Community connect at Dhanei KGFS

As part of its community connect program, Dhanei KGFS had organized a drawing competition for children to let their imagination and creativity loose through colors. It was month of May, peak of summer season where temperature soars, but that was hardly a deterrent to the exuberance of children who braved the heat and reached the venue well before scheduled time. Keeping this in mind Dhanei KGFS conducted the event early morning so that kids can be home before the scorching heat takes over.

Registration process for the competition started at 07:00 AM at the venue of Badakushastali High School with overall 173 children registering for the competition; they were then divided into three categories according to their age and the class in which they were studying.

Image_CCD1
Student participants

The competition started at 8:00 AM sharp and the theme was “My Village”, allowing students complete liberty to wander through their world of imaginations and draw the best they can. The drawings were collected one hour later and it was a visual treat to look at the panorama of colors on display and the vivid thoughts that children depicted in their drawings.

A drawing master from the school helped to judge the drawings and the results were announced at half past nine. There were three winners from each category and ten consolation prizes were also awarded to children from each category as a token of their participation and their skill. The community connect program was finally concluded at half past ten with the prize distribution ceremony.

Image_CCD2
Some of the winning entries

Overall it was a heartening experience to engage the community that we are serving through such a program and see the little artists display remarkable creativity.

—
Itimayee Pala of Dhanei KGFS contributed to this post.

By ifmr

Comments

Nachiket Mor June 5th

This is great work. I particularly liked the picture of children all over the floor working on their drawings. I wonder though if we should not do something at each and every branch and something that involves young adults as well — an idea I wanted to leave with all of you was to start / encourage a football club at each branch for the villages that is serves and then gradually move towards a KGFS Cup across all the three KGFS' and a KGFS FC comprising top players from our three KGFS'. In this we should take care to ensure that all the communities are involved in the effort and that gradually it acts to cement the differences between communities but also between us and the community at each branch.
chandrachudan June 5th

Hearty congratulations Ashit and Itimayee. 173 children participating is an indication of the enthusiasm.
Ravi.K.A June 6th

Thank you very much for your advise. We are working on a similar approach( KGFS FC) at Dhanei KGFS either for football or volley ball.We intent to roll out the program at the earlest.

We will explore opportunity for a common game across the KGFS entities for football/volley ball/kabaddi.

We have identified Community Connect programs age wise. We conducted " planting of sappling" today at a school in Umayalpuram branch, on account of "World environment day". We intent to conduct a program for youths at Tanjore on June 9th.
Anil June 8th

Congratulations Ashit, Ravi and Team Dhanei on this programme. Its great to see kids in uniforms on a holiday and busily drawing.

Ravi : Can we expedite the sports club initiative. I know Ashit has also done some work on the Volley Ball and a youth club. We can also take the help of entities like Magic Bus / CSO partners.