Crossroads Outing with Enactus

Crossroads, SRCC’s annual festival, is sacred to SRites - and it should be too! Having been called the biggest fest in Delhi by any parameter, whether be it funds invested or the footfall witnessed, attending Crossroads is a must in the to-do list of every student.

Enactus SRCC saw in Crossroads an opportunity            

An opportunity to present a cause

An opportunity to display the skills of our communities

An opportunity to increase their incomes

An opportunity to inspire

And an opportunity to help people find their own cause

All of this, by means of a stall at Crossroads!

We sold puppetry merchandise procured from the puppeteers of Kathputli Colony, Shadipur under Project Kayakalp; and ‘Neki’ detergent, made by the women of Nekpur under Project Azmat. We also had a brainstorming session to come up with other things to do at the stall, and settled upon having a photo booth with puppet masks and muppets - and some games with fancy Superhero bookmarks as prizes!

Crossroads finally began amidst great hustle and bustle, and we set up our stall on the first day itself. Amazingly, we had an overwhelming response! The crowd loved the photo booth and the games! Seeing this, we decided to stock merchandise made by artisans of West Bengal as well. These were procured for us by Banglanatak, and were admired by all.

We also organized the second edition of Life On Wheels Escapades Adventure Programme (LEAP) in collaboration with The Travelers on the third day of the festival. An allied activity with the children (age group 6-12) of our rickshaw puller community, LEAP turned out to be a huge success too! The morning was full of fun where everyone enjoyed on the trampoline, and played games of volleyball and Tug of War. The energy was infectious and a great start for the day!

During the four days, we earned a fair income from the stall, got many supporters on ‘Gudville*’ and spread the spirit of social entrepreneurship amongst the people present there.

Four days of immense fun, we shared our Enactus experience with visitors, bonded further as a team and as a result, enjoyed Crossroads together!

* Gudville is a private social action network for discovering and sharing personal causes and inspiring friends to action. Please support us in our cause by clicking here.

- Mitali Gupta