Ladakh Charity Meet, 14-8-10

[Karthik3393]

Great Job folks...

[Ameeth]

Thats an immense effort guys. Three cheers to everyone

[vardhan.harsh]

It was a fun day and many thanks to BCMT folks to help us channelize our energy and efforts in a constructive manner for the people of Ladakh. Proud to be a member of this "giving" community.

The logistics of sending off the relief material was finally over post mid-night. The truck arrived with 200 cartons of packaged drinking water with 12 one liter bottle in each one of those cartons. It did not sound much but the volume when stacked up all together did look daunting.


This was only one pile of 100 cartons. Another 100 was to the left of this one.


The clothes & woolens were properly organized and packed up. Many thanks to our home-grown packaging experts.


The packaged water arrived in three such tempos.

The guys who had dropped off the water cartons disappered soon after. The truck, in which they were to be loaded, arrived much later. So it was upon us to load those cartons in the truck. And here's a proof that we did break a sweat doing it .


From Left to Right: Nitin Sagar, Nithin K David (NKD), Shishir Gupta (cacofnix), Me


From left to Right: Nithin K David (NKD), Aarti Dayal (aarti), me, Nitin Sagar

These guys were kidnapped by us to work as daily wage workers . We did not pay them though finally :P. Although we did give up a free pick-up, drive & drop facility from their respective homes. Though not BCMT members, all of them are travel enthusiasts with speacial love for Ladakh. Thanks guys it would not have been possible to load without your help.

[Ameeth]

Great Work Harsh n Co! Its wonderful to see people taking time out of their busy lives to help a cause.

And hope the daily wage workers also got a cup of 'Chai' afterwards which all mallus dearly love after some hardwork

[Salil]

Thanks Harsh for this much awaited update. We forgot to take your no. (stupid of us!) and have been waiting with bated breath for this update. Sorry to hear the co-ordination between the 2 trucks arriving at the same time didn't work out and you guys had to put in such effort. We all appreciate the same.

Edit: Just saw the pics. Hats off all of you!

[CBZian]

Great work Harsh and friends for your efforts. Thanks for update and efforts!!!

[vardhan.harsh]

Originally Posted by Ameeth

Great Work Harsh n Co! Its wonderful to see people taking time out of their busy lives to help a cause.

And hope the daily wage workers also got a cup of 'Chai' afterwards which all mallus dearly love after some hardwork

chai sadly was not available. But we of course sutta & coke pretty much made up for it

Originally Posted by Salil

Thanks Harsh for this much awaited update. We forgot to take your no. (stupid of us!) and have been waiting with bated breath for this update. Sorry to hear the co-ordination between the 2 trucks arriving at the same time didn't work out and you guys had to put in such effort. We all appreciate the same.

Edit: Just saw the pics. Hats off all of you!

It was fun! After all it was a very different saturday night with a unique activity to be done.

[sanmuk4965]

may god give ladakhis strength to overcome the grief. indian army is doing a great job there. let us know how we can help,from kolkata. our heart bleeds for the other part of the state too.let the 64th anniversary of independence bring happiness to all indians.

[smakkar]

Hi Harsh/Team, Great work..!!

We in our office are planning something similar next week, only If we had known earlier efforts might have been clubbed. Might come back for some questions though....

And, are you the Harsh who raised his Esteem to head to places like Chandratal/Ladakh earlier. Just guessing, might be the same guy so checking

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Thanks a lot Harsh, too bad the trucks didn't arrive at same time and you guys had to do the loading. We bugged you guys a lot yesterday, thanks for being so supportive and understanding. A big thanks to Nitin, Nithin and Shishir as well.

Originally Posted by Ameeth

And hope the daily wage workers also got a cup of 'Chai' afterwards which all mallus dearly love after some hardwork

Don’t know about the daily wage workers, but bonded workers, who had actually had to pay to work, certainly got a cup of tea