This morning Ms O'Leary's group stayed in St.Mary's to help teach the special needs children computers. We started out doing fun workout exercises with the kids, then all 4 of us began helping the kids use computers, by typing Word documents. Towards the end it was quite challenging but it was worth it. After a tea break we headed back to observe their meditation.
The other girls headed off on the metro at 8 and spent the morning in St.George's teaching Science and Maths to the young children. They really enjoyed learning all about the solar system, making planets out of plasticine, Maths worksheets and they also loved making friendship bracelets. They also held running races in the yard and all the child beat all the Irish girls!!!
At 12 they got the metro back to Dum Dum where we met up and got a bus to The Hope Foundation cafe. It was about an hour away but we enjoyed the journey taking in all the surroundings as we drove. When we arrived at the cafe we were treated to a delicious lunch. Some girls got egg fried rice, others got pasta with chicken and to finish it off we got a chocolate brownie and ice cream! After lunch we were brought on a quick tour of a small computer school and tailor school by an Irish Volunteer above the cafe then we headed down the road to the Hope shop. Many of us bought Indian patterned pants and bags along with diaries and jewellery. We hopped back onto the bus and visited The Hope Foundation Hospital. Outside the hospital we saw the ambulance that Ms. Mooney fundraised for. We were all very proud to see her fundraising work put into actions. We were brought on a tour of the new operating rooms and we even got to see some patients in the wards. We were brought up the the roof where we had a rooftop view of Kolkata. After this experience we headed off to see a boy's home founded by the Hope Foundation. This was filled with mixed emotions as we walked into a room to see all the boys aged 5-12 laughing to a movie. The room was filled with joy. Something that brought a sadder tone was the thought that all these children brought in from the streets had no families or no loved ones to go home too. They went to school and were well looked after there but it was still quite sad seeing such a big group in one room. Another thing that made us smile is when we sang a song from the sound of music with them and we also sang them our Irish traditional song mashup that we had made on the bus journey! After this we got the bus back to St.Mary's where we ate dinner and had a meaningful reflection.
The other girls headed off on the metro at 8 and spent the morning in St.George's teaching Science and Maths to the young children. They really enjoyed learning all about the solar system, making planets out of plasticine, Maths worksheets and they also loved making friendship bracelets. They also held running races in the yard and all the child beat all the Irish girls!!!
At 12 they got the metro back to Dum Dum where we met up and got a bus to The Hope Foundation cafe. It was about an hour away but we enjoyed the journey taking in all the surroundings as we drove. When we arrived at the cafe we were treated to a delicious lunch. Some girls got egg fried rice, others got pasta with chicken and to finish it off we got a chocolate brownie and ice cream! After lunch we were brought on a quick tour of a small computer school and tailor school by an Irish Volunteer above the cafe then we headed down the road to the Hope shop. Many of us bought Indian patterned pants and bags along with diaries and jewellery. We hopped back onto the bus and visited The Hope Foundation Hospital. Outside the hospital we saw the ambulance that Ms. Mooney fundraised for. We were all very proud to see her fundraising work put into actions. We were brought on a tour of the new operating rooms and we even got to see some patients in the wards. We were brought up the the roof where we had a rooftop view of Kolkata. After this experience we headed off to see a boy's home founded by the Hope Foundation. This was filled with mixed emotions as we walked into a room to see all the boys aged 5-12 laughing to a movie. The room was filled with joy. Something that brought a sadder tone was the thought that all these children brought in from the streets had no families or no loved ones to go home too. They went to school and were well looked after there but it was still quite sad seeing such a big group in one room. Another thing that made us smile is when we sang a song from the sound of music with them and we also sang them our Irish traditional song mashup that we had made on the bus journey! After this we got the bus back to St.Mary's where we ate dinner and had a meaningful reflection.
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