new friends presentation

NEW FRIENDS

A project for DFC 2011

by Anando’s children

What would you think if I sang out of tune ?

Would you stand up and walk out on me ?

from With A Little Help From My Friends by the Beatles

FEELHanshi Khushi is an organisation which works with specially abled children. Their centre is in the same locality as our organisation, Anando.

We had heard that like us ,the Hanshi Khushi students love doing art and craft. But they are not able to do so often enough because there are not enough volunteers to help.

WE CAN HELP!That was our first thought when we heard about Hanshi Khushi’s dilemma.

All of us are artistic and good with our hands. We love messing around with paints and stuff!

PINKY

RATUL

DIPTI

PIYALI

SUROJIT

So why not put our talents to

good use?

IMAGINE

We went to meet Urna Bose , the principal of Hanshi Khushi. From her we learnt more about the school and the students who attend it.

Mrs. Bose was delighted with our offer and suggested that we could help her students create craft items that could be sold at their annual sale before the Durga Puja vacation

DO

We soon got to work. We decided to come in twice a week for an hour before we ourselves went to school.

At first we were a bit apprehensive. The children were so different from us….how would we handle them??

But then we realised that the Hanshi Khushi children did not need “handling” at all!

Sure, they needed some help from us but they were enjoying the activities as much as we were !

And…..

…it was so much more fun than we had imagined!

The HK students were teenagers like us…..

…and we could laugh and joke with them like we do with our other friends.

We enjoyed being teachers too!

Deepti and Piyali speak on their

first impressions……

Every week at our Sunday activity sessions with Anando, we touched up and completed the things we had made with the HK students earlier

With all our other friends joining in, we also made a set of jute dolls for the sale

Time for a break!

What we made……

PICTURE FRAMES

WRAPPING PAPER

JUTE KEYRING

S

PEN STANDS

It was finally time to give all the finished products to Hanshi Khushi

A proud moment…..

…..with our new friends

What Prasenjit, a student of Hanshi Khushi has to say…..

At the Puja Sale

Our items were a sell out!

Pinky, Deepti and Piyali on future plans and overall experience

Hanshi Khushi principal, Urna Bose shares her views

Piyali has the last word!

Yes, our new friends are different but we intend to sing in tune with them

from now on!