An attempt - to bring smile on the faces of innocent kids.. It was so fun to be with them. I am so glad, that I am part of such a great initiative. I always wanted to be a part of such an activity. At Sapient we have come up with this initiative to associate ourselves with a NGO which is providing literacy to kids who cannot afford education. We have volunteered to visit this school to run activities to add fun at school. The kids belong to slums and have zero resources, they have never gone to school.
The experience of the visit cannot be expressed in words, it was so beautiful to see smile in their eyes... We gave them basket ball and net. They were so thrilled to see the basket ball and net, and played it with full enthusiasm. Kids love to dance, sing and play. They don't have enough resources so they are really excited about such activities.
Every alternate friday one group from the hiring team visit the school and run activity. The next group, is going to teach them importance of hygine and will be helping them prepare a hygine kit, which they can use in future.
Check out video to catch the glimpse of our recent visit on 8th may..
2 comments:
“We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet ”
--Swami Vivekananda Above is dream of swami vivekananda regarding education; I look at your project/visit/initiative as a step towards a noble society and nation. I thank you and your/team/company for your service to the nation. I also believe the soul of noble people like Swami Vivekananda and others who dreamed about noble nation will bless you/your team and give more power/energy/resource to move forward in your mission.
Please try to pass this idea and influence as many as you can.
Some times back I read an article from a famous magazine, which described people working for software industry as highly paid and spending most of their money lavishly and involved in anti cultural activities…. I will try to spread this message to those kinds of people to prove them that they have to look into the noble part also
“The kids belong to slums and have zero resources, they have never gone to school.”
Above words or from blog but that is one of the thought I am seriously thinking in my mind from my childhood.
What we can do for this? As per Ministry of HRD, in FY 08-09, they have spent around Rs 30,000 cr only for education schemes/scholarships etc…
Proof : http://www.education.nic.in/Elementary/PAOFeb09/schemewise_feb_09.xls
Rs 30,000 Cr is only from central government, if we assume each state government spends around 3000Kr, which will come around 75,000 cr. Altogether In our country we are spending around Rs 100,000 Cr. This is only from education there is lot of other schemes also http://www.india.gov.in/govt/schemes.php
The point I want to make here is, as an individual we can do some small activities to help and support them, we have to think about how we can really provide a permanent solution to solve their problem.
Some of my thoughts are
How we tell the “people with zero resources”, that there is a treasure worth of
Rs 100,000 Cr/year, that is your property go and get it?
How we can tell the people who are misusing these funds “you are stealing the food of a person who is nothing to eat”?
Note:
I wrote here what have thought in my mind ,If any my words hurt you (Rupender/readers of this comment), I deeply apologize for that
--Panneer Pandi Gnanadurai
Reference:
http://www.education.nic.in/Elementary/ccamain.asp
http://www.india.gov.in/govt/schemes.php
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