Your blog was passed on to me by a friend.. and I went on post after post …and I am quite thankful to her .
Thank you very much for putting out your thoughts for us. It shows the power of the written word that reading them took me to a different world rousing a lot of questions in the otherwise lethargic head. Thanks for sharing with us the experiences which compels us to think what and how we can do things to make a world a better place. It is these thoughts that must have brought Alessandro and his friends to come so far and work for the kids… and it is these thoughts that inspire and keep inspiring many more people in India and all over the world who are striving to make a difference.

And thought occured to me that Italians understood the underlying pain of the Italian of the East. (Telugu).

I have always wanted to share a story of such social work activity going on in our land. It is very satisfying for both blogger and reader. Since my blog is committed to Humourous “Artickles”, I am thinking of starting another one to publish this kind of reports.

I wouldn’t agree though on the view that we in India always overlook the underpriviledged. There are countless organisations & individuals in our country who are working selflessly for helping out such people. It’s just that our media never focusses attention on anything that doesn’t have an ‘Ad-value’ attached to it.

But yes agreed that not everyone in our country thinks the same way, but then neither is everybody in Italy an Alessandro ! I agree to Priya’s viewpoint that compassion for less priviledged has to increase in India. We perhaps are too busy shaping up our own day to day lives that we fail to see the pain or suffering around us.

Life presents us with so many opportunities to share with our less fortunate brethren in our daily life. It is not necessary that only money is required to do something good.

It could be our time or knowledge or anything else that we can share.

Archana, just to supplement, I have found Jains who also have made charity a part of their ethos.

Thanks Priya. I also feel it has something to do with their religion too, which places a lot of emphasis on service and charity. Since I am now involved in CSR activities, I find that a lot of people involved in community service seem to be Christians.

My husband also mentioned that there are no beggers of homeless people in Italy because the church makes sure they have a place to stay and food to eat.