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=== 15th August, 2007 - 60 years of Indian Independence ===
=== 15th August, 2007 - 60 years of Indian Independence ===


So I went back with my XO to the NGO in Delhi with whom I had been actively involved with [http://www.ambafoundation.org Amba Foundation] .
I went back with my XO to the NGO in Delhi with whom I had been actively involved with [http://www.ambafoundation.org Amba Foundation] .



Some photographs -
Some photographs -




[[Image:flags.jpg |right|thumbnail| 15th August was India's 60th Independence Day. Kids from the Mandawali Faizalpur slum clusters celebrated it at their school at Amba Foundation]]
[[Image:flags.jpg |left|thumbnail| 15th August was India's 60th Independence Day. Kids from the Mandawali Faizalpur slum clusters celebrated it at their school at Amba Foundation]]



[[Image:computers.jpg |center|thumbnail| Although , through grateful donations from donors, Amba has a few old computers]]





[[Image:amba_group.jpg |right|thumbnail| The XO caught their imagination like anything! I just told them to see what the eye does...]]


[[Image:computers.jpg | left|thumbnail| 15th August was India's 60th Independence Day. Kids from the Mandawali Faizalpur slum clusters celebrated it at their school at Amba Foundation]]




[[Image:krishna.jpg |left|thumbnail| The XO, unlike the other computers at the center, allowed them to capture their friends performing in the function. Rahul, age 8 has been dressed up as Lord Krishna]]


[[Image:amba_group.jpg |300 px|center| The XO caught the kids' attention like anything]]




[[Image:Gandhi.jpg |center|thumbnail| Rahul was then dressed up as a Muslim and then as Gandhi. Unity and diversity and equality of all religions and communities was celebrated. Indian spirit is a true reflection of such unity within diversity - everything was captured by kids with the help of the XO ]]
[[Image:amba_group.jpg |300 px|center| They used the XO to capture the performances of their friends at the function. Something that their conventional computers had never allowed them to do.]]

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15th August, 2007 - 60 years of Indian Independence

I went back with my XO to the NGO in Delhi with whom I had been actively involved with Amba Foundation .


Some photographs -


15th August was India's 60th Independence Day. Kids from the Mandawali Faizalpur slum clusters celebrated it at their school at Amba Foundation


Although , through grateful donations from donors, Amba has a few old computers


The XO caught their imagination like anything! I just told them to see what the eye does...


The XO, unlike the other computers at the center, allowed them to capture their friends performing in the function. Rahul, age 8 has been dressed up as Lord Krishna


Rahul was then dressed up as a Muslim and then as Gandhi. Unity and diversity and equality of all religions and communities was celebrated. Indian spirit is a true reflection of such unity within diversity - everything was captured by kids with the help of the XO