Monthly Archives: August 2016

Bileipada, 10-11 August 2016. Vidya Shakti Niyas organizes several programs to raise social awareness on various issues impacting life and livelihood across the region. To make the exercise both informative and emotionally rewarding, VSN chose to organize an Inter High School Drama Competition recently at Bileipada. The program was conducted at the Lake View Centre in Tata Sponge township.

The event saw talented students participating from various schools in the region, who presented thought provoking plays on various issues like nurturing of the girl child, to dengue & abolition of child labour. The program was highly successful and was praised by several guests from the community, academia and Tata Sponge.

Participating Schools
1. Basudevpur Govt Girls High School
2. Maa Santoshi High School Anseikala
3. Dhabaleswar High School Deojhar
4. Saraswati Shishu Mandir Bileipada
5. Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir Joda

Winners
Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir Joda – Winner
Dhabaleswar High School Deojhar – 1st Runner Up
Basudevpur Govt Girls High School – 2nd Runner Up

Visiting guests include Mr P Chattopadhyay, COO (Sponge Business), Mr SK Mishra CFO, Mr Samarendra Patnaik CHRM, Mrs Shobha Dash, Asst Manager (HR) among others. The program was organized by Mrs Rosalie Mishra, Secretary (VSN), Ms Jolly Patnaik, Trustee (VSN) & other volunteers. The audience which included around 160 students and teachers appreciated the organizers for their successful endeavor.

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6 August 2016. Vidya Shakti Niyas organized a plantation program in the village of Panchananpur. The village is home to around 150 households. Saplings of quick growing, high yield  variety of banana were planted by the villagers participated enthusiastically. The plantation will be look after by village committee, with yield expected in one year.

Plantation program was organized by Vidya Shakti Niyas. Around 40 villagers from Panchananpur involved in plantation. Saplings total 60 saplings of banana planted in the area. Area was alloted by the villagers for the plantation.

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28-29 July 2016, Joda. Social awareness towards impending diseases is one of the key aspects of Health & Hygiene initiatives by Vidya Shakti Niyas. In this direction, awareness programs on the dreaded Dengue disease was recently conducted at Maa Santoshi High School, Anseikala and Govt Girls’ High School, Basudevpur, with 120 and 340 students respectively, benefiting from the same. Dr Arabinda Panda conducted an informative session focused on the dangers of infection, symptoms, causes and preventive measures to stop further infection in the locality. After the session, an interesting quiz on the same was conducted, with several students responding with encouraging replies.

Ms Leelawati Behera, Mr Ananta Behera and other volunteers of Vidya Shakti Niyas jointly contributed to make the program successful. The school authorities thanked Vidya Shakti Niyas for their noble effort to contain the spread of Dengue in their vicinity.

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