The bubbly sound of vivacious laughter emanating from hundreds of happy children is like opening a bottle of chilled effervescent drink on a sunny afternoon.
The bubbly sound of vivacious laughter emanating from hundreds of happy children is like opening a bottle of chilled effervescent drink on a sunny afternoon. You simply cannot escape the cooling effect the sight of the fizz has on your soul.
DNA had the same experience when it reached two municipal schools - municipal school no-2 at New Vadaj and another at Maninagar - both filled with hundreds of bouncy kids - dancing, playing, and generally happy to follow whatever their teachers and the volunteers instructed them to do.
These were children who belonged to lesser affluent pockets of the society or were physically challenged and were being helped to relive their dreams by few volunteers from different schools along with some foreigners too.
While some were learning to shake a leg, others caught up with craft-making skills or learn how to draw, create designs on papers among various other skills being imparted to them by equally enthusiastic teachers of varied ages - from college students to professionals.
Beating the scorching summer of 2009, these hundreds of happy kids of the slum areas have a reason to smile. Two city-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are trying to provide these marginalized and differently-abled children the opportunity to chill out in their summer vacations.
These two NGOs - Samvedna and Prabhat Education Foundation - working for such deprived children living in the slum pockets organised summer camps to light up their darkened lives with rays of happiness. Samvedana ended their summer camp on Saturday with a function wherein the parents of these kids got a chance to see what their kids learnt in a span of 15 days. Janki Vasant, who runs Samvedana, said that their organization holds summer camps to give these children and their parents an incentive to move ahead in life with the help of better education.
Similar sentiments were echoed by the organizers at Prabhat Education Foundation who held such a camp for physically challenged children in Maninagar.
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