Report on Niwasi Shibir held at Tapobhumi, Naik Udyan, Yeoor on
1st and 2nd May 2015 by Vidyadaan Sahayyak Mandal, Thane
Number of students present: 53
Organizing karyakartas:
Abhay Gadiyar, Sandeep Bhagwat, Ranjana Kulkarni
Great support from other karyakarta’s like Arun Lalit, Deepak Joshi,
Arun Joshi, Mahesh Dhumale, Bina Padwal, Sujata Thakur, Nivedita Joshi, Vandana
Shirke, Suparna Belgaonkar, Dr. Kamat, Prerana Madigiri, Vishakha Katre, Dipti
Govekar.
Helping hands : approx.6 ex vsm students and karyakartas were assigned various
types of work.It is important to mention here the special anytime help given by
Mr. Gopal Parab, friend of Arun Lalit. Yeoor is a remote place and not
connected properly. Two days he willingly solved the problem of transport of
food , goods and public.
Food arrangement : Morning
and evening tea and snacks and simple but tasty lunch with special
rice Bhakari was served.
Residential arrangement was done at Pandit school .
Program Details :
Two days program was conducted by AMRUT YATRA team of Naveen Kale in two
sessions each day.
First Day (1st May 2015)
Ranjana kulkarni welcomed
all and started with Shabari and Sudama's stories to convey that whatever is
offered with love is valuable .She further told that Abhay and his team
had worked day and night with love to organise this shibir for students
and appealed Students to respect food and not to waste it. This was so well
received that there was zero wastage of food.
Then Bhau spoke about the importance of shrama sanskar in life giving
message of Baba Amte.
Navin started with his Introduction and asked students to introduce with
each one 's goal in life.
Session I : Shailaja Gokhale who has
published many books on Manasik Arogya like "Mulagi vayat
yetana,kallya umaltat" and at presently handling children from ashram
shala or Dongari balsudhar gruha etc. She began with a game where in pair of
students should discuss with each other and tell partner's good and bad points
. In this game children were open to tell their mind status. Getting
angry fast or hot temperament was observed to be very common .On this
line she spoke at length and softly but convincingly following points.
1) Mind and health are interconnected.
2) Proper exercise not only increases the physical strength but also
mental.
3)She gave many tips to control anger
like counting of numbers, think before reacting.
Morning on the bed itself and at night think of your behavior at
different time .
4) Try to accept people around as nobody is very good or very bad ; only
circumstance matters. So maintain friendship and relationships.
5) Keep your face smiling and pleasant to improve your
personality.
6) For girls she gave earnest Advice to keep analytical mind while
developing friendship and to be strong to react if it is necessary.
Next speaker Ashay Mahajan 's presentation was short but sweet. He
narrated his own story. He was a very playful student in school and in college
.when he got just 56% marks. He
was sincere and consistent in his efforts to achive his goal ; CA. This path
was not very smooth .He passed CA at 14th attempt; but this qualification helped
a lot to grow his business .He also told his passion of sports helped to
concentrate on whatever he does and overcome the frustration with strong mind. The
points he discussed are really appealing to students and are as follows :
1) Understand your passion. and If you select the career accordingly. Success is yours; but full devotion is
required. Here he gave the example of Sachin Tendulkar and Kambali and marked
Sachin' sucess to his consistent efforts, displined mind.
2) All may not be lucky enough to get job of your interest; in
that case he said that his own experience tells that if you persue your passion
side by side keeps you happy. Ashay started playing tennis at the age of 34 and
now every day he is on tennis courts; wherever he may be.( in India or
out of).
3) Ashay further said that ups and downs are always there but you should
not leave line of education u had selected with examples of his own and
Sachin. Like as in Vedh Vilas Sawant said he emphasised to work 10,000 hrs to
get success
Session II
After lunch Navin conducted an
advertisement competition. Seven groups were formed and each group was
given a product's name like oxygen cylender, flying chatai, bandwale, dhotar,
andhar karnara bulb, modak etc.
All the performance s were very nice showing
intelligence, creativity and team work.Students imagination was
wonderful.
The last lecture of the day was by Kaustubh Bhagat
on " nisargachya sanidhyat" while working he persuaded his hobby and
collected the information and travelled a lot for study. His presentation was
with wonderful slides prepared by him. He has covered world of :
1 plants
2 Birds
3 Mashrooms, yeast
4 Animals...all types observed in various jungles
in Maharashtra
.
