A day with BMC students at Kalaghoda Festival

BMC students at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival,KGAF

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn – Benjamin Franklin

My name is Utkarsha.Sanjay Thakur and I am a part of the NSS unit of Ruia college. I got an opportunity to be a volunteer for the Kalaghoda festival on February 6th by CACR (Citizens Association for Child Rights). Students had participated for both February 6^th and February 7 workshops.

This was my first experience to work as a volunteer for CACR.  CACR is an institution which work for the betterment of children’s from BMC schools and their rights for education.

  BMC schools students from different BMC schools had participated in the workshops organised in this festival that would help them develop their social skills and learn new things. Students were provided with snacks and other things by CACR.

My role as a volunteer was to take care and help these students in understanding the workshop activities. Some were facing communication problems due to language barrier and it was my duty to help them overcome it.

The Tara Sharma Show at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival,KGAF

It was great to see all the students enjoying these activities, learning from it and getting an opportunity to visit the Kalaghoda festival. It was fun an exciting experience for me as well. The smiles on their faces made me happy.

3D model making by Arzan Khambatta & Sunil Padwal at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival,KGAF

CACR is doing a good job by initiating all these activities for the BMC students. It gives them a platform to be a part of these festivals organised in Mumbai, develop social skills by working and communicating with students from schools all over Mumbai and also learn different things.

 By making them participate in such activities, CACR and the schools are giving them confidence to compete on a bigger level in the future.

I hope CACR keeps on doing this work and give every BMC student a chance to be part of such events and activities.

 I am looking forward to be part of more such activities and help in empowering BMC schools.

Thank you CACR for giving me such a great experience!

National Doctors' Day

“Next to creating a life, the finest thing a man can do is save one.”- Abraham Lincoln

If there’s one person we all have had to visit at least once in our lives, it has to be a doctor. A doctor is has the tremendous responsibility to serve his or her fellowmen.

The National Doctors’ day is celebrated on 1^st July every year across India in honor of the legendary physician Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy. The main purpose to celebrate this day is to ‘show the importance of doctors and physicians in our lives and how their treatments are used to cure us. The celebrations are indicative of the respect that they command in the lives of their patients and this obligate them to fulfill their responsibilities as well. Doctors have dedicated all their lives to innovation, sacrifice and high quality service which is worthy of our recognition and gratitude every day.

India is a country of 1.2 billion people who depend of the efficiency of physicians to large extent at all times. Out of these 1.2 billion people many are from the rural and isolated areas of the country. There are thousands of doctors stepping out of their comfort zones and committing to help people in these rural areas free of cost. They are definitely, true heroes of this country.

We are at the hands of doctors every single day; they take decisions that can completely alter the way we live. Therefore, we must be grateful to them and must acknowledge the great service they provide to mankind. For the page that wakes them up at 3 a.m.; for their sacrifices, personal and professional. If there is one thing we can do, it should be to just call our own doctors on this day and just thank them for everything they have done for us until now, make them feel appreciated and special.

For their expert advice and compassionate care. I dedicate this entire post to all the great doctors of this nation. I salute each and every individual who is currently a doctor or is in the process of becoming a doctor and taking up this huge challenge for society. These are the pearls of tomorrow, they will make this nation proud and they will shine bright.

Thank you.

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