By Vaishnavi Srinivasan | Executive Director
Nakshatra is Bhumi’s annual inter-children's home art, cultural, sports and science talent fest for children to exhibit their talents and explore their potential in an atmosphere of healthy competition. This is the sixth edition of the event and it took place on July 13, 2014 at Chennai.
The whole event was planned and executed by Bhumi’s young volunteers. Dr.Prahalathan, the co-founder of Bhumi, said “it is definitely a lot of work and there is a framework to be followed, but all this would not be possible without our volunteers”. With more than two months of planning and 200 volunteers, the event steered a crowd of 878 children from 39 shelter homes for 19 different art, literary and cultural competitions like face painting, clay modelling, skit, elocution, story writing etc.
Nakshatra’s slogan Dream. Discover. Dazzle. was a motivation for the children while particpating. They were awarded based on performances – while Sevalaya from Thiruninravur was awarded with the Overall Championship Trophy, four other homes including Leo Correya, Siragu, Avvai Home and Indian Council for Child Welfare were awarded trophies for Best Participation.
The event was covered by The Hindu newspaper. Adithya TV's 'Konjam Nadinga Boss' featured some of the children at Nakshatra: Episode - 16/7/2014 | Episode 22/7/2014
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