The Diwali Mela@Vivante on Saturday,19th October 2019 saw something amazing this year- the young sunshiners-a group of Vivante kids ran two stalls to raise awareness and funds for Sunshine Society all on their own. A stall for selling diyas painted by the children themselves and some plants and another stall for games were managed for 3 hours by a group of 13 children all working in harmony to divide duties of ushering people, explaining what they are doing, selling and managing records and cash box. They managed a whopping profit of INR 6100/- which goes to Sunshine. Besides supporting the cause they wanted to, you could see how the future citizens of our society can really make a difference and work on things independently with little and right guidance.
 
There were other games stalls, performances and attractions at the mela which these sunshine volunteers missed happily coz they were so much into what they were doing and had an amazing sense of responsibility. Visitors came in throngs unable to resist this lovely bunch of very young kids( from 6 years to 13 years) proudly managing their stalls with words of praise and encouragement and went away with diyas or plants and surely knowing more about Sunshine Society. This enthusiastic bunch of children were led by Dr Vini Agarwal and had been working hard for last two weeks to learn more about Sunshine, meet,discuss, plan, collect and paint diyas,make paper bags and get ready for the final show. Shuchita Gupta, Jaya Varma and Vidya Akkireddy pitched in to support as and when needed.
The children who worked for the cause are:
Vedika, Shruti, Gaurang, Princy, Sirjan, Neel, Ananya, Reeti, Samaya, Vardha, Nivriti, Shree, Ananya

Children are the greatest imitators. Thus, they should get something great to imitate. What can be better than them getting the wisdom, knowledge and values to experience from our senior citizens. The best way to learn and re-learn!! This is how this noida based NGO, Sunshine Society works. The 6 years old NGO, was started by 11 founders and the team comprises of 17 executive members  and 23 members. All the projects of Sunshine Society like education, vocational development, career enhancement, model village program, senior citizen action are centred around the approach “Connecting generations to produce an educated, skilled and a happy future”.
With around 250 children studying in 38 schools associated with Sunshine Society in villages like barola, hoshiyarpur, sadarpur, chalera etc, there are around 200 children in 3 After School Program centres in sector 50 and 51. The education of these children is funded through money generated collectively from raddi collected by 10 residential societies in noida and also through donor support from around 90 sponsors and 7 corporates. Around 80 senior citizens are associated with the NGO with their numbers multiplying fast.  Many of them are productively involved in our after school program centres teaching and shaping the future of these children. The idea is to enrich and empower the lives of these seniors.
Keeping in line with this philosophy, Sunshine Society showcased a fundraiser ‘Musical Ramayan' directed by Amanpreet Kaur, on 5th October this year where the participants were seniors, who once again proved that change has nothing to do with numbers but mind. The entire evening was an amalgamation of power, poise and charisma emanating in the form of cosmic vibrations with senior wonder performing on this greatest mythological saga of love, sacrifice and virtue. The show commenced with bhajans in the melodious voice of Swayamsiddha Das & Sarvesh Mehrotra which acted as a prelude to Ramayan. With MC and Executive member Ramita Taneja taking the audience through the journey of Sunshine Society over the years, the stage was set for an exiting journey ahead. The performances were marvellous and spellbinding which left the audience glued to their seats cheering the participants throughout the show.  
The senior participants of the show were : Nandita Ahuja, Kiran Goel, Somlata Sharma, Vinod Gupta, Lakshmi, Promila Puri, Vijay Lakshmi, Prof. Kapoor, Alka Kapoor, Savita Bharadwaj, Savitri Bhawnani, Veena Aggarwal, Asha Kurera, Dr. Pushpa Gupta, Manjit Singh, Ved Prakash Aggarwal, Amrit, Vimal Bharadwaj, S.K. Singh, Santosh Arora, Mahendra Singh, Praveen Monga and Vijay Krishnan.
Ananya, Gayatri, Dharam, Sanjay, Rahul, Rupali, Khushboo, Kajal, Chameli, Vishaal, Anjali, Neha, Praveen, Pariksha, Durga, Khushi, Priya, Anita, Vishal Bharti and Pooja were few Sunshine children who also participated in the show. The official photographer for the show was Rajiva Singh.
The event Sponsors are:
Anmol Biscuits, Quint Consulting Services and  Bapuna Group.
Individual Sponsors:
Hament Ahuja, Vikram Singh Arora, Aanchal Kochhar and Harpreet Kandra

Please see below for the wonderful photographs clicked by Rajiva Singh and enjoy the recordings done by Abhimanyu of Proshoots Production.
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