6th August, 2017 activity of ‘Parivartan’- the Slum Education Programme, a CSR initiative of ITS, Ghaziabad was special in three ways – it was a celebration of Friendship Day, a celebration of Rakshabandhan in advance and it was a day that brought fabulous dresses for the slum children, sent by Prof. Shikha Arora on the eve of Raksha Bandhan.
Volunteers of the day Akshay Kaushik, Anita Verma, George Rudolf Henry and Rakesh Dam started the class with the prayer ‘Tumhi ho mata pita tumhi ho, tumhi ho bandhu sakha tumhi ho’.
The first session of the day was on ‘Friendship Day’ that had coincided on the same date. The importance of friendship was explained with the example of Lord Krishna and his poor friend Sudama and the moral of the proverb ‘A friend in need is a friend indeed’ was explained well.
