On 11th December, 2014, the Citizenship Programme of our School set out to distribute their generation from shramdaan to two deserving causes, Agewell and Palna.
Two students of class XI accompanied by Ms. Sangeeta Aswani, visited the Agewell Foundation and the Delhi Council for Child Welfare (DCCW). Besides the donation of clothes, footwear, books and blankets collected by our parents, we carried special gifts.
Agewell Foundation is an NGO working for the welfare and empowerment of older persons since 1999. It has s two-tier network of over 7, 500 primary and 80, 000 secondary volunteers spread across 640 districts of India and interacts with over 25, 000 older persons on daily basis through its volunteers network! Here we gifted five wheelchairs to the organisation, to hand out to their needy.
[gallery]We met Mr Himanshu Rath, director and handed the collection to him.
Our next stop was the Delhi Council for Child Welfare (DCCW) - a registered Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established in 1952. The Council first started its work among children for those who had been displaced, lost or abandoned in the riots surrounding the Partition of India, providing them care. Over the decades, DCCW's programmes have grown and diversified to cover medical services, nutrition, vocational training, adoption, rehabilitation of physically and mentally children and the provision of daycare and non-formal education to the underprivileged children of Delhi and surrounding areas. Today, these services reach approximately 2, 500 children daily and are provided virtually free of cost to them.
Here, our shramdaan was able to offer the fund to finance the ( minor) surgeries of two disabled children.
We came back with a unique feeling of fulfilment and a realisation of enormously privileged we are !
We thank all our parents and friends who support our shramdaan and make it possible for us to do our bit to help those in need.
Ms. Sangeeta Aswani, Citizenship Coordinator.
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