How often have we all seen small kids washing utensils , cleaning tables at some roadside dhabas??? Seen them in one of those orphanages by the street playing with used toys , wearing torn clothes and yet they seem to be happy about themselves. We all crib about the little things we don’t have but they thank their stars for everything they get ranging from a cricket bat to a chacha choudhary or archie comic picked off the streets.....Childhood is the age when u dream and dream without any constraints...what a child becomes in the future depends on how he has lived as a child.
We all had a childhood where we had guardians to fulfil our wishes ....teachers to take care of us the first day we left home ...friends who helped us every time we got stuck on to a problem...and that has resulted in what we have become today...if today we have the knowledge and confidence to fetch any job for ourselves, buy the latest technology we require , live the way we want it is because we have a strong foundation...we have emerged as what we are because of what we got when we were kids...
If we have been so fortunate why not the others ??? Why not the kid of your maid who lives just across your house in those slums ??? Why does the kid in the dhaba have to clean dishes and not read books like you did when you were his age....we dreamt of fairy tales, of the new gizmo toy...they dream about the meal the next day, if they can ever go to school like the others....
This is the thought that led to the inception of ACE.....Formed by a group of friends who believed that education is for all ....ACE aspires “To have a nation where everybody has an equal opportunity to grow and progress.”
At ACE we strive to let the under-privileged have access to basic resources to ensure “equal opportunities” for all. At the start we have started with a drive asking people to donate the basic requirements for education : Books and computers....We try to let them have the world they deserve and not a world where they are bound by constraints of money, resources and knowledge.
Hi can you tell me more abt ACE...how it started..how u guys r working on this...plzz write more abt it.
ReplyDelete@Deepa : Will sure write abt it more....though u can get more info www.aceforindia.org ..
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