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Chennai
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Bringing smiles: Social Welfare Minister Poongothai and District Governor of Rotary International District 3230 J.B. Kamdar with children of the child care centre on Saturday.
Chennai: Thanks to an Inner Wheel Project with support from Rotary International, the child care centre (anganwadi) on Model School Road at Thousand Lights has been renovated and provided with a teacher trained in the Montessori teaching method and Montessori play materials. Abacuses strung with multicoloured beads, puzzles and gleaming new stainless steel ware now line the walls of the centre, which was redone at a cost close to Rs.2 lakh. Social Welfare Minister Poongothai inaugurated the renovated centre on Saturday. The Inner Wheel Clubs of Madras and Madras Midtown will sponsor the salary of the newly appointed teacher, who will assist the anganwadi workers in their task of keeping pre-school children occupied. It is hoped that the Montessori method will be in co-ordination with the activity-based learning method that is being introduced in Corporation schools. District Governor of Rotary International District 3230 J.B. Kamdar said that Rotary would be willing to take up such projects on a larger scale if the Government was interested in the idea. Representatives of Inner Wheel Clubs said private contributions were vital for the efficient running of government schemes to provide services such as health and education. Ms. Poongothai urged voluntary organisations to take up the cause of raising awareness about nutrition. Children below three years would also be given eggs from this year on at anganwadis. She suggested that this model be taken up as a pilot project to cover several more child care centres.
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