Gandhi Festival "Three Days in Bapu's lap"

6th Gandhi Festival

“ बापू की गोद में तीन दिन”

(Three days in Bapu’s lap)

Date : 30 Sept., 1 & 2 October 2011

Supported by

Sarvodaya International Trust, Bangalore

Pan – Parvati shangar Charitable Trust, Jaipur

National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi

“If we are to reach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children.....“

- Mahatma Gandhi

Present situation of our society and increasing violence in the world force us to think that why Mahatma Gandhi (Father of our Nation) insistad on “Satya & Ahimsa“ (Truth & Nonviolance) ?

Aims & Objectives

• To know Mahatma Gandhi – How a simple boy Mohan Became Mahatma.
• To know the importance of Truth & Non-violence.
• To know – how “Sarvodaya“ is important for “sustainable development.“
• To know – how to “Be a change“.
• To know – our Bapu through creative games, music, drama, exhibition, poems, stories and paintings.

Duration : 30 Sept. to 2nd Oct. 2011

Participants

• Bright Lands Girls School, Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur.
• Aryan’s Public School, Jhotwara, Jaipur.
• Tagore Public School, Shastri Nagar Jaipur
• Tagore Public School, Vaishali Nagar Jaipur.
• B.V.B. Vidyashram, Pratap Nagar Sanganer, Jaipur.
• Warren Academy Day Bording School, Jaipur
• M.G.D. Girls School, Jaipur
• Sanskaar Schoo, Jaipur
• Disha School, Jaipur.
• Suman Bright Academy, R.K. Puram, Jaipur.
• Puspa Public School, Hanuman Nagar Ext., Jaipur.
• Pratham Rajasthan, Tonk Road, Jaipur.
• Saras Bal Kendra, Amar Nagar Jaipur.
• Godawan Bal Kendra, Nehru Nagar.
• Individual members of Bal Bhavan Jaipur

Activities of Gandhi Festival

30 September 2011

1st session of the day

• Discussion session with – Justics Mr. N.K. Jain (Former Chairperson: Raj. State Human Right Commission, Jaipur & Former Chief Justice : Madras & Karnataka Hight Court)

• Exhibiton – “Bapu & Children“ from National Gandhi Museum New Delhi

2nd session of the day

Discussion session with –

• Writer Dr. Durga Prasad Agarwal & Dr. Sudesh Batra told small stories from Bapu’s life and answered children’s Questions.

• Writing Session – Children expressed themseleves through poems and stories.
• Painting Session :- Children expressed their fealings about “Bapu“ through

paintings.

1st October 2011

1st session of the day

• Discussion session – Socialist, Retd. IAS & Padam Bhushan Mr. D.R. Mehta & Mr. Sudhindra Gemawat (Retd. IAS).

2nd session of the day

• Skits & Group Songs presentation by school children:-“Champaran ka Kisan Aandolan“ skit by B.V.B.V, Pratap Nagar School, “Sadev Saty Bolo“ skit presented by Disha School, A school for special children & “Bapu se Shikayat “ presented by slum kids from Saaras Bal Kendra, were apprecitiated by the audience.

• Prize Distribution.

2nd October,2011

1st session of the day

Sarv Dharam Prathna.

2nd session of the day

Creative Games

• Mahatma Gandhi Kabbdi Pratiyogita : eight teams participeted.
• Children were first devided into eight groups, names as – Saty, Ahimsa, Kasturba, Putli Bai, Mohandas, Satyagrahi, Devdas, Mahtama, Rashtrapita.
• Creative sports based on Gandhian values. It was fun & easy learning about co-operation & non-violance.
• Team Games –

† Aprigrah (Renunciation)

† Puzzle on Non-Violence.

• Prize distribution to winning teams.

Result –

In the three day Gandhi Festival, we were successful in creating a wholesome and engaging environment conducive to learning Gandhian values. Through creative writing, poster Making (painting) drama, creative sports, music and a host of other activities, the children got an opportunity to understand and appreciate how Mahatma Gandhi's teachings affect all our lives in ways both small and great. We hope that even if the participants took back a few lessons from this gala event, it would go very far in entrenching the basic tenet of unity in diversity. The participating children are now in a position to understand how small efforts on each of our parts can ensure not only harmonious co-existence between diverse people, but also how each of us has a stake in the collective phenomenon of sustainable development.