A group of 4 volunteers: Siddharth, Sravan, Satyanarayan and I headed on Bannerghata road to meet Kalpana at Asha Jeevan. She showed us around the place. It has all the facilities for an old age home: good rooms, medical facilities, ambulances, kitchen, dining space and a hall. She was particularly interested in our help in conducting some entertainment activities like music, dance etc for the old age home residents. Further she mentioned we can also help by contributing bedsheets, old cotton sarees and water beds.
We then got back on Bannerghata Road and were discussing in the van as to how we could help and contribute. Satyanarayan then suggested that we can save money within the team to raise funds initially. He had done that in the past when doing volunteer activities in Trichy. It was an excellent idea which Sidhartha reinforced. So now we plan to save Rs 5 everyday and collect it from volunteers when we meet weekly.
We also visited the Anand Ashram next to IBM on Bannerghatta Road. It was a huge space with 25 old people. They also had a boys and girls home. We have to discuss with the team further how we can help here...
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