“Giving Is Not Just About Making A Donation, It Is About Making A Difference “

New Horizon Educational Institutes adopted 93 tribal villages in the Bandipur, Nagarwala and Kabini forest areas, we took this opportunity to come forward and lend a hand in ensuring them a better life and improved living conditions. Every human, be it an adult or a child, deserves to live their life with basic essentials and facilitates and this is what we are hoping to give them through this camp.

The community service camp was for conducted for a period of 2 days from 28/03/2022 to 29/03/2022. It was a 5-hour long drive from our college to the Hunsur forests where we were welcomed by NHEI representative Veerupaksha sir and Mr. Suryanarayan ji (Bajarangdal national Vice-President and Leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishath). Accommodations was provided in the OBC hostel, Devaraja Arasu colony,Hanagudu.

Activities conducted during the camp

On the 28^th we visited Kanakuppeadi near Hanagood village. There were a total of 08 families living in the community. The key activity for the day was to build a restroom facility for the community. Mappings were done, markings were made and pit was dug by NSS team and it was all set to lay the foundations for the facility. Later in the day a meeting was set up with the community where the team interacted with the community, sharing their life experiences, their ups and downs in life and we also discussed thoughts about what we can do to help to make their community better. We got a chance to witness their talents over a fun filled camp fire night.

On the 29^th we went back to the Kanakuppeadi community, our key activity for the day included constructing houses for improving the living conditions. The pillars were laid, roof beams were welded, the cement sheets were placed on the on the roof beams, walls were built. The NSS and the community made a tremendous team. Both of us put in all our effort and successfully completed the activity in the community.

In the evening of 29^th we visited another community named Chowkur. It is a closed community with 18 families residing there. We spend our time there interacting with the people and understanding their living conditions. After the interactions the key points were,A land of 4 acres was allotted to them for residing, the school is in a place called Panchali distanced 5km from the community.  the key activity here was to donate essential commodities collected by NSS. The team distributed the commodities to the people. The community was really happy and heart fully accepted out donations.

Learning outcomes of the community service camp

We got experience of living in and with the community, sharing their life and participating with them. This camp helped the students to an eye-opening experience and developed a sense of team work and social awareness in the students.

The smile on the faces of the community people while waving us bye was priceless and makes us want to do more for them to make their lives better so that smile never fades off.