Teachers' Day at Kusumpur Pahari :

Teachers Day at Kusumpur Pahari was a day full of activity.
On the morning of 5 th September, at 8:30 am the teachers at Kusumpur Pahari presented a short programme for the children. They sang 3 songs. One in Harayanvi and two in Hindi.
At about 11:00 am the senior children were asked to act like teachers and teach the junior children. This lesson made them enthusiastic and they enjoyed it.
At 12:30 pm, the children were given refreshments like rooafza, chips, biscuits etc.

Beauty Parlour course started in the Kusumpur Learning Center :

With the objective of involving the Kusumpur Pahari community community, the teachers there, have introduced a Beauty Parlour course for women. This has brought the local girls and women to the Learning Center. The women also bring their children and younger siblings to the Learning Center during the curse hours.
The little kids, who accompany the women, sit in the classrooms and are initiated into learning.
To facilitate the course, a portion of the basement has been earmarked and provided with flexible partition. Required electrical wiring has been also been done to operate the equipment required.

Exams at Kusumpur Learning Center
The teachers at Kusumpur Pahari have been busy with examinations in the month of September. The terminal exam was held on 15 th September.
The children have taken their tests and the results are expected to be declared in the middle of October.
To further facilitate learning, teachers are using varied tools for teaching, for eg – they are using Flash Cards for learning English.
A new teacher, Ms Shashi, has joined the Center. She is accorded a warm welcome everyone at Kusumpur Pahari looks forward to working with her.

Tihar Jail

Period from 24/8/04 to 19/9/04
No of inmates consulted – 388
Appeared in various courts – 20
No of petitions drafted – 23
No of inmates released/ bailed out from Jail no 5 – 14
Recently an application has been filed for the accused Sunil Kishore (name changed) for declaring him a juvenile and for his trial to be transferred to the Juvenile Court at the time of occurrence of offence under section 4/s 302 IPC.
The session court of Sh. B.B. Choudhary passed an order in favour of the accused and now his trial has been shifted to Juvenile Court as per direction.
It is a well-settled law that every juvenile has the right to get bail in any nature of offence for the reformation of a child. Therefore bail for the accused is being sought now.

Aerobic Exercises at Tihar
In women's jail the Ritinjali members have arranged aerobic exercises for the inmates.

AIIMS Cancer Ward

A report by Ms Abha Ranjan
- Working on the AIIMS IRCH project we have identified the need to develop a volunteer base. This can take on one on one tutoring of children with cancer who are not attending school regularly.
Ritinjali is now involved with developing a curriculum for mobile school vans, which will provide educational activities to children in three locations (AIIMS, APOLLO, Batra Cancer Center).
Volunteers of Ritinjali are requested to signup for the back to school project. This would require that one volunteer accompanies the child with cancer to his/ her school. The volunteer will be responsible for sensitizing the teachers, classmate and school authorities about cancer and particular child's special needs. The aim here is to make the transition back to school easier and smoother for the child.
Besides the above, in the past four weeks the children have also developed a wish list. Ritinjali plans to weave educational concepts around wishes, dreams and realization of the same. A set of books on ‘I WANT TO BECOME' will be used to develop the “Dreams into Reality” learning theme.
Further, 9th October is Breast Cancer day and the children will make red flowers symbolising the fight against cancer. These will be worn by delegates attending a seminar that Can-kids is hosting on the 9 th .
On an average 20 children attend the Thursday OPD and Ritinjali has been providing text books in Hindi, English and Mathematics as and when required by individual children. 

Volunteers required for tutoring children suffering from cancer.
People living in Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and other near by areas are requested to come forward.