DREAMS PROGRAM - CAMP - DAY 7 & DAY 8

..The forth day theme was You and Your Community..

I contacted stephy in the evening. And introduced the theme of the day. I explained about what is a community and how we are connected to our community. She was eagerly listening. Then I gave her 3 activities. First one was to write her view about an ideal community or neighbourhood and to find out the negatives in her community and to suggest various solutions to solve it. Second activity given was to clean her courtyard with family or siblings. The third activity was to describe in short, as an individual what changes that she wants to bring in her community to improve it to a better one. I contacted Aleena and enquired about her day and introduced the new theme. She was not that happy with the theme. Because she doesn't want to write it. But still for me she agreed to write. I gave the first activity to clean the courtyard with her family, to create an interest. Because she likes to do household works than writing. Then she was boosted up and the second activity was to list out the things she knows about her neighbour and to check whether they are fine or not. She was happy with that activity. The third activity was to right write about the changes she wanted to bring in her community to make it a better one

On the day 8, I contacted Stephy on the next day. But she hadn't finished the activity due to school works. Then I contacted her the very next day and she described her own activities. She wrote only two of them. She cleaned her courtyard with her family. And she wrote about her community and what are the negatives she found in her community and how she wanted to solve those problems to make it an ideal community. She pointed out negatives like throwing trashes on the road, burning plastics and so much more. Then I called her in the evening and she explained about the next activity in which she described how she wanted her community to be and what changes she wanted to bring in. She wanted to help many of the poor people in her community, she wanted people to clean the seashore and not to through, plastic into the sea, etc. It was an interesting session, because she found small details which she knew about her community. I called Aleena for two days. But on the first day she was not available and on the second day she hadn't finished the activity. So I waited one day for her to finish the activities. Then I contacted her and enquired about the activities. The first activity she had done was to clean her courtyard with family and send me the photos through WhatsApp. In the second activity, she listed out the names of her neighbours and shared all the details she knew about them along with that she enquired whether they are safe or not along with their family. She is happy that she got a wonderful neighbourhood. In the third activity, she pointed out the changes she wanted to bring around her family and community which was really amazing.