Why Me? – Aditi Kaul6

Why me? Is a 5 line document that we were asked to write about our time in the project and why I worked here.

I wrote :

“Because I can. Because I want to be a child again. Because I want to learn how to work with 125 children and understand their quirks, their spectrum of emotions and their thirst for knowledge. Because I want to help them.

Because I want them to help me. Because I am an artist a sportsman or just a person who wants to impart their skills to children. Because I want to have fun! And just play with them. To understand how individuals from different backgrounds are beautiful and interesting and driven, kind and selfless yet naughty and angry and fun. To understand them and let them understand us.

Why me? Because every you can make a million me’s and all of us together want to make a difference.”

What I didn’t write was that it’s not just the children that become a part of you it’s the people you work with. In this organization the thing that I have learnt from the most and learnt to value the most are the people that I have met. Our entire volunteer team has been driven, committed, passionate, vibrant and just so much fun. We have stuck it out together through grueling training sessions, insane on location visits, fights over what to do next, moments when we watched the organization flourish, bits where it wasn’t so rosy but we were in it together for the most part.

My favorite memory of last year would have to be when we had the blending spectrum annual day! All of us were working with the kids on dance numbers, songs, and an art exhibit. That day I got to see Pankaj, the hard working LSC team member, who is passionate in a silent sort of way wearing a dance costume with pink flowers behind his ear dancing to All is well with 30 children next to him with this energy that I had never seen before! Every volunteer, staff member, individual present at that event would second me when I say that for our team it was an epic closing, not grand but epic. We packed up that day and just sat around eating ice cream with a bunch of kids.

All the many people that I have worked with in the last 2 years have helped me understand how I work , What they brought to this organization has been phenomenal! Our project would be no where near where it is now if it wasn’t for each person who has contributed to it’s growth in the last 4 years.

Aditi Kaul

Project Head,
Blending Spectrum