Event Updates

On Easter Day, our students made handmade Easter cards and wrote thanksgiving Easter messages to their sponsors to express their gratitude. As there are a lot of children in our project they were overjoyed and expressed their love by coloring and drawing pictures. On this day, they were ecstatic and had a great time.
Apart from this we also celebrated Valentine’s Day on February 14th. On this day, we taught our children about moral values.

On 8th March, all the projects of Shanthi Foundation celebrated Women’s Day. On this day, we held a public awareness campaign to empower the girls & women of the society. To motivate all of our project’s children, we invited district officials such as the CWC officer, Child Protection Officer, DEO, DMO, women empowerment officer, and block officer to teach and emphasize the importance of developing girls to be self-sufficient and successful, highlighted “Say Not to Sell Girls to Dance for Money.” We also shared some short videos (JVI) of girls who are victims of abusive marriages, and so on. Invitees praised our organization for bringing marginalized caste children to the forefront.

On 15th august Shanthi Foundation celebrated Independence Day in all our 14 projects commemorates invited the local govt leaders. From each project 2 older children gave the speech in front of the chief guest. Through this activity, children got an opportunity to enhance their talents which helped them to develop their personalities. As a result, we had received appreciation from our guests for working among the marginalized children. Apart from this we also taught children to wash their hand, explained how to wear masks, and also distribute masks to prevent viruses in their bodies.

With 2.1 million HIV-positive people, India has the world’s third-largest HIV epidemic. India’s epidemic is concentrated among key affected populations, including sex workers. On 1st Dec Shanthi Foundation celebrated World Aids Day in all their 14 projects. Because most of our projects are running in the midst of the Nat community, who are most in a vulnerable condition. The majority of our project’s children’s families are involved in sex work and the dance profession. They are at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. This program was held to raise awareness among the children involved in our project. The children were given red ribbons to wear on their shirts as part of an awareness program to make them aware of how dangerous this disease is and that there are no treatments; prevention is the only cure.