“Making someone smile weekend”

When I sat amidst a set of old people listening to a boring lecture, my eye lids closed and my head fell back and I jerked as I felt I was falling off a cliff. That’s when I realized that I just dozed off. To check if anybody had noticed my act, I turned around and I was definitely happy to know that everyone were concentrating quite a bit on the lecture. Though no one saw me, I was quite embarrassed. To avoid further embarrassment, I had to do something to get rid of my boredom or get rid of my sleep.

I pulled out the water bottle and sipped in some water. I have a notion that drinking water helps you concentrate. But here that dint help either. I felt like avoiding the shutting of eyes by holding in between my eye-lids a piece of stick, like tom, the cat does in Tom & Jerry.

But given the positing and place in which I was, doing that was almost impossible. So I decided to scan the hall which was filled and flooded with banners. One picture caught my attention. A picture of a little kid smiling ear to ear, I went on to read the Banner and the banner boldly said, Lakshya...Changing lives...

Though I continued to read on the other banners, Lakshya was just stuck in my mind and suddenly a good news hit my mind.

It was the Vote of thanks.

A round of applause filled the air and I was more than happy to listen to the MC say Tata bye bye to the crowd. And before he completely wound up the program, he announced that there is a team called Lakshya who would want to talk to the crowd.

Since the banner attracted me, I was all ears and a man in a black t-shirt which said Lakshya took over and started talking about the group which they started about 4 years back. He said how a group started by 4 friend with no perfect plan or goal except to help the needy had taken a complete shape over these 4 years.

He spoke about how they are concentrating not just on food and clothes to poor kids but also about their living as well as their future.

I was quite flattered with the whole concept and I thought this was the right way to involve myself with something completely worth it.

I grabbed their cards near the registration counter and immediately left them a email with my contact details and I got a call from one of the volunteers next day and when I told him that I wanted to be a part of Lakshya, without asking further details, he asked me to visit one of their events and then I could decide how I could help them.

I was asked to meet them at a school called Rainbow home, a school for homeless or for kids whose parents couldn't educate them. This was about 17kms from my home. Though initially I was hesitant about travelling 17kms, I decided to visit them just because I had already promised to meet them.

It was only after I went there; I realized how much I would love to travel so far even if it meant travelling every single day.

Once I started visiting Rainbow home as a part of Lakshya, I was simply the happiest.

Because the kids were innocent, curious and true sweet hearts. I was welcomed by a set of warm people (Lakshya team). Warm people are hard to find and I loved the fact that they were here.

 It’s been a journey of 3 months with Lakshya and it’s the best way I have discovered to spend my weekends as a part of teaching team. Any weekend as a part of Lakshya is always a bliss.

Teaching the kids, playing with them, celebrating festivals and birthday’s with them, be it anything, it simply brings a broad smile on each one of our faces at the end of the day.

Though I deny the number of outings with friends or family, I’m never questioned because they all think good work cannot be questioned.

So, come be a part of some good work and get to know how to spend your weekend the happy way. There is nothing like seeing a lil one smile and there is definitely nothing better than knowing that the lil one is smiling because of you.

Let every weekend of yours be a “making someone smile weekend!”

To know how to be a part of a great cause, Click the below link:

http://lakshyachanginglives.org/