Independence day memories

Wow!! What a day it was..!!

Celebrating Independence is a joy to every human. This year’s Independence day would be bookmarked as a pleasant experience not only in the life of the children in PUSH, but also for the Shubodayans and Enexions. Here comes our memories...

When we reached PUSH, children had returned from their school after the flag-hoist ceremony. We split the children into 2 groups: 6^th and above, the elderly children and 5^th and below, the younger children. We started off with Calligraphy competition for the elderly children, who were given a paragraph of Indian history to write neatly. The younger children’s events started with coloring competition, during which each child was given a picture of peacock, our national bird, and were asked to color. While the children were busy in these events, we drew tracks for the upcoming games. Thank God!! we were not interrupted by rain on this special day.

After the first round of events, the elderly children were conducted Drawing competition. Children were given topics such as “Jungle, Nature” to draw and they were more creative in their picture. For the younger children games had then started. It was a joy to watch the enthusiastic children, playing games. They played Lemon & Spoon, Dumb-C.

The third round of events comprised of games for the children. While the elder children played Knotting the threads game and Passing the water game, the younger children played balloon bursting game. It was difficult for us to monitor and control the children who busted the balloons with the safety-pins provided to pin the flag, It was enjoyable though. All the games were conducted as a team-event and children exhibited a great level of team-spirit.

As the last round of the events, we had Quiz for the elder children. The same combination of children who played the games as a team participated in the Quiz. Children answered brilliantly to the historic and scientific questions. The younger children would have been inspired by their brothers and sisters performing wonderfully during the Quiz.

Finally, we had the prize distribution. Teachers of Vivekanda Vidhyalaya school. Perambur - Ms. Chellamal and Ms. Mythili and Founder of Enexions, Mr. Narasimhan presided the function and distributed prizes to the children. All the children who participated in any one of the events received a useful prize. While Mythili madam sung "Raghupathi Raghava..." song for the children, Chellamal madam and Mr. Narasimhan gave nice lectures to the children. We saw some inspired faces when Chellamal madam provided encouraging thoughts. We then dispersed after distributing the sweets and snacks to the children.

Overall it was a memorable day for Shubodayans to celebrate the Independence day in this manner. We were gratified by the children’s gratitude. Shubodaya rocks and will continue rocking J

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