Our local village fete is held on 31st May and 1st June every year. It is a big event for the village when everyone comes to enjoy the fun of the wrestling, side shows, trinket and food stalls. Nishtha puts up a stall there in order to make the local people aware of what we do, to advertise our social programmes.
The Nishtha stall was decorated with lots of banners with several important environmental and social messages. Due to the bad weather people did not come to the mela until around 3.0 pm. Then we started a ‘Ring Throwing’ game which attracted more than 150 children who enjoyed playing games especially because we didn’t charge any money for participating. Interestingly, not only the children but also women and some older people wanted to play. It was a good activity that everyone, even the very poorest tould play and try to win our simple prizes of bath soap, biscuits, chocolates and so on.
When they had played we talked to the children and adults and found that people really appreciate Nishtha’s programmes in the village. They were all happy to tell us about their views on the environment, garbage segregation, keeping the village clean and so on. We put up a white board where people wrote messages and suggestions for the ‘Clean Green Rakkar Programme’.
The stall was attended by Megha, Vijay, Mohinder, Ravi and Sangeeta and assisted by Lovely, Sakshi and Raman from the student scholarship batch.
