Empower Jharkhand’s Aanchal Trust members from Ranchi celebrated New Year in a special way with the poor kids solely aimed at ensuring food and warmth for the lot.
The team members of the 5-year-old Trust played Santa and brought in necessities as gifts for them as they distributed ration, warm clothes and blankets, dental kits, nutrition supplement to the underprivileged children of Aanchal Shishu Ashram in Bada Talab, near Kishoreganj.
The 20-odd young girls aged between 2 to 15 years seemed extremely delighted to take part in fun games such as musical chair, passing the parcel and such while they received rice, wheat, pulses, sugar, edible oil, Horlicks, protein supplement powder, blankets and the dental kits.
The team members organized a series of cultural programme such as dance, drama, quiz and games, which was only started after the cake cutting ceremony by the 20 children in the Ashram. Dr Suchitra Kumari, a Dentist and Trust member distributed the dental kits along with Dr Suyash, a Psychiatrist and another member of the Trust. “These dental kits will help the young girls maintain their dental health. We are in talks to organize health awareness and check up camps at all block levels in the New Year soon to create and spread the awareness in health and hygiene of the little ones here,” said Dr Suchitra.
President of the Trust said that the sole aim of the Trust’s for the year ahead is to ensure zero malnutrition cases amongst the children of Jharkhand. “We aim to conduct more such programmes in other districts and villages in the state in the coming year to fight malnutrition and poverty among the underprivileged children. There will be no malnutrition child in the state under the Empower Jharkhand Mission 2016,” said Aditya Vikram Jaiswal, president of the Aanchal Trust.
Rahul Singhania, Secretary of the Trust said that the organization has always worked hard to provide all necessities to the children at the shelter here and will continue to do so in the future. “We will not only provide for the basic necessities but also make way for recreational activities and various arrangements to maintain the girls overall growth and development,” said Singhania.