Project Pehal celebrated childrens day on 14th November, 2010. As the day began, Sahipur school was filled with colours, cartoons, music and silent murmurs of excited children who waited for the event to unroll. The children brought along their parents for them to applaud on their dazzling performances.
The event started with a prayer, where our Pehal volunteers and the children sang along to the tunes of 'Itni shakti hamein de na daata' played through the Harmonium. This was followed by an extravaganza of performance by our little children and volunteers. Dances, songs and poems echoed through the venue. Our cute little children recited poems such as:
'Chacha Nehru ache the
Hum sab unke bacche the
karte the wo humse pyaar
ab to jeena hua dushwaar
14 november ka din hai aaya
Chacha ko sab ke saath paya
Hum sab bacche lagate hai awaaz
Chacha Nehru Zindabad!!'
Similar performances by various kids concluded with a huge round of applause across the hall.
Our volunteers then conducted a play aimed at towards the parents. The play reiterated the importance of education in a child's life. The volunteers, wonderfully displayed he future of an educated and an uneducated child. The stark contrast between the two were taken as an example and later explained to the parents. We asked them to make a commitment towards educating their children to ensure a bright future.
Our kids were now ready for some games! We organized a game in which we put up cartoon pictures namely, Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Schinchan on each wall. The children were asked to dance till the music played and as soon as it stopped they were asked to run to a cartoon charachter. A cartoon charachter was then chosen through shuffeling of small chits. The children standing on that wall of that cartoon character were then considered to be out. The entire venue filled with cheerful voices and excited screams as children danced to music and ran.
The game was followed by a session of continous dancing, where all the children and volunteers tapped their foot to music.
After we distributed prizes to the winners of the game, we also distributed prizes to the top performers and students who had a regular attendence. The tired children then sat to have snacks, which included samosa's, chips and sweets.
The day ended with laughter, fun and frolic. As the children and their parents walked back home with a smile, we were convinced that our team effort was a success!
Volunteers Present: Prachi Aggarwal, Vikramjeet Singh, Prachi Garg, Vipra Dhawan, Nikita Khemka, Anandita Yadav, Zulaikha Rahman, Vibhor Gupta, Tushar, Siddharth, Ashmeet Bilkhu, Aditi Sachdev, and Kartik Sharma
