Six of the children in the ward at Kidwai had their birthdays celebrated with us on Saturday the 8th of May. We started off with our usual program, with Swami Yogaratna’s blessings, and then yoga and kirthan singing. Then, the storytellers from Kathalaya, Ambika and Manjula, took over with some interesting stories and origami activities that kept the children smiling throughout.
On Saturday the 8th of May, we plan to have a birthday party for six of our children who have their birthdays in April and May. It will be from 2:30 pm onwards, immediately after the yoga and art class. Kathalaya will have a storytelling session with the children between 3 and 4 pm.
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On Tuesday the 16th of March, we plan to celebrate Ugadi with our kids at Kidwai in sweeter way than OBOTTU, GUR . Our playback theatre group will return to entertain, share and draw out our kids and their parents toward a celebration of this traditional day.
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On the right side of this blog, take a look at the Wall of History, our archive of blog posts and announcements. Everything we have written about our work so far will soon be wrapped up into the 2009 folder, and a new one – 2010 – will be created.
Photos of our Children’s Day program at the ward are on Picasa. Click the link below to see them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/happinessquotient/ChildrenSDay2009#
A detailed description of the event is also present.
Samiksha Foundation will be a part of the Rajyothsava Celebrations at Brigade Millenium, JP Nagar. This event which will be held on 21st November. Dr. Manjari Bhatnagar, Mrs. Vidyavathi and Mrs. Sandhya Sharad will be present ton promote the Foundation.
We were experiencing site difficulties, and so we could not post this earlier. Sorry.
Children’s Day was another landmark day for the Foundation and for the children at Samiksha.
We are now in collaboration with a Theatre in Education group named Script People’s Theatre. We had a wonderful afternoon of playback theatre with them during which they heard personal experiences or favourite stories of the children and enacted them on stage. Among the most hilarious and engaging themes played back were the story of the Hare and the Tortoise and actor Ramya’s visit to a child at the hospital ward.
On the 22nd September 2009, World Peace Day, we had ‘circle time’ with our children. About 20 children and mentors took the pledge to participate in world peace and good citizenship. We signed our names to be included in the Global Peace Games initiatives too.
The Global Peace Games for Children and Youth were hosted in Bangalore, in DN Street in Sevanagar. Mr. Manmohan Iyer from New York, a basketball coach and sports journalist who is involved with many initiatives for children (including ours), organised the event.
We are going to be represented at the 2009 Global Peace Games for Children and Youth, at Bangalore. It is being held at Banaswadi- Maruti sevanagar, on the 19th of Sept.This is a whole day event with games such as football, hockey and other stall games. Everyone is welcome to participate. This will help us raise funds too.
