In facilitation of Children's Day, various students from National Law Institute University and Kalam a social organisation, in a joint effort with IDIA and Abhedya, a Bhopal based NGO had organised an event "Vidyarambha: An Initiation into Education" for the children of Kekadiya village in Bhopal, on Monday.
This flagship event of Kalam in Bhopal carried with it variety of activities for the children to participate in and for the development of soft skills in them.In this program Kalam organized various competition such as Essay Writing Competition, General Knowledge Competition, Sports Competition and Public Speaking competition for the children of government school of Kekadiya and nearby villages.
In General Knowledge Competition Rahul Chauhan and in Essay Writing Competition Reshma Baghel bagged the first position respectively. A special award for Public Speaking Competition was conferred to Binda.
The event ended up being an enormous accomplishment as the whole team of organizers got the opportunity of witnessing around 200 children smiling together and enjoying the event being organized for them. The entire team of Kalam offers their thanks towards IDIA and Abhedya for their thoughtful support. Kalam- Kalyan Lakshya Mera was founded by Vivek Gautam, who is a third year law student from National Law Institute University, Bhopal.
He along with his peers from National Law Institute University, Bhopal joined hands intending to work for the improvement and advancement of the denied segment of the society in every way possible. The first edition of Vidyarambha was conducted in Jhansi in 2018 with the participation of around 200 children from different government schools. Hereby the name Kalam signifies, a pen that empowers us.
It gives us power to express ourselves and being heard far and wide. Similarly the objective of Kalam is to empower children by quality education to disenfranchised section of the society and to crate legal awareness among the people regarding their rights. Kalam is working to organize more such events in future and to make a difference.