In a society every effort and project towards the betterment of its members counts. It is more important when the focus is on children who are the future of a nation. Working on this principle, Human Child Age Care Educational Society (HCACES) has been running a project named Lost Stars. The objective of this project is to impart quality education and groom underprivileged school-going children right up to Class XII to equip them what their regular schools are not able impart. The focus is provide each child individual attention for academic help. Under this initiative Medha Mukerji Arora, general secretary of the society has been holding after school classes for about 100 underprivileged children since the beginning of the year.
HCACES last week launched its website ( >www.lost-stars.com ) at the Arya Samaj Mandir, Moti Bagh. Concurrent with the launch the society also held an event also called Lost Stars in association with Narain Swasthya Kendra (NSK) which witnessed participation by the 100 children who attend after school classes, accompanied by their parents. The participants were shown educational videos on India’s geography and history with a question-answer session to help the children assimilate the information. The next video showing pictures of animals with their Hindi and English names invoked plenty of curiosity among the kids.
Next was an animation film on good manners and behaviour to enable the kids to know how to conduct themselves. Apart from this two Panchatantra stories in animation were shown followed by a discussion on the morals in the stories. The last animation video had two Hindi poems.
To ensure that it was not all work and no play, the students were set free to dance to the song, “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands” played on the screen.
To keep the children nourished fruit juices were served at regular intervals.
Siddharth Arora, who supervised the medical-up organised by NSK, spoke to the audience about Ayurvedic medicine and its benefits.
Thereafter, the children were examined by two senior ayurvedic doctors, Dr. Sanjeev Bhargav and Dr. Rajkumari Sharma, Chief Medical Officer, CGHS. Free ayurvedic medicines were distributed to them as per the prescription of the two doctors, followed by food distribution among them.
The event was supported by Syscom International Limited.
