Community gives a colourful makeover to Cuffe Parade wall

Recently, a group of 25 people that included volunteers, ALM members, children and professional artists came together to change the look and feel of a public wall near G.D. Somani School in Cuffe Parade. My Dream Colaba and NGO New Acropolis (Mumbai), came together to beautify this wall on adjoining Machimar Nagar no. 5 on Capt. Prakash Pethe Marg.

It took the labour of 25 people over a period of two days to finish the work, with kids participating for a few hours too. Cynthia Dmello of My Dream Colaba shares, “The art theme was conceptualised by New Acropolis (Mumbai) and the idea was to make the neighbourhood colourful, cleaner and appealing.”

A lot of thought went into deciding the theme and the colours as well as the reason behind using the word ‘harmony’. Ubai Husein, Volunteer and Secretary of the Active Ecology Department at New Acropolis (Mumbai), expounds, “Harmony denotes the importance of a well-balanced, peaceful, symbiotic relationship as an important ingredient for the survival and well-being of our society. The underlying aim of such activities is to bring about the awareness of being responsible citizens, by caring for the communities we live in.” 

The team also wants to promote the need to bring the virtue of harmony into everyone's lives by empowering people to take charge and be the change we all want to see in the world. He concludes, “This is especially relevant in today's world where bringing beauty to urban India is a need of our times.”