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Our story of change – Bright Day School, Harni Unit
Vadodara, Gujarat
Mentor Teacher- Mr Rajeev Dashputre
2. Team members
1) Pushti P. Shah Mayuri R. Sarana Anubhav O. Parural
Bariya M. Shah 4) Hani G. Shah Vaibhav P. Shah
Zeel J. Jani Karan A. Pardasani Meet N. Upadhyay
Rutvik C. Brahmbhatt Tej. S. Barve 7) Damapreet P. Lehal
Karan K. Thakkar Juhi R. Ochwani Krupa S. Desai
2) Nisarg S. Patel Priyanshi V. Chokshi Riya N. Jain
Nitin B. Shukla 5) Siddhi S. Gupta Nehal K. Bhatt
Niketu G. Patel Mrudal G. Sankhere Poojan M. Shah
Krunal A. Pardasani Kashina R. Prasad 8) Prathna A. Halwe
VarunpalSingh Aditi J. Tibrewal Jeevalkant Dandona
3) Rajrila R. Chattopadhyaya Sakshi S. Gupta Freyo C. Mehta
Sachin N. Shah 6) Tirth C. Patel Chaitanya S. Jain
Jainam T. Shah Mahima S. Thakkar Kajal S. Makhijani
Vedanti B. Pathak
3. Team members
9) Vishwangi V. Shah Yashita A. Mehta Dhruvil N. Shah
Manan J. Shah Mahima J. Shah Jahnavi R. Patel
Hitarth R. Jain 12) Saishree S. Iyer Prachi H. Sata
Dishita K. Chokshi Yashrajsingh P. Whala Krutarth C. Ghadge
Vrund S. Govardhan Ninad I. Acharya 15) Bansari S. Shah
10)Jahnavi J. Patel Ziya Ali T. Shamsi Jal N. Shah
Priyanshi S. Porwal Prutha M. Patel Maitray J. Shah
Pramit S. Parikh 13) Gaurav N. Lalwani Isha A. Modi
Shreya A. Thomas Siddhant R. Bane Karthikeya R. Singh
Bharat C. Chettiar Dhruv J. Pawar 16) Tamanna C. Chaudary
11)Apoorva V. Gundawar Tanvi S. Patel Purva R. Shah
Charmi S. Shah Kruti Y. Patel Reesha T. Jacob
Shivam G. Choudary 14) Aarohi L. Sanklan Jaimish S. Topre
4. STEP 1: FEEL
“Dare to reach out your hand into darkness to pull another hand into
the light” Norman B. Rice
And
We dared to reach out, but there were doubts.
How ? What ?
Where ?
Whom ?
At different
Schools,
Societies,
On Roads
5. For this we first explored and discussed with our school
students, teachers and members of the non teaching staff.
6. Whenever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
-Albert Schweitzer
With a thought of bringing a
change we discussed with
Mentor teacher – Rajeev
Dashputre and came to the
conclusion of reviving the
moral values, love & respect
for elders and teachers
etc……
7. STEP 2: IMAGINE
Limitations live in our minds. Our possibilities become
limitless if we use our Imagination
Students discussed many ideas with the mentor teacher of
How to showcase these ideas & to put to the people.
8. And based on brain storming session, we decided to showcase our
ideas Sensitizing children, people about diminishing moral values
ie. Respect for elders, teachers…, Relation of guru & shishya,
Our culture Corruption, Child marriage, Dowry system, Condition
of farmers, knowledge of vedas through Nukkad Natikas / Street
Plays.
9. STEP 3: DO
We discussed with the mentor teacher and scripted the street
plays / Nukkad natak, our mentor teacher helped us to frame
proper dialogues.
We scripted 4 plays and allotted parts to each team member
comprising of 16 teams.
10. Once the script was ready, we learnt the dialogues
.
‘Charity begins at home’, we gathered all the teachers and students Std.
VI onwards of our school and performed the plays.
11. We assembled the members of our non teaching staff – caretakers
& peons and performed the plays
(The plays also depict the way modern children speak of their parents.
We could hear the whispers of our support staff, ‘My son also does the
same…’ )
12. Our group of students then went to a nearby society met the
Pramukh of the society and took his permission to perform in
his society and he readily agreed. We performed the plays in
the society. We were happy to see a large crowd of women, few
men, grandparents and few college students as audience.
13. Our group also performed in a nearby school
We were appreciated by
the Principal, Teachers
and Students of that
school too.
14. STEP 4: SHARE
We were happy we performed and shared our ideas / plays with:
Students and teachers of our school.
Members of non teaching staff (caretakers & peons).
People of the nearby society
Students of other school
We affected this change to around
750 students and 30 teachers of our
school.
70 caretakers and peons
Around 35 people of society.
200 students of other school.
We ourselves revived our forgotten
values, knowledge of vedas, issue of
corruption etc…
15. How we were changed
We have started thinking about the
problems of the society with a
different perspective, we felt the
problem can be solved, if we take
small initiatives at our own level.
We thought :
If not now, then When ?
If not we, then Who ?
We felt, ‘I CAN’, if we can do such wonder, just imagine what can we
all do together ?
16. • From the Principal
I was deeply touched by the topics selected by our students with help of their
mentor teacher. They worked very hard on the script, made dialogues (Which
somewhere they also feel they themselves need to develop). The nukkad nataks
depicted the values, a shishya had for his guru, children had for their parents ie. touching their
feet, saying namaskar, knowledge of vedas, clothes to be worn by youngsters etc. etc. The plays
reminded us of our forgotten values. (A script of one of the Nukkad Natak has been attached)
I am very proud that my students took up this responsibility of doing a good work for the society and
have reached the children and grown ups of all ages.
I thank the Team of Design for Change Contest which has made my students believe that CHANGE IS
POSSIBLE AND THAT THEY CAN BE THE CHANGE.
Mrs. Neeta Sharma
Principal
Bright Day School,
CBSE Unit-Harni,
Vadodara
