XIMB student initiative Prerna for social development
Xavier Institute of Management students have adopted a slum, Durga Mandap Basti, Suryanagar, Bhubneswar. They, as part of a group named Prerna, would cater to social development of the slum and focus on health and education facilities for the same.
THE SOCIALLY active group, Prerna, consisting of students from the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, have adopted a local slum Durga Mandap Basti of Surya Nagar and would undertake social development activities for the same.
Fr. Tony Uvary guides the Prerna team, to focus on social development activities, particularly those related to education and health. The group has devoted two months to the slum and would distribute books, bags, clothes and shoes to the school going children.
For the adults, the group has taken up a community welfare project, renovating the local community centre as a space for recreation, get-togethers and adult learning programmes. The newly renovated centre was inaugurated by Prof. Biresh K. Sahoo, Economics Faculty, XIMB on September 2, 2009 in presence of the slum dwellers.
Apart from this, Prerna has initiated interactive awareness campaigns regarding the poor state of affairs of the underprivileged amongst students of classes VI to VIII.
They have also conducted workshops pertaining to safe usage of roads, energy conservation, developing basic civic hygiene for the students of Loyola School as well as the deprived children of the Kandhamal riots victims, who are also attending evening classes at the same school.
All of this was done with an objective that once a sense of social responsibility is instilled in young minds they realise the worth of the kind of life they live, minimise reckless wastage of resources available and contribute their bit towards the not so privileged members of the society.
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