On the third day of ‘Maitri Mahotsav’, a special programme on ‘World Disability Day’ at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, wheelchair race and painting competitions were organised.
Children from various institutions participated in the wheelchair race with great enthusiasm. The wheelchair race had a stiff competition where Firoz Khan stood first, Arun Malviya stood second and Aman Bundela came third. later all special children participated in the painting competition. The special children expressed their various feelings and imagination through the canvas.
The four-day long programme will conclude tomorrow with a ‘Kavi Sammelan’ at Manav Sangrahalaya which will start at 6pm. Disabled poets from all over India are participating in this ‘Kavi Sammelan’. Poets like Rajesh Asudani, Vinod Asudani (Nagpur), Radhe Shyam Panwaria (Bhopal), Dayal Singh Pawar (New Delhi), Akbar Taj (Khandwa), IP Dehriya (Chindwara) and Rafiq Nagori from Ujjain will be narrating their poetry.
To motivate children with physical disability and to prove disability does not mean incapability, a special demonstration of painting was performed by Mrs. Sheila Sharma. She is an artist known for her painting on ‘nature and life of women in India’, which she paints using her foot and mouth because she does not have hands. Sheila Sharma holds a degree in Fine arts and is alumnus of lucknow University.
The Sangrahalaya also organised a fashion show ‘Ek Taal Ek Saal’ on the occasion. The fashion show has been organised by renowned fashion designer Mumtaz Khan. In this unique fashion show children in wheel chairs walked on ramp along with professional models.
The programme started with ‘Saraswati Vandana’ and ‘Swagat Geet’ sang by blind children from Varanasi. The motive of the show to show that disabled children or Models all are equal and should be treated in that way. 18 children on wheel chairs and 15 professional models walked on the ramp dressed in designer clothes by Mumtaz Khan. The show stopper of this fashion show was international famous model and actor Shahwar Ali. He didn’t charge any fees for this show showing compassion to the motive of this programme.