On 10th Jan 2015 the “Active Ecology” department of New Acropolis India North conducted a session to work with Kids of “SUPPORT” a drug rehabilitation center in Mumbai. The program was titled “Manashakti” or the “strength of the mind” and was aimed at working with children at the center with exercises to focus and be more attentive through mental engagement.
The 10 volunteers conducted various activities directed towards strengthening mental health like breathing exercises, flame concentration, puzzles, lazy eight, a drawing workshop and an origami workshop. The children participated with enthusiasm. The event concluded with an interaction session where some of the children also expressed their attraction to work for social causes!
SUPPORT (society undertaking poor people’s onus for rehabilitation) works on the rehabilitation of drug addicted poor children from streets of Mumbai. The approach is a 3 step process of de-addiction, education and vocational training. They aim to launching back the children as independent youth in the mainstream as healthy and independent young adults. Its founder Mrs. Sujata Ganega has been pursuing this goal for over 3 decades.
