Yet another independence day celebration in India, all it means is more vendors at traffic signals selling Indian flags, bands and other accessories. Its pathetic to see kids being made to sell that stuff. Ironically enough, the dream India our freedom fighters envisioned!
The struggle and meaning of Independence is now a mere chapter in history books for kids today. All they know about our Independence day is that its a holiday and a celebration at school where they perform.
If only the schools took some extra effort to organise better activities for Independence day to create awareness amongst the children about their responsibility to build a better India for a better future. Just making children practise and dance/sing/march past is not helping anyone.
Why not spend the money they collect for the costumes or for organising the show on providing clothes to the underprivileged children on that day? Why not let senior students teach the junior underprivileged children that one day? Why not distribute fruits to govt hospital under privileged patients than distribute sweets amongst the school children?
Unless this awareness is created, there is no way a child is going to realise the value of whats being provided to him/her and what so many other children of their age are deprived of.
There are so many people around me who have money and who have an intention to give back to the society but do not know how! Giving back to society or serving the underprivileged needs more thought and effort than money. Some ideas which are pretty much doable and will value add:
1) If you are living in an apartment, start a collection drive, one per month. One month you could collect just a fistful of grains(rice, lentils, pulses anything) from each flat in your complex and donate this collection to a charity organisation/NGO in your locality.
2)You could start a stationary drive, notebooks, pencils, slates , collect just 10 ruppees from each flat and buy stationary and provide to under privileged children.
3)If you know of any old age homes/orphanages in your locality which are in dire state, you alone donating a lumsum one month is not going to solve their problem. Create more publicity for the orphanage, create a facebook page for them, register them via paypal and enable online donations. Ask your friends abroad to donate just 1$ every month.
4) Sometimes more than money or anything materialistic, all the orphan children need is your time. Spend one day of your weekend at one of those orphanages, trust me it will do a whole lot of good to them and to you too.
We have celebrated our independencr enough and its time to move ahead towards becoming a developed country. Instead of blaming the govt about how corrupt it is and how useless, lets do our bit ..
The struggle and meaning of Independence is now a mere chapter in history books for kids today. All they know about our Independence day is that its a holiday and a celebration at school where they perform.
If only the schools took some extra effort to organise better activities for Independence day to create awareness amongst the children about their responsibility to build a better India for a better future. Just making children practise and dance/sing/march past is not helping anyone.
Why not spend the money they collect for the costumes or for organising the show on providing clothes to the underprivileged children on that day? Why not let senior students teach the junior underprivileged children that one day? Why not distribute fruits to govt hospital under privileged patients than distribute sweets amongst the school children?
Unless this awareness is created, there is no way a child is going to realise the value of whats being provided to him/her and what so many other children of their age are deprived of.
There are so many people around me who have money and who have an intention to give back to the society but do not know how! Giving back to society or serving the underprivileged needs more thought and effort than money. Some ideas which are pretty much doable and will value add:
1) If you are living in an apartment, start a collection drive, one per month. One month you could collect just a fistful of grains(rice, lentils, pulses anything) from each flat in your complex and donate this collection to a charity organisation/NGO in your locality.
2)You could start a stationary drive, notebooks, pencils, slates , collect just 10 ruppees from each flat and buy stationary and provide to under privileged children.
3)If you know of any old age homes/orphanages in your locality which are in dire state, you alone donating a lumsum one month is not going to solve their problem. Create more publicity for the orphanage, create a facebook page for them, register them via paypal and enable online donations. Ask your friends abroad to donate just 1$ every month.
4) Sometimes more than money or anything materialistic, all the orphan children need is your time. Spend one day of your weekend at one of those orphanages, trust me it will do a whole lot of good to them and to you too.
We have celebrated our independencr enough and its time to move ahead towards becoming a developed country. Instead of blaming the govt about how corrupt it is and how useless, lets do our bit ..
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