Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Helping 1 child( World Vision)

Came across this brochure of the organization called World Vision. It is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.Organization was started by an American Bob Pierce in 1953 in Korea to help out children orphaned in Korean War.
Children always delight me and when I have an opportunity to help out one such needy kid, then why not :). Also gives me more satisfaction when I can see where and on what the money is being spent. I decided to sponsor a girl named SAPNA(in Hindi meaning a dream ). I received this picture stand with details of SAPNA. I came to know through same where SAPNA is living in India, which class she is studying in, what her parents do, what's her favorite subject.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Closure of Chennai Chapter.....

Finally the Chennai chapter came to a closure ...with new opportunity to work for an Israeli client COMVERSE engagement in Noida starting 18th December. It had been a memorable journey of 6 months with company of very good roomies( Kaushik, Aditya and Srivatsav aka Chiru) as well as MBA colleagues Sachin and Meena. I still recall Sachin laughing at me the day I told him I am posted in chennai and 2 months later he landed up being at same place with a job in Cognizant. Happened to get to know Aditya's girlfriend Shweta as well as Chiru's girlfriend Priya also. Both excellent cooks. Description of all people mentioned above I will leave for some later time. To my surprise just a week before leaving got this parting gift from Shweta. In spite of asking many times she didnt disclose where she got it from . Anyways liked it very much...though had to search on google/wikipedia for what it is actually called.
(Wine Flask)