THE SOUND OF LITTLE FEET SHUFFLING ON WOODEN FLOORS PUNCTUATED THE STOIC SILENCE OF MUMBAI’S 218-YEAR-OLD ASIATIC LIBRARY WHEN 31 STUDENTS OF OUR LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT VISITED THERE FOR A FIELD TRIP. For some, it was a new experience. For others, who had been here before with parents, it was a walk down memory lane. Krishna Kate shared...
62 children from Lighthouse Project’s Junior KG, Senior KG, and standards 1 and 2 participated in a supermarket role scenario. Play builds confidence, creativity communication, and physical development. It is fun and allows children to explore real life roles in a controlled environment. At Supermarket Day, our Lighthouse kids learned about dairy products, fresh foods, cleaning...
Our children at the Lighthouse Project celebrated India’s 75th year of Independence with RCB President Vineet Bhatnagar. As always, many Rotarians joined in the festivities. PP Ramesh Narayan, Rtn. Vandan Shah with Rtn. Ptn. Ekta, Rtn. Ratan Tankha with his family, Rtn. Dilip Dalal, Mr Rajan Gupta with his family, and Rtn. Charu Agrawal kept...
Taekwondo is good for kids’ physical, mental, and emotional health. As it is an individual sport, each student advances at his or her own pace. At the same time, our Lighthouse kids from the Machchimar community also enjoy the friendship and camaraderie of practicing in a group setting. The formative years of children thus benefit from...
Creating awareness has been an important aspect at Lighthouse. So, we taught our little children environment-friendly habits such as switching off the lights when they leave a room or if they don’t need it to be on, turning off the tap, disposing trash in bins and keeping small bowls of water for birds and animals....
To help young minds appreciate literature, Siddhant Gvalani, a young science student, aspiring to pursue mechanical engineering will bring Project SPEAD - Speech & Drama to young kids at Lighthouse from June 11th, 2022. He will teach them to use appropriate forms of expressions in articulating and enacting different pieces of literature. This will enhance...
Rotaract Club of HR College organised a learn with fun camp for our Lighthouse kids. Lighthouse kids went for the last three sessions of Evolution Revolution from May 17th to 19th, 2022. There were many new learnings in store for them such as time and money management, and the culture of India. They were exposed to...
As an end-of-year treat, around 32 Lighthouse students from ages 6 to 11 years were taken to see Snow White and the 7 Dwarves – A Broadway Musical at the Royal Opera House on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022. The production, staged by Vishal Asrani Institute of Performing Arts in association with Pioneer Drama Co. USA, was a...
It’s easy to make our young ones reach for the stars. Spectators watched as children of RCB’s Lighthouse Project dressed as stars performed the lively Starjump Dance. It was the finale of the Lighthouse K.G. summer camp, held on April 15th, 2022, and the Starjump Dance was followed by three-year-olds swaying to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The show...
Our Lighthouse students visited Meandering through a Mapped Canvas, an exhibition pf restored maps organised by the Royal Asiatic Society at Asiatic Library and the Rotary Club of Bombay. The youngsters were taken on a guided tour of the city (and country) through maps. From 400-yearold specimens that had been painstakingly restored to ‘new’ 75-year-old ones,...
Rotary child Ishti Agrawal gave an end of the year treat to Lighthouse children We thank Rotarian Charu Agrawal’s daughter Ishti for raising funds to pay for a full year’s education of 5 Vaidu children. She also organised an end of the year treat for Lighthouse children. Our tiny tots of the Lighthouse class got a chance...
Doing art and craft together is so much more fun in offline class for our Lighthouse students. In keeping with the theme of the month, Insects, batches 1 and 2 of the kindergarten created an ant craft and a pretty dragonfly using wooden spoons. The students of standards 1 and 2 listened to ‘Janice in Chinatown,’ a...