Andhra Pradesh - Karimnagar   

Students visit old age home

Photo: Thakur Ajay Pal Singh

Social service: Students of Ken Crest Global School serving food to aged persons in Karimnagar on Monday. —

KARIMNAGAR: Not every child understands what life is after becoming senior citizens. How the aged are abandoned by their children and lead a life of recluse in orphanages with wrinkled face, tears in eyes, body feeble and frail.

When the teachers informed about the plight of aged persons living at Veera Brahmendra Swamy old age home and orphanage at Housing Board Colony on the outskirts of Karimnagar, the students of Ken Crest Global School here donated their pocket money given by their parents to the old age home.

From the class 6 to 10, over 400 students had donated their pocket money amounting to Rs. 26,000 for the old age home on Monday in the presence of their school correspondent R. Gomathi Prasad. They have not only handed over their pocket money, but spent the time with the aged and inquired about their wellbeing and became emotional when the elderly persons narrated their plight. Inspired by the students, the teaching faculty of the school has also contributed their mite for the senior citizens of the orphanage by purchasing blankets, towels, essential commodities such as rice, dal, wheat flour, oil, etc. and handed over the same along with their students.

School correspondent R. Gomathi Prasad had donated dresses for all the inmates such as sarees, dhotis and shirts, etc. for the aged. She also donated utensils, and other material required for the old age home.

Above all, the school management had hosted sumptuous feast for the inmates of the old age home. The students and the teachers have served the food to the aged and stayed till they completed their lunch.

It was really an emotional saga at the old age home. With tears filled in their eyes, when the aged explained about their agony, students and teachers cried for a few minutes. They promised the elderly to come regularly to the orphanage and spend some time with the aged persons. Some students promised to celebrate their birthdays with the inmates of old age home.

Organiser of Veera Brahmendra Swamy orphanage S. Veera Madhav thanked students.

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