On 26th August, a social outreach programme was organized for the students and they were thrilled on hearing this not because it was a trip for leisure but it was a visit to a special place. It’s an orphanage named Home of Faith Charitable Trust in Kothanur– home to about 40 children right from the age of 5 years to about 19 years and 1 caretaker in charge of the entire place.

The moment you enter the orphanage, you tend to feel both happy and sad at the same time when you see children playing, fighting with each other, crying, laughing, cribbing about certain things (like who’s better: guys or girls?), dancing, and so on.

These children are really talented; some of them good at beat-boxing and some good at dancing and some just have enough talent to wink at girls! Simply observing their talent makes you feel happy and you wish you could spend as much time with them as possible.

If there is one occasion that gives the students a lot of happiness and which they look forward to most, it has to be this activity.

It is a well-known fact and was further reiterated in the management class that every person has a ‘natural child’ inside of him and in this case it’s so strong that if someone happens to extricate that natural child out of someone, they would probably die.

When you give serious thought to this situation, some hard hitting questions arise. It’s synonymous to getting hit on the head by a hammer; the only difference is you bleed internally and not externally. There are questions like ‘What did these little angels do to deserve this?’, ‘What would happen when these children grow up and get ready to face the world which is outside this cocoon?’ ‘Would people like us treat these children in the same way they would treat any other child, irrespective of any religious/social divide?’ and the most important and unworldly question of all is ‘How can the Omni power be so unfair to these children? Aren’t these children like all other children?

If we think and ask these questions to ourselves, we may get the answers.

After visiting this place, students realized that most of the children are left to fend for themselves either because the family did not have financial means to take care of them or they just abandoned them. In some cases, the parents just didn’t have the experience to raise a child and had to give them up for good.

It is unfortunate how these children are in a ripe age but have already lost a significant part of their childhood. They had no one to give them a name, no one to understand and care for them, no one to take them out, and no opportunity to go to a reputed school.

None of us liked it when our parents reprimanded us for not studying properly, when we made blunders, when we fought with our siblings or friends, when we didn’t listen to them but there was a concern behind every word that they said. Secretly, there were two drops of tears shed for every tear of ours and there was an unsaid, unwritten promise that they would take care of us at every juncture of our lives no matter what their condition. These children are lacking all those words of care, anger, love and all the feelings that parents express towards their children.

Visiting the orphanage is a life changing experience and you start appreciating the little things in life when you see people who don’t have them. Only at such times do you tide over the insignificant and immaterial things and appreciate the bigger picture.

The students felt extremely fortunate that they have their parents with the, these little angels DON’T.