My service Checkmates had decided to do a clothes drive in coordination with the Gecko Inc group; who teach children from underprivileged backgrounds how to swim. We had decided to plan and initiate this drive collaboratively as both our groups have only about ten members, twenty together, and having a larger amount of members makes raising awareness much easier. Besides this both our activities are based on the same Vidyadana school and so we would be helping the same groups of kids.
Towards this end we had talked to the school to find out their specific needs, which is how we settled on doing a clothes drive, we had also resolved to get them a decent volleyball as there’s was very deflated which made it hard for them to play. We had also just begun raising awareness for our initiative.
However on March 13th, before we had really reached pushed foward our awareness effort, a quarantine was introduced to reduce the spread of corona, making further progress impossible as we couldn’t collect clothes, or have any opportunity to distribute clothes to the vidyadana school. This was a very disappointing end to the initiative, though I understand it was unavoidable with the outbreak. As this is my final year I will not be able to be apart of this initiative should it begin again next year, though I will communicate with the members who will be taking charge in the next year to continue the idea or something similar.
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