Hello friends, today I am going to share my experience of visiting an orphanage nearby my place. You may or may not have visited it in your life. But for those who never visited it, cannot ascertain about their gruesome lifestyles. This was my first experience of visiting any orphanage and I tell you it was an eye opener. In this blog I would highlight living of an abandoned child who had been left this way to face the cruelty of life at this tender age unfortunately. Most of us would not have ever experienced any of the problems observed by them. Hence cannot ascertain about difficulties faced by them. We have grown up in a cocooned environment by of our parents, where all of our necessities are met with utmost care. Few may have experienced not so good pampering but at least they have support and company of their parents, which these children are devoid of since birth. Let’s delve deep to discuss it more precisely.
Disclaimer: Thoughts presented is my personal opinion and it may vary with your thoughts and opinions. In this blog I have only tried to bring out the lifestyle of most neglected section of our civil society and how a little initiative on personal level can create a big difference to their lives.
Orphanage world:
It’s a solitary confinement, with or without connection to the outer world we live in. I am saying so because they hardly live their life our way. And also their connection to outer world is limited to mere facilities provided by orphanage. For them another orphan is their only companion. In contrast we live our life surrounded by family members, relatives and friends. We have a number of well wishers and care takers. I met a seven year children and asked him about his family and relatives. He stood clueless for a moment, later looked around and was probably telling that this is the only family he has seen so far. How deep and confound this was to all of us. Just for a moment have you ever imagined yourself in such situation? Horrible!!!!! (God forbid)
We are a part of civil society and it is the duty of each one of us to contribute earnestly on personal capabilities, towards downtrodden sections of the society for constructing happier and fair society.
Initiatives could be taken on personal level:
1. Self volunteering: Many a times Orphanage are run and administered by non corporate noble person. They might be doing every bit to administer it in an efficient manner. But there would be few grey areas of the administration which could be operated more professionally. Here we can pitch in and contribute them on modernizing it. This will bring new prospective to the management.
These days a lot of money is being allocated by government for such good initiatives. Corporate world has also generously spending big bucks for their betterment. Most of the funds are spent through NGO’s and it has been recently observed that not all NGO’s are earnestly channelizing funds. In my opinion if we create efficient awareness among all sections of society, such malpractices could be contained to a great level.
2. Mentoring: On a personal level we can devote few hours out of busy schedule to mentor them in a best possible manner. Children out there require mentoring and career guidance apart from shelter and social life. A good initiative in this move might attract others in the fraternity to follow the suit. In my opinions this is minimal effort which everyone could undertake as per their capacities.
3. Financial help: These institutions require funds to carry out their objectives. I think everybody can more or less contribute on their capacity for this noble cause. There may be a few people who might be struggling to meet their ends. But even such folk can contribute by prioritizing it through constraints observed in daily chores.
4. Associating with Corporate & NGO’s: There would be a few other such institutions which we are ignorant about. It’s high time that we reach them. Spread their mission beyond the confinements and try linking it to various NGO’s. This will bring much needed resources to them. It is not something which we cannot do on personal level. We can spread their mission in our organizations and urge our colleagues for generous contributions.
5. Socializing: We can socialize with them to satisfy their community need. They are also human being and aspire to belong to community or groups. We can plan to celebrate one or the other festivals with them. This will greatly address their alienation feeling. And will work great towards integrating them with mainstream society.
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These initiatives may sound very simple but it has potential to make great difference to their lives. It is not pertinent that everybody should, or have to undertake above initiatives. Instead this urge must come from inner self. Hope good sense would prevail to all human being, and together we will alleviate this problem to a great extent.
Stay connected.
Disclaimer: Thoughts presented is my personal opinion and it may vary with your thoughts and opinions. In this blog I have only tried to bring out the lifestyle of most neglected section of our civil society and how a little initiative on personal level can create a big difference to their lives.
Orphanage world:
It’s a solitary confinement, with or without connection to the outer world we live in. I am saying so because they hardly live their life our way. And also their connection to outer world is limited to mere facilities provided by orphanage. For them another orphan is their only companion. In contrast we live our life surrounded by family members, relatives and friends. We have a number of well wishers and care takers. I met a seven year children and asked him about his family and relatives. He stood clueless for a moment, later looked around and was probably telling that this is the only family he has seen so far. How deep and confound this was to all of us. Just for a moment have you ever imagined yourself in such situation? Horrible!!!!! (God forbid)
We are a part of civil society and it is the duty of each one of us to contribute earnestly on personal capabilities, towards downtrodden sections of the society for constructing happier and fair society.
Initiatives could be taken on personal level:
1. Self volunteering: Many a times Orphanage are run and administered by non corporate noble person. They might be doing every bit to administer it in an efficient manner. But there would be few grey areas of the administration which could be operated more professionally. Here we can pitch in and contribute them on modernizing it. This will bring new prospective to the management.
These days a lot of money is being allocated by government for such good initiatives. Corporate world has also generously spending big bucks for their betterment. Most of the funds are spent through NGO’s and it has been recently observed that not all NGO’s are earnestly channelizing funds. In my opinion if we create efficient awareness among all sections of society, such malpractices could be contained to a great level.
2. Mentoring: On a personal level we can devote few hours out of busy schedule to mentor them in a best possible manner. Children out there require mentoring and career guidance apart from shelter and social life. A good initiative in this move might attract others in the fraternity to follow the suit. In my opinions this is minimal effort which everyone could undertake as per their capacities.
3. Financial help: These institutions require funds to carry out their objectives. I think everybody can more or less contribute on their capacity for this noble cause. There may be a few people who might be struggling to meet their ends. But even such folk can contribute by prioritizing it through constraints observed in daily chores.
4. Associating with Corporate & NGO’s: There would be a few other such institutions which we are ignorant about. It’s high time that we reach them. Spread their mission beyond the confinements and try linking it to various NGO’s. This will bring much needed resources to them. It is not something which we cannot do on personal level. We can spread their mission in our organizations and urge our colleagues for generous contributions.
5. Socializing: We can socialize with them to satisfy their community need. They are also human being and aspire to belong to community or groups. We can plan to celebrate one or the other festivals with them. This will greatly address their alienation feeling. And will work great towards integrating them with mainstream society.
s
These initiatives may sound very simple but it has potential to make great difference to their lives. It is not pertinent that everybody should, or have to undertake above initiatives. Instead this urge must come from inner self. Hope good sense would prevail to all human being, and together we will alleviate this problem to a great extent.
Stay connected.
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