A drawing competition organised by Slum Children Sports Talent and Education Development Society (SCSTEDS) among school-going children in and around Vyasarpadi locality on ‘My dream home’ saw a tremendous response.
As a culmination of the two-week long competition drive, SCSTEDS a few days ago had exhibited all the entries in a mega exhibition held at a community hall in Satyamurthi Nagar. Hundreds of local residents witnessed the children’s dreams of having a home for their families.
“The aim of the competition was to rekindle the slum children’s mind on owning a home and about 800 students expressed their dream home through nice paintings,” N Thangaraj, coordinator of the SCSTEDS, an NGO working for the betterment of slum children in Vyasarpadi and surrounding areas, told City Express.
Based on visitors’ feedback at the exhibition, a plain sketch showing the facade of a home by Umega Anjali, a resident of Udayasooriyan Nagar, was selected for the first prize while a drawing by Ajit Kumar, a resident of Samanthipoo Colony, fetched the second prize. Another painting by Kannan Deva, a resident of Jega Jeevan Nagar, won the third prize.
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