we ride ..we ride

Yes.. in June the program completed one year!! nd the first thing that come to the mind is dat "we are still here". Its a wonder a nonsense, unorganised program reaches its one year nd most beautiful thing is dat every sunday- to be frank enough, we missed out one sunday- we were there in the slum with the children nd we really see it as a wonder!! money for the program was always there!! nd in all sundays one or the other was there to share the breakfast!! in a very objective way we can perseive it as the potential of the system. Ya, the B'lore city or the people/professional living here have the potential to support the poor,marginalised children nd it is expressed through our program.

For me,personaly this is an intiative which taught me the importance of starting something and continuing it over a period of time. It gives a kind of confidence nd a say in the process. As often we say - picture can not b drown with out a wall - Yes there is wall, there is a base which survived a small period of time nd i am part of it !!

There were a lot of things that was happening after my last posting. nd strangely most of the happenings did nt produce any result. The first thing was that I quit my job with an objective of spending some quality time for the preschool project. Second, a social worker trainee ( Manju) joined with the project for two months for the school project. Third, a staff from Chaithanya started weekely visits to the slum for preschool project. All this three efforts did nt bring in tangible results. The school project is still in its initial stage. Some good things happend in this days are 1. Nicloe -our US student - still think abt the project nd support it from US. 2. A number of professionals joined with the sunday program and shows a lot of commitment- let me name three of them Binson,Kiran and Rajeesh- 3.A new community of sisiters from the near by area have taken up interest in supprting the project 4.Sujit and his family has taken up the responsibilty of preparing breakfast every sunday. The program also offer little fun nd strange experiences. We got a Gypsy Jeep for the program. But the enthusiasm didnt last long as most of the time we were reparing and pushing it rather than driving it!! yes after all, when we turn back there is only one thing to say thank you Jesus " still we ride ..we ride"