Pankhudi Foundation Blog

On the occasion of Republic day, we decided to spend the whole evening with the children at Suman Nagar.
The entire class was jam-packed with over 70 kids turning up.
One of our senior batch students, Sanjeevani had prepared a speech about the importance of celebrating this day. Everyone listened with rapt attention as she listed the principles on which our Constitution stands and which were embraced by the Indian Democratic Republic on 26th Jan 1950.

A few of our student performed a dance item they had practiced to the song “Vande Mataram” by A.R.Rahman. One of our volunteers standing at the back overheard that this performance had won 1st place and a cash prize of Rs. 501 when they had recently performed it at a competition.

Our attempts at screening a movie, unfortunately were greeted with chaos in the audience. The movie chosen for the occasion was the animation film “Happy feet”. Even though it was a thought provoking movie, we started screening the English version which some of the smaller kids could not enjoy.

At the close of the events, we distributed sweets. It was our first event of the New year and with great enthusiasm all the assembled volunteers voted to make the next event an even bigger success.