Just Four Walls - Calling All You Angels

There’s so much we take for granted everyday – beginning with the four sturdy walls that surround us in our bedrooms.  

Four strong walls make such a difference to the way our day begins - whether it's rain water seeping in on a monsoon day or the fear that the walls might give way, broken and cracked buildings change the way your day progresses.

Our Anganwadi in focus this month houses nearly 20 children on a good day, and has a wall that can barely stand another Kerala monsoon.  This was a place The Ashoka Tree originally visited on our ‘Book & Toy Box’ spree, but found there were graver problems here that needed to be addressed.  What we have here is a building waiting to collapse – a calamity waiting to happen – an unnecessary accident in the offing.  While it did cross our minds that we don’t have the necessary funds to do what we propose, we decided to go ahead.

People make promises, and a lot of them did, to help us rebuild our little playschool – so we decided to get started.  We finalized a contractor, and while we were ready to begin work here, we had just one donation that had actually come in. 


Of course, miracles happen as they always do.  Unknown angels in unknown places.  A friend knew a friend who knew a friend, who got in touch with us.  To cut a long story short - we’ve got our first cheque towards the renovation of our little Anganwadi here and it feels great!  Never mind that we’re still over Rs 60,000/- short on funds here – what matters is that we have enough money to pay our masons and buy construction material this week! 


If you or anyone you know would want to help us renovate this little playschool - for no other reason than to make this a safe place for children to spend their day in – please get in touch with us at pratz@theashokatree.org.  

Every rupee counts, and every rupee donated would help us get another brick,  another sack of cement, another tile, another tube light and eventually, another smile!

Spread More Smiles!

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