Project VR1 ( Spreading joy in million faces)

Have you ever encountered a situation when you have thought of something & the outcome is entirely opposite???  Well some time it happens to us also, if something good happens we generally tell it as blessing in disguise or else we just curse ourselves.......

Well once we were doing a brainstorming, where we were deciding the objective behind  association with V Treat & the work we would like to do here, everybody was suggesting some or other things. I was quite clear to make it a cancer foundation as I am from the pharmaceutical industry & the daily suffering of cancer patients in the hospitals was a good enough reason for me to convince other members. However there was an instant proposal came from Niharica one of our team member who was being associated with an orphanage for last 8 yrs. When she explained her association with the orphanage & the way she was trying to extend a helping hand towards that orphanage made us think in that direction. W thought of maybe it's a blessing in disguise

The idea with which she came to the board was, lets visit them & understand their needs & requirement. So the next weekend we just planned our trip to the orphanage with our fellow members & trust me the experience was amazing!!

We were a group of 8 members who had visited the place near Hayathnagar ( Hyderabad), I had never seen an orphanage before. I was getting a mix response, in one way I was happy because we got a new mission for our foundation, but the other side was quite gloomy. I was just trying to answer a question within myself why this discrimination of nature, what's wrong these kids had done??

Any way there were around 80 Kids in the premises of CSS ( Centre for Social service)  from 2.6 yrs to 20 yrs all were living happily under one roof. You won't feel like they have some pain which they have masked behind their grin. But when you go dip in to their eyes you can realize they want to ask you 1000 questions, but they are not sure whether you are the right person to answer, you will be there to answer all their queries tomorrow also. People used to come for a day or two spend some time with them, give them some objects, go away & never come back. So how they can trust us, how they are going to give us the rightful consideration.

We just interacted with them for few minutes, got their names, class & discovered their difficulties for few of the complex subjects like physics, chemistry, maths etc. Luckily we were blessed with guys like pawan, Nani, Dipti, Anamika, Vijay & Varaprasad who extended their hep & are the subject matter expert. So we took up their help.

What we realised, despite of growing in an adverse situation like improper parenting, they  demonstrate a great degree of learning agility, their grasping power is way ahead than our expectation. The best part was the mentoring of senior students to their fellow junior was quite commendable.

They are very small & unaware of the  adversities that the external world is having, but they seems to be competent enough to overcome the struggle. They have sky full of dreams in their eyes & agility to achieve them.

What they were looking from us was to get a brother, sister, friend who can love them, who can share joy & sorrows with them, who can talk to them irrespective of their high & lows as a friend & philosopher. They  don't expect money from us they need our attention, love & affection.

"Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names, they are easier to ignore before you see their face, but once you do everything changes "  

The above instance is quite true, they were unfamiliar to us till the time we were seeing them for the very first time, the lunch we share with them, the premises we share with them, & the time we shared with them make them very close to our heart. Now we discern our family has expanded, we have Sanghvi, Saipriya, Navyasri ......& many more sisters. Its true, I can't help to fulfil every one's wish but if all of us want then everyone can fulfil someone's wish. Project VR1 is an initiative towards that goal where, with everyone's effort we are going to achieve someone's objective.