If any of your kids or relatives in the 9th or above standards are interested in science and space, they may take part in a summer camp organised by ISRO under the name YUVIKA from May 11- May 22. You can enrol online from February 3 to 24. For further details, visit www.isro.gov.in. If selected,...
While the tiny tots were taught to show gratitude to their community helpers , the elder kids were shown the Movie of the Month: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” which shows the true meaning of Christmas isn’t presents at all, but the people around you that you get to spend the day with. As part of...
THE ROTARY CLUB OF BOMBAY thanks students from H R College and ITM for volunteering for a month and sharing their skills and love with the Machchimar community through Project Lighthouse. The Lighthouse programme believes in providing personalised attention to each student to enable him or her to reach full potential. That is exactly how the...
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...
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 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...
THE Rotary Club of Bombay, in partnership with the YMCA, provides a secure and quiet study environment for municipality school students to study via the Night Study Centre project. NSC runs 13 classes in 9 centres and provides books, an evening snack, and a tutor to guide the students with their homework. On Wednesday, July 31st...