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New spring in life's autumn
ADULTS HAVE been adopting children for quite some time. Now, thanks to HelpAge India school-going children are participating in the altruistic cause of adopting senior citizens. This noble cause was celebrated recently at New Delhi's Springdales School. The Springdales Educational Society has been associated with Help Age India to adopt members of the older generation from April 2000 and will carry on till March 2005.
The celebrities to grace the occasion included popular pop singer of Euphoria band and film actor Palash Sen and Doordarshan's English newscaster Neeti Ravindran. Along with giving emotional and moral support to these elderly people - numbering 34 - one dozen schools will be launching eye screening camps in the next six months, for both school children and the elderly.
By conducting programmes in school premises, HelpAge India has played a significant role towards making the students realise that just as they get love and affection from adults, the latter too need care and sympathy from them. School kids from Springdales meet their adopted grandparents on a regular basis in the villages of Dasghara and Todapur. The children have given warm quilts to their foster grandparents as a gift for the coming winter.
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