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Our story of change – Bright Day School, Harni Unit

Vadodara, Gujarat

Mentor Teacher- Mr Rajeev Dashputre

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

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

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 ?

Where ?

What ?

At different

Schools,

Societies,

On Roads

Whom ?

For this we first explored and discussed with our school

students, teachers and members of the non teaching staff.

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……

Whenever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

-Albert Schweitzer

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.

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.

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.

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‘Charity begins at home’, we gathered all the teachers and students Std.

VI onwards of our school and performed the plays.

Once the script was ready, we learnt the dialogues

(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…’ )

We assembled the members of our non teaching staff – caretakers

& peons and performed the plays

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.

We were appreciated by

the Principal, Teachers

and Students of that

school too.

Our group also performed in a nearby 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…

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

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 ?

• 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

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