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Rakhi Initiative Brings Brick-Kiln Children Closer to Education
Many families travel to Hooghly to work at brick kilns for part of the year.
Their children often have little access to food, clothing or school lessons.
A college group has been teaching some of these children.
During Raksha Bandhan, 20 volunteers visited them at their school.
They tied colorful Rakhis on the children’s wrists.
They also shared sweets and spent time together.
The volunteers wanted the children to feel included and cared for.
They hope the children can gradually join regular education and society.
Twenty National Service Scheme volunteers celebrated Raksha Bandhan with migrant workers’ children in Balagarh, Hooghly.
The children attend lessons through an educational initiative at Biplabi Bhupati Majumdar Pathshala.
Many brick-kiln workers migrate seasonally from Bihar, Odisha and other states to Hooghly district.
Volunteers tied Rakhis, shared sweets and spent time building a sense of belonging with the children.
The initiative aims to bring children from brick-kiln hardship into education, culture and wider society.
- Who
- Twenty National Service Scheme volunteers from Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya and children of migrant brick-kiln workers.
- What
- The volunteers celebrated Raksha Bandhan, shared sweets and strengthened their educational and emotional engagement with the children.
- Where
- Biplabi Bhupati Majumdar Pathshala in Balagarh, Hooghly district, West Bengal.
- When
- This year, during Raksha Bandhan; the articles do not give a specific date.
- Why
- To support the children’s literacy and help bring them into education, culture and wider society.
Key facts
- Volunteers involved
- Twenty National Service Scheme volunteers
- Organising institution
- Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya
- School location
- Biplabi Bhupati Majumdar Pathshala, Balagarh, Hooghly district
- Children reached
- Children of migrant brick-kiln workers
- Workers’ origins
- Bihar, Odisha and other states
- Activities
- Rakhi-tying, sharing sweets and fellowship
- Long-term aim
- Literacy and inclusion in education, culture and society
Quotes
Partha Chattopadhyay
NSS Programme Officer at Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya
“Our endeavour is to gradually bring these children from the dust and hardship of brick-kiln life into the mainstream of education, culture and society. Raksha Bandhan is a small but deeply human step in that longer journey. We want them to grow up never feeling that they stand outside society.”
thestatesman.com
“While tying the Rakhi, I felt that these children are no different from the children in our own families. Life at a brick kiln should never become the final definition of who they are.”
thestatesman.com
Sources
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