The kids built a chicken coup, dug a large garden, started a crafts program for the severely handicapped, bathed and helped patients. I hope a couple learned to sing, or at least hum.
They also etched a scene in my memory more memorable than any in G-69.
The Harijan Caste
is the lowest caste in India who is responsible for the most menial and
despicable of cleaning chores and who is accustomed to being servants to the
rich and powerful.
These Cathedral School rich kids moved the simple possessions from the Harijan Caste's family home, patched some holes in its mud and cow dung walls, and white-wash painted it inside and out, as the Harijan Caste family looked on in stunned amazement.
Belles of the Ball
Soon after we finished the Cheshire Home project, the John Connon School had a graduation party. The belles of that ball?
The kids who had worked at the Cheshire Home had crowds around them all night -- asking and talking about what they had done. It was like they were the team that had won the City Championship for the first time.
You and I, most who watch this, Peace Corps volunteers who serve, those John Connon students -- we have been blessed. We owe something back, especially in a world of refugees, warfare, angered Mother Nature, and inequities.
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