On
31st August 2019 YaR National Day, we celebrated at Bosco Boys Home (BBH),
Borivali. In all 70 boys participated in this grand event. The management and
staff planned and executed this day along with the volunteers from the Rotaract
Club of Thakur College, Kandivali. The theme for the day was ‘All Rights to All
Children.’ The program was inaugurated by Fr. Corlis Gonsalves sdb, Director of
BBH, who expressed his concern over the rise in the incidents of violence
against children and urged that this program is a good initiative in conveying
the message of protection and propagation of the rights of children. For the
session, the boys were divided into 2 groups: one group comprising of the Junior
boys belonging to the age group of 10 to 14 years and the other comprised of the
Senior boys been from 15 to 17 years. The Junior boys were animated by Cls.
Agnel Dias sdb and Jittin Mathew sdb along with the staff and the volunteers
and the Senior boys were animated by Dn. Xavier Bandya sdb along with the
volunteers.
The
boys were animated through the different session which helped them understand
their basic rights and their responsibility towards protecting and safeguarding
their Rights. Activities based learning and creative games were conducted in
which the boys were explained about the Right to Education, Right to Live,
Right to Equality. There was also a fusion dance put up by the boys and the
volunteers in which the different Rights pertaining to freedom of speech,
privacy and religion were showcased. A creative drawing competition was
conducted by Dn. Xavier Bandya sdb, in which the boys were encouraged to bring
out in paper with beautiful colors the Theme ‘All Rights to All Children’ along
with the ‘Right’ which they liked the most and explaining the reason for it.
Romero
D’Souza had a creative session with the children educating (right to education)
and exploring through children making them aware of the rights and their
identity (ek pehechan, apna pehechan, mera pehechan) as BOSCO BOYS. In the
later part of the session he animated and established a governing body to
educate them about the knowledge of policies of being part of an active
participation by which the children can recognize the potential of being and
becoming responsible citizens (right to live and right to democracy and right
to participate) of our country – India (right to nationality).
While
educating the boys on their Rights, Eustace Fernandes, the Education in-charge
of the BBH boys, shared, “each child must be liberated from difficulties and
live their upbringing joyfully. Everybody must make every effort to create
an environment wherein a child is enabled to enjoy its ‘right to education’ and
‘all basic rights’ which lead to his/her holistic growth.”
Datta
Gade, the in-charge of the Social Work department in his talk to the boys said,
“Children should be treated as citizens. As citizens, they should enjoy
the right to life, protection, participation in public opinion, development and
other opportunities which are their basic rights.” He further added that Childhood
is the most memorable period of human development. It is a time when human
beings begin to learn and experience the realities of life and world.
Unfortunately, many children are deprived of a happy childhood due to tragedy
in their lives.
One
of the volunteers from Rotaract Club of Thakur College, Prince Shah shared,
“Our theme was “Imparting Knowledge, Inspiring Change by making the boys know
their Rights.” We enjoyed teaching the boys about the Moral, Civic, Technica
and Language awareness. The main motive was to provide the basic knowledge
which they are deprived. The children were cooperative and participative in the
program. They were listening as well as responding to the members. My advice to
these talented youngsters is that they can achieve everything whatever they
want in life, the only thing is needed is hard work and studies”.
When
the boys were invited to share their view on different rights, it was
heartening to see the eagerness of the boys to know more about child rights and
what more they should do to ensure that every child has his activity-based. Some
of them had these points to share
Master
Salim Shaikh (16) student of X NIOS expressed his joy for being part of this
educative program where he learns how to work hard in your life where proper
planning is necessary to achieve successful goals.
Master
Richardson Fernando (16) in Std. X NIOS said, “They taught us about basic
binary bites of computers and shared their knowledge with us about engineering.
It was an interesting interacting and spending quality time with them.”
“The
program was good and I learned lots of basic rights of children which I have
never come across. They played and spend quality time with us. They should come
again on Children Day to share their talents and time which will motivate us to
give our best” had this to say, Anand Surukar (16)
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