Homemakers and three children have been working continuously to create as many paintings as possible. But they aren’t competing for any record or competition. The group is working to secure the future of 75 girls. Artists as young as six are a part of the effort.
Their mission is to generate funds by putting up their art works for auction to support higher education of underprivileged girls.
The girls are studying in class IX and X in the Chembur municipal school. But these girls are unable to continue their academics due to paucity of funds.
The guardians of these 75 girls are unable to afford their studies, so they have decided to find them some menial jobs so that they can supplement family income.
Vedant Welfare Foundation is taking the lead in this mission. The foundation is a non-profit organisation with a mission to bringing succour to underprivileged children through education.
According to the organisation, learning extends beyond the classroom through activities like art, yoga, music, public speaking and elocutions.
The foundation helps in inculcating all round development among underprivileged children. They keep in touch with these children for giving assistance till they complete higher education and become independent. It was founded in 1991 by seven people who are from different walks of life.
Since then they have organised workshops, seminars and exhibitions for the underprivileged and deserving students.
They have conducted several personality development camps for school children and inmates of remand homes.
Recently the foundation organised an exhibition where 150 paintings made by remand home inmates at Mankhurd were displayed at an art gallery on Warden Road. “Along with this initiative, we are also associated with local NGOs. We have also worked to create bilateral relationship with India and Philippines. We organised two exhibitions at Oman in the year 2003,” said S Ravindranath, director of Vedant Welfare Foundation and an artist.
Homemakers and children are ready with their paintings. The illustrations depict human beings and their lifestyle, environment, animal life and gods and deities. “I like making paintings and for my mother it is a hobby. Now both of us have found a cause to help underprivileged girls,” said Vignesh Vishwanathan, a six-year-old artist.
While dates of the exhibition and venue haven’t been finalised. “We are exhibiting all paintings to generate funds. We have applied to the civic administration to grant us a venue free of charge, but we haven’t got any response from them. Since we are short of funds we can’t exhibit them in big and prominent galleries of the city,” said Ravindranath.
Manjula Sudarshan, a homemaker said, “Our society is very generous and always eager to help the underprivileged section. Through this effort, our main purpose is to make visitors aware about girls who are unable to continue higher studies due to lack of financial assistance, encouragement and support.”
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