As parts of its efforts to bring changes in live of the people belonging to the underprivileged sections, the Bhubaneswar Round Table 53 (BRT 53) on Wednesday took 90 students of the Bhima Bhoi School for Blind to the Big Bazaar at Satya Nagar for a shopping experience.
Each child was given Rs500 to buy daily household and personal hygiene items like toothpaste, toothbrush, hair oil, bathing soaps, warm vests, caps, gloves and study materials. Teachers and parents also accompanied them to select their choices.
BRT 53 chairman Sarad Baid was present on the occasion. Notably, the Round Table India has built a total of 1,500 schools benefitting lakhs of children across the country under its long term project “Freedom through Education” in a decade.
The BRT 53 is part of it. Some of other projects taken up by the BRT 53 projects include construction of Rawa Academy, an orphanage in Bhubaneswar, Braille library for Bhima Bhoi Blind School and supply of furniture for the Municipality Slum School at the
Cuttack Road. Besides, the Round Table also carried out major relief works during the Super Cyclone & recent floods in Puri.