Bay Area Youth Meet Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi
Vibha Bay Area Youth volunteers meet and discuss mission and work with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi.
Vibha Bay Area Youth volunteers meet and discuss mission and work with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi.
Every year, about 20 or 30 of us wake up at 5am on a weekend and assemble at the pavilion in Lake Phalen before sunrise. We organize a fantastic race. At the MN action center, we organize quite a lot of fundraising events- be it Bowling, Cricket, cultural shows and the like. And we often enjoy organizing these events. Sometimes I tend to forget the real joy that we are working for- and that is making a difference in the life of an underprivileged child. I chanced upon the following photo slide show at the website of The Hindu, one of India’s leading newspapers in a piece titled, ‘India’s Little Laborers’.
Underprivileged kids….the cause…the challenge…the satisfaction…the friends we made…or just plain old simple conscience? Reasons aplenty, I thought I’ll go down the path of soul searching and put down on paper…
A few years back, I was visiting Bombay on vacation. I was standing in front of the McDonalds waiting for a friend, for without Yahoo maps, I had no choice…