TOY BANK DRIVE 2018
Toys play a very
important part in a child’s life. Playing with toys enhances a child’s motor
skills, cognitive thinking and imagination. All these aspects support in the
holistic growth of a child’s mental and physical abilities. However, we
envision a world where all the kids would get equal share of toys and time to
play with them but knowing the pragmatic global social conditions, we know that
ground reality is way away from what most of us believe and dream.
Toy Bank, an initiative under The
Opentree Foundation is working rigorously since 2014 to promote “Right
to Play” for all children. They are working in tandem with multiple
organizations at different levels to ensure every underprivileged child should
get the happiness and feeling of joy of playing with toys. Toy Bank headquarter
is in Mumbai with a presence in Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Goa and
Bhutan.
Arwachin International
School understands and believes in the core ideology
of Toy Bank and with intent stand with them to promote “Right to Childhood”
for the underprivileged children. To show our support, a drive to collect toys
of all kinds was conducted throughout the school with classes 1 to
12 participating in it. The initiative was a herculean success as a good
number of toys in pristine condition got collected and they were given to Toy
Bank as a contribution from our school. Children of all age group participated
with great zeal and showed enthusiasm of highest level. They all supported the
drive heartily which can be evidently seen in the final outcome which went
beyond any expectation.
Their conduct for
showing such kind and noble behaviour was appreciated by the respective class
teachers and each of them was bestowed with a participation certificate to
applaud their kindness and principled intent shown towards their social
responsibility. In addition, the classes who contributed the most were
motivated by Toy Bank Trophies.
With this gesture, our
school once again lived up to the very words we believe in – A holistic and
comprehensive development of society by the total and nurtured enlargement of
every child. We believe in what Toy Bank is working so diligently
and we look forward to
support in their endeavour to make world full of happiness and smile for all
disadvantaged children by spreading cheerfulness through toys.
Happy playing to all
the kids.