The past week has shown me a glimpse of Indian life and culture, through the festival of Raksha Bandhan. Raksha Bandhan will fall this year on 2nd August, and celebrates the Brother-Sister relationship. In this festival, sisters tie colourful threads (known as Rakhis) on the wrists of their male relatives, in exchange for gifts. As with all Indian festivals, the festival is not without plenty of colour, as seen from the various Rakhis being sold by Parichay at various corporate houses. On Friday we returned to STMicroelectronics to sell Rakhis and handicraft items made at the unit, and this Tuesday we visited SCS. Today we returned to Tribal Fusion with the children, and whilst the children had an IT lesson, me and Vijay were selling various items. Tomorrow we shall set up another stall at a corporate house in Gurgaon.
From these various stalls I have attended I have learned how the diversity of festivals in India can provide Parichay with unique opportunities to obtain funding, and how crucial the support of various corporate houses are in helping fund the project.
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