ON the evening of September 30th, a mini supermarket was set up in the Lighthouse classroom for kindergarten students. Stands of supermarket items like groceries, toiletries, fruits, vegetables and stationery were displayed for ‘purchase’. Categories were explained to the little ones and volunteers from HR College demonstrated the shopping process. Students spent the next 40 minutes...
ENVIRONMENTALLY-SAFE PAPER GANESHAS THE Child Welfare Committee sent a group of 13 street children from Salaam Baalak for a Paper Ganesha workshop at CSVSM by renowned artist Arzaan Khambatta. We thank him and artist Brinda Miller for including our children in this wonderfully innovative and creative session, teaching them to make their own idol in an...
PARSI New Year was celebrated by Lighthouse students on Friday, August 23rd, 2019. Students of classes 3 and 4 decorated the porch outside the class and a portion of the classroom floor with rangoli designs under the guidance of the teacher. The celebration was held in two batches – at 4 pm for classes 1 to...
ON Thursday, August 22nd, 2019, students of the Lighthouse class were treated to a storytelling session by a professional storyteller. Sarita Shetty – Creative Writer and Head of Operations of Little Readers Nook, Bandra – a storyteller par excellence, enthralled the children with the story of Krishna’s birth. She used simple props like coloured dupattas...
The Child Welfare Committee organised an Independence Day celebration on August 15th, 2019 for Lighthouse students from classes 3 to 5.Held by the machimaar community, Rtn. Charu Agrawal and Ms. Manisha Ahuja from Vidya, our project partners, attended the celebration to encourage the children and the community. Around 300 people from the community gathered and, since...
On August 12th, Rotary Club of Bombay, its partners and the children of Lighthouse, along with the fishermen community, came together to clean a beach in Cuffe Parade. The Child Welfare Committee organised this for the second year in a row to get the beach ready for Nariyal Poornima. This day is auspicious for the fishermen...
THE Child Welfare Committee would like to thank the Sadhu Vaswani Mission who celebrated Dada’s 101st birthday with our Lighthouse Children on July 31st. A DJ involved the children in a variety of games as soon as they arrived. Small gifts and biscuit packs were handed out as prizes to the lucky winners. The game session...
OUR fondest memories growing up is listen to stories our grandparents told us! The Child Welfare Committee ensured that the Lighthouse and Salaam Baalak children did not miss out on these stories either. Puppet Nani told tales of a cold night in the jungle that didn’t let her sleep. Filled with mystery, animals and a...
Children of the Machimaar Community at Lighthouse show signs of all-round development Rtn. Hiranmay Biswas, Rtn. Rajesh Shah, Rtn. Sunita Mandelia and Rtn. Charu Agrawal spent an evening with children of Machimaar Community at Lighthouse, Bhadwar Park. An exhibition was held to mark the end of the summer camp on June 28th. Over 40 people, mostly families...
Beneficiaries: Bhai Bhandarkar Adaresha Machhimar Vasahat, Machhimar Nagar, Cuffe Parade, Colaba, Mumbai – 400005 Ongoing project: RCB Lighthouse Project was inaugurated on August 9th. This project is positioned as a beacon of hope and learning for little children from KG to 4th standards from the Bhai Bhandarkar Machhimar Nagar fishing community at Cuffe Parade. Already, about 120 children...
The Child Welfare Committee of RCB organised an educational field trip for street kids to the Nehru Science Planetarium on May 29th a fortnight ago. The Planetarium was established in March 1977 with the objective of fostering scientific temper through the means of edutainment (education + entertainment). The children attended shows about space in...
Trusting the creative process with the magic and mystery of moving from nothing to something, the Child Welfare Committee of RCB planned outbound learning activities for street children. These children have no homes to keep them away from the heat and no school to go to in summer. Thanks to the Rotary Club of Bombay, the...