Best Experience Ever! IVHQ Sri Lanka Special Needs Care Program

I participated in IVHQ Special Needs Care Program in Sri Lanka for two weeks. It consisted of one week of introduction and one week of actual volunteering.
During the first week, we were taken to all kinds of different activities in and around Kandy, our volunteer main base in Sri Lanka, including germ museum, spice garden, massage, cultural dance show etc.. You will have a chance to do all the stuffs most tourists come to Sri Lanka to accomplish and know your fellow volunteers better, who will be your teammates in later weeks.
The second week of the Special Needs Care was wonderful. We were placed to the disabled home in Kandy, where we were expected to participate in classroom setting, lunch feeding, and more importantly interaction with residents there, who are all differently abled. 30% of the residents there cannot speak, while around 10 of them cannot walk on their own. Before settling in the disabled home, they were abandoned, abused, rejected and now they are loved. No amount of love will be enough there. They need all the help they can have. This experience will definitely change your perspective of life. Never have I feel so sadened and yet blessed, depressed and yet enlightened, loving and loved.
I will recommend everyone to go there, however long or short.