The weeklong National Children’s Assembly & Integration Camp will conclude here at National Bal Bhavan tomorrow. On this occasion valedictory programme will be organized wherein participating children will be felicitated and prizes, mementoes and certificates will be given to them.

The theme of this year’s National Children’s Assembly & Integration Camp has been: “Promoting Gandhian Values of Bonding for Truth, Peace & Non-violence”. The theme was chosen so that the values which are being progressively eroded may be revived and the children may be motivated to create a world which is not torn by differences of border, region and religion. An International Conference of Children on the same theme was also organized from 14-16 November, 2008 at the same venue.

Children from different parts of the country as well as other countries: Russia, Vietnam, Mongolia, Kyrghyztan and Vietnam participated in both these programmes. They wrote messages/ thoughts/ comments on a ‘Peace Wall’ especially erected for this purpose at the Bal Bhavan. Children wrote on Love, Bondage, Happiness, Peace, Harmony, Patriotism, Brotherhood, Amity etc. They wanted to spread the message to whole world that the children feel concerned about the state of the world today which is being torn apart by separatist forces in the name of religion and nation.

During the entire period of assembly children of different parts of the country together took part in varied workshops of Dance, Drama, Music, Mime, Puppetry, Science, Toy Making and Creative Writing. Today they mdae colourful presentations of the same. The following programme were presented by the children : Hansdhwani (song), Khojo to Jara (play – based on Gandhian movement), Award winners of Elocution & Extempore speech present their views, Trigalbandi (based on integration – fusion of Kathak, Bharatnatyam & Folk Dance), Banna Re (folk song of Rajasthan), Kathak (Gayatri Mantra and Ganesh Sathuti), Mantri Ka Chunav (Puppet Show), Bharatnatayam (Jatiswaram), Baliya Bheel (Play – based on peace and non-violence), Mime (based on Gandhian Value), Din -Din (song based on peace and brotherhood) and Vandemataram.

Today the children at the Assembly & Camp participated in programmes to mark the birth anniversary of Smt. Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India.

A Mass Painting Competition – which revolved around various aspects of human rights and also on Gandhian Values – was also organized during the weeklong Assembly & Camp. This programme was organized in collaboration with Human Rights Commission. Around 500 children participated in this programme. Children made beautiful paintings showing multifarious dimensions of human values and rights. The topics given were ‘Pollution Free Diwali’ for age group 10+ to 13 and ‘Hygiene, Sanitation & Health’ for 13+ to 16.

Shri Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development, had inaugurated the National Children’s Assembly & Integration on Children’s Day i.e., 14th November. The National Children’s Assembly and Integration Camp is an annual feature of Bal Bhavan in which children from all parts of the country and abroad participate. This camp not only promotes national but international integration, amity, brotherhood and goodwill amongst children of our country and children from our friendly countries who wish to know about the culture of India. This year’s Children’s Assembly has been special as it is having the participation of over three dozen new Bal Bhavans which have been opened recently in different states.

National Bal Bhavan is a creativity resource center for children within the age group of 5-16 years. It has been catering to their creative needs for over fifty years. Founded by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1956 it is a realization of his dream of an out of school activity center for children. Throughout the year Bal Bhavan organizes numerous creative and innovative programmes at local, state, zonal, national and sometimes even at international level.

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