Story of change from Day Star School, Manali.

1. THE JOY OF GIVING
The Design for Giving School
Contest-
“Creating solutions to India’s
largest problems.”
“Education-Equipping Anganwadis with learning aids”
by
STD 8
DAY STAR SCHOOL
MANALI, HIMACHAL PRADESH

2. Our story of change…..
Students of
grade 8:
Sagar, Parikshit, Mahajan,
Dechen, Ayushi, Ashish,
Nilaksh, Jetsun, Anish,
Deepshika, Alwyn, Shivam,
Sushein, Saloni, Geeta, Ajay,
Pranav, Kartik.T, Pooja,
Archana, Akash, Khenze,
Amarjeet, Ashima, Ritu, Sahil,
Kartik.S, Martin, Ishani,
Dolkar, Angmo, Divya,
Monica, Shamili, Vipanshu,
Rishabh, Ashok
Teachers:
Deepa Varghese and Ratnakar

3. I. Feel:What bothers you?
• Children who’s parents
can’t afford to send
them to school
• Disability
• The caste system
Rishabh
• Labour exploitation of
construction workers
• Slum children not • Homes destroyed
being able to study because of natural
• Poverty disasters like the fire
• Begging in Solang and Malana
• Girls not allowed to go • People who don’t have
to school land to build homes

4. • Child labour- • The rejection of
children working in lepers
dhabas, hotels and • Female foeticide
homes in Manali • Child marriage
• Gujjars-they keep • Mistreatment of
traveling and their widows
children don’t
study, we can • Unemployment
provide a mobile • Lack of educational
school and medical
• Dowry resources in
remote villages
• Corruption

5. II. Imagine: Which problem can we
attempt to solve within a week?
• We thought a lot about how we could
do something useful within a week.
We decided that since it won’t be
possible to go to remote villages in a
week, we can do something about
education in villages here around
Manali. From primary schools and
Anganwadis we narrowed down to
Anganwadis.

6. • We spoke to Dr. Laji and Sheila, two
doctors who have been involved in
health and education in Manali for a
long time. We realized that even
though education is a long term
process, we can still teach small
children some basic things and
provide them with basic resources
they need for learning like colours,
books and toys.

7. Plan of Action:
-Visit Anganwadis to see how they
function and what resources they
have.
-Ask the staff what resources they
need.
-Collect educational resources and give
them to the Anganwadis.

8. III. DO:
We visited the head Anganwadi office in Patlikul. We met with
Child Development Officer. She was excited about our project
and appreciated our initiative. She gave us a list of
Anganwadis to work with. We chose 7 out of them.

9. We visited the 7
Anganwadis around Manali:
1. Near Ram Bagh: 11
children
2. Mahila Mandal: 22
children
3. Near Rohtang Bridge: 22
children
4. Chijoga: 18 children
5. Gompa Road: 18
children
6. Near Log Huts: 11
children
7. Near Manali Sweets: 10
children
Total number of children
benefitted: 112

10. Resources that the Anganwadis required the
most which we chose to provided:
• Toys
• Alphabet and number flashcards
• Drawing sheets/books
• Colors
• Charts
• Shakers made from shampoo bottles
( We told the whole school about our project
and asked them to contribute with
whatever they could. A lot of teachers and
students of Day Star gave resources. The
toys, books, charts and colours were given
by them and the rest we made ourselves)

11. Making
flashcards and collecting charts
We spent a
whole day in
school making
alphabet and
number
flashcards and
collecting picture
charts……..

15. Finally after a
whole day’s
work we had
made 7
“educational
packs” for
each
Anganwadi.
We were
ready to go
and GIVE

16. READY TO GO!

17. The Anganwadis

18. Being
part
of
their
lives

22. We presented a skit to them about diseases
and germs. We shared the importance of
washing hands and boiling water.

24. Giving the educational pack

26. Playing with the children

28. Teaching them……..

31. Through the Joy of Giving
experience we……
Explored our
own
community in
a different
way.

32. Became
aware of
the
educational
needs
around us

33. Reached out……

34. And had lots of fun!!!!

35. Thank you 