Mayank Foundation members share lockdown experiences with inmates of Blind Home
Ferozepur, May 19, 2020: On Monday, the members of Mayank Foundation led by duo brothers -Deepak Sharma and Kamal Sharma - visited the Home for the Blinds to spend few moments with the visually impaired inmates, share lockdown experiences and to distribute soaps, cloth masks and sanitizers.
None else than us can understand the challenges faced by visually impaired persons being the sons of a blind couple parents, said duo confidently adding that social participation is vital to successfully completing social developmental tasks among such class.
Keeping in mind that following the guidelines laid down by the government is the only way to fight with crisis due to Covid-19, the local social organization – Mayank Foundation – from the day one of curfew-lockdown, is helping the needy people in Ferozepur, by providing the food, masks, sanitizers, soaps or any other needy item besides organizing various social activities in the city and recently one is successfully conducting of online painting competition with around 7,000 entries including from foreign lands.
Added here, both Deepak and Kamal are the son of visually impaired parents and their father who retired as Lecturer from a government job, is the product of Home of the Blind. They took all the team members - Dr. Tanjeet Bedi , Vipul Narang , Rakesh Kumar , Kamal Sharma , Deepak Grover , Mitul Bhandari amd Amit Jot - to the room upstairs, in high spirit and joyful mood, to show them where they housed for more than a decade and had spent youth with the blind inmates of the school.
The Home for the Blinds which is running on volunteer donations and help from the local Red Cross Society, has 31 inmates, out of which 16 are school and college-going. Since they are used to listening to the radio and TV, they were seen more updated with the status of coronavirus and protocols to be adopted in life to save from this chronic virus.
Luckily, it was the birthday of one of the members of Mayank Foundataion – Amit Jot – which was celebrated by cutting a cake with the visually impaired inmates, followed by tit-bits and singing of songs by the members, making the evening memorable and charming.
Mayank Foundation donated 200 kg rice, and 100 sets of soap, sanitizers and locally manufactured cloth masks for the inmates. Deepak Sharma Founder of Mayank Foundation, putting wiser the inmates about the preventive measures to be adopted to save from coronavirus, assured for any kind of help in future for the institution saying, our family has close bonding with this institution and would like to return in services the credit on us.
Ramesh Sethi, Manager on behalf of the Home for the Blind thanked the Foundation members for remembering the institution in this hour of need.