Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar celebrated International Girl Child Day with 'Meri Maati Mera Desh' theme.

The NSS unit of Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar celebrated International girl child day to increase awareness on the importance of girl child education, health, and nutrition under the 'Meri Maati Mera Desh' campaign celebrating the achievements of the women of our nation. It involved paying tribute to the Indian women freedom fighters who had protected our nation. 

The NSS volunteers took Panch Pran Pledge with a fistful of soil and earthen diyas. They visited the slum areas with emphasis on women participation for collection of soil and rice in the Amrit Kalash. The historical events from the life of brave Indian women freedom fighters - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Sarojini Naidu, Aruna Asaf Ali and Savitribai Phule were revived amongst the slum women dwellers with the objective of changing their mind set that they are not weak and they should recognize their inner power and female strength. Importance of educating their daughters, ways to maintain cleanliness and follow a nutritious food chart was also explained to these women.

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Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar ushered in the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations with Swachhta Hi Seva campaign

The NSS unit of Innocent Hearts College of Education, Jalandhar started celebrations of Gandhi Jayanti with the aim of promoting Gandhian Philosophy on Cleanliness as having three dimensions - a clean mind, a clean body and clean surroundings.

Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) campaign started from September 25, 2023 onwards with the theme of SHS-2023 that is 'Garbage Free India' in the teaching practice schools by the student- teachers. Various activities were conducted with the school students which included essay writing on ‘“No one should spit or clean his nose on the streets…-M.K. Gandhi” and extension lectures for spreading awareness about the importance of waste segregation management - saturating dry and wet waste bins in line with the Hara Geela, Sookha Neela campaign.  Morning assembly speeches on discouraging usage of single use plastic items was also given by NSS volunteers in the schools. 

Best out of waste competition was organised in the college with the theme of changing waste to wealth and encouraging alternatives to Single Use Plastic (SUP). All the student-teachers actively practiced handicrafts like pottery making, decorative paper bag making, paper mache, glass work, paper crafts, puppets and stone work etc with the waste materials. Mahatma Gandhiji had emphasized on handicraft training, “not merely for production work but for developing intellect of the pupils”.

Principal Dr. Arjinder Singh explained the quotation of Gandhiji, “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” He further said that it is very much important for all to understand, spread and imbibe the philosophy of cleanliness given by our Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhiji.

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