The children from our three homes for HIV orphan children were the first of our Brighter Future Children to go on the 2014 Picnic.
The Karuna Nivas children arrived to stay at Shanti Nivas the night before the Picnic.They brought their best clothes and a change of clothes for the beach, their plates and drinking glasses for the evening dinner and for breakfast on the Picnic day - 9th February. They enjoyed a game of cricket a took turns on the playground equipment.
It was to be an early start the next day as they had to be at DMC House by 8am to board the bus. We decided that the children would have 2 large buns and hot milk for breakfast so that those on anti retroviral medicine and TB treatment, could take their medicines and hopefully not have any travel sickness on the 2 hour journey to Visakhapatnam.
After a few photos at DMC House the children piled into the coach. .
The food canisters and rice bags of spare clothes were stowed in the rear compartment and under the coach. A wheelchair was included to transport the food to the eating place, which was uphill from the coach park at Kailash Hill.The wheelchair was our driver, Jagdish's idea! Jagdish drove our vehicle and followed the coach with the big senior boys.
The big boys and Victor played cricket and the big girls wandered around posing for photographs.
Gowri, Ruth, Bhavani, Shamila and Krishnaveni
The picnic lunch, chicken, chutneys, biryani and plain rice,plus curd and the boiled eggs for the 5pm snack, had been prepared by the cooks from Prem Nivas and DMC House in the early hours of the morning.
Lunch was at 12.30 and we left for the beach at 1.45. We were a bit worried because it was so hot but luckily there was a cooling wind at sea level, the waves were not too high and the children's kites flew well.
We always go to the same secluded, uncommercialised, bit of beach that offers a variety of natural attractions for the children.There are safe warm rock pools for the smallest and 'first time' children to splash around and pretend to swim.There are sandy stretches of beech for the more adventurous to run in and out of the waves from, and there are interesting small rockpools and fissures where the older children hunt for urchins, starfish, little fish and crabs.
The Karuna Nivas children arrived to stay at Shanti Nivas the night before the Picnic.They brought their best clothes and a change of clothes for the beach, their plates and drinking glasses for the evening dinner and for breakfast on the Picnic day - 9th February. They enjoyed a game of cricket a took turns on the playground equipment.
It was to be an early start the next day as they had to be at DMC House by 8am to board the bus. We decided that the children would have 2 large buns and hot milk for breakfast so that those on anti retroviral medicine and TB treatment, could take their medicines and hopefully not have any travel sickness on the 2 hour journey to Visakhapatnam.
The children were taken to Kailashgiri first where was lots of space to run around and play.
equipment to enjoy.
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| Jhansi |
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| Nagamani |
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| Sampath, Ruthya and Bhagya |
The big boys and Victor played cricket and the big girls wandered around posing for photographs.
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| Suneetha, Ramadevi and Sravani |
Gowri, Ruth, Bhavani, Shamila and Krishnaveni
The picnic lunch, chicken, chutneys, biryani and plain rice,plus curd and the boiled eggs for the 5pm snack, had been prepared by the cooks from Prem Nivas and DMC House in the early hours of the morning.
Lunch was at 12.30 and we left for the beach at 1.45. We were a bit worried because it was so hot but luckily there was a cooling wind at sea level, the waves were not too high and the children's kites flew well.
