Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Chennai: Mission Accomplished on The Andaman Islands!

Every other year SCAW does a distribution on one of the Andaman Islands. This year 6 of the terrific team of ten, travelled overnight for 8 hours on a ferry to Hut Bay on Little Andaman - the southern most island in the Archipelago. There are over 500 islands here of which only 37 are inhabited

After freshening up we made our way to the first site where we were greeted by 277 children playing in the field. A few hours later we went to the second site where the parents of the 223 children waited patiently - women under a colourful canopy and men standing the sun. Many of these children were tribal children from the Nicobar tribes and we noticed some obvious differences. The girls wore their hair short and they all were much more cautious to give us a smile. However once they received their bedkits they were all smiles.

This was the very first time that SCAW has been to Hut Bay. The schools, under the leadership of 2 special ladies provided a very well organized and what appeared to be a very happy environment!

We were thrilled to end our journey here on this little island completing our task of handing out 7000 bedkits to the children in India.

Theresa Carravetta — Team Leader
Team Chennai 2019
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