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Campaign for inclusive education launched

Staff Reporter

NOVEL INITIATIVE: Participants at the `Chrysallis Power of One', a campaign to bring together children with and without disabilities, in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BANGALORE: Chrysallis Performance Arts Centre on Saturday launched a nationwide campaign favouring inclusive education by bringing together children with and without disabilities. The campaign started with placard-making. During this activity called "Know your special friend" the normal and the disabled children were made to communicate and understand each other and come out with an image on the themes — peer acceptance, social interaction, caring and sharing, and integration.

On Saturday, around 230 students, including those from special schools, participated in the activity on the Mount Carmel college premises. The children shared with one another their experiences, including the ways they played their favourite games such as cricket and chess. The result of their interaction was paintings such as lush green tree with two birds perched on it, a bunch of flowers in a colourful vase, and a stream meandering across hillocks and coconut groves.

Diana Tholoor, founder of Chrysallis, said this activity was part of a campaign favouring interaction and integration of normal and disabled people, especially in the field of education. "We are making people aware that the disabled people, excluding the mentally disabled, are intellectually capable. There is a need for inclusive education," she said. The placard-making activity was the first phase of the campaign which will be held across 33 States and Union Territories till June 3. Apart from Bangalore, the activity will be held in Puducherry, followed by Chennai and Hyderabad.

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