B’day gives shelter home festive mood

TNN | Apr 26, 2020, 04:05 IST

UP couple cuts the cake on the first birthday of their daughter in the shelter home on Friday

Vadodara: “If we had been home, it would have been a grand celebration of our daughter’s first birthday,” lamented Suresh Nishad, a migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh who is lodged in a shelter home in Panchmahal district.
But as soon as Nishad revealed about his daughter Hansika's birthday to Bhakti Panchal of the women's group Maa Krupa Juth, she mentioned it to the other women working with her and they all decided to make a cake for the girl and celebrate her birthday.
But they could not find a baker during the lockdown. The members saw a video on how to make a cake and procured the necessary raw material.
Eventually, they surprised Nishad and his wife Gudiya on Friday with a handmade cake to wish Hansika on her birthday.
Nishad worked at a textile unit in Surat and the entire family from Uttar Pradesh has been put up in a shelter home for migratory workers in Chanchelav in Panchmahal . The family was stopped on their way in wake of the lockdown while they were trying to return to their native. Hansika aka Parul turned one on Friday. While officials of the district administration also remained present on the occasion, Hansika cut her first birthday cake in the shelter home, amid claps.