These adorable kids that you see here are from one of the balwadis we support. A balwadi is like a daycare centre, where little children come and spend the day, play and learn.
With local NGOs, we helped open and run over 100 such balwadis in slums all over Mumbai, providing a room for the centre, paying the teachers' salaries, making sure they have supplies like books and pencils, and, very importantly, arranging for the kids to get a nutritious meal every day. The kids learn songs, alphabets, numbers, colours, names of animals, and other basics of education so when they are a little older they have a chance to get into a bigger school.
The parents of many of the kids are daily wage labourers and often don't have the time and money to look after them, so the balwadis are their home away from home.
Hello Mumbai Smiles!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful start for the education of these children. Children need to be exposed to all these kinds of activities to develope all those basic skills which they will need in their next level of education, W A Y T O D O I T !!!
And at the same time the mothers have a place to leave their children while they work for their daily needs.
THE BEST OF THE BEST F. ... AND ABUNDANTLY, ALWAYS !!!
p.d.LYalle :-))) !!!
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