Avrodh: NSS Skit during Thomso 09

NSS IIT Roorkee organized an awareness skit “Avrodh” during Thomso 2009. The street play aimed at analyzing the generation gap and bringing into notice the pitiable plight of our elder generation. Many successful people often neglect their parents and their children have a tendency to get involved in the wrong things. Our skit tried to highlight the mistakes of both the youth as well as the elder generation. It was a fifteen minute play which was enacted at the UG floor. The play was successful in raising some very logical questions on our behavior. Even during rehearsals, the gathering of the crowd was highly motivating. The effort was highly appreciated by the crowd though it could have been better had there been the absence of loud music.

Newspaper Collection Drive

To get the best out of the waste, NSS IIT ROORKEE conducted a newspaper collection drive. The event was held on Sunday, 8th November’09 in the campus of IITR involving all the hostels. More than 80 NSS volunteers participated in this drive. The volunteers started collecting the newspapers at 10 in the morning. Groups of 8-10 volunteers went to each & every doorstep of all the bhawans in IITR. The IITR students willingly cooperated with the volunteers by giving their old newspapers.

The enthusiasm and zeal of the volunteers was very well depicted when the pile of old newspaper was congregated. In terms of facts, a whopping 2730 kilograms of newspapers were collected. These old newspapers were then sold to junk sellers (raddiwalahs). Some of the newspapers were also given to village women to make envelopes out of these. The money collected from selling the newspapers is used by the finance section of the NSS for constructive purposes. The old newspaper waste is converted into a productive and beneficial form. The drive was very successful as it not only cleared the campus of its paper waste but also provided NSS with funds and the village women with some employment. Similar drives will be held in future for the benefits of the society as a whole.

EDUGAMES: A new approach to teach children

NSS organized an educational games session at Rajakiya Prathamic Vidhyalaya, the elementary school at Ramnagar, Roorkee, in association with PRATHAM on October 10, 2009.

A team of 27 NSS volunteers and 5 PRATHAM volunteers coordinated by Mr. Bhagat Singh, Block coordinator PRATHAM went to the village for the same.

It’s easiest to educate children by the way of games and we realizing this tried to introduce as many educational games as possible at the same time taking care to make them play games which promote physical fitness.

Needless to say, the prospect of a fun filled gaming session drew a large number of kids. In a few games we kept some loopholes of which the players could take advantage and to our delight many students rose up to the opportunity giving a visible proof of their keen intelligence! We took care to make the kids familiar with the most basic elements of education like alphabets, numbers, the names of fruits trees etc. To hone their spoken language, we made them recite poems. All in all, the session proved to be a highly entertaining and enlightening one for the participants and the organizers likewise.

We could see that many of the kids were bright, quick and had a superb grasping while the others just needed the practice and the opportunity. No wonder that the kids wanted the session to go on forever in the perfect child like spirit!

It was with the reluctant goodbye waves and sweet promises of returning soon that we returned back to the campus.