When life comes a full circle !!

Let me tell you a story...

Two young freshers walked into a corporate office in 2014. One volunteered at a govt school once and another at a fundraiser event.

Then began a journey for them and many others in the process.

Two became four, with two leaders joining in and telling them, " Go ahead and start CSR activities, we will be there to guide you".

We selected a school, we collected clothes, we packed them and took sweets and went to the school.

The first two in the above, description was me and my best buddy Rahul. By the time we had started the drive, My technical work had started full time and was in a bad shape...

I badly wanted to visit this place, spend time with the kids but the batallion of volunteers went without me. I asked my manager, and he replied - Its a choice between your responsibility as a developer and this visit. Its upto you to choose. I chose the office...

I was gutted and wounded from within. It was an intense feeling of being let down by your own decisions...

The trust had been running for more than 20 years, a safe heaven for kids whose both parents worked as daily wage labourers. An inspiration for us all, then and now too...

We did more events, at different NGO's, spread across Bangalore.

We took to three schools for volunteering and infrastructure upliftment in the next three years.
Built a strong network of volunteers.

Spread smiles to more than 1000 kids in the interim with a growing team of volunteers and empatatic hearts.

I had been a part of 26 volunteering visits, six plantation drives, 10 to 12 in-house CSR initiatives and built a reputation of Pungi implies CSR. CSR means Pungi.

I also met the president of the company of 18k plus employees solely because I was the volunteer with the highest hours volunteering. I repeated the feat for two successive years. ( I say this with the most humblest of thoughts and nothing else).

But my memory had a tiny fragment that always said that, "I have never been to SRGVVK and I have missed out on that visit. The only CSR visit, I have not been a part of since five years."
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Now that you know the history,

I finally met the kids from this trust today, after almost 5 years, almost four hours of fun and meaningful memories.

The smiles on their faces was priceless and the deepest satisfaction in mine that life had come a full circle.

Now it had just made my day and will stay in my memory for a very long time.

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End of story.
Thanks for listening in...