One of our volunteers Aarti, who is based in Chennai, sent this to GiveIndia at 8:30pm last night from a remote village in the Himalayas where she was staying in a NGO's guesthouse. We loved it and thought we should share it with you:
"I just stepped out and am awestruck by the numbers of stars in the sky and a brilliant moon. The sky is covered with hardly an inch of space left. And I am feeling totally small and insignificant (but in a nice, overawed way). I have been chatting to a village boy here -- he's all of 14; he goes to school, helps his mum run a chai shop after he's back, does part time in this NGO helping when guests arrive, tends to cattle, goes for tuitions -- and he's still as chirpy and enthusiastic as can be at this hour. You know what struck me most about him is that he wants to stay here and make sure that the lives of people around improve... totally cool, don't you think? He doesn't want to move from here but wants to bring the outside world in. I hate to sound cliched but I feel like one of those stars from the sky just dropped on to Gupt Kashi. There is hope."
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