Rotary 3131 - Project Details

25-10-2011 - 25-10-2011

Eklavya Nyas\" is a brainchild of Renutai Gavaskar who has dedicated her life to the herculean task of supporting, educating and nurthuring disadvantaged children. Orphans , children who have no clue of their parents, \"delinquents\" or insitutionalised children or children who come from extremely challenged backgrounds including children of sex workers are the students of Eklavya Nyas , an organisation run by Renutai which has classes upto std VII. Special coaching is also taken for students who are appearing for std X exams Rotary Club of Pune Gandhi Bhavan stared their \"tryst” with Renutai after she spoke at one of our weekly meetings and told a story of child who said his surname was \"n.n.k\" intrigued by what this surmame could mean ..what religion ? which caste which state ? The child answered .. \"name not known\" People who come from secure and strong family backgrouds would never know what pain and agony a child with a surname n.n.k goes through. All our members unanimously thought we should do our bit for the school and the children . Till date RCPGB has conducted the following activities with \"Eklavya Nyas\" 1. Donated std X curriculum books 2. Conducted a workshop on \" Adhyayan Kaushalya\" the art and skill of studying 3. Tree plantation drive at their school in Warje We celebrated Diwali with 30 students from Eklavya Nyas at Gandhi Bhavan. The children performed a beautiful skit and a pathnatya. It was their Diwali Gift to us. Our annettes had planned some games for them which everybody throughly enjoyed. We distributed sun caps and Dry fruits to the children and the celebrations ended with all of us eating diwali faral and bursting crackers. A donation of Rs 5000/- was handed over to Indrayani Gavaskar who and accompanied the kids for the celebration.

Project Details

Start Date 25-10-2011
End Date 25-10-2011
Project Cost 0
Rotary Volunteer Hours 0
No of direct Beneficiaries 0
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