Friendship Day initiative builds a bridge between two groups of children

Milaap, a crowd-funding platform, initiated a letter-writing initiative for children affected by cancer and children from underprivileged backgrounds.

Milaap, a crowd-funding platform, initiated a letter-writing initiative for children affected by cancer and children from underprivileged backgrounds.

The two-day event marking friendship day was held in collaboration with the Narayana Hospital and Daakroom at the Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center (Unit of Narayana Health), on June 21 and 22.

On the first day of the event, 25 students who are part of the Need Base India NGO, all aged between 13 to 15 years, wrote letters.

On the second day a student, posing as a postman, distributed the letters to the children in the oncology ward of the medical centre.

“I felt very happy while writing the letter; I wrote it with the hope that they recover soon,” said Asha B., a student at Need Base India.

Kavitha N.T., education coordinator at Need Base India, told The Hindu that the initiative was held so that the children feel connected to each other.

“Our NGO works for vulnerable children and these children miss emotional relationships. Therefore, through Milaap, we tried to reach out to kids in the Narayana Hospital so that both groups feel socially connected.”