Kaustubh was explaining every details of the slide
giving scientific reasoning of the habitat and it s association with others to
maintain environment of jungle . Students were happy , surprised and curious to
know many things and it was a very long interactive lecture.
The day program ended at 6 p.m as per
shedule with tea and snacks.
The students then shifted to Pandit Prathamik Shala. The
students were segregated to two buildings meant for boys and girls. The boys
section was controlled by Joshis; Deepak and Arun. The ladies section was
controlled by Suparna Belgaonkar, Nivedita Joshi and Vandana Shirke.
Day II (2nd May 2015)
The students got up from 4 am onwards to make
up for shortage of toilet accommodation. The shramsankar shibir was conducted
under guidance of Captain Gautam, Sujata Thakur, Anjali Barwe, Prerana Madigeri
and volunteers from a group referred by Mr Shyam Ghate. The students came
hungry and tired. They were treated to fresh kandepohe and tea.
Second day of the
Shibir was mainly devoted to convey ‘How people over come the problems in life.
In other words we need not murmur about small problems. But to learn to
overcome them.
Really the session started with technical difficulties like
not getting proper ground, or electrical connections etc. but (without that)
the whole day program was handled properly by Mr. Navin. According to him
problem become smaller if you become bigger than it. He explained it with story
of Hanuman and Dronagiri. Morning there was session titled “akshache khamb”
where he uncovered the lives of four
inspiring personalities. Who willingly chose to live for some noble cause of
service to mankind or poor, namely –
Baba Amte the inspiration for VSM
Popatrao Pawar:- The architect behind success of
Hivare baazaar
Barefoot college of Bankar
Roy
Ocello Mecardy Story of black American lady who rose form a
laundry staff to become ambassador of USA
Next speaker was 80
years old Ratnakar Mahajan retired person from Air-India. He covered
right from hang glider to satellite 250 years of aviation history using nicely
prepared pictorial boards. He discussed passionately the very details of the
each picture but the session being too lengthy and in hot Sun, many children
were not attentive. However the enthusiastic presentation of Mahajan will
definitely motivate karyakartas
.
He was followed by Anil
Hardikar who is a T.V serial dialogue writer for aabhalmaya. He shared his
experiences in T.V serial program. The Program is generally for 25 episodes.
Every episode is of generally 20-22 Minutes and how a Friday episode ends to
maintain curiosity of viewers etc. He created a story by inputs from students
that helped to identify talented students named Vijayalaxmi Pattewar, Pankaj
Bhonsale, Nidhi Varavadekar and Sakshi Shinde.
After lunch, session started with Orogami by Aishwarya Mahajan.
She showed many items. Prepared only by number of fields from a single paper.
She demonstrated the sequence of folds to prepare flying birds and everyday
could experience it doing flying bird from a given paper by profession
She was followed by Payal
Bhosekar who travelled alone to Thailand and Cambodia shared her
experiences and gave many tips. She said when you are alone you are always more
alert and learn many more things. One becomes stronger mentally while taking
such bold step one should take dear and near one, in confidence, always keep
them informed about your travelling plan and location for your safety.
The last session was the most memorable Krushnakant
Mane is an outstanding personality. He is not only wizard in computer or IT field but
totally committed to social work. He is blind but surpassing any normal person
in knowledge, or activities. Initially
his parents helped him to overcome this blindness and gave him confidence . But
further he developed himself to the level of the post like professor in
IIT Powai. His laptop and phone talks
for him and he naturally, easily handles like any other normal person he
teaches students of IIT, an intelligent cream of society but keep in mind poor
students from his native place , how to reach this facility of there two gadgets like phone and computer in their
daily work or farming he said. You should be proud of your mother tongue but be
practical or feasible when you want to learn the technology.
He said this in context of development of software. He is
very lively person fond of reading, trekking, singing etc. His observation
sense (without eye sight) is fantastic. He never forgets to name his mentor
from Homi Bhabha Science centre who encouraged him to develop software. He is a
founder member of Digital Freedom Foundation. According to him. knowledge ideas
are nature’s gift share them, free of charge. To explain this she shared one
story of ward boy who was knowing the post operation recovery stages of a
patient due to his experience and when doctors were not giving assurance of
recovery of a patient ward boy said “Saheb he will recover in 24 hours”. A good
news in that Krushnakant accepted Bharat Kadam, one of the VSM student in his
project work.
Conclusion: Try to select your passion
oriented work. If is not possible along with you job follow your passion.
To view some photographs (other than shramsanskar) please
click on following link:
https://plus.google.com/photos/102125249960052035639/albums/6144902895861077377
