Educating tomorrow’s stars_5

Diwali is the Indian festival of lights. It is celebrated almost all over India. On this the lord Ram had returned back to his kingdom and the people of the whole kingdom had welcomed him by lighting diyas. Today also in every house Diya are lighted. The Diya represents the how the inner light of us protects us and fight from darkness.

As we could not take the classes for two week due to our exams, today we decided to take the last session. As it was the last session and in the last two weeks we could not take the classes, we could not continue with our old plan. All of us and Shaila ma’am decided and planned that we should make their last day fun and enjoyable. So as Diwali was near we decided that our theme would be Diwali. Our supervisor suggested that we should do a small diya making session for the kids.

All of us together decided that we would make paper lanterns and small paper baskets for the kids. And in the basket we would fill them with chocolate and give it away to the children. So all of us worked collaboratively and collected the material for making the lanterns and baskets. Our art teacher demonstrated us how to make the paper basket and we quickly started off with it.

 In the starting as my friend Shafqat was having in difficulties in making the basket I helped him out. Once we were done with the baskets and lanterns we kept them aside. The children arrived and they were really happy to see us again. All of us first sat together and asked them about Diwali and what is the importance of it. All of us explained one by one about Diwali and the importance of it. It was great to see the curiosity in them. As few of them did not understand the meaning of darkness, we had to replace the word with monster and explain them. My only goal or aim was to achieve the happiness of these children and make them happy before they leave. After discussing, we gathered outside and made  

a big circle. Asmita and Himanshu distributed glue, diyas and decorative material respectively. I realized that as I had become more confident with these children and was committed to them, I made few children understand and demonstrated how to decorate diya. And I told them once, they started to do on their own.  

It was great to see them to work on their own. I felt really good as a teacher, after the activity we made them see a short cartoon or animation which was based on Diwali. Poverty is one of the global issues which the world has been facing. And India comes under the list of most poverty in the world. The main cause of poverty is the lack of education. Education in India is not affordable for lower class of people, despite government subsidy. I felt that it is our ethical responsibility being a member of the society that we should help those members who cannot afford education. By teaching them I somewhere felt unfair. I am studying in the IB school,which one of the best curriculum and these children cannot even afford to go one simple school. I felt that this is unfair, since everybody has the right to education. So i felt that if i have privilege I should share it with them.  India is a developing country and it should contribute to this global issue and make the change in India. Even if we start from one place or city then slowly the poverty and illiteracy would disappear from the country. I realized that what I was doing in this activity is, I am contributing it globally. I understood how much education is important for a child. Due to this poverty and illiteracy the number of crimes have also increased. Throughout the activity, by staying committed, determined and by taking this new challenge helped me complete my goal.