WWW planning!

WWW 2011 is nearly here... in fact, it's just next week!
Of course, before we actually set off, there has been a lot of planning and preparation being done during the past few weeks. This is because we're going to be taking part in a very important aspect of our Service there, wherein we help out with the maintenance of a couple of post-Tsunami pre-schools, and we interact with the children and give them a small gift. I, along with Kasturi and Chrisni, were made the leaders in charge of getting the gift packs for the kids, so last Friday Kasturi and I went to purchase what we decided we might include in them. These items consisted 50 each of pencils, erasers, sharpeners, rulers, pencil cases, water bottles, lunch boxes and school bags for the children, as well as a Saree each for the 4 teachers at the 2 schools we're visiting. Firstly we had to raise money in order to purchase these things, and each member of our Grade donated Rs. 1000/- for this cause. Although it took a whole day to find and buy all the needed items, both me and Kasturi felt really proud after we had successfully bought all these things for 50 small children, managing to keep within our budget with some on-the-spot, smart-shopping decisions!
Today we helped organize the things we'd bought in the bags for each child.
This experience demanded a lot of responsibility on our part, not only in handling the money properly and safely, but also in taking initiative to talk to various shop-keepers and organizing all the required gifts.

I'm really looking forward to next week, when we will actually be off to our Week Without Walls, where I will be in the group for playing with the kids and helping out with the mural that we are going to paint on the walls.