Round Square Project ( Community Service)

I’ve always wanted to make a difference in other people’s life. People who are just purely unfortunate to live a life with no basic necessities. It was the month of April, when I was approached by one of my teachers who requested me to go for a community service project. He briefed me completely about the value, importance, schedule and events during this 8 day social project. Straight away, my first reaction was a big YES without a second thought. This was a project done y me during my 12^th grade as part of CAS (Creativity, Action and Service Program). The location of this project was in the Aravalli hills, and this was a self volunteered and optional project during the summer vacations from the 7^th to the 15^th June 2011.

 Honestly throughout all these years I’ve never started of my summer vacations in a more different and satisfying manner then this after returning from the project.  From pathways Noida it was only four of us representing the school and I really did think, what are we going to do 8 long days? And how everything’s going to pan out.

    There are several combining factors which has made this one project very memorable and one that I won’t forget for a long time.  There were several schools from all over the country which gave an opportunity to interact with individuals from all over the country. I was very fortunate to get the opportunity to go for this Social Project out of all the students in the school. The best part of this trip was meeting new faces from all over the country whom I’ve never met before and making new friends while working together at the work sites, group activities and the hostel. I was also very fortunate and very lucky to meet all my old school friends whom I had studied with for two years from Indus Hyderabad. It was fascinating to see how my old friends had changed so much over a period of time in terms of their physical appearance, voice and character.

This project gave me huge happiness, satisfaction and an opportunity to discover my own talents which I never thought I was capable of. Getting out of the classroom environment and working at the boiling hot temperatures during day , doing everything possible to make a difference in other people’s lives  and make them happier was a great feeling. It involved  doing everything we can in a short space of time from building a huge stage for a rural school, building a long boundary wall ,  cleaning up and widening  two lakes  which was in a poor condition for the cattle’s and agricultural purposes for the people of the village. I’m sure all these four work sites will help them In some way or another which involves our complete 100% effort. While working at all these four locations, there was one thing which was all ways driving me on about the fact that there’s huge gap between the rural and urban population on the basic necessities such as education, food , shelter and wealth. 

These are people who are no different or worst from us . Children there are purely unfortunate that they lack the basic necessities and resources that we have.  During my experience of the whole trip, I really felt how thankful and fortunate I am to live a life with everything I want and need. The trip made me look at my life in a different in ensuring that I never be greedy for more and be satisfied and happy with who I am and what I have and never have regrets in life. There isn’t any extra effort or any factor that is the cause for us to live the life with everything we want and those children who even lack the basic resources and necessities.

There are several other skills which I learnt which is crucial in life such as time management though out each of the 8 days, my physical effort, potential and stamina  for once wasn’t only in sports and  the school environment. Another major factor was adjusting and adapting to the toughest environments and conditions which really did give an idea of how hard it is for us in just to survive for 8 days where as people in the villages have this as their daily life and regular routine. This was an experience which I personally can never forget, and every individual in life should make a effort at some point in their life to give something back to the society which would change other people’s lives and make a difference. The happiness, satisfaction and feeling of helping another person in life can never be comparable to anything else ever.