Without giving it another thought
I jumped into the world of caring, respecting, loving, sharing and most
importantly serving to the people. The last 10 days of my life have seen me
grown from a relaxed, typical boy with dreams in his mind into a more
independent, aware and mature human being.
In this journey of social world I
see myself ‘fit n fine’ to serve other people. On the occasion of International
Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking celebrated on June 26, 2012,
Nada India Foundation (NIF) left no stone unturned to make it an historic day
with their 10 days programme cum workshops across different parts of Delhi with
the marginalized and under-privileged section of our society living in bastis, camps,
and homeless shelter to aware them about the ill-effects of drugs of different
kinds through the medium of art and with the power of speech.
For the same, I was chosen as
their program coordinator cum volunteer to make sure all the things go on time,
meetings with people etc. Of course, it was at first really difficult to adjust
into such environment. My actual journey started from day 1. In our 10 days
schedule, many drug & alcohol abuse prevention theatrical performance,
health check ups, painting and drawing activities with children and adolescent workshop
with young people and counseling with staff of homeless shelter not only
completed our agenda but also gave us a new approach towards life.
My work required both physical
and mental presence on every day. From arranging the perfect location to make
sure that our message about drug & alcohol abuse reaches as many people as
possible.
In the process, I learned various
new things about the life of social world and people like Suneel Vatsyayan,
chairman of Nada India Foundation (NIF), V Pallavi, Director, Nada India
Foundation and all other people how hard they work, the challenges they face
because it is not a cake walk to bring out the people from the burden of
traditional upbringings.
The most important thing which
required was the process and not the end result because the more people are benefited
from the process, end result will be automatically positive.
The 6 theatrical performances by
‘Deep theatre group’ from Jahangirpuri, who has been working for the past 20
years, raised a very beautiful message through dance, magic show and a small
play. They have magnificently choreographed everything. From the perspective of
Deep group, a network member of Nada India they thoroughly invested their time with no such knowledge of social
world; they successfully raised the issue of ill-effects of drugs in a fun and
interactive way. They themselves took initiatives and held question-answer
round with the community people.
Mean while, I was going through a
big change in myself that learning and mistake goes hand in hand. Also, the
humbleness of Suneel sir and taking it as my learning process let me made
comfortable and goes on with things.
When we say every action has
equal and opposite reaction, it proved right. With the help of the theatrical
performance, a fire got ignited in the soul and heart of people that they
actually came by themselves to us and asked ways to come out of the influence
of drugs.
For this, Suneel sir came as a
savior and gave free counseling to such people of how they can make their life
much better and leaving all kinds of drugs intake. Side by side, health check-up
camps were organized for the marginalized people in the village to give them a
feeling that yes, people are there to help them free of cost. To some patients,
with the problem of fever, stomach pain and headache free medicines were
prescribed to them by Dr. Ajay Vats and Dr.Ved Prakash.
‘Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it’ with this mantra I keep on chanting to
make sure what I am doing doesn’t go unnoticed.
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