“The Art of Giving”

Children – teach – Children

Me and Avy, while drawing the sketchline of all the Helping Brainz activities at PH-Dwarka, thought of naming this event as the Paint Your Dreams -2 ( or PYD-2) , however after one year, after we complete a small discussion with Sonia Satyawan ( Manager- Operations , Aster Institutions ), we thought of re-conceptualizing this complete idea as “the Art of Giving”.  We, at Helping Brainz doesn’t feel that we need a definite age or degree to do social work, and every human being do have a special ability – a differentiating capability,  so taking Sonia Ma’ams words into granted, we thought why can’t we transform the entire developed and stabilized children-youths-and the general public into social work or into the “art of giving”.

–          We all waste food, now if we go to certain slum areas or some of the adjacent areas of new Delhi railway stations , or the slums of Yamuna Pushta – we would stop wasting food.

–          We buy dresses every weekend, however what about them who knock your car’s door , have you ever watched their dressing sense ?

Our modernized youth live in fantasies, however what if they also learn about the “art of giving” – we guess it would be a step stone towards development, development here we aim is nation development.

Art of Giving mainly aims in educating urban children to help their brothers and sisters from the rural/slums area thereby we can increase the brotherly hood among the children, remove the border-line of difference.

How can we achieve this equilibrium ?

 ð  As a step-1 we wish to conduct, a Paint your dream painting competition, this competition would be having a small participation fee, also we would be gifting a packet of crayon to each child who participates in the event.

ð  The best ones would be

o   awarded,

o   uploaded onto the Abstract4life website,

o   converted into Greeting Cards and Calendars,

o   and would be sold off in malls and corporates ( same as PYD-1 ).

• The money we would be generating would be used for the education of the rural children, and the educationists would be the urban children.

Through this process:

ð  We invent the Art of Giving

ð  Children teach Children

ð  Learning through Engagement

ð  Activity based learning

My sincere thanks to discussions by Sonia Ma’am , Panky , Preeja and Ashim Sir, which made me think on these lines – Yedhu Krishna Menon, Founder – Helping Brainz