Aarush’s First Birthday

Aarush is one year old now and we recently celebrated his first birthday.

The Cake

Parents want to make this occasion to be a big and memorable one. We also wanted the celebrations to be memorable but in a different manner. We were not in the favour of organizing a grand party for celebrating the birthday. Because we consider this a way of making public relations nothing else. We really wanted to do something great rather than grand. So we decide to celebrate our betu’s birthday in an orphanage.

A little information about the venue: The name of the orphanage is ‘Niradhar Balsangopan Anath Ashram’ and it is located in Dapodi, Pune. The orphanage has around 35 children of age group 1 year to 13 year or so.

After deciding what we need to do, it was the time to organize the event. We talked to Mrs. Malan, who is the caretaker of the orphanage. She suggested us various ways to contribute such as giving groceries to them, arranging lunch or dinner for them, taking them to movies et cetera.

Children @ NBAA

We thought if we give groceries to those children, this would hardly make any change in their day to day life, so we reserved this option for next time. We decided to arrange a small snacks party there in the evening around 4PM.  We invited some of our close friends. We made the necessary arrangements for the snacks, including cake and cold drinks. We also bought few kilos of biscuits and few hundreds of chocolates for the children.

Our residence is around 14 km from that place. We invited everyone at 4PM hence we reached there before the scheduled time. Almost all invitees reached there within next half an hour. The place was too small to accommodate the children also there were no ceiling fans. We really felt sad about that.

Children enjoying snacks

When everyone joined us there, the party started . Albeit we could not interact much with the children as the number of people were more than that can be accommodated, we enjoyed the party. The children enjoyed the snacks as well as the cold drink to the fullest.

Some of my friends also donated few things like blankets, money et cetera. Some of them also brought chocolates for the children.

We spent around 3 hours there. We had ordered the snacks more than required (We realized that later), so we had left all the stuff there only.

For us it was a great achievement to organize such an event successfully. We sincerely thank all our friends who came from different part of the city and made Aarush’s first birthday celebration a memorable one.

Hoping to continue such endeavours,

Mr. & Mrs. Kumar