It fills my heart with immense warmth to narrate a real story of deep human values depicting service, highlighting the adage “service to humanity is service to God”. As we are bombarded every minute on TV and Social media on how COVID-19 has deeply impacted human lives around us in INDIA & globally, there is wide spread fear and paranoia in the minds of even the youngest Indian. But even babies as small as few months old have fallen prey to this mutant virus & recovered! (Hurray!!!!) This touching story that I am going to narrate is a personal experience dating back to a few days when I happened to glance through message on my “Family Whats app group”.

My uncle (Joseph D’souza), resident of Mumbai woke up one morning to discover his building has been classified as “hotspot” and was cordoned off due to positive covid-19 patient being found. To add to his woes my uncle had recently undergone an angioplasty (heart surgery) and required medical supervision to ensure recovery. As luck would have been, he had medicines stocks lasting for only 2 days and with the building being sealed off, he was helpless and alone. Trying times like these fire up your neurons into trying all possible permutations and combinations to help provide medical aid to someone without which the results would turn tragic soon, very soon. My first port of call was Mrs Nerurkar. I knew she had been voluntarily delivering medicines for unfortunate souls in need and constrained due to inability to travel. It was late in the night when I contacted her, but she told me that she would reach out to volunteers in Mumbai. She immediately sent me a list of brave noble souls (rather angels) in Mumbai who place service before self and help ensure medicines reach the needy.

I approached the person on my list at Worli, Mr Vishal Mirpuri that evening and narrated the predicament and provided him the address for my uncle. Understanding the gravity he immediately asked me to message prescription details and assured me that the medicines would be delivered within next 24 hrs. Next noon I got a call from my uncle with a huge note of appreciation and gratitude for both Mr Vishal and me for ensuring medicines were delivered just in time. I am so grateful to this gentleman for his timely help that he offered even after telling him that the building was under quarantine. He didn’t hesitate to offer help. See children angels don’t always have wings, sometimes they just have big hearts.

We all are aware as we are watching news and hearing of doctors,nurses and policemen who are helping us in this pandemic but these people go unnoticed. So I want to thank all these people including Mrs Nerurkar who are doing this wonderful job. God bless you Mr Mirpuri. You will always be remembered as a hero behind the scenes So students of TAS, we will soon banish this virus from our world. As long as we have amidst us people who truly believe that the whole world is their family, this foe of ours will be defeated I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Pamela Karmakar
Class Teacher (II C)

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The significance of Co-curriculum activities at School:

1. Assistance in academics:

Co-curricular activities aid in the learning process. The intellectual skills are put to test and children gain the ability to think, question and analyze on their own. Science lab activities, different technical competition, as well as literary competitions, help children learn their subjects better and in a fun way.

2. Self Confidence booster:

The self-confidence of the little ones are given a power boost through the co-curricular activities. They learn the art of public speaking and learn the ability to handle their audience. Children also learn improvisation and how to handle the pressure along with the life skill that participating matters more than winning.

3. Involvement in cultural activities:

Children learn from co-curricular activities. They learn about the culture, history, literature and various other things through the activities held at the school. Ethnic and moral values are learned, they understand the importance of empathy, kindness, and harmony.

4. Learning a new skill:

In addition to all the above, the co-curricular activities teach the children a skill. They learn a craft be it proficiency in guitar, tabla, painting, craft, public speaking, poetry or just a good observer. The activities make sure every child takes something back home.

5. Mental and physical health:

Stress is an issue that most children deal with today. These co-curricular activities are the hero, we all were looking for. Not only do these activities reduce our stress level, but they also aid in the betterment of our physical health too.

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