Illuminating minds at Lighthouse This Diwali, our science camp at Lighthouse offered an enlightening journey into the world of energy. Pupils in first and second standards delved into the realms of potential, kinetic, light, and sound energy. Engaging in simple sound experiments, these young learners created charts, and each presented a concept at the science exhibition...
This Ganesh Chaturthi, Lighthouse students take home idols crafted by themselves. Child Welfare Committee of RCB thanks Rtn. Poonam Lalvani and the Life Foundation for organising this fun workshop. Children spent their weekend getting their hands dirty, playing in the mud, being creative and learning how to make eco-friendly Ganesh idols for the festival! Life Foundation...
Child Welfare Committee thanks Rtn. Poonam Lalvani for organising a free eye check-up through her Life Trust Foundation. A hundred children of Lighthouse got their eyes tested in the presence of Chairman Rtn. Charu Agrawal. Post-Covid, we noticed that children were struggling to read the blackboard during offline classes. Just as a lighthouse acts as...
Rotary Club of Bombay’s Child Welfare Committee supports nutrition for street children of NGO Salaam Baalak Trust. They have sent a thank you note to RCB: Salaam Baalak Trust provides holistic development support to street and homeless children. Our Charni Road centre provides nutrition, education and health services to children living on the streets of...
The Child Welfare Committee of RCB organised an educational field trip for a few street children of Salaam Baalak on November 28th, 2021. They spent their Sunday morning attending the Children’s World Music Festival at CSMVS museum. The children were exposed to the ancient throat singing by Huun Huur Tu from the distant land of...
the Madhu Mehta Foundation for gifting bumper Diwali hampers to our 125 children. Each goodie bag contained 15 surprise items that lit up the kids’ faces. While 79 bags full of gifts were given to the Lighthouse students of the Machchimaar community, 46 were presented to the street children of the Salaam Baalak Trust supported by...
Team Partners-In-Service of the Rotaract Club of Hinduja College successfully conducted ‘PRACISE’ (PRA: Prayer + CISE: Exercise) on September 25th, 2021, for the children of Lighthouse and Salaam Baalak. The word ‘gratitude’ was taught to them and also a prayer so that the children could begin to feel and count their blessings. The poem had words...
On September 28th, 2021, 15 members of the Rotaract Club of H.R. College organised a ‘learn with fun’ afternoon for the street children of Salaam Baalak supported by RCB’s Child Welfare Committee. Rotaractors divided the event into three segments: the first two involved questionanswer sessions whereby correct responses earned tokens to be redeemed by the children...
Charu also organised a session on ‘the magic of storytelling’ for the street children of Salaam Baalak at the Chowpatty Centre. Change a Life is an initiative by RCB which can be used to gift smiles. Sarita told the story of a lazy boy called Jack who found himself parentless and alone on the road. Eventually,...
The street children from Salaam Baalak at the Chowpatty centre get a daily nutritious evening snack organised by RCB’s Child Welfare Committee. Since offline schools have not yet begun, this is their only assured hot and nutritious meal of the day. Ms. Agnes, from Salaam Baalak, recently shared a thank you message for RCB. She...
75 art kits were donated by Ms. Vaishali Gupta, HOD of G D Somani’s primary section, to our Lighthouse Project’s children on July 26th, 2021, in loving memory of her motherin- law. Though we have overcome online technical learning difficulties in the last year, it has been a challenge to keep the attention of little children...
The Rotaract Club of Hinduja College, RCB’s Partners-in- Service, organised a quiz competition for students of Grades 1 and 2 on July 22nd, 2021. The topics were national symbols and general knowledge. Each grade got questions as per their educational level. A winner from each standard received an e-certificate. The Child Welfare Committee thanks the...