The next day, we got up, fresh from a good night’s sleep and fished out a good, clean accommodation nearby. Flushed with triumph at having finalized our accommodations for a bargain, we proceeded to get even more flushed by dragging our suitcases to the second floor of the new hotel.
Thereafter, we proceeded to the SBMA office where we learnt that we’ll be directly seeing first-hand the effect of setting a reading corner in 48 schools in 170 villages which will directly impact 5000 boys and 5200 girls.
This is part of DOCC i.e. ‘Development of Corporate Citizenship’, part of the course here at SPJIMR, where the students travel to remote locations all over India to NGOs and other Non-profit organizations and help smooth out the knots and tangles of their organization. It’s part of the course and is known as the ‘Development of Corporate Citizenship’ or DOCC.
It’s just been three days of DOCC and yet we’ve learnt to laugh over troubles and know that there are possibly few problems that’ll stand muster against four bright minds. It’s also deeply humbling to see the scale of problems that besiege the locals and the touching trust they have in us and our capabilities.
Even as I jump from one busy day filled with mind-numbing possibilities to another, I can't help but think of how it reminds me of being in the middle of a book which I can tell will shape up to be a story I’ll carry with me for a long time to come.
Comments
Deeksha Tandon
Beautifully captured !!
25 Mar 2019, 07.48 PM
Manvi Agarwal
You described it very aptly for all of us!
25 Mar 2019, 08.36 PM