Bridge Camp in 2024
Mr & Mrs. Vahalia organized a three-week intensive Bridge camp in 2014. This was an Intermediate training and often went on for 10 hours a day. This gave the students a firm foundation and took them many steps up the endless ladder of Bridge excellence.
In 2015, Mr. Vahalia hosted 21 children (11 from Raibidpura and 10 from Salem- Tamil Nadu) for a summer coaching camp in Ahmedabad. Boarding, lodging & coaching was free for participants. That is when he noticed the potential of juniors.
In 2017 January at annual Indore event, he invited bridge seniors from the village for a meeting. A proposal to send juniors for higher education to Ahmedabad (where they can also learn high level/ advanced bridge) was laid. He convinced their families to have their college education in Ahmedabad under his guardianship. Parents of Kalpana and Vidhya accepted on the spot promising to send the girls when they finished schooling in 2018.
Kalpana Gujjar and Vidhya Patel joined Ahmedabad University in June 2018 and the Vahalias kind of adopted them. Every weekend, he would pick up the girls and spend many many hours on Bridge before dropping them back in the College hostel on Monday.
This continued through the pandemic years 19-20 & 20-21. In fact, in Junior Nationals, there were 7 teams of youngsters that Parimal bhai had introduced to Bridge.