17 December 2018 Adventure Camp for disabled children conducted by the Himalayan Nature & Adventure Foundation HNAF), Siliguri Dec 18-23, 2018 at Patharjhora Tea Garden 55 KMs from Siliguri.
This evening three of SVH female volunteers Shila Das, Urmi Majumdar and Rina Shaw will be leaving Kolkata by train for north Bengal to attend an Adventure Camp for children with all kind of disabilities hosted annually by the Himalayan Nature & Adventure Foundation, Siliguri Dec 18-23, 2018 at Patharjhora Tea Garden 55 KMs from Siliguri. This environment priority NGO lacks adequate volunteers so every year I try and send 2 or 3 persons from SVH with a donation that our resources permit. They carry two big bags containing used clothes donated by some of our acquaintances which HNAF take for distribution to tea garden poor families. In winter they need a lot and at times I speedpost them.
I shall email the photos as they keep sending the same to me. Generous support from our friends and wellwishers give us a lot of courage to take up this endeavor as it empowers our volunteers to handle children with severe locomotor and intellectual impairments. Your blessing will guide them in discharging this responsibility with a smile and cheer. Sometime they have to roll several hundred chapatis using rolling pins but they love it! Photographs will be loaded next week.
This Camp carries the blessing of pioneering and stalwart mountaineers like Bidyut Sarkar (Chorda), Nima Tashi (Former Director Training, HMI, Darjeeling) and of course the helm rests at the hand of Animesh Bose, the Omniscient Nature Expert!
