Cares to Share

Life teaches us many values and it is the practice of these values that define us as true human beings. Empathy, care and sharing can help our wishes to bloom into actions and inspire us towards the  goal – Service before self. This is exactly what the DPS family has done in order to feel that we care. It is in the essence of this caring thrives the passion and the commitment to share, help the needy and those in distress in our own little way and feel the intense satisfaction and contentment that - We were there! Yes we were there to stand beside the homeless families who had lost everything – their shelter, belongings, land & crops, in the devastating floods caused by the incessant rains from 29th September to 4th October. It is  a tragedy that every time the government underestimates the brutal violent forces of nature, these homeless people sink a step more below the poverty level. Many governmental and non governmental organizations are the on the move but no one is sure who will take the lead – interesting isn’t it?

On 10th October the teachers and other staff members along with the principal Mrs.T. Sudha went to Mahaboobnagar district for providing relief to the victims of the flood. The students, teachers and all the members of the DPS family contributed cash and kind whole heartedly for this relief . The camp was located  at village China Gummadam in Pebbair Mandal. When we reached the relief camp we met the victims. They were calm and poised with an expression on their faces – “we have had it all!” They had stationed themselves on a hillock and infront of us was a vast stretch of water that looked like a huge lake with its waters meeting the horizon. They pointed towards that direction and told us that it was there-lying everything that they call their’s. The kuccha houses, the fields and belongings all submerged in water.

All they had to do was to wait, wait and wait. Wait for the waters to recede, wait for the soil to regain its fertility, wait for medical aid, food, clothes and all the basic amenities of life. Standing there we realized how cruel life can be. There were several questions hovering in our minds . From where do they accumulate such mental strength to stand upright and meet the adversaries of life that strike them off and on? They told us their tales of woe.  When the water started to rise alarmingly they gathered whatever was precious for them, their children, live stock and moved in the dark rainy night and took refuge on the   hillock and prayed to the rain god and waited for dawn .

We distributed one month’s ration to them i.e. rice, pulses ,flour, oil, sugar, salt, turmeric, chilli powder, tamarind, biscuits, bread, jam, pickle, packed  food etc. Along with this  each family was given a few utensils, bed sheets, blankets, towels, toothpowder, soaps, detergents, candles, match sticks, mosquito replants , broom sticks  and  disinfectants. Two doctors and one nurse who accompanied us gave the necessary medical aid to the victims.

On a return we were engulfed with the dilemma of mixed emotions of satisfaction and gloom. Satisfied that we could reach them and hand over the relief in person and sad as it would take a long time  for them to become stable and bounced back to life.  With this we said our prayers to the almighty to shower his blessings and make the world a better place to live in.