By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The auditorium of the Don Bosco Technical School wore a festive look as bright balloons in violet and orange adorned its walls to greet the children from the School and Centre for the Hearing Handicapped Children (SCHHC) and those of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) schools in Meghalaya who had come to take part in the drawing competition organised by Kolkota based VAANI, Deaf Children’s Foundation, in association with SCHHC and SSA to celebrate World Deaf Week which concluded here on Friday.
In all about 120 students took part in the art competition in the sub junior, junior and senior categories. The topic for the senior group was Global Warming. The junior group, cartoon characters and the sub junior group to draw anything that made them happy.
Children with hearing impairment from SCHHC and students from the integrated schools of SSA put all their creative best into action with pencils and colours, as a life sized Minnie Mouse Muppet inspired them to draw and kept their spirits high.
The importance of visuals in the world of a deaf child, it may be mentioned, is very significant. Therefore, there wasn’t a better way to celebrate World Week for the Deaf than by allowing the creativity of the children to flow through drawings and paintings.
Principal of SCHHC, Mrs. Mary Pariat, declared the competition open.
Those who graced the function included Commissioner for Persons with Disability, Mrs. I.R Sangma; the Director of Arts and Culture, Meghalaya, Mrs D Syiem, the Assistant Commisioner, Mrs Bridget Warshong and others.
