All the things were set and we got ready to start our 2nd book distribution drive of the year in Tumkur which is 90 KM from Bangalore. We started at 7AM on 3 bikes and a car with all the books and stationery and reached tumkur by 9AM. It was a splendid drive for all of us and we were enough lucky that it didn’t rain on that day.
They were two govt primary schools which were located in Mysore Army Reserve police academy in Tumkur. The strength of both the schools together is around 130 kids.We interacted with the kids as most of them understood Telugu and conducted the drawing competition. They have come up with some amazing drawing in no time and now its turn to be the panel and decide the first and second prizes. It was a tough call for us to decide the winners as most of them deserve a prize
In the mean time some of us started distributing books and this time we gave them all the stationery they need including the graph books and geometry sets for the higher classes. Finally the list of winners for drawing was decided and we gave them prizes. After that we played some time with the kids and some of us had lunch with them in the afternoon meal program.
The second school which we covered in this phase is an Urdu medium school. It was a nice interaction with them in the classroom, knowing their names and all of them even remembered our names as well. Pradeep, a native of tumkur helped us by guiding us about the routes, restaurants and places to visit in and around Tumkur.
We took a group photo with all the kids and finally said bye to them .It was a heartfelt moment for all the volunteers , with the Kids standing and waving there hands in good bye. All the volunteers were satisfied and all of us went to our school days for some time.
On our way back, we visited DD hills, Namara chilume and some other ancient temples which are 1000 years old. It was a nice road leading us through all the small villages on the way filled with greenery.
Special thanks to Sashank and his group Drishitkon for making all these events a great success. Ravi, sunil, swaroop, samrat, sravan, bhanu, pradeep, sashank. Teja, shubho were the volunteers for the day.
Our next event was Independence Day Celebrations at Vaabasandra school
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