“Donate toys, donate hope”
Children are constantly interested in the world around them and their active exploring nature is part of growing up. Playing can promote a child’s brain development providing crucial life experiences. An environment enriched with play and play materials provides perfect life experiences. Likewise, it benefits the cognitive processing part of the brain. The benefits of play and play materials are limitless
oRover scouts of Paro College of Education initiated donation drive of used toys so that they are part of a child’s cognitive, linguistics, and social development. The target group is children of rural Early Childhood Care & Development centers around the country the drive helped manage waste as rovers collected used toys and reuse them after repair. used social media to invite public in general for donation of toys. We were able to collect 70 sacks of used toys.
After successfully collecting good sums of toys, we headed to distribute it to children residing near camp site, road camps and construction site. Almost 80 children came for the toys. It could have given immense joy if we had more but we felt even better when witnessing these giant smiles on them. What could be better sight than this?!
These project made us feel more connected and comfortable with people around us. It made us realize the importance of giving and the beauty of acceptance. We were pushed working together with dedication. The three month duration made us even closer and wiser together.
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