Giving Back – Sharing – Helping
My dear readers, I need your help and feedback!
I would like to provide my guests the opportunity to interact and give back to the local communities in India they visit during their Himalayan Boot Camp journeys. I truly believe that it can be a rewarding experience if one has brightened the life of someone less fortunate in the community one left behind after the vacation is over.
I am thinking of providing this interaction at a couple of the local schools that cater to the more impoverished children. Here are just a couple of my ideas for my guests:
- Take 3-4 books and have a storybook session with the children. The local children will love this!
- An afternoon of crafts with the children using supplies we take from here that those children have never seen and can take home with them (paper dolls, painting etc – the possibilities are endless)
- Distribute some clothes (T-Shirts?) and have some afternoon refreshments and snacks.
These are just small things but they are a start. I grew up in this area of Meghalaya, India and know exactly how much brightness this will bring to the children. I am not sure where this idea will take me but I just have this gut feeling that both the givers and receivers of this kindness will be so blessed and the memories will be amazing.
Please provide feedback – tell me what you think. I also welcome any additional ideas you may have.
Here’s to a brighter world for children!
Connie
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