By Venkat Ramakrishnan | Project Leader
Cuddalore School students wanted to visit the blind School
to reach out to the disabled kids. On meeting them, Isha Vidhya
students found them to have similar dreams and aspirations, they
liked similar things but their blindness is a challenge to be overcome.
This meeting brought awareness about how fortunate they, the Isha
Vidhya students are, to have their eye-sight. But, they found that the
blind kids displayed equal amount of talent and determination to
achieve their goals.
Our students learnt not to pity them when they saw that they were
no less than them. The change in attitude was important to build
respect towards the blind children, for their displayed ability to
overcome their challenges.
Our students promised that they would visit the blind school
regularly and keep in touch with those students!
Lavanya, a student of Cuddalore school who visited the
blind school shares:
"We went to visit the blind school students. We had taken fruits
and sweets for the children. Tears welled up in my eyes when I
saw those children. But to my surprise those children were not
feeling constantly sad about their disability but were a bundle
of joy and happiness. When we gave them fruits and sweets,
their joy in their faces could not be described in words. They
held our hands and thanked us. They entertained us with songs
and dance and we also joined with them. When we were about
to leave they became sad and asked us to come back again.
With a heavy heart I left the place but firmly decided to visit them
whenever time permits. I thank my school for giving me such
an wonderful opportunity."
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