Innocent Hearts College of Education welcomed the New Year 2024 with glee and gaiety.

The student-teachers of Innocent Hearts College of Education celebrated the New Year’s party with the title ‘Skilled India 2024’ incorporating the theme "Augmenting the cognitive, creative and imaginative skills amongst the would-be teachers for a better future”.

Various competitions like best out of waste competition, bottle decoration creativity, bouquet making inventiveness and poetical symposium were organized which aimed at providing work education and experiential learning to the student-teachers. All the student-teachers prepared artistic items of economic value for gifting and decorating on the New Year eve.

The celebrations started with a prayer ceremony in which all prayed to the almighty for being blessed with peace, prosperity, intellect, wisdom and well-being. The fragrance of aromatic flowers refreshed the atmosphere when the student-teachers prepared vibrant bouquets. The whole campus was decorated beautifully with sparkling colorful lights and the garden imbued with fun-filled balloons.

The student-teachers shared their emotions through mesmerizing songs and self-composed poems. New Year resolutions were taken to dream big, stay positive, to work constructively and so on. Beautiful cards were created and gifted by student-teachers. The celebration continued with best wishes and blessings from Principal Dr. Arjinder Singh and the faculty members. Sarika achieved first prize in decoration contest. Diksha achieved first prize in bouquet- making competition. Tanya and Yashika Jain bagged first position in making wind chimes with waste material. All wished each other peace, harmony, prosperity and well-being in the coming year and in the years to come.

Innocent Hearts College of Education organized a Voters’ Education Programme

The NSS Unit of Innocent Hearts College of Education organized a Voters’ Education Programme for spreading awareness and promoting voter literacy in India with the theme ‘Greater Participation for a Stronger Democracy’. The would-be teachers gave extension lectures in their teaching practice schools to provide basic knowledge related to the electoral process with the primary goal of SVEEP (Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation program of Election Commission of India) to build a truly participative democracy in India. The NSS volunteers encouraged many eligible citizens to vote and to make an informed decision during the elections.

A poster making competition was also organized to create awareness about the right to vote amongst the youngsters. Principal Dr. Arjinder Singh said that the objective of the competition was not only to augment awareness about encouraging people to cast their vote in the upcoming elections but also to spread the importance of vote casting in democracy. He urged students to vote and cast their vote righteously. NSS volunteer Poonam achieved first position, Gurpreet stood second and Prity obtained third position in the poster making competition.

INNOCENT HEARTS COLLEGE OF EDUCATION OBSERVED HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN SLUM

The Red Ribbon Club of Innocent Hearts College of Education observed HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign in the Slum area near Khambra, in the Jalandhar district which has been adopted by the Red Ribbon Club (RRC) of the college. 

The event was in sync with the theme given by WHO for the upcoming World Aids day 2023 that is ‘Let communities lead’ because change depends not in a moment but on a movement. Before organizing the awareness campaign, RRC Programme officer Ms. Tarunjyoti Kaur visited the slum to inspect the area and make necessary arrangements. Then RRC volunteers Medhavi, Diksha, Sonam, Sarika, Sonia and Enna created posters about information on HIV/AIDS, framed quiz questions on AIDS, prepared cleanliness item packages for distribution and they made and wore red ribbons to raise awareness about AIDS.

During the awareness campaign, the RRC volunteers Enna, Medhavi, Tanya and Vanni shared facts and medically accurate information about HIV and AIDS. NSS volunteers Sarika and Diksha elucidated the symptoms of HIV and treatment of AIDS, raising awareness about AIDS which is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome caused by the spread of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection. AIDS awareness slogans ‘Let’s Stop HIV Together’, ‘Open your eyes before AIDS closes them’ resonated through the air. A quiz was also conducted by RRC volunteers Bunny and Pragya to check the understanding level of adopting precautions or the measures of prevention against HIV/AIDS by the slum dwellers. Each family in the slum was given daily use cleanliness item packages. Three winners who were given prizes felt very special. 

Principal Dr. Arjinder Singh said that the message given by WHO “Let communities lead” to tackle the menace of AIDS will not only ring out through awareness campaigns in late November, but will reach a crescendo on World AIDS day on 1 December and will continue to echo throughout December and beyond by the RRC volunteers in our three adopted slum areas.