After an evening spent on the road we
started out on a beautiful morning for a small town in the agricultural
heartland of West Bengal. Here most of the farmers devote their time to
producing coconut, date palms, rice, mustard seeds and potatoes. We
were warmly greeted by our hosts and proceeded quickly to start our busy
day of distributing bedkits. The need of the children in this region
was immediately apparent to us. We had a great day distributing 550 bed
kits equally to both boys and girls, from tiny to tall and from shy to
outgoing. We certainly were the first foreigners that many of these
children had ever seen. One young man approached us with a huge smile
on his face, looking to engage in a conversation. He explained that it
was his life dream to converse in English with a foreigner. He went
away as happy as one of the children receiving the bedkits. As we left
for our 4 hour drive back into the city and were miles past the
distribution site, we continued to see bedkits joyfully carried on foot,
bikes, carts and heads! These bedkits were on the way to their new
homes!
Team Kolkata 2014
