Butterflies field visit Chandni Chowk & Sadar Bazaar
On the second day of the second week of my internship at Butterflies, I visited contact points. These contact points are quite near Chandni Chowk metro station, a walking distance. I was aware that there'd be no proper structure made by butterflies for education, instead open areas were used as open classrooms for education and interaction. My supervisor gave me the directions to the Hathi Park contact point, with the landmark being the Barkhandi Mandir where I reached and called Sonam, the program officer for the contact point. She took me to the park, it was around 10 am in the morning with blistering heat and loo going through the trees. When i was waiting at the Barkhandi mandir i saw beggars, scraggy men with saffron robes and some with no clothes at all. One of the people who were coming to worship at the mandir brought chaach, and distributed it among the homeless people. Previously smoking a bidi, they now pounced at the chaach which was being donated so graciously. Right behind me, on the footpath, there lay a man with no clothes on, looked as if his entire body was sucked dry of water because of the sun. He called bhaiya and when i looked at him he asked for water. When i gave him my water bottle he insisted that he waste some of it by instead having me pour water into his hand and then he could drink it. A litre was gone in seconds, but i didn't regret it. Soon after Sonam called me and picked me up from the temple, her entire face covered in a rupatta. She took it off when she was with me, walked with me talking about what I plan to do today. I was not really sure but i had thought of playing some games with the children which would involve everyone and didn't require strenuous effort. I learnt these games from play for peace. Unfortunately I couldn't play these games due to my own lack of initiative. I wasn't pushed by anyone to do so.
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