The place I visited was Monegar and Rajah of Venkatagiri Choultry which has its history from 1782.It is currently an orphanage asylum for old people who are of the age of 60s-70s. The day started with the orientation about the choultry. After which we met the old people in that home. We were nearly 60 people visited the home as a part of CSR weekly national volunteering. I was one of the coordinators of the event. I started interacting with them which gave happiness for both of us. They treated me like their grandchild for which tears came rolling down. The happiest moment was that I met a grandpa who has the same name of my own grandpa. I started interacting with him more from which I came to know that he was once a wealthy and happiest person but now shifted to this home, because his children were busy in looking at their own lives. We both (I and grandpa) shared so much of thoughts about the present lifestyle and his daily activities. We did some drawings, coloring and sang songs for a long time. I was just admiring the way he speaks English being an 8th standard qualified. We organized a ball passing game for all of them, in which so many actively participated, danced, sang songs so happily. At last we had some planned dance flash mobs, planted some saplings around the home and left sadly in the hope of meeting them all again.
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