Wednesday, 19 February 2014

AASHAYEIN'14 - Celebration of a Child

The greatest poem ever known
is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
of being only four years old.


~Christopher Morley, To a Child

Childhood is that enchanted phase of one’s life where the colors are brighter, the air softer and the morning more fragrant than ever again. It deserves to be treasured, cherished and celebrated.
In an attempt to do the same, Team ANTAR with its volunteers visited the DMRC Shelter Home near Tis Hazari Metro station on 5th January 2014. This event, Ashayein is organised every year by the college’s CSR committee with a vision to create awareness on education among under-privileged children and to motivate them to go for schooling.
“This event has lent an amazing start to the new year, it was like reliving your own childhood...” – said one of the volunteers after coming back from the shelter home.
All a child really needs is someone to play with all day and their day was made memorable when students of FSM engaged themselves wholeheartedly with kids in face painting, paper dance and playing with balloons. As the children painted the canvas with colours, it looked like they were putting their innocence and creativity on paper. The children did really well in the quiz and exhibited amazing sportsmanship in the cricket match. 
Cute little stories and experiences were shared over lunch and the students realized that the kids had a lot of potential and hidden talent which just needed an opportunity to be unleashed. In the end, the students encouraged the kids to make the best of their lives with hard work and determination as destiny is not made by chance, but by choice.


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