Students from the Little Flower School in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand organized an outreach program to teach 100 underprivileged children lessons of compassion. Over a week in September 2010, the students collected supplies and put on a program of dances, songs and games. They also created posters on health, hygiene, and the environment. The experience of helping others in need brought the students joy and helped instill values of sharing and caring.

1. DESIGN FOR
CHANGE CONTEST

2. Implementing the idea: A Helping Hand Can Bring
A Smile.
Concept : Teach Children To Be
Compassionate and Reach Out To Others.
Children impacted : 100 children of slum
dwellers.
Students Sensitized : Students of Class Six,Aged
11 and 12.
Week implemented : 12th
September-18th
September,2010.
School : Little Flower
School,Telco,Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Choice of Documentation: Video/Text and
illustration

3. “A HELPING HAND CAN BRING A SMILE”
We need to be that ray of light in a
person’s life to bring a smile on his face.
LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL
BEING DRIVERS OF CHANGE
We were informed by our teachers to
reach out to 100 poor needy children in
our vicinity.
Our school objective was to instil a sense
of compassion in each one of us.
Small acts of kindness can bring a smile to
people’s faces.

4. A Helping Hand Can
Bring A Smile
Their hardship and suffering
Touched our lives,
It’s time we changed something
So let’s come out of our hives

5. It would be a great
experience
Those sweet children
Through our friendly
approach
Some good values we could
teach

6. So we collected and shared
Things of daily use,
Such as
biscuits,stationery,toiletry,
Old clothes and old shoes

7. Our short mesmerizing
programme
Lit their faces with a glow,
The charts on Environmental
issues,
Health and Hygiene
Was indeed a very grand show.

8. With our sincere effort an
hardwork
Class Six students of Little
Flower
Earned appreciation every
hour.

9. It gave us immense pleasure
To help those children in need,
We made them smile and
promised a bright future
By our true and sincere deed.

10. You can go to Cluny.
And see that we’ve done our work
truly.
It gave them great pleasure.
These memories we will always
treasure.

11. 165 students of class 6 brought in clothes for all
ages.Shoes,toiletries,stationery,biscuits,sweets,and other
snacks.
Students were divided into groups and a short
entertainment programme comprising dances,songs and
games.
Posters were made on Health and Hygiene,Traffic
Rules,The importance of Prayer,Saving the
Environment,Saving Water.
Some saplings from Telco Nursery were collected for Tree
Plantation in the school.The boys were eager and
enthusiastic about the tree plantation programme.
Our joy knew no bounds when we brought happiness to
those little children by sharing and caring for
them.Reaching out to other people has brought great
happiness and made us better people.
THANK YOU ORGANISERS FOR MAKING US GOOD
PEOPLE.