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NASEOH August 10, 2004

Posted by Simba in : Uncategorized , 2 comments

It so amazing to so many people willing to create a difference in others lives. Its really heatening. Firstly, there is the voluntary service we are doing for NASEOH. Every Sunday, a group of us assemble at NASEOH - National Society for providing Equal Oppurtunities for the Handicapped. Every week there is something new to discover & learn.. to look close at things that we take for granted.

A lot of our pals at NASEOH are partially/ completely handicapped.. they are deaf, dumb, physically & mentally disabled etc etc. But then you must see the kind of co-operation they have. Each of them are always ready to help others. For eg. if someone is not able to lean to pick something, somebody will rush to assist them. Its great to see such humane qualities that we so lack!!! I have an aunt who is physically disabled & she always told me that whatever GOD hasnt given, HE has made up in so many ways. The NASEOH guys are extremely sharp and they are such fast-learners. As on today, we are able to teach them, computer basics, internet basics, netwoking, vedic maths … slowly moving onto html coding. They love designing web pages with different hues & styles. It great to see them huddled around a computer aligning & de-aligning the texts :-) .

Now, after some lengthy discussions, we have decided to conduct some English speaking courses for them. And slowly progress onto something like personality development like confidence building, public speaking etc. For the English course, we as in PaGaLGuYs are looking at some structured material which can be taught each weekend and over which they all can work over the week. We are planning to meet some institutes who will be ready to help us in terms of giving their procedures etc etc. I know, its too much to ask for but its just worth a shot. :-) All the NASEOH guys are very comfortable with Marathi & Hindi. Though they can understand English completely, they are shy.. that is something we need to work on. Spoken English will def help them all their lives. Lets see how we can put up a show :-)

Secondly, its about Hyderabadis effort. I will speak about that in length in the next blog.