Trip to the Water park with the street children of Calcutta

After
last year’s heartbreaking trip to Kolkata, I was determined to make this trip as emotionally positive as possible hence the decision to take the street children VITAL sponsors in the two schools on a day trip to the Water Park.

As it was difficult to limit the numbers & refuse some children, we ended up with 64 children coming.

It was lucky I had Dougal & Alice accompanying the 5 teachers along with myself.

Most of these children had never been out of the city before & were in such jovial spirits when they boarded the bus at 9.30am that they all started singing & dancing on the bus.

We quietened them down by giving them a packed breakfast!

We finally arrived at Aquatica by 11.30am.

We had to hire swimsuits for most of the children & then most of them ran off.

I was assigned two 5 yr olds who were nervous of the water & clung to me most of the time whilst Alice had offered to look after 3 yr old Krishnu.

Krishnu was also frightened of the water but by the end of the day he was completely at home in the water.

We rounded up the children by 4pm & gave them a hot lunch by the bus before returning to the city on a quiet bus as all the children had fallen asleep!