To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.”
Saddi
Dear JY,
We said bye to him at the Idamalayar junction…..Hey, Come, on next April; it is a season of Wild Fruits and Honey……
Courtesy: Travelogue-To Man & To nature-part 2
Birds were flying back to their nests....Trees holding and closing their leaves to sleep...We could see the setting sun through the Trees....Still the Tribal pupils were playing around the school ground...We got a KSRTC Bus from the Idamalayar Junction.... As bus was running...Outreache rs slipped to deep sleep ...some fell down to others shoulders... some sat back and slept...bright faces were faded.... Faces were telling the story of tiredness and efforts...I became too dark(Alla, thaanghal iniyum engottu Dark aakanannu..) As the Bus was reaching to the Town.....Our first journey was reaching to its last stop...Everyone hugged each other and went their own ways....
Two seeds were sowed in our mind...1) To clean the Water tank and pond 2) Set up a Medical Camp to get the awareness of their General health... In the next core, we got the permission to go forth with the ideas...Complete JY were ready to render their service...
Core told to Civil ians of our group to take responsibility on the Water treatment... If my thought is right...First time,,, A program which gives an opportunity to use the engineering thoughts on the Service of society in our college...As a final year civil student, Reenu chechi gave guidance to our Deacon, Blesson, Tintu...So we decided to go for the second time to take the water of the pond...and want to test in our Civil labs (Environmental Lab)(?)
Second Journey to the Forest with our Civil Engineers
I was not remembering well about that Journey....Emi, Jobin, Jimesh, Pratish, Tintu, blessan, Manoj, AF, Ajjo, Ashwin, Soumya, (people please mail me those who came for our last Tribal outreach, So that i can put all your names in my mail)....On one Saturday with ,one and a half litre Pepsi bottles ,we again went for the mission...We had an another zeal to know more about the people...We went by bus upto ‘Vadattupara’... From there we went by Jeep which was arranged by Sudhan chettan.....
We reached the forest village,Thalukandam (Thanks Emi) by before noon...We walked again through the village ways..which gave us a serene feeling of nature....We had the Survey sheets with us...To save the time,we divided in to small groups...Visited each Adhivaasi families...We enquired each and everything of the family...Regarding Family members. Earning members, School going Children, Health Status, Agriculture, Conveyance to Kothamangalam, Power supply....One would fill the Survey sheets.....We heard a lot of worries and pains from each one...All got ‘Karikkian vellom’ from one small home...(When we requested some water, one old man climbed on one coconut tree and plucked down one full bunch....)
We visited around 30 families on that day.....Collected water in the bottles for testing to know the treatment agent for the water...Placed the bottle, safe inside the vehicle..Again the driver changed the gear to first...tyre turned one round....Boys hanging outside the jeep...Girls were singing JY songs inside...A little risky trip through the jungle...But a nice trip....Hey Chetta, Dam inte Aduthu onnu nirthane....Driver Stopped near to the Idamalayar Dam ...stood by the side of the road ..enjoying the view of the Dam water catchment area...someone pointed to down ....and saying that was Power house...We threw some stones to the dried river area, which looks like a forest...Made big sounds and waited to hear the Echo...Hello. .......Hello ......Hello ...Hello (Echo...)..We walked down to see the deep but still, dam ...went near,...felt the complete silence over the water...There were some bamboo logs floated over the water.... ‘Bamboo’ Lorries were parked near to the River. We walked...ran and Jumped over the bamboos and went up to the other end of the dam....Meanwhile an unforgettable incident happened.... Ashwin(2005 electrical), She put her legs on two separate Bamboo bunches while walking...Both moved in opposite directions.. .she screamed by fear..but people in the water swam near to the bamboos and helped her to be safe....We couldn’t hold and tie the time..Time is moving...Driver chettan was waiting for us at the top, to drop at Vadattupara. ..
With a cool sense of togetherness we had left the place with the Joy of God... As the jeep moved over the Forest rocks, Water in the bottle (which we brought for testing), was danced, drops of water were falling on their legs... I hold firmly my legs on the steps and hands on the carrier..... They were singing ‘Lift high the banners of love’ and its beauty was soluted well on the way....
Ennu Snehapoorvam
Subin
They tested the water in their lab....Their inference was...
Water contained some algae...not much problems...Treat the water with some chemicals... Potassium chloride(?) as a cleaning agent....
Ariyavunna chemistry koodi marannu!!... Oh Sheri,
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