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Recently, when my best friend Siri, recounted her visit to Vaidehi Ashram, I shamelessly spent 20 minutes crying. The stories of how some of the little kids got to the ashram nearly choked me and induced a pain in my heart. Being a mother myself, I could not help seeing my little one in each one of those kids. For the first time, my so called worries about the “many things I did not get”, ceased to matter.

Image courtesy: cookingwithsiri.com

See the picture above? The little one sitting in the beginning – she is almost a baby. It hurts me to no end to realize she doesn’t even know what it is to be loved, scolded, pampered by a mother. What the heck? She doesn’t even know what a Mother is. My little one always runs after me asking for food (cos he associates me with food!!), looks with his “Oh-I-am-so-sad” kinda eyes to pick him up.

To think that little girl, sitting right there, doesn’t know to do that, causes extreme grief to my heart. Its even more disturbing that she has to thank people like you and me, on a day to day basis, for that plate of food. But she does. Just like the rest of the kids who sing their gratitude for the morsel they enjoyed that day. While my little one goes around, scattering food all around the house, these little ones devour every single bit of theirs with a grateful heart.

I write this post today with tears running uncontrollably down my face. NO KID DESERVES TO BE HUNGRY. They did not ask to be born yet they have been abandoned by the very people they would have called their own, no matter what. They don’t know the meaning of family. They don’t know to take anything for granted. They don’t know the love that only a Mother can give.

I wonder how God had the heart to do this to them. But then, like my husband said, “he did it cos he knew there were people like you to feel for them the way he feels.” I know you feel the same way I do. Take a minute and make a difference to their lives. It might be very little for you but it would mean the world to them cos YOU are their world today.

In my own little way, I am being a small part in this fund raiser.I am giving away Amazon Kindle worth $79 to one winner and will be shipping it within US.

In order to win this kindle, this is what you have to do.

1. Buy a Raffle Ticket (or 2 or more).

Each raffle ticket is worth $10 (or Rs.500). You can increase your chances of winning the giveaway by buying more than 1 raffle ticket.

For Example, a donation of $20 will fetch you 2 raffle tickets which can be used to choose on any of the raffle prizes. You can use all your raffle tickets on one prize (in turn increasing the chances in the lucky draw) or on different prizes. [Other prizes details in point 3]

2. How to Buy the Raffle Ticket

Use the widget below for making your payment. Once you click it, you will be able to make a payment via Paypal or credit.

Once the donation process is completed, please forward your payment confirmation message to info(dot)siri(at)gmail.com, clearly specifying [RU4 - Amazon Kindle e-reader] as the raffle prize you are interested in.

Within 24 hours, your name and contributed amount will be added to the ‘Fund Drive Supporters List’ at the very end of this post. If you want to stay anonymous, please let Siri know in advance. For any correspondence/questions/queries, use the comment section or the email address mentioned.

The fund drive ends on Feb 25th, 2012.

3. Other Raffle Prizes Offered

Quite a lot of beautiful souls have come forward to offer their support to this endeavor by sponsoring other prizes. You can use the same method (as in Step 2) to try your luck with other prizes too. Please refer Siri’s post which has all the details for other Raffle prizes offered. http://www.cookingwithsiri.com/2012/01/fund-drive-for-vaidehi-ashram-of.html

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