My first day of teaching in Akhankara started on the 3rd of September, marking another special experience in my life with Rotaract. It was a splash of curiosity and excitement for me; what type of a new experience it would be, and how I was going to commit to that day. The previous night was […]
Community Service
Little Wings
“You can’t force people to care about the natural environment, but if you encourage them to connect with it, they just might.” — Jennifer Nini When Vandana Shiva said “in nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life” when Laurence Overmire said “we are the last generation with a real opportunity to save […]
Akhankara 2021 makes its first physical appearance
The drizzling Saturday of the 6th of November 2021 marked the 1st physical day of Akhankara, for the 18th consecutive year. Purely out of excitement and from the echo of the pitter-patter outside, I woke up even before the alarm I set last night, after a long group call of planning for the big day, […]
WeGuide – Akhankara Phase II – 20/21
The severity of Covid 19 snatched away the treadwheel of the country’s key proceeding factors including the education system. Due to the island-wide lockdown last year, posed a detrimental impact as the schools had to be shut barring the students’ right to be educated. However, the education system changed dramatically with the rise of online […]
Sevana 2021
“A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple as reassuring putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders” -Batman I recall a memory from November, two years back; a memory that still melts my heart. A memory of us taking the amazingly willed children of the Sevana Special School and Child […]