Its was 6:30 in the morning, when most of the other were enjoying the sleep of National Holiday, Sankalp volunteer were busy to get ready to catch the bus. They were full of enthusiasm and energy to go out and celebrate our National Festival. As they do every year to spread the love and patriotism around.

This year, on the Republic Day, they decided to go with MindTree, one of the highly social responsible companies, with their TSA (Technical for Social Activity) team to visit a Sri Lankan Refugee School by the name of IGIA (Indira Gandhi Institute Academy). MindTree is supporting this organization from around last 8 year. It was a nice experience for all volunteer to interact with children and new people. We could not visit the old age home as we had to move to our next destination i.e. the Azadi Express.

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed next to the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.