This Diwali, Crack it!

Festival of lights… or crackers, more appropriately. We enjoy buying crackers, bursting them and enjoying! We must! After all, it’s our right to celebrate! But just imagine, what is the price we pay to exercise the right? Not about the MRP on cracker box, but the precious time and lives of vast innocents behind the job!

Are we aware that even now over 100,000 children engage themselves in making crackers in Sivakasi (Cracker Town in Tamil Nadu, India) for a daily sum of Rs.10 – Rs.40? Yes we are aware! We are also aware that they do not have any protection; coverage and work in perilous conditions to make the vast majority of us splurge in our monies and buy those crackers!

Do we know that behind every cracker that is bought and burst, there is sweat and actually blood of children who are neglected by us – the literate class? Yes we know.ckers in Sivakasi (Cracker Town in Tamil Nadu, India) for a daily sum of Rs.10 – Rs.40? Yes we are aware! We are also aware that they do not have any protection; coverage and work in perilous conditions to make the vast majority of us splurge in our monies and buy those crackers!

Do we realize that if we cannot make them better, we should at least not make them worse? Yes we realize!

Yet, we buy crackers because it’s our right to celebrate…and we can afford it!

So before you buy crackers this time, watch this linked video and then..go ahead do it!

Our sincere suggestion: Instead of splurging thousands of rupees on crackers done by neglected children, can we invest as little as Rs.1200/- to adopt a child’s education?

If yes, then do yourself an act of good and contact the below NGO (or any other you know of) and adopt a child’s education!

Society for Neglected Children
No. 4 | 3rd Cross | Lakhsmi Devamma Block | Ganganagar | Bangalore - 560 032 | Karnataka | India | Tel: 91-80-23431590, 80-23338420 | Email: sncisd@hotmail.com.

May this Diwali be a noble one.. a paperless one! This Diwali..Crack it!