Kolkata: Happiness and Sadness

Kolkata 2014. Last day

Excited and happy that we have now complete 6500 bed kits and 6500 children will now have a good nights sleep along with many other useful items that came along in those bedkits.

Sister Elizabeth, a nun who dedicates herself to the poor people, was a kind and gentle soul.  We met her today and the children she brought from an orphanage. After many of us had the pleasure of having a conversation with her, we decided that some of our extra goodies would be well received with the children from the orphanage so we put together a little goodie bag of extras for them.

It was our pleasure as a team to accompany the last 7 children - one child per SCAW volunteer hand in hand to individually present them with their bedkits along with a special Canadian pencil, shook their parents hands and took a photo or two. A sweet way to end a great day.

In the evening, our Rotarian hosts had a farewell send off dinner. Many of us dressed in traditional clothing, after putting in an emergency call to some of the rotary women , some of us even got dressed ..properly... in a saree. Each SCAW volunteer was presented with a farewell gift that was chosen especially just for them. The SCAW team then gave a short entertainment section for the Rotarians with a song, presentations on famous Canadians  and a game of "who invented what ".

We are happy to have completed, but sad to have said good bye to our new friends, our beloved driver, the Rotarians, the wives of the Rotarian's and Deba ( hiiii deba ) - team joke ...

Safe travels homeward bound.

Kolkata 2014
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