{"id":75824,"date":"2016-10-22T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=75824"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:12:31","slug":"alumni-asha-lights-up-smiles-on-deepawali-celebrations-amritsar-october-21-punjab-post-bureau-kindling-smiles-among-children-amritsar-sacred-heart-alumni-asha-piloted-a-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/75824","title":{"rendered":"Alumni (ASHA) lights up smiles on Deepawali Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75825\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2110201629.jpg\" alt=\"ppn2110201629\" width=\"1024\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2110201629.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PPN2110201629-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Amritsar, October 21 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Kindling smiles among children, \u2018Amritsar Sacred Heart Alumni (ASHA)\u2019 piloted a project for Deepawali Celebrations, at Government Elementary School, Village Heir. Under ASHA\u2019s \u201cCare &amp;Share\u201d project a six member team of ASHA NGO gifted dry ration, pencil boxes and sweets to the 153 children from nurseryto 5<sup>th<\/sup> standard of the village school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government school was gifted toys and educational aids for its nursery pen. The toys included multi-colored educational blocks of alphabets and numbers, play-way methods of learning toys, wild animal, fruit toys as well as various toy mobile vehicles to support teaching such as cars, scooters, mobikes, trucks, ambulances, bicycles, rikshaws, armouredvehicles, police cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ASHA President Rashmi Talwar said-\u201cToys have been carefully chosen to prove useful for fun with learning. Learning stays longer when visual objects are used, for instance a Toy kitchen set, around which stories can be woven, as well as learning to identify kitchen utensils.\u201d ASHA Secretary Mona Mehra stated \u2013 \u201cTroublesome and restless children can be asked to match colors on a Rubik\u2019s cube.\u201d ASHA had gifted carom board set,Rubik\u2019s cubes, smilie balls, even as children were thrilled to see the tricycle, musical swing and musical horse besides models of aircrafts.\u00a0 PoojaMehra ASHA\u2019s Finance Head said the toys also include Mecano sets and hardware tool toys. \u201cThese are known to trigger creativity and love for mechanics among adolescent children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal of the school Ms Charanjit Kaur and former SarpanchBalwinder Singh of the village were present on the occasion along with teaching and non-teaching staff of the school. The six member ASHA team included Sangeeta Seth, Mini Kapoor and PoonamMalhotra. Children performed Gidda,Samii besides some of them recited animated poems on Deepawali besides other fun-action acts that thrilled children. Contributions for the project were made by ASHA members\u2019 as well as donors from India and abroad.\u00a0 Last Deepawali ASHA had gifted shawls to aged women at All India Women Conference as Diwali Gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, October 21 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Kindling smiles among children, \u2018Amritsar Sacred Heart Alumni (ASHA)\u2019 piloted a project for Deepawali Celebrations, at Government Elementary School, Village Heir. Under ASHA\u2019s \u201cCare &amp;Share\u201d project a six member team of ASHA NGO gifted dry ration, pencil boxes and sweets to the 153 children from nurseryto 5th standard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alumni (ASHA) lights up smiles on Deepawali Celebrations | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/75824\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alumni (ASHA) lights up smiles on Deepawali Celebrations | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amritsar, October 21 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Kindling smiles among children, \u2018Amritsar Sacred Heart Alumni (ASHA)\u2019 piloted a project for Deepawali Celebrations, at Government Elementary School, Village Heir. 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