Let Her Fly. :)

CRY truly is one beautiful organisation. Beautiful is the word. 

While it continually makes efforts to ensure a lasting impact in education reforms for young kids here, it realizes that the most effective form of  change is emotional. It allows children never to lose sight of their innocent wide-eyed aspirations. 'Let Her Fly' is their latest effort to empower girls to dream...and believe they can convert their dreams to reality. All they needed to do was scribble down their dream on a bright yellow kite and see it fly.

Context is of importance here- School is the high point in the day for most of these girls.
They come from homes with corrugated tin roofs, sporadic electricity, rationed water and uniformly uneducated parents. After the sun goes down, a profound darkness sets in their dark alleyways. The lack of streetlights in the interiors of some slums, converts busy vegetable markets by day, dimensionless black. One girl told me how she studies in the cozy glow of flickering candlelight.

Well, the kites didn't really take off, there was a scuffle for pens, the corridors were noisy; but as the girls drew batons and blackboards, wrote 'thanks' in erratic cursive handwriting, stretched on their tippy-toes and held up their kites as high as they could....It was a breathtakingly beautiful moment.

These girls want to be teachers. :)

These little ones want to be dancers. ^_^

And these, most courageous of all, want to become police officers.

One girl gifted me an airplane made with myriad shades of marble paper. That, along with the beaming smiles, reassures me that the scenario is brightening for children in the city. :)