Our First Trip To 'TARA'

resident NGO in Jamia Milia Islamia

Dear Friends , Our first visit to TARA at Jamia was more than satisfying and refreshing after a tiring day of college .All of us were novice about the project but we were more than keen about it . After a series of wrong twists and turns we finally reached our destination , thanks Mohtashim :)) .. We met the project volunteers and discussion started with a smacky cup of tea .. yeah in between came some unique suggestions for alias names of ' Chirag '.. In the meanwhile we came to know that all of the children were busy watching movie 'IQBAL" on the laptop. Quiet enthusiastic they were for -'Cricket' , I realized very soon ,no surprises "cricket binds every one in our country".

We were surprisingly pleased to see silence in the make shift mini theatre of TARA .Rampal giving commentaries and reviews in between , with each one of them totally engrossed in the movie , it looked picture perfect theatre for children. We went inside at the intermission and started having brief conversation with the children. They seemed pleased and were elated to see us around , quiet a few of them soon realized that it was a good opportunity to have a joy ride on our shoulders for a while :)) They seemed enthusiastic and so were us , we wanted to see their inner soul and feelings - yeah I was dead right , "It was brimming with confidence and was full of joy with no fear whatsoever".

After an interactive session and plenty of joyrides on each of ours shoulders , It was time for children's favourite activity "Photo Session". Air was filled with excitement with all of us gearing up for a photo shoot .

OOps .. time to bid farewell ...

After so much of fun , we departed on a happy note with air filled with the echo of Bye Bye .. It was such a refreshing experience . I am sure next time around many more of us will be there to feel this different aspect of our life..

Yours truly

Shashwat