Principal of ADLS Sunshine School Indrani Singh with the students of Jagriti School. Picture by Srinivas

Jamshedpur, Feb. 18: Aninitiative by the city-based ADLS Sunshine School to donate Re 1 to their counterparts in Jagriti School, Gamharia, every week has lighted up the lives of the latter.

This morning ADLS Sunshine donated books and stationery to the students of Jagriti.

Set up about 12 years ago, Jagriti School is exclusively run for children belonging to poor and underprivileged families and is managed by the wives of the employees of Tata Growth Shop and Tayo Rolls limited.

“This special drive was started last year wherein a sum of Re 1 is collected from all students every Friday and the same is used for social causes in and around the city. But this is the first time that we took up the initiative of setting up a small library at a school in Gamharia,” said Indrani Singh, principal of ADLS Sunshine School.

Over 200 course books, books for teachers and other types of stationery were today distributed by the school authorities to the tiny tots at Jagriti School.

“We have tried to cover all subjects that the students might need and have given them the books. Apart from that we have also provided them with few guide books from our stock in the school library which would help teachers to impart education in a much better manner,” said Singh.

Some of the earlier activities taken up by the school in the same field were donating of medicines at the old age home, buying toys for orphans and also arranging fodder for the inmates of Cheshire Home to use for their gardening.

The aim here is to instil a sense of responsibility among the students and make them conscious of the problems surrounding them,” he said.

“It is indeed a nice gesture on the part of ADLS to select our school for the book donation drive and these books would now help us tremendously in teaching students for,” said Shipra Jha president of Jagriti.

A social organisation of repute — Jagriti is known for the different social endeavours that it carry out in and around the Tata colony at Gamharia and its surrounding areas.

Today later in the day the children had also put up a special programme.

“We plan to make it an annual affair and extend our services to the community and we will gradually tap other areas of the town and help many other underprivileged children so that they can get educated and lead a better lives like us,” said Singh.

The next such drive would be taken up in April for another school for the underprivileged in Jamshedpur .