Celebrating Dashain in a different way.

There are different ways of celebrating Dashain. Some celebrate dashain by going in a long journey, some enjoy it just by playing cards and some enjoy it only with family members and relatives. Some youth from pokhara celebrated Dashain this year with family members but a very different and new family. We found a new family in Pokhara Bridhaashram (Elderly home). The family members of the bridhashram were twenty four elderly people. We consider ourself fortunate enough to celebrate the Dashain this time with elderly people of an elderly home. We youth from different backgrounds found a new family. It was a dashain we have ever celebrated in such a large family.

The programme was conducted from self contribution of Rs 50 each. We bought some fruits from the money we raised by ourselves and ate it together with the elderly people. One of our colleagues was generous enough to contribute blankets for the elderly people in memory of her father.

The main theme of the programme was "youths celebrating dashain with elderly people." Elderly people are the ornaments of our society. They have experiences and lots of things to share with young people. They can be a source of inspiration for young people. We met the elderly people and sought tika and blessings from them. The young people were too happy to offer their blessings to the very young generation. After receiving tika from the elderly people it was now time to sing Bhajan. The youths very actively sang in tune with elderly people in Bhajan. People as old as 100 yrs old danced in the bhajan and youth gave company to the elderly people in singing and dancing. There were all together thirty youths and twenty four elderly people.

This programme has raised some kind of responsibility in youths. We all have realized that one day we will also grow old. Being old doesn't mean being useless in the society. Elderly people also can contribute a lot in the society and elderly people deserve lots of love and care. We celebrated the dashain of this year in a very different way. And all the youths that were present there will never forget this day in their life. We all youths have realized that we will give continuation to this kind of programme in future as well.