Hai All Today morning while coming to office I observed the school children going.Its 8:45 Am and all students are on the road still. Its a very big school, I mean three storied building and with nice school uniform and daily prayer itself they use some mike and speakers. So I thought some lower middle class students come to this and so obviously 90 to 95 % will have shoes or at the least some kind of foot wear.
But to my surprise, 40 to 50% are coming to school bear foot . They do have the school uniform, good bag for books and a small carrier and water bottle but no slippers. Though daily I see them I never observed their feet. If this big school has 50% then if I go into the slum around 90% will be bear foot I guess. So I too decided to do SDP here in tharamani, Chennai area. If the grp is doing in Hyd fine. Else I will do it on behalf of the grp here Or I will take help from some of my colleagues and will try to form a grp in our company. I know its not easy as I hesitate a lot to goto people to ask for any help. But I will try. This way i can even introduce the grp to some people in our office. I already spoke to my room mate regarding this who is working for Jasmine Infotech here, and they regularly do some thing of this sort. Every month when they get salary they collect some funds and goto some home and distribute some things there. So I suggested him this(SDP) next month. If they are ready I will join them. Lets see how and where all prasad gaari sankalpam makes a difference to this society. :)) Once I started thinking abt this, then I started to feel the difficulties involved. Simply replying to a mail is easy but when I started thinking on these lines then I felt like which type of slippers?? where to buy here in chennai?? How will I bring them back? I dont even have a bike here and I dont know any shops here. and the same old qns!!! which sizes how many??? etc etc..... Same for girls and boys?? I saw many of those other 50 to 60% wearing those strong Bata sandal variants. I guess they will be strong yet soft. Bata ones mite be expensive( 99 to 129 per pair) But if the same ones we take from some other local wala, we can get them for 30 to 40 I guess( may be less or may be more I am not sure) Let me write some more things after I do some survey regarding all these. ArunK Note: I tried to highlight the gist of the mail But some how I cudnt do it. Next time onwards i will try to do that
