City NGOs celebrate Children’s Day with the under-privileged

SHILLONG/TURA/JOWAI: Shillong-based NGO SPARK celebrated Children’s Day on Wednesday in a special way by organising various events for underprivileged children on Wednesday. The programme was organised in collaboration with Hamro Swabhiman Trust (HST) and a concerned citizen, Vikash Gupta.
Altogether 200 children participated in the programme. Others who attended the celebration were Bishnu Prasad Joshi, senior law instructor, PTS, Shillong, and Vikash Gupta, ward commissioner and social worker, among others.
On the occasion, Reach Shillong Ministries launched a new programme ‘From Anxiety to confidence- a Menstrual Hygiene programme for Adolescence girls’ for under-privileged teenagers.
The programme was launched by Meena Kharkongor, chairperson of the State Commission for Protection of Child Right, at RSM School. The initiative aims to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls under the care of the organisation on a monthly basis.
As many as 205 children from the three open-day shelter homes and students from the school of the ministry attended the programme. The day was celebrated with fun and gaiety with games, movie show, food and gifts.
Meanwhile, Lumkynsaw SSA School, Ummulong in Thadlaskein Block celebrated Children’s Day organised by its head teacher Liza Evamelamon Myrboh and her colleagues and supported by Bharti Foundation. The school arranged a short documentary movie for children. The Satya Bharti Quality Support Programme, run by Bharti Foundation aims to improve over-all quality in government institutions in partnership with state governments. It is currently partnering with the Meghalaya Education Department and SSA in East and West Jaintia Hills to uplift 50 government and SSA-run schools.
A peer leader meeting cum Children’s Day programme for children of domestic workers from Tura was organised by the Ferrando Domestic Workers’ Alliance at Stephen Memorial School in Tura on Tuesday.