Larsen and Toubro visits campus

Work in full swing for the next rickshaw launch - and this time, it's HUGE! 100 rickshaws, folks! Life on Wheels has achieved wonders in such a short period of time! Rickshaw pullers are more than enthusiastic to have bank accounts to their names and rickshaws they can call their own. And not just any rickshaw, but SIFE rickshaws - modified to give you the perfectly comfortable rickshaw ride! Every other rickshaw on North Campus roads seems to be a SIFE rickshaw now.

On Friday, a few of us from the SIFE team went to Shiela Dixit's residence to invite her to the launch ceremony. We took flowers for her, and Calvin gave them to her. Now, he was all for publishing an article titled "Chief Minister accepts flowers from smart college boy and agrees to meet in future". But unfortunately I'm myself responsible for what I write on this blog, so I can't put the blame on anyone else if I wrote a post like that.
Anyway, she was more than enthusiastic to come to the event. She congratulated us on doing such a good job
for a needy community and said she would definitely come to the launch.

Later on Friday, we had another event with Larsen and Toubro. In an effort to help rickshaw pullers with their children's education, Larsen and Toubro very kindly provided those kids with school bags, a notebook, crayons, a pencil box and similar stationary. Rickshaw pullers came with their children, and the function formally began with a documentary screening of how Life on Wheels was conceived and implemented, followed by a screening of L&T's portfolio as an engineering firm. Dr. Abhay Kumar and our principal P.C Jain then addressed the gathering, followed by Mr. Anshu Gupta from L&T.

Did I mention how cute the children were? Most of them were little kiddos below 10 years of age. When they walked in, they were shy and wanted to hide behind their fathers. When they walked out, they were gleaming with happiness, holding their brand new bags and clutching chocolates in their hands.

Happy kiddos are cute - any day, any time.