Children Unleash Creativity At Bakul’s Summer Camp In Cuttack

Cuttack: The eight-day summer camp conducted by Bakul Foundation ended at its children’s library here on Monday.

The children were very happy to have got an opportunity to interact with popular actor-host Kuna Tripathy and Sulagna Rautray at the camp.

“Above 150 children in the age group of 10 to 16 years participated in six different workshops conducted by young volunteers. The unique aspect of the camp was that children from slums to middle class and elite homes worked in tandem,” said Sujit Mahapatra, Founder of Bakul Foundation.

It had many unique workshops not commonly organized such as ‘Murals or Wall Art’, ‘Book Illustration’, ‘Story Writing’, ‘Best Out of Waste’ and ‘Theatre’.

The facilitators may not have been professionals, but were supremely talented and helped to bring out the latent talent in the children.

The volunteers worked hard to develop the imagination and creativity among children. In the ‘Best Out of Waste’ workshop, the children created vases and flowers out of plastic bottles. They also made an ‘Apple Tree’ out of 2 plastic bottles only with the neck of the bottle for flowers, the bottom for the apples and the middle part for leaves. They also made ‘Glow in the Dark Lanterns’ from glass jars.

In the theatre workshop, they made a powerful appeal for accepting young children who may have different sexual orientation and condemned the use of drugs. The children created wonderful stories and illustrated them as well.