By Pravir Lal | Project Leader
Dear Kind Hearts,
Greetings for the New Year 2019 from SANKALP team! Hope you all must have had a wonderful holidays and New Year Celebrations. Team Sankalp wishes that the New Year brings good health, peace and prosperity to you and your family!
We at Sankalp give special attention towards physical development of all the children. We encourage them to participate in various sports, outdoor activities and performance before large gathering. It essentially serves three very important purposes. One, it enhances the self-confidence and self-esteem of children which in turn motivates them to learn and do better. Second, it raises the morale of parents and family members of the child when they see that their child is not only able to compete with other children or perform in public but is actually winning or receiving tremendous appreciation from entire audience. It develops hope in them that their child definitely has potential to become independent to a reasonable extent. Thirdly, it sensitizes the general public towards differently abled members of our society, generates much needed empathy towards them and leads to their acceptance and integration into the mainstream of society thereby improving the overall happiness index of the society.
In pursuant to the above philosophy, Sankalp Children were taken to McDonalds for celebrating the Christmas. Three of the children who were winners in the district level competition, qualified for state level sports organized by state Government in December. Two of them, Dhruv & Sailesh won prizes in different events. On the last day of the year, children participated in sports meet organized by the “Friends Society” for differently abled children of different schools of Vadodara. Three of Sankalp’s children, Meet, Sakshi & Jahnvi won prizes in different games. Five children Bhavin, Sudhir, Sailesh, Pruthvesh and Amin took part in the “Vadodara International Marathon” on 6th of January and walked for one Kilometer. Sailesh, Pruthvesh and Amin also participated in the musical band “Drum Circle” played at the Marathon.
Until the next report a big THANK YOU for your support to our project. We will be updating YOU as this project progresses & what impact YOUR donation is making in the lives of mentally/ developmentally challenged children at Sankalp. We look forward to your support in this new year also.
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