No Tears Keep Smile Celebrates Diwali With Muradnagar Settlement Families

Muradnagar’s makeshift settlements also lit up with the spirit of Diwali as the No Tears Keep Smile organisation organised a special celebration for families living there. The initiative focused on bringing happiness, warmth and a sense of belonging to people whose homes are made with plastic sheets and other temporary materials.

Diwali is not only a festival for lighting homes. It is also a festival of bringing happiness to every face. Keeping this thought at the centre of its programme, the organisation celebrated Diwali in the settlements of Muradnagar with sweets, decorations and personal involvement from its team.

Sweets and decoration material distributed

As part of the programme, families living in the settlement were given Diwali sweets and different items for decorating their homes. The material included Lakshmi ji footprints, door hangings, bandanwar and other items connected with Diwali decoration.

Rangolis were also distributed among the families. The aim was to ensure that the families could decorate their doors and courtyards and take part in the festival with happiness and dignity.

A special feature of the programme was that most of the decoration material had been prepared by the organisation’s team members themselves. The team made the door hangings, bandanwar and other decorative items by hand, with hard work and dedication, before taking them to the families.

The sweets and other prepared material also reflected the team’s own labour and participation. The rangolis distributed during the programme were ready-made.

The organisation said that its purpose was not limited to distributing material. It also wanted to connect families living in temporary homes with the celebration of Diwali. The team wanted the doors of these homes to be decorated, rangolis to be made in their courtyards and the families living there to celebrate the festival with full respect and joy.

Programme held under Akshit Verma’s leadership

The programme was held under the leadership of Akshit Verma, the organisation’s national vice-president and president for Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. He personally took part in the preparations along with his team and distributed the hand-made material to the families.

Members of the local Muradnagar team also participated in the programme with enthusiasm.

Archana Rajawat, the organisation’s founder and national president, said, “Our effort is to gradually take forward the initiative of bringing back happiness in the same way across the whole of India. We want there to be no tears of deprivation or helplessness in anyone’s eyes. We will continue trying to ensure that every festival reaches the last person in society and that a smile is visible on every face.”

Akshit Verma said, “We want to make the name of our organisation, No Tears Keep Smile, meaningful. Our effort is that, as far as possible, people’s eyes should become moist not with sorrow, but with happiness. Our team prepared the decoration material with its own hands because we wanted our hard work and affection to be part of these celebrations. If our small effort brings a smile to a family’s face, that is our biggest achievement. The amount of public support we receive to take this service campaign forward will be equally encouraging for us.”

Other members who attended the programme also said that the real joy of service comes when an effort becomes a reason for happiness in someone’s life. All team members expressed their commitment to continue taking forward such social and humanitarian work in the future.

The participating members included Mrs Rajrani, Surendra Kumar, Mrs Sunita Kumari, Kshitij Soni and Ashish Singh Jeena.

The organisation’s message was that the real light of Diwali becomes meaningful only when its brightness reaches the homes of the last person in society. It said that sharing happiness does not require a big house, but a big heart.