Day 4 - Continuing to Share Knowledge with the Children

Welcome back to my journey in helping underprivileged children. Today, I continued my effort in educating the children in Lotus NGO. The passion and curiosity that the children had yesterday motivated me to continue my sessions with them today. After meeting up with the children, who were all gathered inside the study room, we decided to start our day by reflecting upon what we had done over the course of three days. While in retrospect, we shared laughter, joy, and the personal experiences we had endured in the past three days. After our time on reliving those moments, I decided to get back on track and start my sessions with them.

 

The topic I taught them today was on History. I figured that since History is both a general and fun topic, it would be best suitable for the children. Many of the kids claimed that they already knew about majority of  the Indian history, so I decided to shift my focus to the US once again. The children seemed to be very interested in the political system of the US, so I decided to refurbish what I had said yesterday and added more onto it. Along with the political system, the children were also really interested in the World Wars. I explained the best I could to them, and they seemed really satisfied with the new immense amount of information they had gained. I decided to quiz the children like I did yesterday, and they shocked me once again with the correct answers they expressed.

 

After quizzing the bright children, they invited me to come join them in a drawing event. In the event, the children have to draw whatever comes in their mind and whoever gets voted for having the best drawing by the teachers win. Even though I am not particularly known for my drawing, I really wanted to witness the art made by the children. While we were drawing, I noticed that the children were completely immersed in the world of art. They seemed really interested in what they were doing. I couldn’t help but think that whatever the children did, they did with full sincerity and interest. We kept drawing until the set time for drawing was up. As I looked around, I couldn’t help but marvel at some of the drawings I spotted. The artistic talent that some of the children possessed was beyond imagination. After the drawing event, all of us headed straight for lunch, which was the peak of our day like always.

 

My fourth day at Lotus NGO consisted of a roller-coaster of events. Our time together during the educational sessions, drawing event, and lunch was illuminating. Being able to witness the profound and minute details of some of the drawings of the children ignited feelings of motivation and passion in me. Watch out for the next and last post for this blog, where I plan on having the delight of distributing school supplies and buying a feast for the children.

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