My thoughts after seeing "The Blind Side"

I watched the movie "The Blind Side" today and loved it. It is motivating, sentimental, courageous and eye-opening.
It made me appreciate the things in my life that I take granted for - as simple thing as my bed. I like my bed but I always want something more in my bedroom- one more painting, another dresser or mirror. Maybe it's just the woman in me. But watching the movie really made me appreciate what i have and how lucky i m.
I liked the good intentions of the lady who adopted the child from the street and the right heart of the kid "Michael Oher'.
From my childhood i remember, my aunt tried to educate her servant. She sent him to school but he always ran away, at that time I thought that the servant was not worthy of an education but now i feel it might be that he needed some extra help.

It has been a dream of my husband and me, to do something to educate under-privileged children, especially girls.
One African scientist at TED said " Education is the husband who will never let you down". Very rightly so.
I, with my teammates at school, launched the web application "EachOneTeachOne" for free online tutoring.
For EachOneTeachOne, I visited several schools in the Prince Georges County and tried to see if the schools needed some extra help in Math education and if science and engineering students, spending time on social networking sites, could be of some help.

The response i received from the teachers was the same - "YES" . There was a lack of math teachers, the students were not interested to study on top of that the student to teacher ratio was 30:1. All the schools needed extra help and welcomed my initiative.
Alas, EachOneTeachOne is at a stall for lack of time due to my PhD commitments and the issues of safety of communicating with adults over internet.Before watching the movie, I always thought that the time i spent visiting the schools and meeting kids could have been utilized to write a research paper or do an internship. But now I feel that it was worth having it and has much more value than anything i ll do for myself.
I would like to resume the project soon and try to continue my task of " Nar Seva" which means "Service to Humanity".