Our children
get to watch the latest movies, play the latest video games and travel beyond
our borders. They can eat what they want, almost whenever they want. They wear
the best clothes and go to the best schools.
But, the sad
truth is that there are children all around us who experience none of this.
They don’t know the latest movies, they can scarcely imagine leaving India and
eat what is given to them when it is given to them. Most of them cannot read
and those that can don’t go to schools. This is the sad truth, the reality in
which we live.
So, to help
these children and to make a better reality, we at the Goel Ganga Foundation
assembled 70 under-privileged children this Children’s Day, and gave them a day
of complete and total fun. They were the sons and the daughters of labourers
working at the Goel Ganga Sites.
They were
treated to a Zumba session, a screening of the beloved Disney Movie “Tangled”,
a storytelling session where they made up their favourite stories of a tigers, deer and monkeys, post to which there was lots and
lots of food for all of them!
We at the Goel
Ganga believe that our children are our future in more than one way. They not
only continue our work and carry on our legacy, but that they create their own
legacy and start their own work; that they change the world.
And we know
that this is not possible without the opportunities that the rest of us have,
such as schools and books and technology. Hence, we have done and will continue
to do what it takes to make these opportunities available to the
underprivileged and the less fortunate children of India.
Why? Because
a better future for our young ones is our #IdeaofIndia.