Design For Change - Shindewadi MPS

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• SHINDEWADI MUMBAI PUBLIC SCHOOL

• JOY OF GIVING

• DESIGN FOR CHANGE

• BAL ANAND- WORLD CHILDREN WELFARE TRUST INDIA

• WHAT WE FELT

• WHAT WE IMAGINED

• PLAN and EXECUTION – WHAT WE DID

SHINDEW

ADI MPS

Shindewadi Mumbai Public School started in April 2009. The school has classes in Jr. KG through 6th grade.

Shindewadi Mumbai Public School offers a unique program where children learn through multiple intelligences.

Teachers assess students regularly and then decide upon a course of action basing on this assessment data.

In the last two years, the Shindewadi Public Schools has invested in parents as equal stakeholders in the school through monthly meetings, a parent-teacher association, and informative sessions with the parents.

In Shindewadi, we believe in the holistic development of our children and a form of teaching which does not restrict itself to just textbooks .

Everyone comes together to ensure high student achievement

SHINDEWADI MUMBAI PUBLIC SCHOOL

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JOY OF GIVING

The Joy of Giving Week is India's "festival of giving"! Launched in 2009, the festival is celebrated every year, in the week including Gandhi Jayanti, i.e., October 2-8, and brings together Indians from all walks of life, to celebrate "giving".

Millions of people give their time, money, resources or skills back to society- by creating or participating in "events" of their choice. A giving event could be as simple as a family taking out the maid's children for an ice-cream party, or as large as the Design For Change Contest that had 200,000+ school children across India participating and volunteering to make a difference.

Joy of Giving Week is a volunteer driven project and their motto is simply to spread some happiness encouraging millions across the world to spare sometime from their lives and contribute to greater good.

Shindewadi will be participating in Joy of Giving Week in our School by participating a Design for Change Project.

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DESIGN FOR CHANGE

Design for Change is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through the Design for Change Challenge that “I Can” are the two most powerful words a person can believe. It enables children to assume responsibility from a very young age and help bring about a change in society.

Our aim with this project is to sensitize our kids to issues around them and teach them the importance of sharing no matter how little you have.

We believe it is this thinking and approach which will one day transform them into unique adults.

For the Shindewadi Design Project, we have decided to help Bal Anand: World Children Welfare Trust India.

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BAL ANAND:WORLD CHILDREN WELFARE TRUST INDIAWorld Children Welfare Trust India is a licensed NGO registered under

Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950, Orphanages and other Charitable Homes (Supervision and Controls) Act, 1960 and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection )Act, 2000.

It was set up in 1984 to receive shelter and rehabilitate orphaned, abandoned and destitute minors by the way of adoption. First Children’s Home- Bal Anand was commenced in 1984 with 8 children in residential care. Additional centres, Bal Ashraya and Bal Uday Shishu Greh were set up in Nagpur and Bhandara respectively. About 20 special children are under care of Bal Anand.

It is an environment that provides the child warmth, care and material comforts of a home and family until an adopting family is found. Though it is nearly impossible to find an adoption family for the special needs children. Many of these children are being schooled at special institutions – Sulabha School for Mentally Retarded and National Centre for Cerebral Palsy – now known as National Resource Centre for Inclusion- India.

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For us Bal Anand is a place full of endless love and care. But sadly love while most important can’t replace material needs.

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ELTBal Anand is an anath ashram where some children are mentally challenged. The kids need many things. I can help them by telling them my many fun stories and sharing my secrets with them. I can wath interesting movies and cartoons with them and show them dolphins and other fish. I will give them dolls. I can help there minds grow.

Preeti, Grade 4-BThe children of Bal Anand Ashram don't stay with their family members. Their family does not care about them. So these children were thrown in deserted areas. The Bal Anand Ashram takes care of these children.These children need food, medicines, clothes and toys. We are feeling upset as the family members don't care about these children.Rohit, Grade 6

OUR TRIP TO BAL ANAND

Bal Anand utilises close to 1500 diapers in one day. They have a long list of monthly medicinal needs and hygiene products. Certain medicines are patient specific and others come under the category of general everyday needs. Similarly, they cook 3 healthy meals a day for 54 kids.

Additionally, the new born babies need specific baby food. There is also an immense requirement of clothes, toys and stationery. In today’s day and age where it is hard to raise one child Bal Anand is providing for 54.

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EDWe spoke about the issue of the kids at Bal Anand during circle time in school and asked the students as to what they imagined about the issue. Here are some of the responses from the children about how they wanted to go about the task of giving joy to the orphanage kids.

OUR STUDENTS’ GOALS TOWARDS THE PROJECT

In the orphanage there are 54 children. In the orphanage 20 children are mentally challenged. There are small babies who are born and their parents leave them alone. There was a girl who was thrown in a dustbin and all rats bit her. Her name is Pari and she is very beautiful. There are 2 boys whose parents left them alone. They are brothers.

