 km from Hubli to Yellapur, we were greeted with such emotional sights and sounds. As we turned into the gates of the courtyard of the Spiritual Mediation Centre we were facing our SCAW team photos on huge welcome banners. Then the young Boy Scout band of cymbals, bugles, trumpets and drums played for us. We were escorted up a long palm tree lined driveway filled with parents and dignitaries until we arrived at the great hall to receive a blessing and lotus flowers. Amazing! We could also see the many anxious children hidden amongst the trees to keep cool.

With the temperatures in the mid-30s, we distributed bedkits to 300 very thankful boys and girls. On our way back to Hubli from a long day in the sun, we saw some of the children in the village streets who had received bedkits and they were wearing their new floral patterned dresses.

From Belgaum 2012

We also passed a truck on the highway that had bedkits strapped to the top of it and parents hanging on to the sides of the vehicle as it carried them back to their distant village. Despite having had to travel many miles to get the bedkits, the children and their families will have a good sleep tonight.

Marg Goodchild,
for The 2012 Belgaum Team

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