Poila Baishakh and Foundation Day

The good tidings for Dakshinayan started from 14th April itself, a day before the Bengali New Years Day. Right in the morning Mr.Tarun Saha came over with solar fittings for Roldih. There were ten solar lamps and the charger and also a solar panel for charging the laptops there. The Panel was put up on the roof of one of the classrooms and the charger was fitted in the main bedroom. It turned out that all these were gifts from Mr.Vijay Mahajan who had recently visited Roldih. We are very thankful to him and the fact that he has zeroed in on the exact need for the project in this moment even in his very short visit. Those solar lamps and the solar panel will come in very useful on the project.

The 15th of April is the Bengali New Year Day and also the day foundation stone was laid for the first time in Roldih in the year 2005. It is celebrated with the children and the villagers every year. The kids offered to bring in the rice and the pulses to which a little more was added and khichdi was made to feed an army. All the children came from early in the morning and an offering of sweets and fruits was done at the Baba Lokenath Temple on the project, which was later on distributed amongst the children and the villagers who came. Then everybody sat down to eat under the old banyan tree and ate off plates made from leaves. Around 250 people ate on that day. Everybody had a good time.