हे शिक्षक जागो!

हर बच्चा एक चंचल कन्हैया है,
खूबसूरत सपनों की सुगन्धित पुरवैया है।
बाहर से कच्ची मिटटी का ढेला है,
किंतु भीतर असीम आत्मबल का मेला है।

हे शिक्षक जागो! अपने कर्तव्य से मत भागो,
इन बच्चों से ही देश का भविष्य दिव्य है।
इसलिए इनके बुनते हुए सपनों को संवारों,
यही तुम्हारा धर्म है, और यही राष्ट्र-सेवा है।

Ekal Vidyalaya

Ekal Vidyalaya: "A charitable trust that initiates, supports, and runs non-formal one-teacher schools (popularly known as Ekal Vidyalayas) all over the country. With the participation of numerous non-profit trusts and organizations, this program has now become the greatest non-governmental education movement in the country."

Vision: To banish illiteracy from the face of tribal India by providing free, non-formal education through a People-Movement.

Mission: The Ekal Vidyalaya movement aims to help eradicate illiteracy from rural and tribal India by 2011. To date, Ekal Vidyalaya is a movement of over 24,006 teachers, 5,000 (Approximately) voluntary workers, 20 field organizations (scattered in 20 Indian states), and 8 support agencies as on December 2007.

Join as a Volunteer here.

Sponsor a School here.

Teach Children to Draw Animals

Here is great site to help children learn to draw a variety of animals:

How to Draw It :

How to draw animals from pears
How to draw sheep
How to draw a parrot
How to draw an owl
How to draw a dachshund
How to draw a frog
How to draw a hen
How to draw a rooster
How to draw a pig
How to draw a goat
How to draw a cow
How to draw deer
How to draw ducks
How to draw birds
How to draw snails
How to draw a cocker spaniel
How to draw a poodle
How to draw a squirrel
How to draw a koala bear
How to draw a rabbit
How to draw kittens
How to draw bears
How to draw horses
How to draw a crocodile
How to draw a porcupine
How to draw an opossum
How to draw a seahorse
How to draw a swan
How to draw a whale
How to draw a camel
How to draw a kangaroo
How to draw a giraffe
How to make alphabets into animals
How to draw lions
How to draw tigers
How to draw a dinosaur
How to draw a walrus
How to draw penguins
How to draw a rhinocerus
How to draw a hippopotamus
How to draw a peacock
How to draw an angelfish
How to draw elephants
How to draw centaurs
How to draw a unicorn
How to draw a griffin
How to draw an octopus

Which Disney Princess are you?

Bharat (who has an eight year old daughter) had shared a fun link (Disney Princess) for my seven year old daughter, Aditi.

Aditi had been exploring the site for the last few and days and today she stumbled upon the 5-Question Personality Quiz "Which Disney Princess are you?"

It was amusing see my daughter choose among the various options and finally read her result: You're are most like Belle:

You are loving and giving and can always see the good in others. You love to read and spend time with friends.

Very interesting for a 5-Question personality test!