Saturday, June 25, 2011

Volunteering at Prem Dan

I volunteer at a center called Prem Dan...It is a place where men and women are taken care of.  The women were found on the streets and do not have any family.  Most of them have physical or mental challenges and have been rejected...
The first thing we do is wash their clothes and sheets by hand, then we hang them on the roof...
Then we sometimes make the beds.  We also massage the women with lotion and that is when we interact with them: they talk to us in Bengali and it is hard to communicate....We smile and talk with our hands!

They get lunch at 11:30 a.m. and we have to help feed some of them.
After lunch we wash dishes by hand...
It is a learning and humbling experience for me....





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