Reframing Friendship with (G)olden people.

Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2016 by LEAD

Our celebration with our well wishers!!!




“Friendship is the purest love. It's the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving .”-Osho


        The first Sunday of August is celebrated as friendship day worldwide in order to cherish the existence of friends in our lives. Every year students celebrate this day by greeting their friends with messages and gifts but this friendship day our LEADers came up with a beautiful approach to celebration. They planned to create a joyous environment for the old , workers and physically challenged troop of the society. They said friendship is not bound by age group instead it’s about mutual affection
           
 LEADers from Varanasi ,Karnataka, Nalgond and Telangana  took up an initiative to make friendship bands themselves and reach out to the people of old age homes. They spent some quality time with them and while they returned the people expressed their joy and happiness on seeing them and were thankful for their kindness.

 Meanwhile, students of Bellary visited the ‘mentally challenged’ people and made their day special by celebrating friendship day with them. All of them were excited to see the LEADers at their orphanage

       LEADers also visited KSRTC workers, security guards, canteen workers and people in their locality during this project. While they were moving on this project they came across women entrepreneurs who were earning their livelihood by indulging themselves in making creative things . The students were inspired by the dedication and efforts put up by these women. This recognized by RED FM ,two LEADers from Rinki and Shalini from Ek Soch Sandbox interacted with RJ Dhruvi and spoke about their experience with this initiative.




This recognized by RED FM ,two LEADers from Rinki and Shalini from Ek Soch Sandbox interacted with RJ Dhruvi and spoke about their experience with this initiative.




This unique and beautiful approach was covered in the TIMES OF INDIA newspapers.



    The students express huge amount satisfaction and gleeful on being a part of this mega celebration. They say it was an opportunity they received wherein they got to conspire with (G)olden people and know about their approach to towards friendship.With this initiative, LEAD stands on the fact that our way to celebrate is in the direction to connect to the society and make it a beautiful place to live in .

         604 LEADers from different regions and states enthusiastically participated in this celebration. They began being friends with people next door and soon reached out to 3000 people of different sectors of the society.

   




Posted by :Ritika Ganiger
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