Charity begins at home . . .

Creativity Action Service PROJECT DESCRIPTION

by Julia Krzanowska and Zuzanna Kubik

 
From July 15th till September 5th ,me, Julia and Karolina had an opportunity to participate in a

student's exchange with Navrachana International School of Vadodara in Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

The city is located about 1h flight North from Mumbai and is well known for it's well-develeloped
infrustructure.

 
 

Navrachana International School of Vadodara is a large complex, offering IB Diploma

Programme and Indian education programme for kids at the kindergarten age till 18 years old.

During our stay there, we had an opportunity to participate in many activities that were compulsory

for it's students. One of them were CAS workshops. Students of NISV have a possibility to organise

workshops for children from nearby slum. Such a workshop takes place once a week. Students

teach the children the English alphabet and distribute lunch to them. That all starts on Saturday

morning when a bus drives the children from the slum to school. About 80 children at various age

come to NISV to experience something completely different from they everyday life. The difference

between those children and the NISV students is clearly visible as some children come even without
shoes...

  

We managed to see a great enthusiasm coming from the children though

and maybe that was what inspired us to start with our CAS project. They were even grateful for a

pack of used pencils wrapped in an old newspaper. Such occasions does not come oftenly and

without any exaggeration I can say that for these 3 hours we felt like the UNICEF workers on a

mission in a 3rd world country. That experience gave us such an immense amount of joy and
inspiration that we decided to go a bit further with it.

We asked the CAS coordinator to give us a chance to organise special workshops for the

slum children in the coming week. We stated that it would be best to organize art workshops fot the

children and later take the items done by the children to Poland in order to sell them, gain money

and later transfer them to a special bank account of the school serving the slums.All in all, we managed to collect 1600 PLN, which is more than $500. All the money were

transfered to a special account of the NISV dedicated to the slums and had definitely reached the

children.