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Muktangan Toy Bank

Muktangan is an organisation founded by Liz Mehta to improve the quality Toy Bank ensures that children have access to toys – both educational and
of education for children and train schoolteachers. The organisation for leisure, thereby making certain that children's right to play is not
originally started as a small room with 40 children but has now expanded violated. They also believe that toys are extremely significant for the
to teach over 1,000 children in Mumbai's municipal schools. 17 of us holistic development of a child and therefore work towards providing toys
volunteered at the Muktangan school in Prabhadevi to conduct and story books to the underprivileged children.
educational activities with children from the 3rd and 4th grades. The
activities aim to provide learning in a simple manner, while also ensuring As representatives for the NGO, we were very excited for the CAS fete and
that the children enjoy the process of learning. Some of the recreational creating our very own stall. We spent about two weeks of our sessions on
activities we conducted included Tuesdays and Fridays preparing for the fete. We worked as a team of 13,
physical education, yoga, and each taking up different responsibilities. Prisha, Naviya, Varsha and
music, and we also helped them Anishka worked on decorations. They made vibrant posters for our stall games while other
develop their speaking, writing students helped making informative posters about Toybank’s vision and the work they have
and general knowledge skills done. Mehek, Ojas and Aaditya worked on merchandise and set up a hairstyling counter as
through group games and
quizzes. We made sure that the an additional interactive activity for the stall. Abhinav, Abhiviraj, Ojas, Harshwardhan, Aditya
activities we conducted were and Sachit worked on ideating for games. We finally settled on three: Pick the Duck, Cup
enjoyable for the children and Stakin' and Dizzy Penalties which ranged from prices between 30-50 rupees. On the day of
ourselves. Through volunteering the fete, we worked collectively to set up the stall and each person took turns running the
at the school, we also learnt games in the stall. Many children came to play our games, and some came multiple times to
important life skills, such as replay. Dizzy Penalties turned out to be a favourite amongst the visitors and ended up being
cooperation, empathy and our bestseller. Other games were also popular and people kept coming in to win prize tickets,
healthy communication.
so much so that we ran out and had to refill tickets multiple times. As representatives of the
At the CAS Fete 2023, we raised Toybank NGO, we enjoyed the experience of being able to raise funds to promote such a good cause.
money for the school through our
stall. The stall had two games; Knock The Can and Mini Basketball. We also sold mugs and artwork made by the students.
All the proceeds from the games and merchandise were donated to the organisation. We had a lot of fun organising and contributing
to the stall. Welfare of Stray Dogs
The Welfare of Stray Dogs, a stray animal
sterilization facility located in the heart of
Mumbai, is the site of the weekly CAS endeavours
Les différentes parties de l'identité of an enigmatically eccentric ensemble of grade
Bonjour à toutes et à tous! 11 students. Also serving as an abode for
'streeties' looking to get adopted to their forever
Suite à une longue réflexion personnelle sur le thème de l'identité,
j'ai décidé d'explorer qui je suis. Mon identité me confond, parce homes, the WSD centre provides care for over 3
qu'elle change constamment. Je souhaiterais élaborer sur les Shedding My Old Skin - Kyrene Tangri dozen dogs and cats at any given time. During
identités différentes qui me définissent. the weekends, the centre is converted into an
OPD, conducting various primary and emergency
D'abord, mes loisirs et mes préférences m'habitent et level medical operations for owners unable to
m'accompagnent, mais ils ne peuvent suffire à me définir, selon
moi. Cependant, c'est aussi une partie de l'identité indispensable. afford the care or for animals that have been left
Pour moi, j'aime jouer au tennis régulièrement, puisqu'il m'aide à to suffer.
me détendre après une journée fatigante. L'exercice fait partie We began our tenure with WSD online by
intégrale de ma vie – d'après un article que j'ai lu, le sport aide les working on an awareness campaign for
gens à rester en bonne forme, mais il aide aussi à mener une vie World Rabies Day. To undertake this, we put
heureuse et équilibrée. En outre, mes préférences incluent visiter up posters within the school campus and ran
les nouvels endroits, car on peut découvrir de nouvelles cultures. a 3-day awareness campaign on Instagram,
Ce que je préfère, c'est de déguster les plats traditionnels, en which included reels and posts.
général, c'est délicieux ! Jai Vakeel Then, we started to frequent the kennels
Deuxièmement, mon identité régionale et linguistique, cela me physically. Our sessions would entail walking the
confond beaucoup. À mon avis, la langue est un miroir de la The Jai Vakeel dogs, playing with them in an activity room, and
culture. Je parle l'anglais, l'hindi, le français et un peu le marathi. Foundation is where shooting video footage for social media of WSD.
Je suis sindhi, mais mes grands-parents ont déménagé de Sindh à Our most challenging assignment was the CAS
Mumbai, pendant la partition donc je ne parle pas le sindhi. La students with Fete, where we set up a stall to raise funds for
langue est une expression d'identité culturelle, et elle aide à intellectual and the NGO. Our fundraising techniques included
améliorer nos liens avec les racines. Pour cette raison, je voudrais developmental disabilities are given the help they need, and selling WSD merchandise and dog-themed
apprendre le sindhi, un jour. taught many life skills that they can use to integrate with society cookies, snapping polaroids of patrons, and
En conclusion, je pense que ma génération se sent à l'aise dans and be successful in the future. Our sessions have always been Slipping Away - Annika Cerejo conducting 2 exciting games - Feed the Dog and
n'importe quel endroit grâce aux identités diverses and inclusives. amazing – the students have been friendly, forthcoming, and Boop the Nose.
La nôtre n'est pas une identité rigide, mais au contraire
polyvalente. extremely interactive. Our main aim to share knowledge and Towards the end of our term, we focused on
Merci de me lire, laissez-moi vos commentaires. grow together. Activities like creating calculators, sports day, Instagram content specific to each dog or cat, for
their sponsoring and adoption, and relating to the
Commentaires: supermarket shopping, teaching math were platforms that harmful effects of colours used on animals during Holi.
@Aneesh123: Oui, je suis absolument d'accord. Génial ! generated intellectual growth. We gained immensely while Altogether, our positive experiences with WSD are a reflection of the virtuous values of
learning about activities such as drying flowers, candle-making,
@Aanya5: Je m'identifie avec ce blog qui cerne bien les traits the institution and its noble goals. As a group, we learnt how difficult it is to manage a
caractéristiques de l'identité dans notre génération. and table-setting from the foundation students. non-profit institution and negotiate the hindrances that come along with it. We
Divya Karnani We have enjoyed going for this service activity and meeting with acknowledge the Welfare of Stray Dogs as an epitome of a well-run NGO for our
beloved 'streeties' and hope to work with it outside of school in the future!
students of JVF every Friday. WINDOWS TO THE SOULD
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