By Geetanjali | Manager
Dear friends,
Greetings from IDEA!
To live life to the fullest, one needs to be physically and mentally healthy and free from all diseases. Good health is as much about a well-functioning body as it is about cleanliness of one’s surroundings. It is only when we keep our surrounding environment clean and exercise daily we can achieve good health. To drive home this message children from our community based study centres participated in Cleanliness awareness rallies and enjoyed Yoga sessions recently.
IDEA study centres ensure holistic development of underprivileged children through various activities. Our aim is to provide all-round development of children so that they possess necessary life skills and good values which can hold them in good stead in the future.
At our study centres, children are taught the importance of keeping the environment clean in order to maintain health and hygiene of surroundings. They are taught the importance of saving water, refusing use of plastics and planting trees. It is important that other members of their communities also are made aware of these lessons hence we organized rallies in various parts of the city. All children participated enthusiastically. Some made colourful posters with messages like “Keep your surroundings clean”, “Save trees, plant trees” and “Segregate wet and dry waste”.
Some little children gave their rally a pilgrimage look, dressing up as pilgrims and carrying holy tulsi plants on their heads. In this way the children learnt that it is important to educate others in the society on benefits of cleanliness and importance of environment so that the whole society can contribute to the cause.
IDEA also conducted Yoga sessions to promote the importance of exercise. The yoga experts demonstrated many yoga poses especially for children. They learnt about how regular Yoga practise can keep them in good health, both mentally and physically. The children not only enjoyed doing the various Yogasanas (yoga exercises) but also found them very useful.
Friends, thank you so much! It is with your generous support that we are able to carry out these activities. Please continue contributing to this project.
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