VEDANTA “KHUSHI” NOW HAS 10 CHILD CARE CENTRES IN CHHATTISGARH ALSO…

Vedanta’s “Khushi” project moves to deep rural villages in Chattisgarh to provide health, nutrition and education to deprived children

Now, Vedanta Khushi has 10 Child Care Centres in the state of Chhattisgarh at Bhadrapara, Lalghat, Belgiri, Rumghara, Jambahar, Chuhiya, Rukbahari, Barima, Ropakhar and Sapnadhar. 

Keeping the focus alive to strengthen the girl child presence in each centre, the Vedanta Khushi campaign has been able to get more than 50% girl child in the these centres.  The total strength of children in these centres is 320, and out of these, 164 are girls, which is more than 50%.This makes the Vedanta “Khushi” centres to 22 now. India is a country with largest child population, largest child deaths, largest street children and largest malnourished children in the world.  

Seeing this state of the country, for once we felt apprehensive about building India for the future. It is sure, government, NGOs, corporates alone cannot bring this problem to a solution alone and common masses need to align and join on such mammoth national missions.
This is where Vedanta decided to spread the message of "Khushi" - Care for the Underprivileged Children.  Awareness is the key for bringing change, as only due to awareness the knowledge gets shared.
The campaign Vedanta “Khushi” has ultimate objective to see no child in India remains malnourished and is deprived of primary health, education and nutrition.

 Be part of the campaign. Join at Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/vedantakhushi and visit Blog - http://khushi-creatinghappiness.blogspot.in/
Vedanta is moving ahead to further have more Child Care Centres in deep rural areas of India in the State of Rajasthan and Odisha.

I Am Teaching Computer To My Milkman's Son

I work for an IT firm and into software development.  I came to know about the “Khushi” initiative through a friend of mine in Mumbai who is also into software development.  First and the foremost, I must congratulate the effort, and I think it is the first time some one has come forward to put-in such an initiative. So Congratulations !!!

Now, I think some times we do certain things in enthusiasm and not realize our own efforts. I believe in appreciating efforts that we also put-in to make others happy.

At home, when back from office,  I am mostly in office mails and my pending work.  This is also the time when the milk-man would visit.  I was watching this for over a month that the 12 years old son of my ‘Milkman' used to see how I work on my computer.  When his father is busy pouring milk from the container, his attention never got away from my computer. I used to notice this quite often, smile to see his interest, but never thought of asking him.  Once I read this blog and also how much important are small efforts, I decided to address his curiosity.

He informed me that, he has computers as part of his studies but he is unable to learn much as the number of students in his class are quite high and the computers are not sufficient and thus teacher gives quite less time to each student.  Result,  he is unable to cope-up in the class.

I could not believe when he also informed me that he comes with his father only to see how I work on computer and one day he would ask me for help.

His innocence did not allow me to say NO or I am Busy.  I agreed to give him 1 hour of my time, 2 days in a week and asked him to bring his text-book.  I have had five class with him so far, which is on basics and I am quite amazed to see his grasping power.

If 'Each One Can Teach One' in spare time, I am sure we would be able to address a whole lot of education in under-privileged children in India.

For once I decided to take the responsibility on my shoulder, my contribution to the society. It has given me an immense innner satisfaction.

I must admit, the blog “Khushi” made me conscious and I could not ignore the curiosity of this child.  I feel happy that some thing inspired me to do a nice work.

Good work Vedanta Group. Keep it up !!!

Shaunak, Software Engineer from Chennai