They need many medicines, clothes and all other important things. We can help them by giving them handwash, clothes, medicines and food and we can get the money by collecting it. We can ask big company managers to help us.

Afreen Sheikh, 4-B

Bal Anand is a place for children who have lost their parents. It is an orphanage. In Bal Anand there are 54 kids. Bal Anand is in Chembur. They need Dettol Bottles, diapers, food and medicines. We can save and collect money and give it to the owner of Baal Anand. We can tell good things to children in Bal Anand and help them.

Aditya, 4-BWe are helping Bal Anand in Chembur. They need love, friends, parents, toys, medicines, fruits and vegetables. They need our help. There are big people who take care f the 54 children. It is so difficult to cook for so many children. They need money to bring things for the children of Bal Anand. We are going o collect this money.

Simraan Rathod, 4-A

OUR STUDENTS’ GOALS TOWARDS THE PROJECT

Joy of Giving makes us and the person who is getting feel very happy.There is an orphanage named Bal Anand.It is for those children whose parents have left them in dustbins or on streets.Bal Anand takes care of these children.These children are facing different problems.Some are physically challenged,some are blind.There is a girl named Pari who is very beautiful but she was bitten by rats.Let us do something good for them on our National Father (Gandhiji's)birthday.

Priyanka Grade 6

Some kids at Bal Anand don't speak, some cannot see and some can't walk. Their parents have left them in dustbins. People who see them crying bring them to the Bal Anand Ashram which is an orphanage.Joy of giving happens on 2nd October which is Gandhi Jayanti. So on this day we want to help them by giving them good food.

Purvi Grade 6We are from Akanksha Shindewadi Mumbai Public School and want to help kids at Bal Anand Ashram children at Bal Anand Ashram don't have their own family. They were thrown away and there was no one to take care of them. One of them Pari, was thrown in a dustbin. They need good food. They don't have what we have.I think we should help them.I want them to be healthy.

Sejal - Grade 6

WE CAME UP WITH A LIST OF THINGS THAT BAL ANAND

NEEDED…

FoodFoodMedici

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Baby

Food

Baby

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Toys

Toys

Stationary

Stationary

DiapersDiapersHygien

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Hygiene

Products

Books

Books

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EXECUTIONTO EXECUTE OUR PROJECT WE:

1. WE APPROACHED VARIOUS CORPORATES, SCHOOLS AND INDIVIDUALS WITH A PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTING THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF BAL ANAND SUCH AS – - MEDICINES - DIAPERS AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS - BOOKS, TOYS AND STATIONARY - FOOD AND BABY FOOD

2. IN ORDER TO COMPILE THIS PRESENTATION, WE ENCOURAGED OUR CHILDREN TO WRITE LETTERS FOR THE SAME. OUT OF A POOL OF LETTERS, THE BEST ONES WERE CHOSEN AND INCLUDED IN THE PRESENTATION. 3. THE CHILDREN TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO INVOLVE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOR COLLECTING THE VARIOUS ITEMS REQUIRED. (Many students spoke to their parents about the issue, some of them sacrificed their toys to collect money for the lesser privileged kids.)

OUR RESULTS

1. VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY CONTRIBUTED GENEROUSLY TOWARDS OUR CAUSE, AND WITH THE EFFORTS OF OUR CHILDREN, WE RAISED A TOTAL OF INR 40,000.

2. AMONGST THE CORPORATES, KENITH AND LAW DECIDED TO SUPPORT US IMMENSELY AND COLLECTED FROM ALL OF THEIR EMPLOYEES THROUGHOUT “The Joy of Giving” WEEK, AND ENABLED US TO DONATE TO BAL ANAND IN KIND.

3. THE CHILDREN COLLECTED INR 208 FROM THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITY.THE FAMILY OF TWO OF THE STUDENTS CANCELLED A TRIP TO A FAIR, AND CHOSE TO DONATE THE MONEY FOR DIAPERS IN STEAD.

4. TO THE EXCITEMENT OF ALL OF OUR KIDS, WE FINALLY BROUGHT THIS PROJECT TO AN END BY SPENDING A DAY AT BAL ANAND. THE LUNCH FOR THIS DAY WAS ALSO SPONSORED BY ONE OF OUR KIND DONORS. IT WAS INDEED THE PERFECT END TO MAKE OUR CHILDREN UNDERSTAND THE JOY OF GIVING.

THANK YOU

ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT:

SHAMAYITA CHOUDHURYEMAIL- [email protected] 9930303735 NAMRATA SHARMAEMAIL- [email protected] 9930148397 CHANDRIKA SHENOYEMAIL- [email protected] 9479846965