Lighthouse Celebrates I-Day
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 the inception of Project Lighthouse, in addition to hoisting the flag they have also introduced performances and speeches by children trained by Vidya teachers.
A third standard student began the segment with a rousing speech on patriotism. This was followed by recitation of patriotic poems, in English, by children from classes 3 and 4, which had listeners tearing up. The event ended with students from class 5 performing a short skit underlining the message of ‘Unity in Diversity.’ All the items put up by the Lighthouse class were greatly appreciated by the committee and community members.