Children and responsibility: The Wizkids event

24 November 2008
Brazilian Memories

It is impossible to be dispassionate while writing about Brazil. I wouldn’t be able to do it even if I were hung by my feet from a plank over a school of menacing sharks and told that my life depended on it. Such is the intensity of feeling and the warmth of memories that the name evokes. So naturally, “A formal report on my trip to Brazil” sounds like an oxymoron! The beginnings of this saga can be traced back to November: 50 of us, semifinalists for WIZ kids 2007 were actively participated (...)

24 November 2008
The Brazil trip - texts and images

Indian Youth Intercultural Exposure visit to Brazil - 24 November 2008

Horlicks Wizkids one of India’s largest literary and cultural events for schools packed with action, excitement and entertainment. Horlicks WIZKIDS 2007 by Activity was bigger than ever before, touching 27 cities across India, more than 3,000,000 students from 4500 schools. The event featured 40 different competitions for students from 1st to 12th Std. Within the purview of the Horlicks WIZKIDS 2007 by Activity we conducted The Horlicks WIZTEAM Contest, a search for the Smartest & (...)

Horlicks wizkids Workshop–Report -2007 - 12 February 2008

The Indian Charter facilitation team, in association with Activity, an edutainment company, has successfully facilitated the drafting of Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities for the second year. Horlicks Wizkids – 2007, a personality competition that recognizes the outstanding students, who are all-rounders and have a good balance of character & competence. By endorsing the Charter, The Activity introduces it also in the corporate sector. The event, one of (...)

Indian Children Charter of Human Responsibilities - 12 February 2008

“Responsibilities start with ME and continue (flourish) in WE” “Inform, Include and Implement” We are students from 27 cities across India, selected from Horlicks WizKids contest 2007. We have come together on a common platform with a common aim of helping our country face the challenges of the 21st century and hope to live in a happy & sustainable society. This Charter on Human Responsibilities (Social, Environmental and Educational) that we have compiled, state some of the responsibilities (...)

The children sharing their feelings and experiences - 2 July 2007

Memories of the trip in the Philippines

Letter to the President of India - 2 July 2007

The experience of practicing ‘responsibility’ in their schools and neighborhoods and drafting Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities has motivated these children to write a pleasing letter to the President of India in May 07. °°° Respected Sir, We, Sudhir Selvaraj (age 18) from Bangalore studying in class12, Clarence High.school, Anupama Kumar (age 16) from Cochin, Kislay Kishan (age 12) from Patna, studying in Delhi Public School and Deepika Easwaran (age 11) (...)

Indian Youth in the Philippines : Shared Reflections on Selected Experiences - 11 May 2007

As you may have read in the article titled A Philippines - India Cultural Exchange for the Wizkids Winners!, the four young winners of the Wizkids final contest enjoyed a very interesting and pleasant trip to the Philippines. Among the visits and experiences, they have selected the ones that most moved them to share their feelings. Aeta Community Aeta is a simple indigenous village in Botolan, Zambales province, which is north of the Philippines. Aetas were the first people in the (...)

A Philippines - India Cultural Exchange for the Wizkids Winners! - 24 April 2007

From April 28 to May 4, 2007, the four Winners of the Wizkids event’s final contest – Anupama Kumar , Kislay Kishan , Deepika Easwaran and Mani Sudhir Selvaraj – went to the Philippines along with managers of The Activity – Syed Sultan Ahmed, Naina Suresh and Jamakhandimath –, and three members of the Indian Charter Facilitation Team – Sudha Reddy, Anugraha John, and Deepa Alige Guru. The prize of the final contest was indeed a trip to the Philippines hosted by the Charter Facilitation Team (...)

Wizkids 2006: the process, from the workshop to the Children’s Charter Writing - 20 April 2007

The national final workshop of Wizkids Team 2006 was held on November 10th, followed by the Grand Finale, after a weeklong interdisciplinary program. Here is a description of the workshop process. It was a thrilling and a mutually learning experience.

India’s largest literary and cultural inter school festival - 5 September 2006, by Sudha REDDY

Short synopsis of the programme The Regional team for the Charter in India had a lot of discussions and interactions since May 2006 with an “edutainment” company, The Activity, based in Bangalore, initiating a programme incorporating the Charter of Human Responsibilities in its Horlicks Wizkids 2006 event. The Activity as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agreed to promote and disseminate the Charter and to highlight the notion of Responsibilities among children. This (...)