Suvivor’s kit in hand, we made it!
I had landed at the Caravan incredibly early and wasn’t very surprised to find our enthu-cutlets waiting for us to come and set up shop. Although, it was just 3 other girls and me at the time, without any resources there was little we could do. Some of them came up to me and enquired as to how I was. It felt nice when they told me that they had missed me because I hadn’t come for two Saturdays in a row. They were all girls so we actually had a conversation about long, pretty nails and nail polish. I found it rather amusing. Our conversation progressed and I was very happy to find that these kids had dreams of becoming Doctors and Engineers. I was even happier to know that one of them had her parents backing her!
…There were fewer volunteers this time and we didn’t have many resources and we had no idea how we were going to do this. To make things more dramatic our back-up and most powerful weapon (the key to the dance room) wasn’t in our possession! “Oh no! What do we do?”, we fretfully cried. The box of sheets, sketch pens and puzzles was like a survivor’s kit while stranded in a jungle. It’s a bit dramatic, but at the time it felt like that. The puzzles were like rescue -flares. The kids Loved it! It was so nice to see them go Gaga over it and it didn’t require much work from our side except for the occasional supervising.
Our day came to an end with an exciting throw ball match with a rugby ball. It was the Volunteers against the kids! We lost and it was worth it because they felt like they were on top of the world -which is the point of the caravan. So you could say it was a win-win.
— Shravanthi. V