After the volunteers have left - a young person from Kalkaji writes..
Posted: 01/11/2007
Parimal lives in Kalkaji, a sprawling slum in south-east Delhi with 20,000 residents. He is a member of the Bal Mandal (children's group) there, and was involved in lots of activities organised by the students and teachers of Methodist College, Belfast, when they visited last October.
Below, he writes about the team's time at Kalkaji.
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"This October we welcomed Christine and her team from Northern Ireland to Kalkaji Asha Resource Centre. They did many things here like:
Painting - They painted the walls of our centre. All the paintings are very beautiful and it was our best Diwali present and also a present for Christmas.
Craft - They did craft work with us. We made butterflies, flowers and masks. They were all beautiful.
Play Games - We taught them how to play carom. They learned very quickly. One time they beat us. They also painted their faces and ours with pictures.
Practiced English - They spoke English to us so that we could practice our English that we learned from Rob sir and Laura madam. They were very happy that we could talk to them in English and we were also happy to have a chance to speak English.
Inauguration Celebration - Before they left Resource Centre we had an Inauguration Celebration. At the beginning they were very happy. They were dancing with us and had lots of fun but by the end they were crying and so were all the children. Dr. Kiran Martin also cried to leave them.
They are amazing and had lots of fun. People (who were parsent there) also had lots of fun with them.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEM."
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- PARIMAL MANDAL
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