Aligarh, Dec. 30, 2018: An NGO in Aligarh has given an innovative meaning to the celebration of Christmas – treated street children in a fancy restaurant.
The Rag Dreams’ Weavers Association (RDWA) collaborated with LA’CHEF Restaurant, Maris road, Aligarh, to give people a chance to have their Christmas food with children and to interact with them to understand their lives on streets,
The NGO works to connect youth to bring change in the lives of children in street situations through education.
For children, it was their first time eating in a restaurant like any other customer, and for others, it was their first time eating and building a friendship with those children, said a volunteer of the NGO.
Children, with the help of their partnered didi/bhaiya, ordered food for themselves. Children also took keen interest to know their lives.
The whole restaurant was filled with as many as 20 children and the equal number of youth and with conversations, joy, laughter and lots of love.
“This was the best Christmas I have celebrated and I have never spent my day in such a productive way ever,” said Reshu, a teacher in St. Fidelis School, Aligarh, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Govind Singh Rawat, owner La’chef Chain Restaurant, said the experience was humbling to him in many ways.
Ananya, an MBA student of Aligarh Muslim University, said the children’s smile reminded her of “how priceless these gifts are and should be cherished at all times.”
The restaurant and RDWA have collaborated to hold many such events and to connect more people with the major problem of children in street situations and their education.
(Source: twocircles.net)