International Justice Mission (IJM), Chennai, is organising a grand quiz for school students at Museum Theatre on November 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., marking the conclusion of the Live Free school campaign. Interested schools, contact: Liani Tlau @ +91.90030.45301 (mobile).
e-mail: liani@ijm.org
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Hippocampus Children's Co has launched a new library in collaboration with Goethe Institut. Furniture from Germany, a collection of hand-picked books and the latest technology to make reading exciting for children. The launch featured sessions/interactions with storyteller Jeeva Raghunath, writer Roopa Pai and a play by Step By Step by theater 3 hasen oben. Hippocampus Children's Co. is at: Old No.4, New No.11, 3rd Avenue, Indiranagar, Adyar. Ph: 9444049175 /24433544 /42116417
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Springfield Matriculation Higher Secondary School, K.K. Nagar, in association with Lions Club of Madras Velachery conducted a free eye screening camp and gave spectacles free. Mr. V. Sankarlal, Principal of the school, Lions district Governer Lion N. Rajashekar, President of Lions club of Velachery Lion K. Chandrasekar presided over the function. The screening was conducted for all the students from Std VI to XII and 36 students were found with vision problems, and given the spectacles. The Chairman of eye screening camp and spectacle distribution, Lion. K.M. Ganesh, thanked the Principal and Lions who were supporting the venture.Funskool relaunches Rummikub Numbers and Rummikub Words. Rummikub Numbers is the unique, fast-paced numbers game of tile manipulation. Build “runs” or “sets” of numbers then recombine the tiles in different ways to achieve the highest score. The object of the Rummikub Words game is to make the longest possible words. You score according to the length of the word. Ages: 7yrs and above; Players: 2 – 4; Price: 749School of Success, an organisation that conducts transformational programmes for children, has launched five new programmes —
