The "First Pay Day" campaign....

Saturday 26th Sept. 2009, CRY office, a group of volunteers were eager to understand the concept of the campaign in detail and we got another opportunity to enlighten our shibboleth "Jid Karo, School Bharo" once again.... this time we were even more well-versed.... with many more examples to emphasize our point....

The first question came was "Why the video of First Pay Day??".... what is so different and important about the "First Pay Day" for everyone??? We may tend to think Pay Day is only the first salary earned in an organization, after a month-long work in a air-conditioned office, in front of a stupid computer and blah blah..... If we stressed our "mighty-brains" and think beyond it we may imagine the worst situation of a "human" who may be working on a construction site.... accompanied by the raging sun.... ooohhh.... poor fellow.... but..... but..... can we ever see a lady begging at some traffic signal along with her small kid... who is of only 3-4 months old.... and the lady gets money by "marketing" the her asset - the-misfortunate-kid............ and the-socially-responsible-citizens like us help her by giving her a rupee or two... for the kid's sake.....

wait a second..... did we say for the kid's sake.....????? does that mean the kid has just earned some money... that too at the age of, may be, few days......???? Could this be the "First Pay Day" for the kid???

So, is the First Pay Day important and unique for everyone??? We just want us to think about the same when we come across these kind of situation.....

to be continued.......