Leading by example: Visually-challenged girls offering butter milk to passersby in Berhampur City

Students of a residential girls' school for the blind launched a rehydration centre by the side of a busy road in Gosaninuagaon area of Berhampur city from March 24. They said we will continue the centre till the end of summer. It was quite physical and mental respite to see these small visually-challenged children offering cool refreshing butter milk to the people exhausted by the scorching sun. No one could ignore the call of these children. The girls rejoiced when someone thanked them for their hospitality. They themselves were serving the drinks and also cleaning up the glasses.

The residential school is being managed by the Orissa Service Centre for the Blind (OSCB). The secretary of the OSCB, Bhabani Shankar Padhi, said they had opted for this to minimise the inferiority complex in the minds of the ‘special' children. Several philanthropic organisations of the city have come out to help the visually-challenged students in their endeavour to save people from dehydration during summer. Earlier, the students and teachers had thought that they would provide cold water to the passersby. But now with the helping hands coming out they are confident that the students would be able to provide chilled sherbet and butter milk throughout the summer months to the people of Berhampur.

Source: The Hindu