Our First Activity at AET, Ejipura

It was a cool morning in Bangalore. A team of 9 members met near Ejipura signal in the morning exactly at 8:30. I am very happy to say that all the members were very punctual. Kiddos to them! We reached AET around 9 am. A bunch of children had been to their school, in spite of being a Saturday ;). Being Murugan’s birthday, chocolates were distributed to the kids. There was a sweet birthday song sung by the children. The video can be found in the following link.

Murugan's Birthday Celebration at AET Ejipura

After sometime, Aarthi and Hema started with their teaching activity. They taught the children how to read and write Tamil alphabets (அ முதல் ஃ வரை). A few questions on general knowledge were fired at the children from where we got instant replies.


Udhayam Welfare Foundation sponsored two kids’ education. Mathi and Muthu went to the school, paid the fee of Rs.5100/- (per kid), and got the books and other stationeries in a lightning time. To mention the names of the children; its Manjula and Nandhini. Both of them were admitted to Vth standard in Holy Christ School, nearby.

Kids Manjula and Nandhini

Mathi, Sridhar, Sivaraj, Murugan, Muthu and Shanmugapriyan started to IGIA, Yelahanka leaving behind Hema, Aarthi and myself at the Ambedkar Educational Trust. At AET, we were engaged in playing with the children. Every one of them were in a happy mood in playing their favorite games. Let it be cricket, writing, ‘ராஜா ராணி திருடன் போலீஸ்’, shuttle badminton or building, people showed their full dedication and were shining. All were served with a glass of ‘Fanta’ sponsored by one of our Udhayam member. We just spoke with each kid asking for any troubles or discomfort at their place.

To mention one happy incident, there was a small boy called John. He never came to anyone for the first few hours there. All the members called him, he just wend on his way. As time passed after some 2 hours, he started to play with our member. He was playing continuously the same game of throw and catch the ball for more than half an hour. Though our member got bored of the monotonous activity, he smiled a little and wanted to continue. There we saw his HAPPINESS!!! We don’t know his background, we don’t know the reason why he came here, we don’t know what happened to his parents, we don’t know how he was treated by his relatives. The one and only thing that we knew was, he was happy when our member played with him. We could see his smile alone. When I think about this incident, tears drop! His cute smile will never fade from my mind. This is what we need. I request each one of you to bring happiness in each child’s face.



Do what ever you can; the ultimate goal should be happiness. Many people can give them food, money, shelter, anything. But only a few can give happiness. Let us be one among the few!!!

I plead the members to allot a few minutes everyday to think about these children’s welfare. Come up with suggestions and ideas on how to make other happy. I would request that we avoid seeing any performance by the children as spectators. Just think from their side. Will we dance in front of every visitor who comes to our house? They don’t have an option. But we have an option! Let’s participate with them. Let’s get in close with them. Let us be one among them without any difference. Let us get down to them! Let us see their performance by us getting near them. [I insist on this because, once I heard from a child saying this: எங்களுக்கு வேற வழி இல்ல, ஆடி தான் ஆகணும்].

Let us have this as one of our objective itself. Let us be different.

Members, please do the needful!!!

~Anup Kumar.K