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...
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...
SUJIT Singh, a 5th Dan Black Belt, holds weekly training sessions for our Lighthouse students in taekwondo, a Korean martial art form. Singh, who hails from a low-income family, began learning taekwondo at the age of 11. A black belt was conferred upon him by the Taekwondo Federation of India in 1997 and...
On February 7, 2019, 22 students aged 6 to 10, from the Lighthouse School visited the Kala Ghoda Art Festival. Four teachers and two mothers accompanied the group. The fair, currently in its 20th year, is a muchawaited event in the cultural calendar of Mumbaikars as it showcases the best of art, music, dance and...
The Lighthouse class held its New Year concert on the morning of January 6, 2019. Around a hundred students from K.G. to Std. IV participated in the programme, which was held on the community stage outside the classroom. About 150 parents came to see their children perform on the stage for first time. This was a...
THE TEACHERS OF THE RCB Lighthouse class set up a mock ‘supermarket’ complete with real fruits, vegetables, groceries and toiletries within the classroom on October 17th. The teachers first showed the kindergarteners how to make purchases, after which the K.G. students went ‘shopping’ on their own. The children used the play money provided to buy items of their...
The Young Indian chapter of CII conducted a workshop on good touch - bad touch. We had invited even mothers without children to get involved in the community and make them also understand this sensitive topic. YI chair of Bombay – Priya, came with her team. She took two sessions by explaining and showed a short animated...
Our Rotarian Pritam Sanghai’s daughter - Shriya (a BD Somani grade 12 student) showed interest in volunteering at RCB's project Lighthouse. She spent time with our students and shared her experience with a very sweet thank you note. “I would like to thank Rotary for this great opportunity because it’s a way to give back to...
RCB Lighthouse students surprised their community with an Independence Day celebration. They sang patriotic songs in English, gave a speech on Independence Day and took a pledge to be responsible citizens. The head of the community Mr. Moreshwar Patil was very happy with this RCB initiative and mentioned the Lighthouse class twice in his speech addressing around...